Comments on: The China Effect: Part 1 http://oranse.net/2009/09/20/the-china-effect-part1/ weblog of visual design & communication Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:43:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: zzorn http://oranse.net/2009/09/20/the-china-effect-part1/comment-page-1/#comment-827 zzorn Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:48:19 +0000 http://oranse.net/?p=172#comment-827 Nice icons, they do seem pretty universal. Snowflakes are of course not common in all of the world, but in general yellow orange is a warm color (sun, fire) and blue is a cool color (shade, night, water, opposite orange), so it should work. The sharp points on the warm water icon could also communicate the possible pain of hot water. Btw, you might be interested in this article on typographical logos for towns and wards in Japan: http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/09/typographic-town-logos-in-hiragana-katakana/ Nice icons, they do seem pretty universal. Snowflakes are of course not common in all of the world, but in general yellow orange is a warm color (sun, fire) and blue is a cool color (shade, night, water, opposite orange), so it should work. The sharp points on the warm water icon could also communicate the possible pain of hot water.

Btw, you might be interested in this article on typographical logos for towns and wards in Japan: http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/09/typographic-town-logos-in-hiragana-katakana/

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