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Logo Design Brief

We need a clean and simple but eye-catching logo suitable for stickers, T-shirts, and our Meetup.com page. We might also use it at the beginning of YouTube videos we post of talks our members give.

We are the Bay Area Lisp & Scheme Users Group, or BALisp, a volunteer group that meets about once a quarter to discuss writing software in the Lisp family of programming languages. We're an educational, networking, and social group organized around our common interest in Lisp.

At a typical meeting, one person will give an hour-long talk on their latest work in Lisp, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, quantum computing, or a related field, and several other people will give lightning talks, each five minutes long.

Here are some ideas for ideas or visual elements that you might consider incorporating into or referencing in the logo:

- Lisp is known for making heavy use of parentheses, so a matching pair of parentheses might make a nice visual element.

- Lisp is based on a mathematical idea called the lambda calculus, so the Greek lower case letter lambda is frequently used.

- We are in the San Francisco Bay area, so landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge are relevant.

- Lisp is the second-oldest widely used programming language in widespread use today. The first version was invented in 1958.

- Lisp can be practical, but also has a strong mathematical basis.

- Many of us are software engineers or scientists.

- Lisp is used for all kinds of things, from routine software engineering to cutting-edge applications like artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, and quantum computing.

- We call ourselves "hackers" in the long tradition of computer programmers dating back to the early days of the field, e.g. at MIT, to mean someone who is fascinated by technology in general and computer programming in particular. This is distinct from the pejorative use of the word used today, meaning someone who breaks into computers. (See <https://smile.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Levy/dp/1449388396> and <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker#Definitions>.)

- The term "wizard" is used to refer to a particularly skillful hacker. See the image on our Meetup.com home page, which we picked up from a famous book in the field: <https://www.meetup.com/balisp>. Here's the cover of that book: <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-computer-programs>.

- At the top of this page, you can see a logo one Lisper made for the language: <http://www.lisperati.com/logo.html>. The logo probably isn't appropriate for us, but his phrase "made with secret alien technology" gives you a feel for the way some of us think about Lisp.

- Racket is a variant of Lisp. See their logo at the top of <https://racket-lang.org>. Note the lambda there.

- Clojure is another variant of Lisp. See their logo at <https://clojure.org/community/swag>. Note that it also incorporates a lambda.

- Haskell is not a Lisp language, but it shares some ideas with it. This page shows their logo and some earlier versions the used or considered: <https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_logos>. Many include lambdas.

We are hoping that having a good-looking logo will raise the level of seriousness of the group in people's minds, which would help us get better attendance and more good speakers.

Thank you so much for reading all this and considering working on our project.

Target Market(s)

software engineers and others in the San Francisco bay area interested in the Lisp family of programming languages

Industry/Entity Type

Computer Software

Logo Text

Maybe BALisp, but it doesn't have to. See the description above.

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Logo styles of interest

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Colors

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Look and feel

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Requirements

Must have

• Must be suitable for stickers, T-shirts, and screens.

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