<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Jim Simmons <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicestep@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Fred,<br> <br> Your points are the same ones I had. There is no animation in the<br> icon, though. Not sure what you're seeing. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Interesting.. The .svg file opened in Ubuntu9.04 and showed a box being constructed from the base up. I thought that was intentional, not an artifact in the file. (It implied the building of the file drawer and filling it with content--once I figured out what the object was.) So without the animation, it is a lot simpler.</div> <div><br></div><div>Books on a shelf would be even simpler and might be rendered in the bolder Sugar strokes.</div> <div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I'm going to have to go<br> with this design unless someone comes up with something better,<br> though. I need a symbol that suggests what the thing is for. My<br> brain just doesn't work that way, and I'm not happy with any of my<br> icons.<br> <br> Personally I liked the perspective and was pleased to discover that<br> Inkscape supports drawing objects like that. My first attempt at this<br> object was a freehand Isometric drawing that looked like crap. This<br> one at least looks like what it's supposed to be. Which would be OK<br> if anyone younger than me could recognize it.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Perspective with an unshaded line drawing is tricky. You might try raising the point of view enough so that the eye level is more naturally above the front, right, drawer edge. The prominent perfectly vertical line is overpowering the rest of the image (and may be a distortion from the rest of the content). Tipping that corner down will remove the perfect vertical line, change the ratio of the two front draw edges, and should help in recognition.</div> <div><br></div><div>But I would prefer the books on a shelf as perhaps a more common object token for your project.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Thanks for the correction, and best wishes! --Fred</div><div> </div></div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Or a carousel slide<br> projector, or a scroll either.<br> <br> I agree about the letters. I considered them more a decoration than<br> anything else and I'll be leaving them in for the time being.<br> <br> Hopefully some of us on this list are right-brained types who can<br> suggest something better.<br> <br> James Simmons<br> <br> <br> > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:48:53 -0400<br> > From: Frederick Grose <<a href="mailto:fgrose@gmail.com" target="_blank">fgrose@gmail.com</a>><br> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Art criticism needed on Get IA Books icon<br> > (attached)<br> > To: <a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> > Message-ID:<br> > <<a href="mailto:f3383f810906261448u651fe070pa79f5f5b6e08de3a@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">f3383f810906261448u651fe070pa79f5f5b6e08de3a@mail.gmail.com</a>><br> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br> ><br> ><br> > Sorry to offer a negative review, but I struggled to understand the image at<br> > the small size and perspective.<br> > Perspective recognition can be difficult for anything but the simplest object.<br> > It took me a second look in another context to figure out what the final<br> > object was.<br> ><br> > The animation might be interesting the first few times, but may easily<br> > become a distraction. Icons are best when they are nearly instantly recognized and<br> > display a token of what's to come, not too much information.<br> ><br> > The letters, I A , conveyed that there was textual content, but the<br> > initials would not match the name in other languages, and be another burden<br> > to change.<br> ><br> > Thank you for you contributing and braving your art! --Fred<br> </blockquote></div><br>