You don’t want to put too much detail in there, because a lot of these symbols are seen at pretty small scales. One of the more important things in the design is that it can scale up or scale down and still read well. Then you execute that into a design that’s elegant and has great proportions. First you have to analyze it, and then once you analyze it, you have to identify the attributes or the elements of that object that you want to represent. One thing I always try to articulate for best design practices in a symbol is this idea of only analyzing the essential facts of the object or idea. What are you looking for in a good image?ĮB: Simplicity is key. SS: The Noun Project has thousands of icons. I talked to Boatman about the purpose behind the project, design for social good, and some of the challenges in creating a visual database that’s always growing. Boatman (and co-founders Sofya Polyakov and Scott Thomas) are looking ahead to making the project a sustainable business. As Boatman told me, the project could create a symbol for, potentially, every noun in the world. Now the scope of the Noun Project is limitless. The Noun Project was launched shortly thereafter in December 2010. The images are often surprisingly evocative, despite their simplicity, and unlock a potential for wordless communication for anyone with an Internet connection.īoatman was working in architecture design when he noticed it was surprisingly difficult to find basic, high-quality symbols on the web, even for common transportation symbols used by the government. Boatman approves every submission to the project and assigns each icon a word - a noun, of course, either an object or a concept. Each symbol on the database was either collected off the Internet or created by designers around the world. Edward Boatman, one of the project’s founders, is also its sole gatekeeper. As the founders put it, it is an attempt to organize the world’s visual language into one online database. For the first time, this image-based system of communication is being combined with technology to create a social language that unites the world.Īnyone can also register and submit their own designs to be considered for inclusion in the library.The Noun Project is a seemingly infinite collection of black-and-white symbols put into the public domain. Symbols have the ability to transcend cultural and language barriers and deliver concise information effortlessly and instantaneously. Visual communication is incredibly powerful. The Noun Project is a platform empowering the community to build a global visual language that everyone can understand. Obviously good for infographic design, but also for presentations, websites and even school reports.Ĭreating, Sharing and Celebrating the World’s Visual Language The idea is to design and gather illustrations of concepts that cross languages and cultures, and then make tham available to everyone under Creative Commons license to use in their own designs. The Noun Project is a fantastic effort to design universal icons. The video is a visual explanation that “shows” the audience icons and illustrations that convey the meaning of representing human concepts in visual form. The Noun Project is beauty in its simplicity.Įven though there are no statistics in the video, I do consider this to be an infographic video. Building a Global Visual Language from The Noun Project on Vimeo.
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