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Archive for the ‘Symbol’ Category

Poster for whom?

Posted by: gany44 on: July 27, 2009

There are so many things to want to talk. Moreover, not mached between words and graphics at all. Actually, the core of this poster is to inform smokers, who consider to stop smoking, about ‘Smoking Cessation Clinic’. However, in this poster, smokers are drawn as very harmful people. I think the focus should be not [...]

Bathroom

Posted by: gany44 on: July 23, 2009

Balancing between aesthetic and readable is an important issue when designing pictograms. Especially bathroom. I don’t wanna be misunderstood as an homosexual person.

Universal Language

Posted by: gany44 on: July 20, 2009

A gold prized drawing for Children Competition. The title is “Going to grandmother’s home by a train”. Very interesting. Maybe children’s language could be better than english for international Mm.. however, where is the train?

In Elevator

Posted by: gany44 on: July 20, 2009

When you want to close or open the door in an elevator, everyone has to see carefully open-close buttons. I mean, you know well, how difficult to distinguish immediately between the most common symbols, ◀▶ and ▶◀. The picture’s button is the simple and great solution what I haven’t seen before. A combination of a [...]

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Dashboard for the handicapped

Posted by: gany44 on: July 20, 2009

It’s a dashboard in an auto wheelchair. Look at the speed controller. Just a turtle and a rabbit without number and any instruction. How easy to understand! A picture is worth a thousand words. (However I don’t know whether those symbols could be understood in other country. In Korea a turtle is a typical animal [...]



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  • Akarixa: I hate hand dryers so much, i hate them, they turn on, without any reason, and they are quite ugly!
  • gany44: "ctrl+S" is my life.
  • hanos: They can easily protect that kind of crazy errors by a simple user research or observation. I think Microsoft already knew this problem will happen. B
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