These beaded penguins were inspired by the video game series Fallout featuring a ghoul, a glowing one and a radioactively contaminated penguin, whom a third arm is growing out of it’s belly.
I chose those beads especially to highlight the individual traits of the characters depicted: Marbled beads for the ghoul, glowing-in-the-dark beads for the glowing one and neon green beads for the contaminated penguin.
Before switching to Debian a few years ago I was using Kubuntu as operating system for a long time, but kinda liked the old version of the official Ubuntu logo. At that time I decided to try and emulate the logo with beaded penguins. Even if Ubuntu already changed their logo twice since then, I’d like to share my version with you.
Beaded penguins are mimicking the Ubuntu logo by forming a circle. In total there are six penguins, three big ones looking up at the camera and three tiny ones. The penguins are coloured yellow, orange and red. Opposite each big penguin is its corresponding little penguin. Starting at the top going clock-wise: big orange penguin (looking upwards), little yellow penguin, big red penguin (looking upwards), little orange penguin, big yellow penguin (looking upwards) and little red penguin.
At the beginning Ubuntu’s branding strategy was focusing on the human element of their OS, resulting in them creating some advertisement photos where humans are forming the Ubuntu logo. And in turn inspiring my penguin version.
The logo Ubuntu used from 2004 till 2010 upon which my beaded penguin version is based upon.
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