[open-energy] Icons

Gregor Aisch gka at vis4.net
Thu Jan 27 14:53:15 GMT 2011 

Hi Uli,

thanks for dropping by :)

please take a look at the following links, they show early prototypes of 
the app.
http://www.youtube.com/user/drivenbydata#p/a/u/0/lp01rhOWdLw
http://www.driven-by-data.net/interactive/energy/

there are two screens, one shows all european countries and the others 
provides more details for one selected country. sketch.ai shows a rough 
sketch for the details screen. hope you get the basic idea.

see open-energy-icons.ai to find out what icons are missing.

please also look at wheredoesmymoneygo.org, would be nice to have icons 
in the same style as used there

http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/dashboard/#focus=TOTAL&year=2009&view=uk-bubble-chart

best,
Gregor


Am 27.01.2011 15:29, schrieb Uli Schöberl:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>     <http://twitter.com/#%21/lukask/status/30616533029888001>
>     >
>     > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Gregor Aisch <gka at vis4.net
>     <mailto: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
>     <http://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 <mailto:friedrich at pudo.org>>  wrote:
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Hey,
>     >>>>
>     >>>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Gregor Aisch<gka at vis4.net
>     <mailto: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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>     >>>>
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>
>     >>
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>     >
>     >
>     >
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>
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