Castrovala is a logo displayed on the second page of our online logo design portfolio. Designed for an open source consultancy, it was created by one of LogoPro’s logo designers in 2003. Clients often mention their favourite logos in the design briefing, Castrovala is a popular design, a design that captures the image of a precious pearl in a vast ocean, with a C making the distinction between land and sea. Also the pearl, similar to the O as in open source.

Here is an extract from the design brief:

The company is soon to re-launch as an Open Source Consultancy. We will be providing businesses with alternatives to Microsoft and others based on Linux/Open Source. We will also sell fully configured hardware running Linux and provide general IT consultancy mainly to SME’s. The main aim of the company is to offer something that’s the right solution for now and the future.
No penguin logos please! It’s been overdone. What I want is a company logo that stands on its own. Castrovala incidently is a painting by MC Escher and also an episode of Dr Who (not a lot of people know that).