[open-energy] Icons

Jonathan Gray jonathan.gray at okfn.org
Thu Jan 27 14:20:37 GMT 2011


I'm also very pleased to introduce Uli Schöberl, a Berlin-based
designer [1] who would like to help with making the icons!

Gregor: would you be happy to fill in Uli (and the list) about what
icons you currently need, and the visual style you are going for?

Uli: perhaps you have some ideas on what you could do (or what you
might be interested in doing)?

A big welcome to Uli! ;-D

Jonathan

[1] http://aplusplus.org/


On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Thanks to the magic of the internet [1], someone also suggested:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Icons
>
> J.
>
> http://twitter.com/#!/lukask/status/30616533029888001
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Gregor Aisch <gka at vis4.net> wrote:
>> Ok, thanks. Good to know.
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 27.01.2011 14:03, schrieb Jonathan Gray:
>>>
>>> Dear Gregor,
>>>
>>> The icons you have pointed to are really nice, but, in order to make
>>> sure that we and others don't have problems reusing or redistributing
>>> the visualisations we produce downstream, it would be good to make
>>> sure that everything we do is open as in opendefinition.org.
>>>
>>> Here are some other fully open icon collections:
>>>
>>> http://ckan.net/tag/icons
>>>
>>> If you need further help looking for these I'd be happy to help look into
>>> this.
>>>
>>> As an aside I have had a long running interest in creating a large,
>>> beautiful and freely reusable collection of pictograms for use in open
>>> data projects (a bit like Otto Neurath's Isotype Institute did in the
>>> 1930s). I'd be very pleased if we now have an excuse to look into
>>> making this! ;-)
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg
>>> <friedrich at pudo.org>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Gregor Aisch<gka at vis4.net>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> just thought a bit about the details of the visual style I'm going to
>>>>> use
>>>>> for the energy visualization. I kind of like the style of WDMMG and
>>>>> would
>>>>> suggest to adapt it as far as possible (fonts&  colors).
>>>>
>>>> Great idea, if these two look related it would be fantastic.
>>>>
>>>>> What do you think about thís icon style?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-14220065-icon-set-energy-and-industry.php
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-11257146-icon-set-environment.php
>>>>
>>>> There's also a lot of good icons on WikiCommons, see here:
>>>>
>>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Symbols
>>>>
>>>> They're often PD, so its an excellent resource!
>>>>
>>>> Friedrich
>>>>
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