Ladyada suggested the NASA logo for the front of the piece. It's a good choice for PCB art in that it has a limited number of colors (three: blue, white, and red). The plan is to add two reverse-mount LEDs to illuminate two of the large stars in the top part of the logo.
My first issue was trying to get this logo from the bitmapped graphics PNG format to a vector art form in Affinity Designer 2. Tracing the major characteristics like the lettering, red "swoosh" and ellipse proved challenging.
Then I thought of finding a version of the logo already in a vector format.
There are several free logos on the internet in various vectorized formats. Wikipedia has one in SVG format. I found the free to use encapsulated postscript logo above at seeklogo.
What to Look For in a Graphics File
As described in previous pages, graphical vector elements that can be mapped to the various PCB layers are most desirable. The EPS file had more layers than a PCB but some were for various groups of stars, easily combined into one white silkscreen layer.
What to Watch Out For in Handling the Graphic Layers
Look at the red "swoosh" as I call it. In some cases, it appears to go underneath the NASA lettering on the left but over the bottom of the letter Sand the lower half of the ellipse. This will be handled in Affinity Designer 2 on the next page.
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