The old logo of 42tm (right) and the new one (left). 42tm is a computer programming team of highly capable high school students (most of them have gone to universities). As part of establishing our identity, I decided that our team number—42—would be both in our team name and on our logo. There are a bunch of reasons why 42 is our team number: it is a programming magic number, the ASCII code for the asterisk symbol (which is a wildcard for everything), and of course, the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, as computed by Deep Thought in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It symbolizes our philosophy and our approach to software development: solutions to everything, for everyone.

As we continue to uphold the number 42, it has persisted a steady presence throughout our logo history. The graphics have changed a lot, but the number 42 has always been expressed in one way or the other. Our first logo (right) was simple: the number 42 in white on a grey background. Overtime, we have added graphics to the logo, and finally ended up with the one on the left—a semi-flat themed logo. The blue circle—a symbolization of the Earth and our open-source, international approach to shipping software—is seen wrapped around two brackets—a familiar image associated with computer programming, especially HTML. Together with the orbiting planet (orange circle) and the comet (in white), these brackets form an image of the number 42. All of this is in the realm of a beautiful violet-pinky nebula.

The logo of the WebDev - Mutual assistance/learning Discord server which I am a member of. We are a group of close friends assisting and learning with each other about web development.

The logo of The Better README Project. Simple like the team’s philosophy in regard of Readmes and software documentation.

Dark and light variants of The Free T-shirts Campaign. As its name suggest, the Campaign awards t-shirts for contributors of open-source. A logo in which the familiar pull request icon is pictured on a t-shirt perfectly draws an overall image of the Campaign: create pull requests, and you will deserve yourself a t-shirt for being a part of the proud free software community.

3 variants of a logo I made for an unofficial JSDoc Discord server. The owner ended up choosing the left most one. Simple, elegant, yet does its job. The letters s and d along with the straight stroke underneath them form an image of a programmer’s face.

The logo of Vecma—an Initiative I created to draw together students of linear algebra and computer graphics. Vecma is a portmanteau of the names of 2 key linear algebra quantities: vectors and matrix. Its logo also reflects this: the V stands for Vecma, and is also intendedly shaped like the head of a vector. The square resembles a matrix.

The logo of SVG Salad—a team of illustrators and developers who love the Scalable Vector Graphics format. A plate of salad is like a work in SVG: there are multiple elements in various shapes and colors, and some elements are placed on top of some others. But in food preparing, a plate of salad is a piece of art only when all of its elements—tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, cheese, cucumbers, vegetables, etc.—are properly aligned, like a beautiful piece of SVG itself.

A logo I made for my father’s gift shop. The design was his; I only made it tangible using SVG and exported the logo in PNG.