[Yourtopia] YourTopia Icons

Dirk Heine dirk.heine at cantab.net
Thu Apr 26 01:37:49 BST 2012


Unfortunately, I do not have the suggested icon for inequality as a vector
graphic. It was simple painted in GIMP. I guess that disqualifies it, does
it?

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Velichka Dimitrova <
velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Rosamaria Bitetti <
> rosamaria.bitetti at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> what about this for health?
>> http://thenounproject.com/noun/family-practice/#icon-No579 the other one
>> is too similar to the education one...
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> Yes, they are similar , we could use this one for health.
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>> something more nature-like for environment?
>> http://thenounproject.com/noun/tree/#icon-No2141
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> Similar to the Millennium Development Goals icon, yet I would bet on the
> renewable energy aspect for this one
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>> dirk's one for inequality is cool, but should be like the others
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> @Dirk, do you still have the original raw file as a vector image - you can
> try to turn it black and white and see how it looks like.
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>> i'm not really sure I get the safety one... I know is a negative image,
>> but I only found the gun as a more understandable alternative
>> http://thenounproject.com/noun/gun/#icon-No138
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> Confused, we have the gun currently which is negative.
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> Alternatively, we could have a lock:
> http://thenounproject.com/noun/gun/#icon-No138
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> or teddybear? http://thenounproject.com/noun/teddy-bear/#icon-No610> la Millennium Development Goals)
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>> and social life: not that I want to bias the user toward this indicator,
>> but can we have something warmer? is weddings and divorce and friends, can
>> we have a hearth or shaking hands?
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> The current one is the standard community icon, but alternatively:
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> http://thenounproject.com/noun/handshake/#icon-No767
> http://thenounproject.com/noun/couple/#icon-No1014
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>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 05:59, Velichka Dimitrova <
>> velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org> wrote:
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>>> Could we do it in black and white to match the other ones.
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>>>  You can upload it as well to the Noun Project, what do you think?
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>>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Dirk Heine <dirk.heine at cantab.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> It is good that we are replacing the previous icons with ones in public
>>>> domain. There was one, however, that we made ourselves for Yourtopia 1 -
>>>> the one for inequality. Is the alternative from noun project communicating
>>>> equity better?
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Velichka Dimitrova <
>>>> velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org> wrote:
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>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have marked with bold the Noun Project icons that we should use for
>>>>> the categories:
>>>>>
>>>>> Labour Market - http://thenounproject.com/noun/briefcase/#icon-No401
>>>>> Education - http://thenounproject.com/noun/report-card/#icon-No729
>>>>> Health - http://thenounproject.com/noun/medical-clipboard/#icon-No1675
>>>>> Environment - http://thenounproject.com/noun/wind-farm/#icon-No2075
>>>>> Equality / Family Income -
>>>>> http://thenounproject.com/noun/human-rights/#icon-No759
>>>>> Science - http://thenounproject.com/noun/laboratory/#icon-No584
>>>>> Safety - http://thenounproject.com/noun/police-lineup/#icon-No1262
>>>>> Social Life - http://thenounproject.com/noun/community/#icon-No288
>>>>>
>>>>> This is maybe how it would look like to have a combined image of all
>>>>> eight: http://i.imgur.com/yrPRy.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you happy with these icons or do you have other suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> Velichka
>>>>>
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> Velichka Dimitrova
> Project Coordinator
> Economics and Energy Projects
> Open Knowledge Foundation
> Twitter: @vndimitrova
> Skype: vn.dimitrova
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