On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 03/01/2013 07:56 AM, Heather Walls wrote:
TL;DR, the suggested design icons are men.
Good point, arguably applicable to the icon we are using for "meetings" as well:e https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Community_Noun_project_2280.svg
Perhaps something involving a lanyard and/or a name tag might work for meetings. I wasn't able to find a really good icon involving either in my cursory search.
Alternatively, there's always this omnipresent fixture at meetups: http://thenounproject.com/noun/pizza/#icon-No152
For the rest of cases we went for non-antropomorphic icons, and perhaps this is a good guideline to keep to avoide these unwanted side effects.
For what is worth I was proposing a ruler for Design - following a the line of abstraction & simplicity we seem to be following.
How about this one? http://thenounproject.com/noun/drawing/#icon-No4091
The squiggle seems to emphasize the creative aspect of design more than a ruler, but the icon is still pretty simple.
Rob