FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Icons, summery of past discussions

[Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm glad a beos-ish set won. Congratulations Stippi.

I never got round to sending my promised icon email during the contest, but now 
the thread's come up again:

The main point I wanted to make was about shadows - I don't think they are 
necessary. The gradients on an icon can give the feeling of 3-dimensionality 
and lighting. I find the "floor shadows" a bit odd, as they give the impression 
every icon is sat on it's own shelf, which looks a bit strange when you have 
many rows and columns of icons (eg on a desktop). Also I don't think a grey 
splodge at the bottom of every icon adds much artistic value to them - I'd 
rather they were simple and clear as the original BeOS icons were.

It's probably too late to have any impact on the icons, but I wanted to mention 
it anyway.

Simon

> 
> From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
> Date: 2006/11/04 Sat PM 10:31:52 GMT
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: Icons, summery of past discussions
> 
> Hello Joachim and all,
> 
> thanks for this summary, it was probably quite daunting to wade through the 
> mass of past mails on this subject. :-)
> 
> I would also like to express that I feel very honored that my set received 
> the highest rating. Thanks everyone.
> 
> The "zuMi" and "McClintock" sets have also received a very high rating, on 
> par with "Honey". So the conclusion I draw from that is that there is a 
> strong preference for sticking close to the BeOS icons. Honey for me goes 
> into the more naturalistic and also "modern" direction. So what I will try to 
> do is to keep this in mind when designing new icons (and improving the 
> existing ones). Also some people thought my icons were too "cartoony". So I 
> will try to not go in that direction. I will also try to pick up some nice 
> ideas from the other sets. For example, I will try to give more detail to the 
> hard drive icon, and pick up on the image icon in the Alba set, which I think 
> is nicer than the "purple splash of color on sheet of paper".
> 
> Overall, I must stress again, how happy I am about the contest, all the 
> contributions, sets as well as help with the web page and input in 
> discussions. I had no Internet connection for the past couple of weeks, but 
> now I should be more responsive again. :-)
> 
> One last thing: Sorry about the not so smooth transition to the new vector 
> icons in Haiku, I will try to iron out the bugs in the comming days.
> 
> Best regards,
> -Stephan
> 
> 
> 
> 

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