Boost Logo Contest

Now collecting votes!

Votes will be accepted on or before March 22, 2005.

Check out the Logo Contest Entries Below.

You can send your votes to:

boost.logo.contest@gmail.com

For transparency, I shared the password with the Boost Moderators, so they can check the status anytime.

Please be reminded that voting shall be based on Instant Runoff Voting, meaning that each individual voter shall choose 5 favorites, in order of preference.

Please send in your votes in this format:

1. 1st choice: Entry number (variant), Submitter
2. 2nd choice: Entry number (variant), Submitter
3. 3rd choice: Entry number (variant), Submitter
4. 4th choice: Entry number (variant), Submitter
5. 5th choice: Entry number (variant), Submitter

***where variant, designated by a letter, is optional.

Example:

1. 225, John Doe
2. 336a, Jane Doe
3. 751, Apple Pie
4. 101b, Dorothy Rainbow
5. 855, Kim Possible

I shall be collecting votes and progressively posting the results here. The competition will close on March 15, 2005 and the winning entry will be announced soon thereafter.

Boost is an open, collaborative effort that includes thousands of programmers from the C++ community at large. Boost is hoping to retire the existing logo and adopt a new one. We are now launching a competition for the creation of a new logo.

The competition is open to all designers, both professional and non-professional. The final design must be submitted as a scalable vector format, preferably SVG or EPS. A free, open source, scalable vector graphics editor can be found here: http://inkscape.org/ . Alternative bitmap versions (small, medium and large icons, web graphics, etc.) of the logo may also be submitted to augment the main vector format. A JPEG or PNG version (for consistency, please limit the width to 320 pixels), to be placed in a web page, must also be submitted for judging.

The Boost community will vote on submitted entries. Voting shall be based on Instant Runoff Voting, meaning that each individual voter shall choose 5 favorites, in order of preference.

In addition to proper acknowledgement, the winning designer will receive:

the Boost Logo Designer T-shirt (printed with the winning logo design), plus,
a signed copy of the MPL book by David Abrahams and Aleksey Gurtovoy, C++ Template Metaprogramming: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques from Boost and Beyond ( http://www.awprofessional.com/titles/0321227255 )

Entries will be accepted on or before March 1, 2005. I will act as the logo contest manager. Please email all entries to me (djowel at gmail dot com). I shall post all submitted entries to Boost's web site. The competition will close on March 22, 2005 and the winning entry will be announced soon thereafter.

The logo must be immediately identifiable with the spirit of Boost.
The logo's concept must be simple and clear and should have relevance to the organization.
The logo should not be too detailed and should work in low resolution.
Any logo submission that is blatantly racist, sexist, obscene, or otherwise discriminatory will be rejected.
The logo must be the original work of the submitter.
The logo must be free of any copyright or other intellectual property claims.
The winning logo shall be distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.

