But I’m not an entry in the competition.
But any other, even less, kinda the point…
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– otherwise that thing is adorable!
re #609: why that shield detaching the persons head? Is it pulling it into all directions? What did that poor person do to deserve this 
… and please, let’s NOT put a white dude in our logo, oh PLEASE NO! Aside from detail it sends all the wrong messages…
re ants:
So far I kept quiet around that entire ‘ants’ thing, but it keeps coming up, so I’ll just put my two cents here now: I am happy with having ants as a mascot alongside the system, like others have their mascot animals or you’d pick an animal for your O’Reilly book – and I love the designs that have been posted here (especially that freeky circuit board. LOVE IT).
But I do not like the idea of comparing people to ants (the whole ‘the ants are coming’ implies that we are the ants…). For once because most people do not have any good association with ants – more like annoying little parasite-bugs that sting (not technically correct, I know), and creeping around everyone and really hard to get rid of. Secondly, while ants as a system are amazing, on the individual case the life of an ants sounds rather meaningless and sad – you just do that specific job that was somehow determined for you to do in order to serve the queen. Ehhh… Yeah… thanks, I pass. No one wants to be ‘an ant’. That sounds like a terrible gig.
Asking someone to identify as an ant has a very anti-individualistic tone to it. Like you expect them to be part of the “bigger system” and “play their role”, which both capitalism and socialism said before in order violently exploited and abused the individual – in a lot of cases through the invasion of privacy and centralised power structured. All things I personally associate with ‘being an ant’, that SafeNet is exactly the opposite of and trying to prevent from happening. In all of that sense, using the ant to describe a participant in the system is counter productive IMHO.
Using ants as the symbol to create amazing system we can rely on: I am good with. The ant as the logo however transports all these under tones unfortunately…
Well, yes. If you mean in the sense of the mathematical packing problem. However, this really only comes to play once you use many of them. If you want to cover a square and you should do it with one square, well, that’s gonna be more efficient than a hexagon 
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I very much like the idea of a structure of hexagons (a honeycomb conjecture) though – it is a strong support structure and base system you can rely on. If you have many of them: strength of the Network, similar as SafeNet. The last chaos computer camp had a some beautiful hexagon-structure art work, which also inspired the logo I created for a side project of mine, the base system for social community building. This is their poster edition – the thing next to the text is the actual logo:
I love it and I think the hexagon shape itself is largely unexplored as a means to express the strong support network…
Edit: I forgot mention.Hexagon don’t have to be uniform lengths, cells (in the body) are also generally speaking hexagon-shaped and ‘stacked’, it’s called Isohedral tiling. That’s just one example of how the hexagon allows for more organic structures, too:
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some new ones just came out. kida like this one here:
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I agree, this is the best one so far!
https://forum.autonomi.community/uploads/short-url/pGyodlNnb0Coq1wmaduvBQj1SoO.jpg
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Clean, Simple, Complicated…
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Patchworks like that tempt acknowledging how each user is contributing some element to the whole.
Some design that highlights one principal element with connection to others, might work well.
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Can I offer you my full support in this? 
IF ANYBODY DECIDES AGAINST THIS, THEY DESERVE NO LOVE FROM CATS FOREVER
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
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@Josh Those dots look like pox…
I really like @Pierce’s … actually shows some imagination beyond just one element. The last one with a lock doesn’t work but the second and third are among the best I’ve seen.
Exactly!
More reasons why I choose hexagon over genetic designs. More info here.
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Very good, that has the complete formula! Even down to the detail of reversing the colors of the open-source knock-off to make it pc. Hire that person!
Yeah you are right but it could be worked with. I do really like the other one too. Wish it was higher def to see how it scales.
I would expect any final to be vector and scalable by default.
Scooter helmets??
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Just noticing the background on those two designs and liking that.
The foreground logo left side though is not remarkable… too much like an anti-virus shields and the TM right side stinks of corporate. Nice font right side for ‘SAFE’.
My thought was astronaut helmets: out of this world! Or Honda’s Asimo fake robot.