PowerPoint Tips Blog. Iconography is hot in design now. Here is an example from one of my websites. The above icons are colorful and have some depth to them, but you often see icons that are flat and monochrome. Here’s an example from urbangap.com/urban12/dicembre. I often see icons that are all gray. What is an icon and why are icons so popular?
An icon is a graphic used as a symbol for a concept. Because our brains remember images better than text, your audience will be more likely to remember the concepts you want to convey with an accompanying image. Icons are also popular for other reasons: They can be universal, understood by people speaking different languagesThey can be small, which means they work on screens of all sizesThey are small files because they’re simple, which is valuable on smaller devices with little storage An icon can be any file type, but if you can find a vector format, you’ll be able to import it into PowerPoint and edit it to your heart’s content. Where can you find icons? Kung Fu Drafter.
Autodesk Blogs. AutoCAD Insider. Beth's CAD Blog. Between the Lines. CAD-a-Blog. CAD-e-Corner. CADD Manager. You notice something. Then you become concerned. Then it becomes an “Issue”. That is the progression… but how does it move from one to the next? These are the steps of items evolving beyond annoyance, anomaly or abstraction. These are the items that have others moving beyond concern to very concerned, to an issue. How things move from Noticed to a Concern If you notice something, you keep your eye on it and address it when it first looks to be a concern. After investigating things you notice, if they are bigger than you think or have greater impact, they move to concerns. But when do people come and talk to you about troubling items? How things move from Concern to Issue Moving from concern to issue happens when something along the pathway of correction fails to work.
Things get to the issue level by being ignored. Things get to an issue level when you are not made aware of them. Things get to an issue level when your corrective measures are not enough. Lazy Drafter. The Original Lazy Drafter. Lynn Allen's Blog. Mistress of the Dorkness. The CAD Setter Out. Links to the CAD Setter Out's favourite places on the Web. Voice of Community. My wise friend and brilliant futurist Wayne Hodgins once told me, “never confuse an event with community” but there I was at Autodesk University 2011 the other week, surrounded by community. Communities of mechanical engineers, automotive engineers, civil engineers: bridge builders, highway engineers, canal builders, “dirt movers”; architects – high rise and low density residential, hotel and stadium architects, institutional architects designing schools, hospitals, universities and prisons; multi-media designers, animators, games designers, and commercial renderers; mechanical engineers, automotive engineers, shipbuilders, mechanical parts, consumer goods, and parts designers.
You name the design profession and there was a tribe for it. An event might not be a community, but it is an incredible catalyst for community. Membership - a feeling that members have of belonging. Influence - a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group. What a Mesh. Without A Net. LT Unlimited.