Entries

Entry Number and Title	Submitter	Note
1 Classic	Boost
2a 2b Plus Plus 1	Joaquín M López Muñoz
3 Plus Plus 2	Joaquín M López Muñoz	Adapted from a design by Jonathan Turkanis
4 Plus Plus 3	Joaquín M López Muñoz
5a 5b Plus Plus 4	Joaquín M López Muñoz
6 Rocket	Joaquín M López Muñoz
7 Sphere	Joaquín M López Muñoz
8 Plus B	René Rivera
9 Abstract 1	René Rivera
10 Abstract 2	René Rivera
11 boost/+	René Rivera
12 boost/++	René Rivera
13a 13b boost/c++	René Rivera
15 Rocket1	René Rivera
16a 16b Rocket2	René Rivera
46	René Rivera
47	René Rivera
48	René Rivera
17 Boost 1	Jonathan Turkanis
18 Boost 2	Jonathan Turkanis
19a 19b Boost 3	Mark Blewett & Jonathan Turkanis
20a 20b Boost 3	Jonathan Turkanis
21a 21b Boost 5	Jonathan Turkanis	Inspired by Erik Wien
22 Boost 6	Jonathan Turkanis	Inspired by Erik Wien
23 std++	Jonathan Turkanis
88 C++ on Steroids	Jonathan Turkanis	The theme is "C++ on Steroids." Or, for the anti-doping crowd, "Give your code a booster shot." Displayed are large and medium-sized versions of the logo, plus three 32x32 icons and a 16x16 favicon.
97a, 97b 97c, 97d Boost Battery	Jonathan Turkanis	The theme is "Jumpstart your code." Boost is represented as a car battery, with and without booster cables.
24 Boost/std::	Dave Abrahams
25 Boost/c++	Michel André
36	Michel André
26a 26b 26c Boost/std++	Michael Toksvig
27	Daniel Frey
28a 28b Boost	Kyrre Wedvik
29a, 29b, 29c, 29d, 29e Boost/space	Erik Wien	Inspired by Jonathan's take on earlier versions of this logo
30a 30b Boost/scope	Erik Wien
100	Nuria Briceño Domenech
31	Vladimir Pozdyayev	resembles the picture programmers usually look at: the plain text, no geometric shapes; <> as in templates boost++ as in C++ (not in operator++, though; the logo doesn't make any actual syntactical sense); streamline, arrow-like overall shape.
32a 32b	Derek Ross
53	Derek Ross	This mostly abstract logo is composed of stylized plus symbols, angle brackets, and double-colons. The letter C is visible too, if you tilt your head properly.
33a 33b 33c	Ulf Worsøæ	They build on the same idea: "C++" explains itself. The "::Boost" signifies top-level namespace, indicating a library or package. Also "::" is resonable unique for C++ (it's not - to my knowledge - used in any common C++-like language). All three contains both black-and-gray and purely black versions (which is more down-scalable), each as SVG and a PNG. They should perform acceptably even on monochrome or 16-color displays. They are designed from scratch using Sodipodi ( www.sodipodi.com , nice but a bit unstable) and are, of course, provided without any copyright claims etc. etc.
37	Tobias Schwinger	Inspired by the logo of <whoever came up with this double-plus-arrangement first> and these "world famous knifes", of course.
38a 38b 38c boost/blocks 1	Simeon Nasilowski
39a 39b 39c boost/blocks 2	Simeon Nasilowski
67a 67b boost/squares	Simeon Nasilowski
40	Walid Gad-El-Karim
41	Walid Gad-El-Karim
42	Walid Gad-El-Karim
43	Benjamin Herr	I believe that my design is quite identifiable with the boost project. The basic message is "boost is boosting c++!". The basic shape is very simple and has clean borders. The individual components are clearly separated. It is not very fancy, but straight and easily identifiable. The rounded rectangle makes a dynamic and accelerating impression. Also, it looks as if the 'boost' was pushing the 'c++' to the right. The text, spoken out loud, reads "boost c++!", which adds to the effect.
44	Markus Trippelsdorf	Includes two fonts used for the SVG logo.
45	Markus Trippelsdorf
49	Cristian Peraferrer Mayné
54	Cristian Peraferrer Mayné
50a 50b	Succubus Interactive	Anonymous delivery, fast acting, long lasting The pill paradigm has multiple meanings: Boost enhance your code, the pill is a stimulant A pill is a usual thing, as boost should be standard Boost is easy to integrate, as a pill is easy to swallow The boost library can be included partially, as the pill can be split The four ‘+' are supposed to look like the scope operator ‘::', and still keep the C++ feeling
51 Infinity	Omid Aladini
52a 52b 52c	Zoltan "cad" Juhasz
75a 75b 75c 75e	Zoltan "cad" Juhasz
56	James Weatherley	Rationale: Leading and trailing underscores for 1337ness ++ because boost > not boost italic for dynamism pixelated for computer machine effect green on black like teh matrix
57	Simon O'Leary	Rationale: Green B also doubles up as a C (as in C++) Green because green is proper computer text colour oo of boost can be taken to mean - a sideways colon (which is good), an infinity symbol meaning boost is very (infinitely) better than not boost. Green because green is the best colour. Also looks like PAC-MAN a bit which is computer related. The plus plus goes along nicely with the t. The S in boost is angular like on a digital watch (the way a proper watch should be) The Boo is in a different colour from the rest because a lot of the other entries are.
