[hackpgh-discuss] Re: Hackerspace passport stamp
- From: Matt Stultz <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:36:58 -0400
I will measure the blocks on my hacker space passport tonight when I get
home so we can get a size.
I like the look of the keystone with the name but I do agree with Doug that
it will continue the confusion. Maybe we can play with it.
I don't think other spaces have separate stamps but I have heard of 2 colors
of ink, one for home and one for away.
Non of the ones we have seen have the date built in. We could always get one
of those roll around date stamps and either build it into our stamp or just
use two stamps.
I like the idea of tracing the cut onto linoleum and then hand carving it
too.
Thanks,
Matt
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Douglas Philips <dgou@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2011 Sep 21, at 8:16 PM, Matthew Beckler wrote:
> > There were a lot of hackerspaces at the NYC maker faire who were stamping
> passport with their cool custom stamps. At the meeting tonight we talked
> about getting a stamp made, or cutting one from scrap linoleum with the
> Modela router, so I took a stab at making a logo version suitable for a
> stamp. We might have to further simplify the soldering iron fist logo to
> make it stamp-worthy, but we'll see.
> >
> > Let me know if you have any comments or improvements, or feel free to
> edit the file yourself. I was thinking of trying to duplicate or at least
> imitate the heinz ketchup typeface for the name at the top.
>
> I think it is quite cool!
>
> A few comments/questions...
>
> What are our size constraints? I assume we want something roughly 3" in
> diameter/square? I know I saw Matt's Passport book itself, briefly, but have
> no sense of scale...
>
> Did any hackersspace's stamp have the date built in to the stamp itself?
> Did any space have more than one stamp?
> I'm thinking it'd be cool to have one for visits to the space itself, and
> one for visits to a chancery, as if hackerspace 'booths' were an
> extraterritorial chancery. But I digress...
>
> Stylistically, we have to split the HackPittsburgh name to make it fit the
> Keystone formfactor... I'm a little reluctant about that since our name
> really is one word and we seem to be in a constant struggle to have folks
> get it right...
>
> I miss the starburst logo background, and I suppose in part why I like the
> license plate logo is that it is just a completely different logo, so if it
> had the (soldering) iron fist, I'd probably miss the starburst on the
> license plate too.
>
>
> As to using the modula to carve it, that's kind of interesting.
> I think it would be fine too to use something like a Cricut to draw the
> outlines on, and then hand cut from, a linoleum/wood block, Olde Schoole.
> (Really Olde Schoole would be to hand cut it freeform. I'm willing to
> volunteer to handcut from a printed template, but I can't do it freehand).
>
> Thanks for taking the first steps, I'm interested to see this move forward!
> As was mentioned in the shop at the meeting last night, we'll probably have
> need of a stamp at or even before Mini MakerFaire Pittsburgh.
>
> -=D
>
>
>
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