The Vinyl Cache Project has a New Identity

Winners of the Logo and Mascot Contets

Back in November 2025, we launched a logo contest and promised to announce the winners in December, but reality hit hard and we missed to keep that promise, sorry.

But now we are more than happy to announce the winners:

First price: Rhubarbe

Rhubarbe convinced the jury with a logo idea inspired by translucent foil, which adds a layer of protection to web sites:

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After we informed them of having won the competition (and the prize), they took this idea and formed it into a polished design:

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They not only developed the new symbol and wordmark, but also a color scheme, typography concept and even a website badge. And there is an ASCII transcription of our logo: \(

You will see more and more of these results on our website https://vinyl-cache.org/, and also a hint of it on our source forge https://code.vinyl-cache.org/.

Rhubarbe also won a first price for their submission on a Mascot design, but we are going to keep you in suspense for a little longer until we annouce that as well.

Congratulations, Rhubarbe, it has been a pleasure working with you so far, and we are looking forward to a long lasting relationship.

The Vinyl Cache Logo is licensed under Creative Commons. If you use it, please do not forget to add:

CC-BY 4.0 [Rhubarbe](https://rhubarbe.design)

or:

CC-BY 4.0 Rhubarbe.design

Second price: Pauline Gericke

Pauline Gericke received a well deserved honerable second price for her logo ideas around variations of a V and a C. We are showing here only one the variations she presented:

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The “dynamic sails” idea really resonated with some of the jury.

Thank you for your submission, Pauline!