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Icon to represent Graphic Design
Posted by Stackhaus23 in
11 Nov 2008 — 6:20am
11 Nov 2008 — 6:20am
If you could use one icon to represent a graphic design department within a creative agency, what would it be?
For example -
Sound = Headphones/Speakers,
Video = Video Camera/Filmstrip,
Photography = Camera/Film Canister,
Graphic Design = ?
PS - Not a Mac!
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11 Nov 2008 — 6:39am
Pencil, pen, brush, knife and ruler/T-square, mug, laser printer perhaps? Or a pixelated mouse pointer...
11 Nov 2008 — 8:29am
A white circle with soft edges to celebrate the ephemeral nature of brilliance.
11 Nov 2008 — 8:41am
Um...
Crop and registration marks would work as well
11 Nov 2008 — 10:13am
Halftone Screen. Technical Pen. Tear-stained change order.
12 Nov 2008 — 10:39am
A silhouette of Neville Brody's hair.
12 Nov 2008 — 11:00am
A pica ruler :D
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12 Nov 2008 — 12:00pm
A large coffee mug. (-:
12 Nov 2008 — 1:33pm
I second that, a large coffee mug.
12 Nov 2008 — 3:02pm
Not really an icon: CMYK. Anyone but a designer wouldn't understand it, though.
12 Nov 2008 — 4:49pm
Something like this except less thrown together and more polished.
And probably smaller.
12 Nov 2008 — 9:38pm
An eye
Héctor
12 Nov 2008 — 10:40pm
Something like this
Cool. A very basic, visual intelligence test. :-D
13 Nov 2008 — 1:13pm
Or perhaps a distinct letterform.
13 Nov 2008 — 3:23pm
Perhaps primary shapes? Triangle within circle within square?
13 Nov 2008 — 3:37pm
Another possible variation on the same idea.
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www.ivangdesign.com
13 Nov 2008 — 4:23pm
Maxx-W, I was thinking along those same lines, but I think you have your 'Y' and your 'K' mixed up.
Chuck
13 Nov 2008 — 4:35pm
And, I know it was a stipulation, but I do still think a mac would be good:
Chuck
13 Nov 2008 — 7:22pm
Here's a good one for "graphic designer"
Might be okay for "graphic design"? ;-)
15 Nov 2008 — 5:45am
Except for Neville Brody's hair and Sii's Macca's worker, all of these ideas I've seen before as props for G.D, and not one has ever been used for such.
Only thing I can think of is a detail from a Dürer woodcut or engraving in a process color on white background, with coffee stains on it.
j a m e s
15 Nov 2008 — 9:37am
I have had to solve this sort of thing in the past . . . you have to play off the similarities of the elements to make something greater than the sum of the individual units.
A Light Bulb for each of the four
but the bulb is somehow morphed into an object of the trade.
a paint brush for the designer
a tv for video
a camera lens for the photog
a microphone for audio
or
A Bird for all of them
and each is wearing/interacting with a device of the trade. . . .
BTW - originality is a thing of the past - just be unique in the implementation of your style...
Above all let us know how it turns out...
thanks - versonova
16 Nov 2008 — 4:18pm
The CMYK thingie is no longer as relevant as it was 10 years ago. Graphic designer work both online and and in print now. Something more basic like an illustrating hand may be suitable. It's a jolly hard one, as the the times, they are a changing...!
17 Nov 2008 — 3:58pm
You need Typography and Image.
Why dont you create/play with an image conveyed with type reading Graphic Design? Creatively?
I dont think you'll be able to find a singular element to represent such as broad discipline.
Laura
18 Nov 2008 — 2:56am
(Part of) An iconic image:
18 Nov 2008 — 4:01am
To me that means...drawing. Perhaps illustration.
Type needs to appear in a creative way to say Graphic design
22 Nov 2008 — 4:37am
Maybe a symbol from the Adobe Creative Suite?
The colour palette or the pen tool perhaps. Although these could suggest anything from painter and decorator to journalist if people are not familiar with Illustrator/Photoshop etc.
No simple solution I'm afraid, You'll probably need to combine a few elements, as obviously GD is such a broad discipline.
23 Nov 2008 — 3:49am
The pathfinder icon suggests arranging of objects, which in a brooooaaad sense is essentially what graphic design is.
27 Nov 2008 — 1:08am
Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man or the Reutersvärd triangle...