Fred, Your points are the same ones I had. There is no animation in the icon, though. Not sure what you're seeing. I'm going to have to go with this design unless someone comes up with something better, though. I need a symbol that suggests what the thing is for. My brain just doesn't work that way, and I'm not happy with any of my icons.
Personally I liked the perspective and was pleased to discover that Inkscape supports drawing objects like that. My first attempt at this object was a freehand Isometric drawing that looked like crap. This one at least looks like what it's supposed to be. Which would be OK if anyone younger than me could recognize it. Or a carousel slide projector, or a scroll either. I agree about the letters. I considered them more a decoration than anything else and I'll be leaving them in for the time being. Hopefully some of us on this list are right-brained types who can suggest something better. James Simmons > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:48:53 -0400 > From: Frederick Grose <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Art criticism needed on Get IA Books icon > (attached) > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > Sorry to offer a negative review, but I struggled to understand the image at > the small size and perspective. > Perspective recognition can difficult for anything but the simplest object. > It took me a second look in another context to figure out what the final > object was. > > The animation might be interesting the first few times, but may easily > become a distraction. Icons are best when they are instantly recognized and > display a token of what's to come, not too much information. > > The letters, I A , conveyed that there was textual content, but the > initials would not match the name in other languages, and be another burden > to change. > > Thank you for you contributing and braving your art! --Fred _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
