Three Logo designs for TUMs Physics department:
POCAM, STRAW & P-ONE
It was a pleasure to work with the Physics team on three consecutive projects building on one another. All projects were supposed to have the same look & feel, main colour and were about the same matter: The research on the particles called “neutrinos” (an own type of elementary particles). In the end one of the logos got engraved on the devices and is has been in the Baikal lake in Siberia, three in the Pacific and soon will be on the South Pole.
1 POCAM (Precision Optical Calibration Module) was the first experimental project, POCAM is a light flashing device for the calibration for sensors detecting neutrinos. The devices and other sensors were placed in Antarctic ice. The logo design focused on the devices and the look they have. Since it was a success, two more projects followed, Straw and P-ONE. After some logo ideas the focus was on the devices and their representation in the logo.
Resources on POCAM: iopscience, POS
2 STRAW (Strings for absorption length in water): The logo represents the strings going into the water on which devices are mounted. In the Cascadia Basin, off the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, two strings with optical devices were placed to measure the optical properties of the water and study the feasibility of the installation. It was the forerunner for the third project.
Resources on STRAW: iopscience, POS
3 P-ONE (pacific ocean neutrino explorer) is a project in the making. It is a 'neutrino telescope', a device that helps to discover the origin of neutrinos and their attributes. Together with other neutrino telescopes all over the the earth scientists want to be able to monitor the entire sky for sources of high energy. The structure of the project is again several strings with optical devices on them, viewed from top they form the shape of a circle. That was used for the logo.
Resources on P-ONE: nature astronomy, P-ONE website
Alright, enough about Physics, let's see the logos:
Project One: POCAM
Logo imitating the shape of the Pocam device, Photo Credit: Felix Henningsen
Pictures of the neutrino experiment showed the particles leaving traces in spiral forms. I based a logo draft on the golden spiral, imitating the traces the neutrinos left.
Photo Credit: Felix Henningsen
Project Two: STRAW
Photo credit: Felix Henningsen
Project Three: P-ONE
