PICOL Blog http://blog.picol.org Open Pictorial Communication Language Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:20:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Ubuntu Poster with PICOL icons http://blog.picol.org/ubuntu-poster-with-picol-icons/ http://blog.picol.org/ubuntu-poster-with-picol-icons/#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:40:50 +0000 PICOL Admin http://blog.picol.org/?p=860 Thanks to Alessandro Gubitosi, who just send me this poster with PICOL icons, which promotes the Ubuntu in Italy and can be used by the rest of the world. It´s great PICOL can help the great and open Ubuntu project with it´s own openness. It would be great to have PICOL as UI icons in Ubuntu ;)

Alessandro is a member of “Gruppo Promozione Ubuntu” (the Italian Ubuntu Marketing Team). He is active in the fields of green marketing, art direction and web development. You can get more information on Alessandro on his website www.gotanotherway.com.

That´s not all Alessandro did with and especially for PICOL. He also mentioned as an aside that he did PICOL generator. THAT´S AWESOME — I LOVE THE INTERNET. He built it overnight! That´s version 1.1beta and he wants to push it forward :)

I will keep you updated on the PICOL generator.

By the way this is the first post on this blog matching all categories (Contributor Work, Diagrams, Icons in use, New Icons & [Great] News).

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With the last eight at the World Cup I release the soccer icon for the PICOL library.

download icons Here you can download the raw soccer icon.

Here you can download the soccer flag icons of the last eight.

May the best team win.

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eöööööööööööö — The  Vuvuzela is definitely the unofficial symbol for the soccer tournament with teams from all over the world, which takes place in South Africa right now. (Am I allowed to say the original name, which is a trademark? I remember many people got sued the last time)
Whatever. I designed a Vuvuzela icon for the PICOL library which again is publish under a Creative Commons license.

Here you can download the icon in various sizes

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Just finished a new clip with PICOL icons for Navia Systems, a company which was founded in 2007 by four MIT doctoral students. The company’s goal is to help people make more rational, data-driven decisions by designing and building machines that make good judgements in the presence of uncertainty.
The clip exaplains the concept of probabilistic computing, also known as Bayesian inference. Enjoy watching it.
For more information you can visit the website of Navia Systems.

Here you can watch the clip with some additional information on my portfolio.

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Melih Bilgil’s The History of the Internet tells, well, you know, using minimal lines but loads of attention to detail. (The fly-over of Cuba is terrific.) Adobe designer Ethan Eismann writes, “My new personal mission in life is to bring this level or higher of engaging instruction to an Adobe welcome screen near you.”

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David Carswell contributed a Microsoft Visio 2007 stencil incorporating the PICOL SVG iconset (090316).  This stencil is an import of the SVG icons, with aspect-ratio protection applied, and is released under the same license as PICOL itself.

You can download the Visio 2007 stencil HERE

I coulnd´t check the file, beacause I have no Visio. If there are any problem please contact David :)

]]> http://blog.picol.org/picol-for-visio-090316/feed/ 6 Announcing Pictodeck v1.0 http://blog.picol.org/announcing-pictodeck-v-1-0/ http://blog.picol.org/announcing-pictodeck-v-1-0/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:56:16 +0000 PICOL Admin http://blog.picol.org/?p=784 Pictodeck is just what it sounds like — a deck of pictograms. It’s a collection of over 700 vector pictograms taken from four different sets: PICOL, Android Icons, Pictoico and Freshpixel. Aaron Richard, the creator of Pictodeck, has converted all of these sets and made them available for Keynote users.
Pictodeck is available for download on Aaron Richards website.

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»The purpose of this deck was to delve into advertising on the third screen (mobile) in this new fifth dimension—where data and information exists in a cloud all around you. This fifth dimension isn’t quite tangible without a device, but if you have an iPhone you can look at a restaurant through your phone and see every review that people left on Yelp or all the tweets tagged with that location.« Aaron Richard

]]> http://blog.picol.org/third-screen-fifth-dimension/feed/ 0 Save the date – Quarks & Co Die Macht des Internets http://blog.picol.org/quarks-und-co-die-macht-des-internet/ http://blog.picol.org/quarks-und-co-die-macht-des-internet/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:51:19 +0000 PICOL Admin http://blog.picol.org/?p=749
For all the german readers of the PICOL Blog. On October 20th there will be a feature by the director Mike Schaefer in the show “Quarks & Co” on the TV channel WDR.
The episode is called “Die Macht des Internets”. The feature of Mike Schaefer uses parts of the animation “History of the Internet” and for this episode we developed two more takes, which show the Internet of today. In this feature Mike made an very interesting interview with Lawrence Roberts, who was chief scientist at the ARPA.

For more information visit the website of “Quarks & Co“.
Don´t miss the show.

UPDATE: You can download the whole episode here (97MB | MP4)

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And now clip 3 of 3 – “Überhangmandate” (overhang seat – i hope that´s a correct translation). For further information click here.

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)

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