On 22 February 2018 at 06:45, Helmut K. C. Tessarek wrote: > Hello, > > On 2018-02-21 11:32, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> Do we have any artists around to draw one? Any thoughts? (We could >> probably come up with some small awards.) > > I know a few graphic designers who might be interested. > > Let me know, if there's a certain direction you want to go, or if they > should start from scratch.
We basically have two completely different things to solve: a) drawing b) the real plush thing I mean: I really like the penguin itself for example, but I don't remember seing any really nice plush implementation of it, most of them are quite strange. We could in principle also start from some easy-to-get really cute existing toy that we could then buy in bigger quantities whenever necessary, and get a nice drawing of it. Getting a toy made after the selected drawing would be quite a project in any case. I do like cheerful animals like this one linked earlier: https://github.com/PureDarwin/Hexley http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Hexley I think it was Clemens who at some point suggested a flying platypus (to stay within the scope of the species used for Darwin). (I started wondering if we couldn't perhaps ask the same artist to make a proposal.) If we do go with port crane, then the "McCrane" proposal in the spirit of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_McQueen could also look nice :) But then we would definitely need a 3D version of the character :) :) :). In the spirit of plays around "Port" there's another relevant wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_wine But it would not be too tasty to use that given our history with certain other projects :) :) :) I hope others will chime in with their own thoughts, but basically we probably don't have any strict ideas or restrictions about the mascot. Mojca