Pictogram for Gratis

rs_donsata
26.Mar.2008 1.04pm
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I have to design a pictogram for a congress hotel catalog depicting free local phone calls.

¿How do you put free in a pictogram?



GünniGutenberg
26.Mar.2008 1.35pm
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Let’s see...
a phone symbol with a tartan kind of background? hmm...
free > free like a bird... a cloud, a rainbow... hey, how about a bird? wings? phone calls > sound transmission > a songbird maybe?

Chirp chirp cheep,
Günni


aluminum
26.Mar.2008 2.16pm
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dollar sign inside a circle-slash icon?


charles_e
27.Mar.2008 7.40pm
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dollar sign inside a circle-slash icon?

Naw, they’d just think it took euros only.


russellm
28.Mar.2008 4.26am
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Some times a word is worth a thousand pictures.

trust me, I know.

-=®=-


Don McCahill
28.Mar.2008 6.33am
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Isn’t just a phone enough? I assume that every hotel offers telephone service, but if not, then make a phone with a $ for those that charge, and a phone w/o for the free ones.


Lex Kominek
28.Mar.2008 1.29pm
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It depends on what language this will be in, and how tongue-in-cheek you want to get. Since English has no distinction between gratis and libre - both are “free” - you could depict a phone with wings flying out of a birdcage (that is if it is an English brochure and you are allowed to get a little cute with it).

- Lex


rs_donsata
2.Apr.2008 12.11pm
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Thanks a lot for the answers. We ended up using the pictogram of a telephone with a raised handset in an inviting way. I think this will do fine since the user is expected to be highly contextualized.

Héctor


russellm
2.Apr.2008 5.14pm
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Sounds good. I’d love to see it when you’re all done.

-=®=-


rs_donsata
14.Apr.2008 11.59am
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I can’t post images, sorry.

Héctor


rs_donsata
14.Apr.2008 12.46pm
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Now I can.

Sketched by me, drawn by my assistant on the FF Dingbats style.

Héctor


russellm
14.Apr.2008 7.13pm
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nice feel to those.

Thanks

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Don McCahill
16.Apr.2008 7.35am
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In case that graphic is being used elsewhere, you might want to change romm to room in the fourth down, left side.


geraintf
25.Apr.2008 1.27pm
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love the tilde on the coffee cup!


rs_donsata
28.Apr.2008 9.20pm
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That’s a FF Transit feature, most of this are simple adaptations.

Héctor


adz
29.Apr.2008 3.54am
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Interesting, nice work, im currently looking at pictograms in my studies.

Question though, if you were allowed to use the letters; “24hr” in one icon, why just not use the word “free” above the phone... free phone.

Pictograms are freaking hard i reckon.


adz
29.Apr.2008 3.57am
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Actually, I find pictograms incredibly interesting, I see them as an important advancement into our visual language.

In theory they are basically like Hieroglyphics yet at the same time a product of modernism.


rs_donsata
6.May.2008 12.14pm
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Yes, I get very entertained sketching pictograms for whatever is needed.

Well I didn’t use the words because I think that the context will help to clarify the pictogram.

Héctor