How Do You Give Your Robot It's Signature Look?

[Billfred]

1293's signature look (rookie year notwithstanding) has historically been bare waterjet-cut sheetmetal, more recently with orange accents. (Compare 2005, 2006, and (most of) 2007.)

1618 has yet to really nail down a signature look. Most of Uppercut's look was from laminated paper printed off in a campus computer lab, with type choices made mostly for availability on the Mac that I was using at the time and to make sure we had the proper stroke on our team numbers. (That explains why schools and sponsors were in Gill Sans in varying sizes, while our numbers were 365-point Impact). I might change the layout and choices of font, but the maroon and gold colors (Columbia High's school colors) did turn out nice. The team did use other techniques before my time, though nothing from those two years proved to become a signature* (2005, 2006, 2007)

*Well, we do seem to find ourselves using a lot of pegboard in our robots...