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CrikeyCon VI - Brisbane's Hacker Convention
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T-shirt Design Brief
We need a T-Shirt design for our 2019 hacker (computer security) conference featuring our mascot Droppy the Drop Bear. Drop bears are mythical Australian creatures; they are basically Vampire Koala bears, ready to drop on unsuspecting tourists and devour them. Droppy has feature in different forms in all our conferences.
This is our 6th conference - VI in roman numerals. This gave us two concepts.
1. Russian/Cold War themes: VI looks like a Cyrillic digraph И - media and public perception of Russian hackers makes this a possible theme (think 80s cold war movie posters, Red Dawn, Rocky, those sorts of themes)
2. Escape/Trapped: vi is a popular unix text editor. It is famously difficult to use for beginners. To quit the tool without saving you have to press the escape key [ESC] then :wq! - this made us think of a trapped/ escape theme
3. Privacy/Big Brother: Australia has just passed 'encrypted message access' laws that are widely considered to be badly written and unimplementable. This leads to a privacy theme, Big Brother watching over us, future distopia, mistrust of government. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-04/encryption-whatsapp-signal-messages-explained/10580208
Updates
Hey everyone, Thanks for the submissions so far! We've been a bit slow at this end to have a proper look through, and we're still getting feedback from some of our buddies, so we're going to extend the deadline a bit. That gives you all the full weekend to develop your ideas too! Thanks, Droppy & The Crew
Target Market(s)
Our conference attracts folk from across the IT and computing industry, with a focus on computer security. It is a broadly a technical crowd. Government and law-enforcement are also a large part of our community.
There is also a strong focus on alternative and counter culture, the Hacker scene.
We strive for a diverse and inclusive environment for all races and genders, and are kid-friendly, although the themes are quite serious and adult.
Industry/Entity Type
Computer Security
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Other font styles liked:
- non proportional/console/computer/8bit fonts often work well with the themes.
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Requirements
Must have
- Droppy the Drop Bear - our mascot has feature on all of our merch in different forms. See prior art attached.
- CrikeyCon VI - 2019
- Vectorised Art
- Limited Palette for screen-printing (ideally 4 colours) to print on dark shirts
Nice to have
- We typically print on black/dark shirts, but the design should work with dark an khaki at least.
- Hacker/ Alternative/ Sub-Culture themes
- Stylised Computer/ Tech/ Bio-tech
- Inspirations could include:
- Future Tech: Iain M Banks, William Gibson, Matrix, Lawnmower Man
- Big Brother/Distopia: Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World
- Escape: Maze Runner, Ready Player One, Battle Royale
Should not have
- Material to offend the public decency - we want our shirts to be wearable in public
- Avoid Blade Runner and Tron - our sister conferences have used these themes recently.