58	Sangeeta Martin	In my logo boost (represented by a space hopper) is picking up C++ and, literally, carrying it up to stratospheric heights. I feel one benefit of this logo is that it has a cute character - all projects need one think of tux the penguin and the happy mac logo. I think a name like Boo or Boosty the boost space hopper would be good but I don't have all the answers.
59	Sam Samith
60	Banu Alexandru
61	Paige Terrell Lybbert	Boost helps users avoid work and be lazy (in the Perlish sense). You also have several people declaring C++ dead, but I think it's just "playing possum." Anyhow, Linux has Tux, OS X has Darwin, Plan 9 has Glenda, and BSD has had the daemon, so why not get an animal mascot? They look good on T-shirts.
62a 62b	Mike H	Rational for design: boost is about building blocks. i've tried to keep the design simple, using only basic geometric shapes.
63	Dominik Sinclair
64	Dominik Sinclair
65	Dominik Sinclair
66	Dominik Sinclair
70	Dominik Sinclair
71	Dominik Sinclair
72	Dominik Sinclair
73	Dominik Sinclair
68a 68b 68c	Aleksey Gurtovoy	The inversed block / vertical bar represent a text cursor (as if the word "boost" was just typed), which is supposed to symbolize dynamism and work-in-progress.
69	Aleksey Gurtovoy	"Bright people. Bright libraries. Bright future."
92a, 92b 92c, 92d 92e, 92f	Aleksey Gurtovoy	The logo's main symbol, which at first sight appears to be a jigsaw puzzle piece, also offers a more subtle, complementing interpretation: a symbolic picture of several people gathered together in discussion around the table.
74	Sebastien Goy	Boost could be defined through its product, i.e. "C++ source libraries suitable for eventual standardization". The Boost libraries are thus built on top of the C++ language, but aim to be part of a C++ standard. The logo shown on the left includes both ideas, using building blocks (representing the concepts of library and modularity) and mere characters from a very famous font type (emboding the concepts of standard and minimalism/elegance). Each part is complementary to the other, and together they literally define Boost. Moreover, for Boost-unsavvy viewers, the "C++" characters are perceived at first sight. See this link showing a mockup of the Boost website with the logo.
76a 76b	Jonas Norberg	I really liked the idea of a rocket (from the Japanese book "Boost c++ Library"), I also wanted to keep it simple. The rocket is fueled by C++, and it shows in the exhaust flame/smoke. I wanted the rocket to look a bit childish, to make it more inviting. Let's everyone join the boost rocket to the stars :)
77	Jonas Norberg	This design works well in really low resolution, it doesn't mention c++, but it is has a "logo" feeling.
78	Jonas Norberg	Pretty simple logo, two "C++" is shared with the double-o
79	Jonas Norberg	A variation of my previous version, here "c++", "oo", "s", and "t" are sharing the lines.
80a 80b 80c	Tobias Schwinger
81a 81b	Tobias Schwinger
82	Tobias Schwinger
83a 83b 83c 83d	Emil Kirichev
84	Chris Goller
85	Ben Hetland	Ideas for the design are: The logo is simple and can be used even as part of source code. It reflects perhaps the most typical font and style familiar to C++ programmers (Courier and non-proportional as we like it). Inspired by, and gives associations to C++ template syntax, and Boost is a lot about templates. Should work in low resolution, even on textual displays. Could be used with very low bandwidth, 10 bytes as ASCII characters could be all that are required: boost<c++>
86	Ryan Rajpaul
87a 87b 87c	Anthony Tong Lee	For credit, I have to give Zoltan "cad" Juhasz for his great colour scheme.
89	Michael Pust	biting off of ben hetland, and encapsulating one of my favorite template techniques...
90a 90b 90c	Dirk Mattes	This logo was inspired by Markus Trippelsdorf's design (entry number 45). Some variations are possible, to obtain best results on different output devices (color logo for web pages, back and white logo for b/w laser printers or faxes).
91	Thomas Immich
93a 93b	Dietmar Kuehl, Edelgard Kutter
94	Branko Dimitrijevic
95	Yoshinori Tagawa
96	maHo
98a 98b 98c	Timm von Puttkamer	The logo should express dynamic by means of the italic font. The idea of dynamic gets supported through an arrow pointing in the same direction the font leans. The font I chose, Courier New, is a very typical font used by many C++ programmers.
99	Mike Mangone