Oliver Bertuch (Jul 22 2025 at 12:41): Oliver Bertuch (Jul 22 2025 at 12:41):Can we have squirrels as Dataverse masqots?
Philip Durbin π (Jul 22 2025 at 13:06):Sure! We're pretty squirrelly :chipmunk:
Oliver Bertuch (Jul 22 2025 at 13:35):I very much like the idea of squirrels hiding data and new trees growing from these cores... :tree:
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Philip Durbin π (Jul 22 2025 at 14:18):If it helps, over at https://chat.dataverse.org we have some critters my daughter drew:
Oliver Bertuch (Jul 23 2025 at 11:48):
(Picture source: https://www.midjourney.com/jobs/a771860a-3091-4a07-a27b-162a38a92ca9?index=1)
Philip Durbin π (Jul 23 2025 at 11:53):Ha, nice. My daughter is up for giving it a shot but she wants details. What should the squirrel be doing, for example.
Oliver Bertuch (Jul 23 2025 at 11:55):I stole the idea of a squirrel holding something from here:
image.png
(Source: https://www.fdm.nrw/)
Oliver Bertuch (Jul 23 2025 at 11:55):I kinda like the "data as precious food" theme
Oliver Bertuch (Jul 23 2025 at 11:57):Also given the context of how new trees come to live from forgotten nuts. A nice riff on scientists hoarding "their" data.
Philip Durbin π (Jul 23 2025 at 12:23):cute
Philip Durbin π (Jul 27 2025 at 20:37):My daughter played around with making a squirrel out of the Dataverse logo:
squirrel-logo.jpg
Philip Durbin π (Jul 28 2025 at 14:55):Another one!
Philip Durbin π (Aug 01 2025 at 01:30):@Oliver Bertuch what do you recommend for a canvas size in Inkscape for this project? If it helps, I'm looking at https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/6226/when-creating-a-vector-file-how-should-i-determine-my-vector-file-canvas-size-g and https://www.reddit.com/r/Inkscape/comments/437iu1/newbie_question_about_saving_inkscape_vector/ . I'm an Inkscape newbie. :sweat_smile:
Philip Durbin π (Aug 01 2025 at 01:51):Anyway, it's very much a work in progress but this is what I have so far:
Philip Durbin π (Aug 01 2025 at 02:00):I'm basing it on this CC BY-SA photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NorthAmericanSquirrel.jpg
256px-NorthAmericanSquirrel.jpg
Philip Durbin π (Aug 01 2025 at 02:02):Here's the Inkscape file: squirrel.svg
Feel free to go crazy with it. :crazy:
Philip Durbin π (Aug 01 2025 at 11:42):I sent it to a friend and he came back with this:
Here's the source: drawing.svg
Philip Durbin π (Aug 06 2025 at 02:10):still hacking on my squirrel :smile:
Vaida PlankytΔ π¨ (Aug 15 2025 at 11:41):Philip Durbin π said:
I sent it to a friend and he came back with this:
Here's the source: drawing.svg
oh, this is looking really nice! i love the use of the dataverse shapes for the body of the squirrel. it'd be lovely to have a square logo for dataverse that can be used, when it's a bit clunky to add the full Dataverse text :sunglasses:
Vaida PlankytΔ π¨ (Aug 15 2025 at 11:42):image.png
here's a quick mockup of how the mascot could be used for a new logo!
Philip Durbin π (Aug 15 2025 at 12:22):Ha, that's so much fun. :smile:
Vaida PlankytΔ π¨ (Aug 15 2025 at 15:02):@Philip Durbin π i'd be curious to hear more about the requirement to show all three circles, and if there is a meaning for each circle! would be nice to maybe make that clearer in the circles for the final design, maybe link them together in a clear visual way :sunglasses:
Philip Durbin π (Aug 15 2025 at 15:04):@Dwayne Liburd help! :smile:
You can see the three circle version here: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.7.1/style/foundations.html#logos (just a link, at the very bottom, added in #11515).
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