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Help our our fledgling efforts to organize the local tech community through a2geeks.org!
We need a logo. We could actually use a full brand identity package, but we'll take what we can get.
The challenge: Come up with a t-shirt/website/sticker-worthy logo to represent Ann Arbor's geek community. Something bold, remarkable, and versatile. Something we can all be proud of. In vector format.
Submit your logo by e-mail to 
Dug Song or attach it to this page and edit it into the {vote} section below, if you've got wiki skills. Anonymous submissions are fine, also.
Everyone else, vote! You can change your votes as new submissions are made, so check back often.
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5 kB | Dug Song | Nov 10, 2008 14:18 | mjpizz entry | |
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38 kB | Jonathan Duty | Nov 10, 2008 15:40 | not an artist | |
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4 kB | Dug Song | Nov 19, 2008 10:57 | ross johnson | |
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8 kB | Dug Song | Nov 19, 2008 10:57 | ross johnson | |
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9 kB | Dug Song | Nov 19, 2008 10:57 | ross johnson | |
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4 kB | Dug Song | Nov 19, 2008 10:57 | ross johnson | |
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4 kB | Dug Song | Nov 19, 2008 10:58 | ross johnson | |
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4 kB | Dug Song | Nov 21, 2008 01:19 | pamela waxman | |
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4 kB | Dug Song | Nov 21, 2008 01:20 | pamela waxman | |
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3 kB | Dug Song | Nov 21, 2008 01:20 | pamela waxman | |
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36 kB | Dug Song | Nov 21, 2008 02:10 | dugsong | |
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10 kB | Dug Song | Nov 22, 2008 12:02 | dugsong - more pythagoras tree | |
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16 kB | Dug Song | Dec 07, 2008 03:45 | dugsong - propeller hat / seedling | |
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2 kB | Dug Song | Dec 12, 2008 16:02 | ||
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17 kB | Dug Song | Dec 12, 2008 16:03 | ||
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13 kB | Dug Song | Dec 12, 2008 16:07 |
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Comments (8)
Nov 10, 2008
Dug Song says:
you'd never guess that jonathan is a Texan.you'd never guess that jonathan is a Texan.
Nov 13, 2008
Dug Song says:
jm3 points out http://99designs.com/ as an example of design contest sites for t...jm3
points out http://99designs.com/
as an example of design contest sites for this kind of thing...
Nov 17, 2008
Laura Fisher says:
Please don't patronize 99designs.com. Spec work is bad for designers - it hurts ...Please don't patronize 99designs.com. Spec work is bad for designers - it hurts our business.
The AIGA's position: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/position-spec-work
An analogy: http://www.no-spec.com/articles/an-analogy/
The No Spec campaign: http://www.no-spec.com/
On 99designs:
http://www.graphicpush.com/99designs-bullshit-20
http://www.no-spec.com/archives/positive-space-99designs-stoops-to-a-new-low/
Nov 21, 2008
Dug Song says:
Ah, thanks for the explanation, Laura. I'll be sure to thwap jm3 when I see him....Ah, thanks for the explanation, Laura. I'll be sure to thwap jm3 when I see him.
Nov 21, 2008
Dug Song says:
A brief description of my entry (maybe it's a bad sign that I have to actually e...A brief description of my entry (maybe it's a bad sign that I have to actually explain it?) -
The icon is a riff on the traditional biohazard sign, because geeks are DANGEROUS. Srsly.
The actual symbol within is the basic construct of a Pythagoras Tree
- a fractal tree to honor Ann Arbor's heritage and symbolize its infinite (but hopefully not completely self-similar? ;-) potential. It should also be easily recognizable from afar, and reminds me a bit of the hacker glider emblem
, from Conway's Game of Life
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The text is set in Inconsolata
, the first monospace font released by cypherpunk Raph Levien
, licensed under the Open Font License
.
Layout was done in OmniGraffle (I don't own Illustrator), so it's easy for me to remove colors and shadows if need be. Only thing I couldn't do was adjust kerning (OmniGraffle doesn't offer this for a monospaced font?) - I think it might look nicer if the letters were spaced a bit further apart to look "colder", and not so humanist.
Dec 07, 2008
Dug Song says:
Third entry is an attempt at a visual pun between geekery (spinny hat) and posit...Third entry is an attempt at a visual pun between geekery (spinny hat) and positive growth (seedling), a nod to "bright green" environmentalism / Viridian design (this is Ann Arbor, after all), and a reference to the "creative" version of de Bono's Thinking Hats
. Also, it would make for some good schwag (bright green spinny hats!), and a potentially simple logo (I'll look at that next, unless someone else does first).
My wife said my previous "biohazard" icon looks like a bad Mickey Mouse, and my fractal tree theme is hopelessly nerdy, so I hope I'm not completely off this time.
Set in Trebuchet MS, cos I couldn't find an open-source font with the right combination of x-height to support the hat, a modern humanist look, and '2' and 'k' ascenders to preserve some symmetry. That, and what geek doesn't like trebuchets?
Another visual pun executed by local hackers on both North and Central UM campuses on April Fools Day this year:
Dec 12, 2008
Dug Song says:
Thanks to everyone who participated! Every designer (except for Jonathan - s...Thanks to everyone who participated! Every designer (except for Jonathan - sorry!) won the vote of a local geek, and with so few people voting, I suppose it's hard to say it's a quorum. But it is what it is.
In the end, the design really was collaborative. I tried to take the clean look of Ross' designs, with Pamela's suggestion of something incorporating a more abstract symbol, and not being too dependent on color. And I tried to play with type, as Matt did, to incorporate this with some subtely. For the final design, Chris Cassell trumped my lame Illustrator skills to add a subtle spin warp to the propeller.
You guys rock! For your efforts, we'll have a bunch of these stickers made for ArbCamp next week. And while a backrub might not be appropriate (I work with some of these guys ;-) I can at least treat you to my totally amateur chiropractic skills, if you dare. Seriously, I can crack your back in like 5 different ways!
Dec 12, 2008
Jonathan Duty says:
I really like the new logo. We next should pick a color pallet to go with it. ...I really like the new logo. We next should pick a color pallet to go with it. Do the whole creative brand recognition thing with marketing and website themes.
Oh and I can't believe no one voted for the Birkenstocks. My view of Ann Arbor must be wrong!