[open-energy] Icons

Thu Jan 27 14:29:52 GMT 2011

Hi There,

I hope I will not only be helpful with Icons,
but I'd be good to know what specific Symbols are needed.
As far as I understand now those would be needed to visualise Energy Sources
(Wind, Solar, Coal, Oil etc) and Applications (Cars, Buildings, Industry,
Households ..)

Would be great to get a clearer Idea what the App will look like,
as a suggestion and without knowing if we need a backend, the site/app could
be hosted and deployed via github pages. This way everyone could suggest
changes and participate.

best from Berlin for now
Uli

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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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> >>>> open-energy at lists.okfn.org
> >>>> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-energy
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
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> >
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>
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>
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Uli Schöberl
Interactive Designer

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