I took advantage of Lisa's post on Remind about how to create an icon using Adobe Spark. I watched her friend's YouTube video and made this. I would have liked for the figure to be holding a handheld device instead of a walking stick. If I can figure out how to make a figure that looks like this, but does that, I might change it. I could also live with this one. I actually made two as per the video's instructions. This one is supposed to have a transparent background so that I might be able to paste it into different backgrounds. I think I failed to make the text-backing transparent, however. Looks like I'll need to watch the video again. The first one I made is brown. It's supposed to look like the national parks icon. On this one, I did not get the color number of the background and did not match the text background perfectly to that. Again, more practice is needed.
So the icon is supposed to communicate how using screens can lead to getting outdoors. I'm not convinced that this idea has that kind of message. It looks like it is pointing upward, but I don't see the screen leading to the figure. I thought some wavy blue stream lines would be in there somewhere, but the experience with Adobe Spark, combined with my lack of experience, led to this product. Any comments and suggestions are greatly welcomed. Thank you.
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Melissa
6/14/2020 09:51:52 pm
Hi Jeremy,
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Jeremy
6/19/2020 08:11:05 am
Thanks for the great suggestions, Melissa! I'm going to see hat I can do today on my laptop rather than phone. Maybe it'll be easier to work on there.
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6/15/2020 01:25:48 pm
This may be nitpicky, but I wonder about the progression of "screens to streams." The "stream" is above, the screen below, which seems to visually suggest streams is before screens, but the words are in the opposite order.
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Jeremy
6/19/2020 08:12:36 am
Hey Ryan! Thanks for the great suggestions. I like the palette. I'm going to try to do a few things today on the laptop instead of the phone. Maybe it'll be easier there to re-work things a bit.
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