Symbol Crit/Input?
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- detritus0
It still amazes me how many variations there can be on one single theme*.
For instance..
..is the flow for this one small (10mm) graphic, each instance progressively modified and adapted - some elements 'survive' and propagate, others die off - only to appear later on again as the population develops.
For all the talk of evolutionary processes creeping in to industrial design - computers creating thousands of iterations, culling unsuccessful genotypes and breeding successful ones - humans, or graphic schleppers at least, would appear to have been doing it for years.
Sorry, I think the wine's talking. blahblahblahblah.
* and yes, there's the irony that none of them have yet hit the mark..
- neue75_bold0
I can't feel my hands nor make out what's happening in your .jpeg...
kinda hard to gauge on screen vs print, but still, think there's too much information at too small of size...
- capsize0
no overhead?
- Raniator0
don't reach for your luggage on the overhead shelf?
i got that from looking at 2.
however, it doesn't suggest to me not to do it while the train/aeroplane is moving...
- detritus0
Balls.
You're right - 3 to 7 are the same as the 'overhead luggage' symbol, aren't they?
Damn, I've seen those things subconsciously so many times, I guess they've just leaked in.
Balls.
- wunderbra0
one armed midgees are not allowed to reach out to unidentified hovering boxes in space?
- detritus0
Ok, A little context then.
Imagine seeing this not on the overhead luggage compartment in an aeroplane, but rather on a consumable item/package of some sort.
Though, perhaps, I already have the answer to the question I asked.
Back to the drawing board?
- ross0
is #1: "when youre fat and depressed dont forget to carry a huge coffee cup on a saucer above your head"
- detritus0
lol Ross, you cruel bastard!
- chossy0
"don't put things on shelves where children can grab it and it'll fuck them up"
5 and 6 are my faves.
- ross0
haha, i know its his arm but it looks like a uncle sized gut. and he looks all sad looking down at it. like, "what have i done to myself" and "thank god ive got this novelty coffee to take my mind off my body"
- oldelpaso0
no underwater bomb disarming
- detritus0
Yup, exactly, wunderbra - I thought I was being clever with the pudgy body and over-sized head - the size of the symbol's principal usage is pretty damn wee though, so I can't really have too much detail in there.
I'll give the teddy-bear a try - that's the way the consumerChem companies appear to do it.
Thanks for all your feedback, relevant or no!
- wunderbra0
icon/signage design: the most underrated design discipline ever.
- detritus0
Also, for legal reasons, I can't be too specific, which doesn't really help.
It's got to say "keep out of reach of children" without ..er.. actually saying 'Keep out of reach of children".
Perhaps that's a little too unreasonable a request. Maybe 'client' should give me some leeway here.
Fucking legals.
- wunderbra0
last tip:
perhaps not use an enclosing circle or border if at real small size; instead just the child and shelf and box and a red cross over it, that'll do best it seems.