From nils.goroll at uplex.de Mon Nov 3 13:47:06 2025 From: nils.goroll at uplex.de (Nils Goroll) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 14:47:06 +0100 Subject: Vinyl Cache - Logo and Mascot Contest Message-ID: <16242ae8-2631-4ff8-98ea-bdf903fc6eba@uplex.de> This text is also online here: https://vinyl-cache.org/#vinyl-cache-logo-and-mascot-contest The mastodon post is here: https://fosstodon.org/@slink/115486052678201516 Vinyl Cache - Logo and Mascot Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After nearly 20 years, we decided to rename the FOSS Varnish Cache project to Vinyl Cache as explained in https://vinyl-cache.org/#years-old-and-it-is-time-to-get-serious-er . To make this rebranding happen, we need a new logo and a mascot. This is why we open a contest for the best design. The top 3 to 6 winners will be rewarded monetary prizes and eternal fame among Vinyl Cache users (not guaranteed but likely). *How can you enter this contest?* The contest consists of two categories. We encourage you to make combined submissions for both, and we suspect that selecting matching submissions will be a good choice, but we can not know this upfront. *(1) Logotype and logomark* Design a logo. The logo should consist of two elements: - the text "Vinyl Cache" (logotype) - and a graphical logo / symbol (logomark) for Vinyl Cache. It should be possible to use the logotype and logomark both in combination with each other and separately, so provide both visual representations. *(2) Mascot* The mascot should be a friendly character which users and contributors to Vinyl Cache can positively identify with. Please do not suggest characters relating to vinyl turntable records. Some of the properties of Vinyl Cache which we think would be great to associate with the mascot are it being - fast and efficient, - versatile, - resilient, working reliably under touch conditions - clean, secure, well tested It should be possible to use the mascot character as a standalone visual and also in combination with the logotype and logomark, so please provide both visual representations if you make submissions to both categories. *Monetary prizes* We will award prizes to the three best designs either in both categories combined or individually. - top 1 winner: 1000? or 500? + 500? - top 2 winner: 250? or 125? + 125? - top 3 winner: 250? or 125? + 125? The Vinyl Cache project does not handle any money. These prizes are donated by our long-term contributor https://uplex.de/ *Timeline* - Submit your designs until the end of November via email to: logo at vinyl-cache.org - The winners will be announced in December 2025 on https://vinyl-cache.org/ and Mastodon. *Rules* - You can submit as many design proposals as you wish. - You may not use any AI tools for the creation of your submissions. - You may only use fonts and other elements compatible with licensing under CC BY-NC-SA. You may not use any elements incurring additional license fees. - Provide the logos and mascot character in SVG and PNG. - You get bonus points if you provide a good approximation of the logotype and logomark in 7 bit ASCII (sorry, no UTF-8, we live in HTTP land). - You get bonus karma points if you work with FOSS tools only (but we do not want to discriminate against any artist who chooses otherwise). - By entering designs into the contest, you promise to make them available under the CC BY-NC-SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ license if selected as a winner. Note that the Vinyl Cache project will have the same rights as everyone else. - You are free to re-use non-winning entries for any other purpose, but we ask you to avoid a public conflict with the chosen Vinyl Cache project branding. - The selection process is entirely up to the founding members of the Vinyl Cache project. We promise to be as fair and objective as possible to mere mortals and the judges will not get to see any creator identifying information (unless you put it into your submission). But other than giving our word, we accept no jurisdiction of a court regarding the procedure of this competition. - In particular, we reserve the right not to name any winners if too few submissions meet our quality expectations. - To redeem a price, you will need to issue a formal invoice. -- Nils Goroll (he/him) ** * * UPLEX - Nils Goroll Systemoptimierung Scheffelstra?e 32 22301 Hamburg tel +49 40 28805731 mob +49 170 2723133 fax +49 40 42949753 xmpp://slink at jabber.int.uplex.de/ http://uplex.de/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenPGP_0x1DCD8F57A3868BD7.asc Type: application/pgp-keys Size: 3944 bytes Desc: OpenPGP public key URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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