Hi *, some late comments from me again :-)
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:30:25PM +0100, :murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote: > Hi Designers (Ivan, Randy, ...), Louis, and all others, > >>... but the larger contours have indeed been laid out by now. I > >>personally don't expect huge changes anymore... > > > >Okay. I see the virtue of the minimalist design. The drawback of *not* > >having a centralizing graphic i(or set of icons) s that they eye is > >not sure where to look. Basic art and design theory and practice. I > >would strongly advocate putting icons that not only add aesthetic > >pleasure but also aid the visitor. > > > A quick mockup of some icons (these definitely need to be tweaked): > > http://www.murb.nl/extern/openoffice.org/iconsactionstatement/ The learn and download ones are suitable already, but the "do more" and "participate" ones don't quite fit. The participate ones looks like a graveyard (maybe that one just reminds me of the cover of Master of Puppets from Metallica) - and the do more one resembles a red-cross type thing (like a medicine cabinet) or a patch to heal things. And maybe it is just because I'm a gnome user where the help metaphor is a life buoy - I kind of expected that instead of the questionmark.. So suggestions: Instead of the multiple crosses, make it multiple gameboard-figures (the simple ones with a sphere as head, and a simple cone as body), the "more one" can be turned away from the cabinet metaphor by placing the plus inside a round shape, instead of using the square background (like the questionmark - just put the + inside that circle and it will look more like "add someting", well to me at least) Whether to change the help one to a life buoy or not probably is a matter of taste/focus... But apart from that I really think that the proposal will benefit from any type of icons. ciao Christian -- NP: Korn - Fake --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
