Remember that competition for non-hoodie hacker pics? Here's their best entries

Remember that competition for non-hoodie hacker pics? Here's their best entries

And we invite you to grab your easel and brush


A competition to produce stock pictures of infosec that does not involve hoodies or waterfalls of 0s and 1s has yielded a mixed bag of images to illustrate the industry's digital doings for the world's consumption.


Open Ideo, an American graphic design biz, ran an event co-sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation aimed at developing new imagery for infosec news. Rather than filling image slots with stereotypical pics of the type you all love to hate, they were hoping to get something a bit more inspiring and uplifting.


A few are good. But some of the published submissions look more like corporate report covers than something we'd elevate to the hallowed homepage of El Reg. Tellingly, only one journalist sat on the six-strong panel of judges.


As we remember competition hoodie hacker their entries