The blogdown Logo

The Sticker-driven Development Model

Yihui Xie 2017-10-13

Last month when I finished the first draft of the blogdown book, I was thinking that I need a logo for this package, so that we can get some hexbin stickers of blogdown at rstudio::conf 2018. I’m pretty bad at art design, so I asked on Twitter for help. I got a lot of suggestions and drafts, which made it very difficult for me to decide, but eventually I chose this one provided by Taras (the icon is a combination of the RStudio logo and the RSS icon):

blogdown logo

I don’t want the rest of the designs to be lost, so I have gathered them below. You can find their authors in the Twitter thread, to whom I was really grateful. In particular, I’d like to thank Thomas Lin Pederson for his tremendous help (and sorry for not using your design).

hex-blogdown-1

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hex-blogdown-3

hex-blogdown-4

hex-blogdown-5

hex-blogdown-6

hex-blogdown-7

hex-blogdown-8

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It is fun to see that the “sticker-driven development” has become a new software development model. It is also lovely to know there are so many creative R users in the community.