GigaPan is a simple robotic platform for capturing very high-resolution (gigapixel) panoramic images from a consumer (point and shoot) digital camera. GigaPan-generated images can be uploaded to and explored on Google Earth. In the logo, a loupe (formed from the deconstructed typeface) is a metaphor for the experience of magnifying a detail in a gigapixel panorama. The panorama of the Chernobyl power plant above was taken with a GigaPan in April 2009.

Publicworks Office operates between art and activism, between public and private spaces, between organizational and individual interests, and between formalized and chance partnerships. The name suggests an organization authorized to build and maintain critical infrastructure. The wordmark as a form can slide “between” spaces on the page or screen, and can be combined to form larger structures and systems.

A cheerful circuit waving hello and a playful visual language for a series of hands-on public workshops and open studios led by artists and roboticists. Robot 250 partnering organizations and institutions include the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, the Mattress Factory Art Museum, the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, YMCA of Pittsburgh, and the Carnegie Science Center. Background image is of “Immediate Mediation” by Rexy Tseng, exhibited in Robot 250/Mashing at Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

A six-petaled “flower” representing the six undergraduate schools at Carnegie Mellon University signifies the cultivation of students across many disciplines as well as the growing prominence and professionalism of the Undergraduate Research Office itself. The (Bryant Pro) wordmark component of the logo is young, fresh, and energetic and in careful counterbalance to the (Bauer Bodoni) wordmark of the University.