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Canadian Supercomputing Conference Needs a Logo

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Logo Design Brief

We need a logo for HPCS, our annual Canadian High Performance Computing conference, the annual meeting of everyone in Canada who works on really, really big computers.

We need it for HPCS 2014, but would like something that could be re-used in the coming years. The logo should feel modern, professional, high-tech, and, preferably, be immediately identifiable as Canadian. Easiest way to do this would be to incorporate the maple leaf. The worst way to do this would be to include a beaver. Don't include a beaver.

CDMN has a fantastic logo (http://www.cdmn.ca) that has the right feel. They'd probably frown on us stealing it though.

Text accompanying the logo can be "HPCS 2014" or "HPCS" or even nothing at all. If no text, please suggest what title font I should use when incorporating the logo into materials. If using "2014" as part of the logo, it should be in such a way that it is easily changed in subsequent years.

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Hi everyone, thanks for the designs.  Some strong entries are starting to emerge.  Just a note that I'm hoping to avoid 0's and 1's as a design element to make it 'digital.'  It's been done a bit too much in our particular space to be interesting.  


Also, don't feel beholden to including a maple leaf.  While it's probably the most straightforward way to tie in Canada, and I think some really clever designs can come from it, there are certainly other directions you could go.

My ultimate preference is for clean designs that aren't too busy.  Looking forward to see what emerges in the next 8 days!

Added Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Project Deadline Extended
Reason: Thanks for the designs everyone. Out of town for a bit. Need an extra week to get designs to the committee.
Added Sunday, October 06, 2013

Thanks everyone for the great designs.  Most of them have incorporated a maple leaf in some way.  Just want to make sure if you have any non-maple leaf ideas, I see those too.  Don't want to box in your creativity!
Added Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Industry/Entity Type

Tech

Logo Text

HPCS 2014 (the 2014 is optional but if there, should be able to be changed to 2015, etc)

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A real-world object (optional text)

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Acronym or letter based logo (text only)

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Requirements
Must have
  • Must be an order of magnitude better than any of our previous logos: http://hpcs.ca/previoushpcs
Should not have
  • Probably goes without saying, but nothing kitschy like beavers or mounties or moose.
Payments
1st place
US$360
Participation payments x 2
US$20
Total
US$400
Project Deadline
17 Oct 2013 18:08:42 UTC
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