The results of the public votes for the OSHW logo are in! Almost 9000 people voted, and the community selected “Golden Orb” by Macklin Chaffee as the OSHW Logo v1.0 (submitted on Feb 11th, 2011).
Congratulations Golden Orb, thank you all for voting!
If you support the OSHW Definition 1.0, you can GO AHEAD and Apply the OSHW Definition and logo to you projects and circuits. Here’s to another great day for Open Hardware!
Comments
52 responses to “OSHW Logo Selected!”
[…] is a brand new logotype for the Open Source Hardware initiative, as Ayah reported on this blog post: The results of the public votes for the OSHW logo are in! Almost 9000 people voted, and the […]
[…] An open source hardware logo has been chosen. […]
Very cool, I’m glad I could help!
You can find the photoshop file I created here — http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=421&p=836#p836
Good luck with all your projects!
[…] OSHW Logo Selected! The results of the public votes for the OSHW logo are in! Almost 9000 people voted, and the community selected “Golden Orb” by Macklin Chaffee as the OSHW Logo v1.0 (submitted on Feb 11th, 2011). Congratulations Golden Orb, thank you all for voting! If you support the OSHW Definition 1.0, you can GO AHEAD and Apply the OSHW Definition and logo to you projects and circuits. Here’s to another great day for Open Hardware! […]
[…] George on Apr.07, 2011, under Misc Looks like the votes are in, via adafruit (which is in turn via openhardwaresummit): The results of the public votes for the OSHW logo are in! Almost 9000 people voted, and the […]
Awesome logo, Macklin!
Can I ask someone to please adjust the kerning on the font better before putting this on anything, though? The spacing after the r’s is killing me a little bit. 🙂
Macklin, what font did you use for the text? I’ll happily contribute a vector version of the logo + kerned text.
I hear you on the kerning after the R’s. Funny how something technically correct can look incorrect aesthetically.
…spacing after the r’s what?
…after the R’s what?
Ah, perhaps you just meant the rs and Rs.
Whoops, just saw that someone right below you in that thread did a vector version. 🙂
@Justin
I just whipped it up really quickly. It may need some tweaking.
Looks great! Is anybody interested in a EAGLE lbr library so this can be easily placed on circuit boards?
I like it, but it would have been soooo much better with proper tooth profiles. The gear tooth is a beauty of geometric perfection that works smoothly, and looks good.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5505 is a good script. Modify by removing the ‘linear_extrude’, press f6 and save as DXF – you can then load the 2D data almost anywhere…
Yummy
I agree about the gear tooth profile! Flat teeth don’t give a constant rotational velocity.
I like it! I was a hard choice among many excellent designs, but the right one I came out on top I think. Put up a merch shop and let us buy some stickers and use the funds to spread the OSH word.
It is a shame this one was chosen…it looks too much like the Sencha Ext JS logo:
http://goo.gl/gk7CB
I knocked up my variant (hope thats ok, I am a gear nut) here :
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7636
I am thinking of the 3D printing possibilities that are inherent in the cog design… way cool 🙂
Best -F
[…] More HERE. […]
[…] More HERE. […]
[…] OSHW Logo Selected! The formula of a open votes for a OSHW trademark are in! Almost 9000 people voted, and a village comparison “Golden Orb” by Macklin Chaffee as a OSHW Logo v1.0 (submitted on Feb 11th, 2011). Congratulations Golden Orb, appreciate we all for voting! If we support a OSHW Definition 1.0, we can GO AHEAD and Apply a OSHW Definition and trademark to we projects and circuits. Here’s to another good day for Open Hardware! […]
As a graphic designer I have to ask
What a gear has to do with open hardware?
It reminds me of the Open Source Initiative logo ( http://opensource.org ). But I guess that’s intentional, isn’t it?
[…] OSHW Logo Selected! The results of the public votes for the OSHW logo are in! Almost 9000 people voted, and the community selected “Golden Orb” by Macklin Chaffee as the OSHW Logo v1.0 (submitted on Feb 11th, 2011). Congratulations Golden Orb, thank you all for voting! If you support the OSHW Definition 1.0, you can GO AHEAD and Apply the OSHW Definition and logo to you projects and circuits. Here’s to another great day for Open Hardware! […]
[…] 之前我们有一篇报道开源硬件定义1.0版已经公布，根据OSHW组织的更新，开源硬件标准的logo也通过海选产生了: […]
Hi, Congratulations Macklin winning the popular choice. However I’m concerned…
How is your logo, which is now everyone’s logo, going to look in reality? Silkscreened?
1) It’s not monochrome
2) The font is not going to scale-down well.
3) There are kerning issues.
I think there were other designs, that were a lot simpler, that would have been a better choice. I’m sorry, but some thing’s are not best left to democracy. Democracy assumes everyone has good taste.
Opps, sorry, my first sentence should have read as:
“Hi, Congratulations Macklin for winning the popular choice. However I’m concerned…”
I toally agree. Tried to put it on a PCB today.
Conclusion: I will not use this logo.
