[hackpgh-discuss] Re: Hackerspace passport stamp
- From: Douglas Philips <dgou@xxxxxxx>
- To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:52:05 -0400
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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