Clothos logo

I was recently commissioned to design the "mascot" logo for a program project at UC Berkeley for their IGem wiki entry website. The Clothos name itself is based upon one of the Greek fates, the one who spun the thread of human life. The name was chosen because the program itself deals with DNA fabrication, in a sense- the very thread of life itself in actuality. Her design was originally based upon the images I found of the Greek fate, but then incorporated was that her hair is strands of DNA and that base bacteria serve as ornamentation on her long flowing dress. Her colors were determined during a live video recording session in which I was drawing and coloring live, and the Berkeley team watched and gave feedback (if you're curious, it's "livestream" www.livestream.com/osirisred I occasionally hold live drawing sessions so people can watch how i draw). The royal red I thought was a strong primary color to base off of, and the gold itself is a standard compliment to dark red dresses. Her golden hair I think was partially based off of Rapunzel's fairytale. The off-color skin was chosen because human skin didn't really give her a "Goddess" feel and when I played with the hues, this light green served as a good compliment, being the opposite color of red on the color wheel. She is adorned with natural items such as flowers and also small bacteria and phage-charms to accentuate her "natural" aspects.

Her original sketch was more so based on the clothos muse herself:


You can see the rest of the mascots and the software's functionality at the completed wiki page here: http://2009.igem.org/Team:Berkeley_Software