I like AC's overall layout and font, but if we are, at all, trying to get the poster to lure people in, and/or make them want to buy one, I think something with color might be better. I'm not saying my design is it either. Just sayin'. Is there any desire to have a poster with a cyborg looking person on it?

Mark -- could you send me a bunch of images? Ones without the circuit boards, and ones just of the circuitboards? We'll get together with a pen drive and download.

I dig both the poster comps so far, but I would buy the more monochromatic version in a heartbeat. The grunge in the background reminds me of Banksy's cover for Blur's "Think Tank."

Really, we should try to force people to use tools and interact in some way with the identity and promotional materials. Pondering now.

Sweet Reid. That is excellent.

Good thought, Reid. The posters should make people interact with it in a way that would emphasize the point that CyborgCamp is trying to get across.

Am extremely glad, by the way, to have excellent designers (Tyler, Idleglory, Reid) in the camp! Now we know that the visual aspect of it will not suck ;)

We need to have a Skype meeting (Monday or Tuesday evening?) about this. I think there's a way we can reconcile the "OK Computer"-esque intrigue of the latter poster concepts with the visual draw of Amber's original compositions, in a way that will lend itself to the interactive element Reid mentioned.

Speaking of data visualization, I've got R and GGobi up on my machines if there's some actual data anyone wants to take a grand tour through, etc. :) But all of my working examples are from Linux I/O performance metrics. And I think I have the Shockwave movie creation part working now.

This identity sketching has been challenging! Perhaps a typographic mark is the way to go. Sketched myself into a corner, so thought I'd just post the stuff up and see if any of it triggered a thought process.

I like where you're going, Tyler. The handshake reminds me of http://bit.ly/wishyouwerehere. The art of this band, the MOST cyborgian band ever (also the funkiest white men on earth), Kraftwerk, might be worth looking at. Their videos are interesting as well. www.kraftwerk.com

Some had better play "Man Machine" at the after party! It would make a great theme song too.

Looking good Tyler!

The updated mark is stronger, especially for the kerning it allows, but I feel like the plant stock is now too thick, making some of the leaves look out of place, as though they were placed on and not grown on. Other than that, the mark is really getting strong. Oh, and while I don't love the PDX 2008, I can't offer any solutions and do feel its necessary to be present. Nice work, Tyler!

I too think the new suggestion of "organic to mechanical" evolution makes more sense. One thing that bothered me about the previous mark was how tall and slender it was, but you took care of that issue with this version. I also like how the curve of the C in "CAMP" matches the root below it, which (knowing you) I'm assuming was intentional ;~D

I agree that the organic to mechanical evolution is evocative...especially as "roots" can also be read as "veins", but the current "tree" on the top of the latest version reads a bit like a dead tree to me...did you try it with a more circuit-boardy top an in the earlier designs? I don't think the visual complexity was overmuch before...

The main reason I think I like the top better is that it suggests a kind of unbounded openness and connection outward, which is more in keeping with (my) idea of cyborgia. The bottom is nicely packaged, but I think that's not keeping in the CyborgCamp spirit ;)

Repeating my other comments from flickr here:

I think both have their good qualities. But I'm leaning toward the top. While it's true that the box mark on the bottom stands alone better...I don't imagine we'll end up needing the mark to stand alone. The top lets just the cyborgcamp and the mark stand alone and allows us to trim off the PDX 2008 and replace it with, say, YVR 2009 or whatever easier ;) I can already see a sticker and/or Tshirt with the top one ;)

awesome! Barring any remarks from the kerning mavens, I say good to go!

Fantastic Tyler! Can't wait to see color! I'll post it on the wiki header as soon as we have one ;)

The logo in color is quite cute. I'm enjoying how desaturated the colors are and am happy to not see any straight black (I don't know why, I thought it might happen).
I will say that my eyes went directly to the shift between blue and brown on the mark (plant stock). I think the use of the slant is more successful than straight horizontal, but I still feel a dissonance. Did an entirely brown stock just look too heavy and not techy enough? I can't offer too much help, and I will _not_ suggest a gradient, but it's currently the thing stopping me from loving the color version.

Tyler Sticka is my personal hero. I think I might apply for beatification for him. Usually you have to be dead and stuff, but he's performed so many miracles that, jeez, I mean it might be time to just get it over with.

You know, I've always thought that JP was a smart, smart fellow. ;-)

And a snappy dresser!