This blog is meant to be about challenges and not just about me striving to complete them but also you suggesting them. The best place to do this is on the challenge page but with twenty challenges already on there it isn’t the most appealing of places to visit.
Buoyed by my ability to get the recent comments to display correctly I have set to work creating icons to represent each of the challenges.
The icon set uses five colours already evident in the blog’s colour scheme; red, white, grey, charcoal and black. All icons will be close to circular and are meant to be almost instantly recognisable.
So far I have only just started sketching out the idiot’s dozen you see above so any kind of feedback would be greatly appreciated. Maybe try guessing what each of the icons represent, thinking up ways for me to improve them or coming up with ideas for the ones I haven’t done yet (how am I meant to represent writing a letter for Amnesty International or speed blogging?)
The asterisk and coin stand out quite a bit to me. Change it to grey perhaps. Otherwise liking it!
i like them…but i don’t think i would know what they all were without reacquainting myself with your challenges list.
Antonio: Think you’re right, will reserve the black for details.
Sai: Yeah, think give blood and get out of debt are the only obvious ones. Most of them you can tell what they’re meant to be but then it’s a case of relating them to a challenge (one is obviously a clock but then you have to link it in your head to “Wake up at a reasonable hour”, might try adding some bells and turning it into an alarm clock).
This entire comment and the rest of what I was going to type has now been rendered pointless by our IRL conversation, damn you IRL.
we could stop having conversations offline if that would help? if we see each other downstairs we’ll have to use our phones to tweet ‘hello’.
I say we stick with real conversations, it’s very rare that they go over 140 characters anyway :P
To go completely off topic; Internet Explorer does not seem to understand that “margin: auto;” should create margins either side of the content, margins that are automatically sized depending on the size of the screen (well, it does understand it half the time because it works on the main page but when you click an individual posts it chooses to ignore it for no reason).
This problem might actually require someone that knows how to code, think it’s probably best if I just return to drawing icons.