100% agree.
but on other side, “democracy” — it’s a declared freedom of choice. So, I peen up my (as people name it) “copyleft” logo
here is Eagle library (in vector, single and text version)
here is micro-guide
graphics sources
feel free to use 🙂
[…] is a brand new logotype for the Open Source Hardware initiative, as Ayah reported on this blog post: The results of the public votes for the OSHW logo are in! Almost 9000 people voted, and the […]
Congratulations!!!! Nice design ; )
PS: Happy end, the vote issue now belongs to the Past.
I think the right one logo was chosen. There are three issue it seems…
Kerning: the space after the two Rs should be tightened (so I’ll just do that myself)
PCB: the text won’t work on a PCB, I suggest dropping it and just using the graphic. (I haven’t tried this yet but assume it would work)
Two colours: Classic error from the days of fax machines, so fill with the outline colour or leave clear and just have the outline.
Wether or not these options would be officially endorsed as variants I don’t know, but even if not they would be better than not having the logo on your widget.
hey @GRAYnomad, @Harald, @Robert
there’s been some talk of kerning/font issues. Perhaps you guys can propose a new font or tweak? Macklin posted the logo files in the forum here:
http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=421
cheers
ayah
[…] The OSHW Definition 1.0 har now got an official logo for Open Hardware! Check it out. […]
Excelente noticia!! ahora los fabricantes van a poder identificar de manera inequívoca los productos de Hardware Abierto 😀
[…] definidos para OSHW) o comentando las novedades vía Facebook o Twitter.El Jueves 7 de Abril se dio a conocer el resultado final de la votación en la cual se podía elegir el logotipo (129 postulantes […]
Congratulations! I believe this is excellent confirmation of the hypothesis that the majority chooses the mediocre. Guys, this is just a bad unprofessionally made typographically overwrought logo. Badly built. Font is not consistent with the tracing. Details are not in agreement with others. The idea is far from content. In general, it is not even worthy to school crafts. This is a really bad sign. IMHO, it is very doubtful that someone with a minimal taste will use it as an open hardware logo 🙂
I used an Egg-Bot (which is OSHW) to plot the logo on an egg: http://www.flickr.com/photos/raster/5625273307/
[…] days ago I ordered some cool decals with the new Open Source Hardware logo printed. They have just arrived, take a […]
[…] open hardware movement continue to flourish. The Open-Source Hardware Definition was announced, the OSHW logo was selected by a popular vote, an open source oil spill cleaning robot got more than $33,000 in crowd funding, Google adopted the […]
[…] open hardware movement continue to flourish. The Open-Source Hardware Definition was announced, the OSHW logo was selected by a popular vote, an open source oil spill cleaning robot got more than $33,000 in crowd funding, Google adopted the […]
[…] open hardware movement continue to flourish. The Open-Source Hardware Definition was announced, the OSHW logo was selected by a popular vote, an open source oil spill cleaning robot got more than $33,000 in crowd funding, Google adopted the […]
[…] hardware movement continue to flourish. The Open-Source Hardware Definition was announced, the OSHW logo was selected by a popular vote, an open source oil spill cleaning robot got more than $33,000 in crowd funding, Google adopted […]
[…] open hardware movement continue to flourish. The Open-Source Hardware Definition was announced, the OSHW logo was selected by a popular vote, an open source oil spill cleaning robot got more than $33,000 in crowd funding, Google adopted the […]
[…] open hardware movement continue to flourish. The Open-Source Hardware Definition was announced, the OSHW logo was selected by a popular vote, an open source oil spill cleaning robot got more than $33,000 in crowd funding, Google adopted the […]
[…] open hardware movement continue to flourish. The Open-Source Hardware Definition was announced, the OSHW logo was selected by a popular vote, an open source oil spill cleaning robot got more than $33,000 in crowd funding, Google adopted the […]
[…] hardware movement continue to flourish. The Open-Source Hardware Definition was announced, the OSHW logo was selected by a popular vote, an open source oil spill cleaning robot got more than $33,000 in crowd funding, Google adopted […]
[…] open hardware movement continue to flourish. The Open-Source Hardware Definition was announced, the OSHW logo was selected by a popular vote, an open source oil spill cleaning robot got more than $33,000 in crowd funding, Google adopted the […]
[…] hardware movement continue to flourish. The Open-Source Hardware Definition was announced, the OSHW logo was selected by a popular vote, an open source oil spill cleaning robot got more than $33,000 in crowd funding, Google adopted […]
[…] Hardware Egg Image by Pete Prodoehl In honor of the OSHW logo, and the Egg-Bot being open source hardware, here’s my first attempt at an OSHW […]
[…] Hardware Egg Image by Pete Prodoehl In honor of the OSHW logo, and the Egg-Bot being open source hardware, here’s my first attempt at an OSHW Egg.Share […]
I’ve collected all of the different formats of the logo that I could find and given them a permanent home at http://oshwlogo.com/
More formats are always welcome; the details are on the website.
Brandon
[…] mais informações em Open Hardware Summit. O logo escolhido, já vetorizado, está disponível em OSHW Logo. Esse post foi publicado em […]