The current BioJava logo is very basic. With the upcoming new BioJava v. 5.0 release it is time for branding ourselves with a new logo.
We are hosting a competition to design a new logo for the BioJava project.
Update: The competition is closed now and the winner has been announced.
The three top ranking designs were all created by Aleix Lafita (ETH Zurich / Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland).
The winner is https://github.com/biojava/logo/tree/master/submissions/lafita_4
Honorary mention goes to Jose Duarte, who suggested this specific variation of the design.
Another version of this design is also top ranking https://github.com/biojava/logo/tree/master/submissions/lafita_2
This variation can be used together with the winning design if a single color version of the logo is needed.
All submissions can still be viewed here
Anybody can participate according to the following rules:
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Submit your logo as a pull request for this project. Please follow the instructions for submitting.
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Logos shall not look similar in any way to the trademarked Java programming language logo. This means no coffee cups in any way. Here are some examples from a previous Logo competition. Please note, most of these submissions would not be acceptable based on this rule.
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A submission shall not be in violation with any copyrighted or trademarked work.
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By contributing to this repository, you agree that the copyright for the contribution will be transferred to the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (www.open-bio.org), which is BioJava's parent organisation.
- All contributions needed to be uploaded by the end of July 4th 2016.
- All votes need to be in by the end of day Wednesday July 6th.
The winner of the new logo competition will be announced during BOSC 2016.
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We will print t-shirts with the new logo and the designer will get a free t-shirt.
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If the designer of the winning new logo will be attending ISMB 2016, the attending BioJava developers will take the winner out for dinner.
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BioJava will carry the new logo on its homepage and GitHub Profile.
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The logo should look modern and be better than the current one (yellow circle)
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The logo should be submitted as SVG graphics
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The logo should be able to be rendered as a favicon, as well as large (e.g. on a t-shirt). A design that provides two different versions (small and large rendering) is acceptable.