The Branding of Polaroid, 1957 - 1977

http://giam.typepad.com/the_branding_of_polaroid_/polaroids-graphic-identity-by-paul-giambarba-1957-1977/

Notificações

Relembra-se que a sessão de apresentações será retomada na primeira aula de Janeiro.

Informa-se também que o enunciado da proposta de trabalho, apresentada hoje em aula, já está disponível online.

Boas festas.

Icons, Icons, Icons

That’s how the icon for a computer with Windows looks in a networked environment of Macs. The joke by the designers filibusters at Apple was a little obscure, but a bit coarse.

10 Outstanding Metaphors in Icon Design

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Once, we needed an icon for a data filter, which is often portrayed using the metaphor of a funnel. It was drawn like this:

The client’s response was as follows: “I do not really understand why for a filter, you drew an icon shaped like a Martini glass!”

10 Mistakes in Icon Design

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The surefire way of creating a set of icons falling apart along the way is to start generating icons one after another, in the alphabetic order, without looking ahead and with no clear vision of the whole picture. The opposite approach is what we call “designing an iconic language”. This method is described in details in the book by William Horton, “The Icon Book”. And now I will try to demonstrate you an example of what it is and how it is implemented.

Designing an iconic language

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Does that mean that the only useful function of icons is to help users with dull sight? In fact, no. But this example demonstrates that an icon unlike text can have properties for locating it on the screen. These properties are shape and color. Text messages are not different from each other by shape or color. To distinguish one message from another you need to read it. In the event with icons, you need just a quick glance.

What icons are for

Sarau de Natal

Privacy Icons

The Privacy Icon makes an iron-clad guarantee about some portion of how a company treats your data. This method means that without ever having to delve into the details, everyday people can glance at the simple icons atop a privacy to know if and how their data is being used. At the same time, it gives companies the flexibility required to create comprehensive and meaningful policies.

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/privacy-icons/

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/what-should-matter-in-privacy/

Alteração dos prazos P04

Informam-se todos os discentes que os prazos da proposta de trabalho 4 foram alterados para:
Entrega em formato digital: 14/12/2011, 19:00;
Apresentação: 15/12/2011, 8:30 AM.

Done Manifesto

These maxims are really a super concise and clear way of restating one of the founding tenets of so-called design thinking: The idea of creating prototypes as soon as you can, and failing as fast as possible so you can evolve your way to something great. It isn't to say that you have to make these failures public. But the failures have to be made and not just thought about. Get it done.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665527/infographic-of-the-day-13-rules-for-realizing-your-creative-vision

Sketching

Sketching: the Visual Thinking Power Tool
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sketching-the-visual-thinking-power-tool/

To Sketch or not to Sketch? That is the Question
http://designinformer.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/04/sketch-question/

Offsetters Development Sketches
Get ready to scroll.
http://identitydesigned.com/offsetters/

Pictogram Illustrations

The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face

http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2011/11/22/the-sketchbook-of-susan-kare-the-artist-who-gave-computing-a-human-face/

40 Minimalist Icon, Symbol & Pictogram Sets

http://spyrestudios.com/minimalist-icon-symbol-pictogram-sets/

pictogram

http://cargocollective.com/search/pictogram

PPWI