[open-energy] Icons

Thu Jan 27 16:52:39 GMT 2011

Hi Gregor,

that looks promising, thanks for the Intro.

As a Feedback:
I would be interested in seeing straight away where a country is heading
towards. Basically including a permanently visible Time dimension. One
Method could be to have opaque trails of the dots which I know is difficult
with the organic placement as it is now. Questions to the graph is: Who is
changing his habits how quickly in which direction and ideally: Who maybe
has promised too much and won't be able to meet targets.

The change in the general consumption/production ratio also seems quite low,
how is the date in energy mix looking? Does that maybe show more overall
movement?

As a suggestion for the datail Screen, the Shape of the Country is quite
unrelated to the data, maybe flags and bigger typography could work better?

I have a look at the Icons as soon as possible.

best
Uli

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Gregor Aisch <gka at vis4.net> wrote:

>  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>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<http://twitter.com/#%21/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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>> >>>
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