>> My apology for OT. Need an opinion, when you see the following icon, >> http://24.254.1.94:8000/test/logo_idea.bmp >> what do you make of it? Also, it's boring, clearly I lack creativity. > >One of the keys to doing competent work without talent is to know your >limitations. Doing plain, boring - but usable, clean work is enough to look >better than the vast majority of "design work" out there. Nobody will >mistake you for a professional designer, of course, but neither will you >embarrass yourself. ;^) > >That said the letters here are meaningless to me - for an icon you shouldn?t >need letters, and if you DO need them then get rid of the graphic and use >them. They're small and difficult to read. They also spoil the balance of >the image - turning it from a nice, soft rectangle into a rather sharp >pyramid. > >The image itself is okay - perhaps a little too detailed for an icon. You >rarely see more than two objects in an icon and this one has six. It also >seems like you might be trying to indicate inclusiveness or diversity, but >that might be better done with abstracts (even something as simple as >multi-colored spheres or shapes) rather than actual people. > >Icons thrive on cliché - it's kind of counter-intuitive but REALLY creative >icons are rarely understood because most people aren't that creative. ;^) > >If this is a "signature" icon then you'll need to be unique and brand it >appropriately, but for general application/website icons boring is best. >Some are easy: "Print", "Save", "Home", etc. Some are too abstract and so >you have to do your best and reinforce the image. For "community" the >silhouette of several people, hands clasped, etc are all pretty clear. > >Sorry for lecturing. It's really NOT at all a bad graphic - it's not a >great icon, but it's not an embarrassing one either. ;^) It's incredibly >really hard to judge icons in isolation in any case - it's only really fair >to judge them in a complete iconography with context. > >Jim Davis
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