Logo
Update 2: We now have a Logo! The variations of it can be found here: Team/Communications#Logo_Pack
Update 1: We found a great logo designer (Stavros Georgakopoulos) and briefed him, he's now hiding in his lab and making sketches. In the meantime keep adding your suggestions :) Martind 17:15, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
We're working towards a logo for EMF Camp 2012 and are interested in your suggestions; themes, symbols, or even sketches.
In parallel we are looking for a great designer who is willing to donate their time to create the logo. We will approach a few designers we like (suggestions also welcome!), and pick the right person based on their portfolio, their interests, and their availability. They will receive a brief which includes all community suggestions as a starting point, but we will also give them a great deal of freedom in how they approach this.
Since this is an all-volunteer camp and we have a tight budget we cannot pay for this work. You get some good karma, and your design will be on pretty much everything we do; and being able to walk around camp saying 'I made that' which is pretty cool in itself.
Get in touch with martind if you're interested in working with us.
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Guidelines
Try and find a visual representation of the "spirit of the camp", something that evokes our core interests in science, engineering, DIY, technology, arts, or crafts: "A festival for anyone interested in 3D printing, DIYBio, knitting, electronics, Internet culture, music hacking, space, lockpicking, homebrewing, robots, UAVs, mind hacking, radio, or pretty much anything else you can think of... in a field!"
Please note that EMF is not a hackspace event, it just has a lot of people involved in hackerspaces helping out. This means the UK hackspace "H" should not be present in the logo.
Some great logo guidelines from the Raspberry Pi logo competition:
- it should work at small and large scales
- in black/white and colour
- use no words other than the event name
- it can't be derived from any existing copyrighted work
- etc.
Potential building blocks for a logo:
- Various iconic symbols could represent strong aspects of the camp. A tent, a soldering iron, a circuit board, stars/planets, a robot, …
- The various visual representations of electromagnetic fields have a surprising similarity to isopleth maps of e.g. terrain elevations. Or even picket fence shapes.
- Check the massive Flickr "hackspace" photo stream for inspiration regarding the kinds of activities international hackerspace groups participate in.
Related "brands" (examples of logos we may be placed next to):
- UK Hackspace Foundation (community)
- Chaos Communication Camp (community festival)
- HAR, OHM (community festival)
- Arduino (hardware)
- MakerBot (hardware)
- Raspberri Pi (hardware)
- Make (magazine, conference)
- ...
Other thoughts?
Community Gallery
Suggestions and concepts by the community. Add a new section for your notes, suggestions, sketches.
Blackboard Sketches
Misc first sketches. Steal anything you like for your own designs, it's fine :) Martind 15:47, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
- Cf the mailing list discussion: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/uk-hack-camp/ar_6baXVzTE/discussion
- The "H" designs are already disqualified -- we don't want to confuse people by wrongly implying a Hackspace affiliation.
Oni
martind
Paul
My attempts. Clearly I am not a designer, but feel free to modify etc.
Yuan
Just merging one of martind's logos with one of the ones on the blackboard. Is that a Batman icon I see there in the middle?
Def_Playr
My three year old 'design partner' thinks this is cool. Having said that, he has an invisible friend and likes eating his bogies... and is three. And also, he couldn't get the thumbnail/gallery malarkey working. What do they teach them in Nursery?
AlisonW
tomscott
Source: File:Emfcamp.svg
