Barefoot Academy Logo Design

  • Status: Closed
  • Prize: $250
  • Entries Received: 128
  • Winner: classiclogo96

Contest Brief

Barefoot Academy is an educational department of Barefoot Networks (http://barefootnetworks.com) dedicated to providing high-quality training for its customers on its products. The training focuses on Barefoot Networks products, such as Tofino(tm) -- world's fastest and fully programmable switching ASIC, Capilano(tm) Software Development Environment (SDE) and the P4 language (http://p4.org).

We'd like to have the following:
1. A coat-of-arms or a similar design element that graphically represents the ideas, expressed in the design guidelines below, conveys a relation to an established academic institution and will become a formal graphical representation of Barefoot Academy
2. A mascot, that is a fun character, easily relatable to some of the ideas below. It can be a cousin of Linux Penguin (e.g. another bird, e.g. a parrot or a puffin), or a cousin of P4.org's Polar Bear (i.e. another distinct bear, like a panda), or a totally different character. It should be usable independently and be a less formal representation of Barefoot Academy. It should also be "flexible", i.e. it can be easily incorporated into a wide variety of designs and situations.
3. A logo that displays the words "Barefoot Academy" together with the coat-of-arms and/or the mascot
4. A round seal that displays the coat of arms, the mascot, the words "Barefoot Academy" and the "Ingenium Reticulum Programmare!" motto.

Design guidelines:
We are looking for a couple of design elements that we can also combine and reuse later. The main ideas that we would like to express are:
1. Strong relation to Barefoot Networks (but the name is "Barefoot Academy"), including the colors and the font (see the company website)
2. Relation to P4 Language (see p4.org website) since we use P4 language to program our Tofino ASIC
3. Relation to high-performance silicon chips
4. Relation to computer networking. Specifically, our motto is "Ingenium Reticulum Programmare!" which roughly means "Program Networks Inventively!"
5. Focus on formal, academic training
6. Something that evokes the following - Fast, Programmable, Networks, High-Performance, etc.

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“@classiclogo96 won the contest on 12 August 2017”

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Public Clarification Board

  • Helen2386
    Helen2386
    • 6 years ago

    #184 thank you

    • 6 years ago
  • griffindesing
    griffindesing
    • 6 years ago

    Please check #185 . Thanks.

    • 6 years ago
  • YKNB
    YKNB
    • 6 years ago

    #extended

    • 6 years ago
  • LOGOEXPERT247
    LOGOEXPERT247
    • 6 years ago

    please check my Entry #232 #230 #229 #228 #39 #38 thank you .

    • 6 years ago
  • EliCreative
    EliCreative
    • 6 years ago

    Hello, could you please provide feedback and ratings? This would help us to get a better grip on your need and to come up with better designs.

    • 6 years ago
  • manteca
    manteca
    • 6 years ago

    for you consideration entry #197 has been updated in entry #213

    • 6 years ago
  • argan13
    argan13
    • 6 years ago

    Please check #210 #211 Thanks!

    • 6 years ago
  • Mangagfx
    Mangagfx
    • 6 years ago

    Please check #209 Thank you

    • 6 years ago
  • manishlcy
    manishlcy
    • 6 years ago

    Please check #208 Thank you

    • 6 years ago
  • YamGraphics2017
    YamGraphics2017
    • 6 years ago

    working on it :)

    • 6 years ago
  • griffindesing
    griffindesing
    • 6 years ago

    Please check #185 . Thanks.

    • 6 years ago
  • GrowthGates
    GrowthGates
    • 6 years ago

    please check #194 #195

    • 6 years ago
  • rachelcheree
    rachelcheree
    • 6 years ago

    I've uploaded some design variations - entry #187 - thanks

    • 6 years ago
  • sutoramen
    sutoramen
    • 6 years ago

    check it out #186 ,and im still workin on for another options ,thank you

    • 6 years ago
  • griffindesing
    griffindesing
    • 6 years ago

    Please check #185 . Thank you.

    • 6 years ago
  • Helen2386
    Helen2386
    • 6 years ago

    #184 thank you

    • 6 years ago
  • Logozonek
    Logozonek
    • 6 years ago

    please check #177 #178 #179 #180 #

    • 6 years ago
  • griffindesing
    griffindesing
    • 6 years ago

    Hello, please wait for my design, I'm going to participate. Best regards.

    • 6 years ago
  • primedesigns1
    primedesigns1
    • 6 years ago

    Entry #164

    • 6 years ago
  • p4prof
    Contest Holder
    • 6 years ago

    We do need a mascot! It's all in the contest description.

    • 6 years ago
  • p4prof
    Contest Holder
    • 6 years ago

    Dear contestants,

    First of all, thank you so much for the enthusiastic submissions!

    I would like to clarify a couple of points so far:
    1. Please, take a look at the company website (http://barefootnetworks.com). You will see that we are generally not using a real human foot, but a foot-styled infinity sign. Bare paws (Bear paws), bird feet are OK, but human foot resembles a lot of other companies, like Barefoot wine.
    2. So far, I haven't seen designs that would incorporate references to all the elements that were in the description. For one reason or another, networking and high-performance chips are pretty much totally missing and learning/academics are represented only sporadically.
    3. I get it that vectorized 3-D designs can be rendered in a variety of ways, but it would be more helpful to submit actually different design ideas. We will certainly refine the details of the winning design anyway.

    • 6 years ago
    1. akbarthegreat
      akbarthegreat
      • 6 years ago

      so you don't need mascot?? please clarify. thanks in advance.

      • 6 years ago
  • redezigns
    redezigns
    • 6 years ago

    Hello! Please can you give me feedback in my entrie #145 and #148 thank you.

    • 6 years ago
  • angelmilon22
    angelmilon22
    • 6 years ago

    #132#

    • 6 years ago
  • angelmilon22
    angelmilon22
    • 6 years ago

    dear sir...please check my entry#119#124

    • 6 years ago
  • tonyvisualdesign
    tonyvisualdesign
    • 6 years ago

    plz check #107 #108 #109 #110 #111

    • 6 years ago
  • evilasting1984
    evilasting1984
    • 6 years ago

    #sealed

    • 6 years ago
  • SHshohag89
    SHshohag89
    • 6 years ago

    Please check #100 #101

    • 6 years ago
  • deydesign
    deydesign
    • 6 years ago

    plz check my design #99

    • 6 years ago
  • MasterMind223
    MasterMind223
    • 6 years ago

    please check my entries.

    • 6 years ago
  • artlogo1
    artlogo1
    • 6 years ago

    please check #53#54#55#56

    • 6 years ago
  • LOGOEXPERT247
    LOGOEXPERT247
    • 6 years ago

    #sealed

    • 6 years ago
  • classiclogo96
    classiclogo96
    • 6 years ago

    #sealed

    • 6 years ago
  • daevasantino
    daevasantino
    • 6 years ago

    #sealed

    • 6 years ago

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