Navatar
A cover for the Naval podcast — a portrait of Naval Ravikant reduced to a single geometric mark. A face built from nothing but essential lines.
A likeness, not a portrait.
An avatar isn’t a photo. It’s a reduction — the fewest marks that still read as a person. Navatar takes Naval down to a brow, an axis, a jaw, and a mouth. Nothing more than the lines the face can’t do without.
It’s abstract enough to live anywhere — a podcast tile, an icon, a watermark — and specific enough to stay unmistakably a face. The same move behind every Visualize Value mark: take something complex and reduce it until it can’t be misread.
Reduce until it can’t be misread.
Reduction
Strip a face to its load-bearing lines — a brow, an axis, a jaw, a mouth. Remove until removing more would break it.
Recognition
Abstract, but unmistakably a face. The mark gives the eye just enough; it fills in the rest.
Built to scale
One color, vector, on black. Reads the same as a 3,000px cover or a 16px favicon.