| Once upon a time in the early Naughts, the folks at the Bay Area Linux Users Group put out a call for someone with artistic capability to do some graphics work. They had to settle for me instead. |
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My main contribution was to track down a public domain
photo of penguins running along the ice edge in McMurdo sound.
This became the cover for our CD giveaways
at LinuxWorld that year :
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| I also experimented with trying to invent a new BALUG logo. Embarrassingly enough, I lost most of this work but one my experiments survives |
There's also this "Nightmare" version, which has some Halloween
potential: 
...perhaps with the addition of a ghost sporting a wavy tilde and a little daemon wearing a rainbow mask. |
| There are some excellent public domain photos of Antarctica out there, courtesy of the NSF (which requests but does not demand attribution); In my opinion, cartoons of puffy penguins are really dorky, but actual penguins are kind of cool... Here are links to some of my source images: |
