On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Lachlan Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I've been thinking about this icon design, and was thinking instead of > focussing on the letters themselves, such as stamps or envelopes or mail > boxes, what about focussing more on the delivery vehicles. Then I thought > an aeroplane of some kind, if it can me made to look like a courier plane > rather than a passenger plane. I then did some various searches for airmail > and aeroplane, and came across the world's first airmail stamp. > > http://www.kenmorestamp.com/first-airmail-stamp.asp > > Perhaps a plane icon depicting the same old style plane (not depicting the > stamp) might be interesting. Although it might need some way to link the > concept with letters or mail delivery, I'm not sure how. > > Then I came across another image of a paper aeroplane stamp, which I think > might work. (Again, taking the concept of the plane, not the stamp it > happens to be on.) > > http://www.zazzle.com/airmail_postage_stamp-172770867094453865 > > If it looked like a letter folded up into a simple paper aeroplane. Maybe it > could have something written on the paper, or maybe an envelope or pen in > the backgrond behind it, or something to give it a little colour. >
It's not a bad idea, but I just want there to be a little bit of caution, since there's already an app called Mailplane, which is a Gmail client, and it's icon is an airplane. I think it's important that we differentiate Letters from other mail clients. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
