#212: Aqueduct Project Stickers --------------------------------+---------------------------- Reporter: jameslabocki | Owner: nobody Type: logo design request | Status: new Priority: major | Component: Other Artwork Severity: Moderately Involved | Resolution: Keywords: logo stickers | Blocked By: Blocking: | --------------------------------+----------------------------
Comment (by duffy):
So I did an initial set of sketches for this design and ended up getting a bit overly busy. Here is where we stand right now with this ticket:
IIRC (correct me if I'm wrong, James) James preferred either the water droplet concept, or a bit of a mashup between the neptune and helmet sketch that would show a man underneath the helmet to give the logo a 'face'. I didn't get around to sketching what that might look like.
For the back story behind the project, it's not specifically a piece of software but more a community around sharing information about security:
- Aqueducts carry and spread water to help people, and Aqueduct the project will carry and spread security best practices / scripts / etc to help people, so that's where the water concept (which was James' original logo and concept) comes from.
- Since aqueducts were invented by the Romans and Roman helmets are protective (Aqueduct will help protect people from security breaches like a helmet protects people's heads), that's where the helmet idea came from.... adding the water to the scrub-brush looking thing that's typically on the top was adding more of a water theme to it.
- The neptune guy is because again, aqueducts being an invention of Romans, Neptune is the Roman god of water and oceans... the link to security is basically that he looks bad ass and he is swinging a triton around so he'll, uh, poke hackers in the eye? :)