At some point towards the end of 2024, while I was still employed and working at the Graz University of Technology, I was asked by the then heads of the Institute of Interactive System and Data Science (ISDS) (which I was a part of) to design the new logo of the institute, as its name was about to changed (amongst other faculty restructuring efforts, if my memory serves me correctly).

It’s new name was to be the Institute of Human-Centred Computing (HCC).

As further inspiration for the logo, I was also given the vitruvian man (the famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, something I personally found to be a very fitting image, not least because I’m a big fan of good ol’ Leo). Thus, after many small doodles and iterations, the logo took shape.

I very much tried to fit the letters of the new name into the logo image somehow, which generally looks like a Human with stretched out arms and legs that is (importantly I might add, at the center of the logo image), but also like the letter H, and the two Cs.

I think you can see the Connections.