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How would you represent “religion” in an icon, neutrally?
I am involved in a web application where items in a list have a category. Each category of an item is shown through the use of an expressive icon. One of the categories is religion.
My coworker, a ...
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How to find existing names or associations a symbol has?
I saw a symbol like this, and didn't know what it was called or what existing associations it might have:
It seems like a pretty easy question to answer by looking in a symbol dictionary or an ...
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What imagery and symbolism would you associate with authority, knowledge and creativity?
Usually those three things tend not to go together and I'm struggling to come up with concepts that combine all three. Any ideas?
This will help me with research on an identity project I have coming ...
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How can I visually represent the concepts “invincible” or “winning without fighting”?
If you were asked to represent "invincible" or "winning without fighting" in pictures, how would you do it?
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How can I create imagery for cyber security and cyberspace general while avoiding that late 90's early 2000's look?
If you were to do a google image search for cyber security you'd see exactly what I mean. Even the slickest images representing cyber security or cyberspace seem to fall under a style that IMO is very ...
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Graphic for Maintenance
On my site I have some categories. One of which is "Website Maintenance". I want to create a graphic (about 300x by 250y) that represents the Website Maintenance category. But I'm at a low right now, ...
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What is a good icon to indicate that a given item is NOT part of a list?
I need to place an icon next to an email address to indicate that the email address is NOT a member of a given mailing list.
This could be abstracted as: What icon best indicates that the entity it ...
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How to create a pictogram representing “experimental therapy”?
I work at university. Our department has a student's day, where we all show posters presenting our research. Of course, the poster isn't supposed to be text-only. But we have to take care of any ...
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How can I visually represent the concept of “planning”?
Trying to create a logo. The customer provides assistance to homeless people by giving them resources and access to providers for help. The word planning is in their name.
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How to convey the idea of an “API” as an icon?
I've been assigned to design an icon (or logo) for our API (Application Programming Interface). In programming, an API allows programmers/developers to access, or "hook into" functionality located on ...
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How to represent “all”/“all options”/“show all” as an icon
This to go in a tab. The other tabs show quite separate groups the user might find interesting. This tabs contains all of them.
I've thought about writing "ALL" (capitals seemed more recognisable in ...
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How can I symbolize credit? [closed]
I'm trying to think of a way to graphically represent the idea of credit, as in money owed. Are there any conventional solutions to this?
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Representing “My” in Logo Design [closed]
What's a good way to represent "My" or ownership in a logo? Specifically own ideas.
[Edit:] The logo is for a web app called Mypothesis, it's for people to put their own personal theories out there, ...
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Examples of logos based on Yijing hexagrams/trigrams? [closed]
I am looking for examples of logos based on Yijing hexagrams/trigrams.
The only one I know is the Dharma Initiative logo from the "Lost" series.
Do you know of any others?
