Coin, medal and bar designs that hold up in metal.

Blackbird.png is an independent design studio. Your theme goes from brief to finished artwork, color layers for UV print, and a 3D proof you can turn in your browser before anything goes to production.

Send a brief See the work

For private mints, coin programs and collectible releases.

Embrace the Darkness, a high-relief silver coin showing a hooded woman and a skeleton — Embrace the Darkness, 1 oz high-relief silver

Selected work

A green gem-set tarantula on a Canadian Maple Leaf coin, in a capsule — Emerald TarantulaGem-set tarantula on a 1 oz Canadian Maple Leaf

Samurai box with a red and gold kabuto helmet piece mounted in the lid — Samurai5 oz .999 copper piece with display box

Walking Liberty coin colorized with an ice half and a fire half — Fire and Ice LibertyColorized American Silver Eagle

Copper round in high relief showing a dragon's eye with a colorized iris — Dragon's EyeHigh-relief copper round with a colorized iris

Two antiqued copper coins showing Charon the ferryman and a skeletal hand holding gold coins — Charon10 oz copper, two faces, antiqued and gilded

Two colorized Norse boar coins sealed in a slab with a gold-lettered label — GullinburstiTwo-coin slab and label design

Embrace the Darkness coin in its capsule inside a presentation box with printed insert art — Embrace the DarknessHigh-relief coin, capsule and box insert

Green colorized dragon coin shown on both faces — Dragon 2024Colorized lunar coin, both faces

What I design

Coins and rounds

Obverse and reverse artwork for single releases and full series, including high-relief and dual-figure designs.

Medals

Award, commemorative and challenge pieces, with lettering that stays legible at small sizes.

Art bars

Silver and copper bar designs composed for the rectangle, not a coin design squeezed into one.

Color for UV print

Artwork split into color layers for UV printing on Maples, Eagles and other host coins, proofed on my own UV-LED flatbed printer.

Labels and packaging

Slab labels, box art and inserts built on your template, so sizes and coin windows never shift.

Jewelry components

Component designs for jewelry production, prepared for OEM manufacturing.

Series, not one-offs

A single coin sells once. A series gives collectors a reason to come back for the next release. This four-season Maple program is one example: one host coin, four launches, and a box and insert card that carry across all of them.

Spring Maple Leaf coin with a gem-set green maple, in a meadow — Spring

Summer Maple Leaf coin with a gem-set golden maple by water — Summer

Autumn Maple Leaf coin with a gem-set orange maple against fall leaves — Autumn

Winter Maple Leaf coin with a gem-set white maple against frost — Winter

Maple Leaf, four seasons: colorized and gem-set, each release with its own box and insert card.

See it in metal before it's made

Every design comes with a 3D proof: the piece rendered in metal finishes, lit, and ready to turn in your browser. Relief and legibility problems show up on screen, before production instead of after it.

Reverse of Embrace the Darkness, Republique du Cameroun 2000 francs CFA

How a project runs

1
Brief
You send the theme, format, metal and deadline, plus any references you have.
2
Concepts
I sketch a few directions so you can choose early, before any detail work.
3
Artwork
The chosen direction becomes final artwork, refined with your feedback.
4
Proof
You review the 3D proof and color layers before you sign off.
5
Files
You get production files in the formats your mint or printer needs.

Ways to work together

Single piece

One design, from brief to production files, with a 3D proof and color layers where the piece needs them.

From $1,400

Series program

Three to twelve releases planned as one run: shared frame, release order, and packaging that carries across the set.

From $1,100 per release

Monthly design partner

A set number of designs every month, first place in the queue, and a standing slot for rush releases.

From $2,800 per month

Tell me what you're making.

Send a brief and I'll reply with questions, a rough timeline and a quote. Briefs are welcome in English, French or Arabic.