ICCB 2017 T-Shirt
Congratulations to Sara-Xaali O'Reilly Berkeley for submitting the winning design in the 2017 ICCB T-Shirt Design Contest! Attendees will notice Xaali's work throughout the Congress as ICCB volunteers will wear a yellow t-shirt that features Xaali's design. Attendees who purchased the offical ICCB T-Shirt when they registered for the Congress will receive a green t-shirt featuring Xaali's work when they receive their attendee badge at ICCB registration.
Xaali is a research assistant and Ph.D. student in the Ecological Genetics and Conservation lab at the Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the ecological genetics of Caribbean seagrass meadows. A tropical biology generalist, Xaali is particularly interested in understanding species interactions and their evolutionary significance.
The winning design was determined through a vote on ICCB social media channels. The Society is grateful to everyone who submitted a design: aMan Bloom, Jacqueline Grant, Dao Van Hoang, Malla Giridhar, and Tatiana Campos Neves.
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Sara-Xaali O'Reilly Berkeley submitted the winning design for the ICCB 2015 T-Shirt Contest. The design incorporates cultural and natural featues of Colombia into the letters "ICCB." |
About the Design
The design features “ICCB” letters composed of cultural and natural features of Colombia. The “I” is a sculpture from South America’s largest megalithic site, found in San Agustín; the UNESCO World Heritage Site that contains monuments made by indigenous cultures between I-VIII AD.
The first “C” is a spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus), partly because it is an element of Colombian fauna, but is also inspired by the myth of the man who was turned into a caiman for watching women in the river.
The second “C” is composed of various elements of Colombian flora and fauna: the Andean condor, national bird of Colombia and other Andean nations. It is also representative of the mountainous part of the country; the Cattleya trianae orchid, the country’s national flower; a heliconia (Heliconia ortotrichta), and coffee beans.
Finally, the “B” is a tiple colombiano, the Colombian 12-stringed guitar.