This clip “Fünf-Prozent-Hürde” (five percent coinsurance clause) is an animation out of a series of three clips. It explains an aspect of the election system in Germany. Together with Astrid Reinberger we made these clips for the Bundeszentrale für polische Bildung (BPB). All clips were made with help of the PICOL signs.
Two other clips, with the title “Überhangmandate” and “Erst- und Zweitstimme” which are already produced, will follow soon. If you can´t wait to see them, you can watch all clips here on the website of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.

Credits
Editors: Stephan Trinius, Stefan Lampe (BPB)
V.i.S.d.P: Thorsten Schilling (BPB)
Conception and production: Astrid Reinberger, Melih Bilgil
Speaker: Melanie Pukaß
Appraiser: Christoph Strünck

This movie is licensed under the Creative Commons-License by-nc-nd/3.0/de.
CC 2009 Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BPB)

PowerPoint and OpenOffice support eps files, but changing the color of the icons isn´t possible with eps files. If you export your icon as *.emf (Enhanced Metafile) you are able to change the colors with PowerPoint, but you lose all your curves, if you look closely on your icon.

It took me some trials to convert the icons made with Illustrator to make them editable with PowerPoint. It takes a few steps, but it works. Now it´s possible to change the color of the icons with PowerPoint and OpenOffice.

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I just created an Twitter Account to inform you faster on “small” developments and updates of PICOL.

You can follow here:
http://www.twitter.com/picolsigns

PICOL was awarded at the international competition for students in design and architecture :output12.

I started to add some more icons to the PICOL Icon Library. Feel free to have a look. I added some more invisible features on the side. The automatically generated ZIP-Files now generate the icon name for the file name. I´m still having some problems with the ZIP files and the standard unzipping programm on Macs.
I´m planing some more features, but since I´m no programmer and therefore very slow in programming you have to wait a while.
Have fun downloading!