Week 2: Outside of Class

This week outside of class I worked on the assigned homework, which was to write about the library website and its needs for new icons, reading, and finding 15 icons each in the real and digital worlds and posting my findings on here.

Real World Icons

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1. The icon you see here is for terra-cycling seen on a container of a hair product. This is a new way of giving more kinds of trash another chance to be used, almost like recycling.

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2. This is the AC adapter for my laptop. I was intrigued by the mass amount of icons on here. I recognize some, such as the warning icon in the bottom left, but others I'm not so sure of, but I will inquire on them in class.

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3. This bag of packing peanuts had a giant recycling icon on it. This icon is widely known for indicating that the product was either made with recycled material or that it can be recycled.

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4. Here is an icon indicating a drown risk for children, which was found on a bucket of laundry detergent.

  

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5. Here is the common Maltese Cross which represents firefighting. I considered this to be an icon because of the fact that one instantly associates it with firefighting when it is seen.

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6. On this bottle of rubbing alcohol is an icon symbolizing the fact that the product is flammable.

7. On this bottle of a hair product is an icon of a person throwing an item in the trash can, which I believe is to symbolize the fact that it cannot be recycled, and should instead be thrown away.

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8. The windows icon is all too familiar, but recently, with the release of the Windows 8 operating system came the newly renovated Windows icon as you can see between the Function and Alt keys on my keyboard.

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9. Safety is definitely the key communication here, with two figures lifting a supposedly heavy box that says "team lift," indicating that this box is large and heavy, and requires at least two people to safely move.

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10. The first icon indicates that the product should always remain sitting up in the same position instead of upside down or sideways, for example.

11. The next icon symbolizes the fact that the contents in the box are fragile. It was the box from a big TV, by the way.
 12. The third icon with the umbrella and rain symbolize the fact that the item must be kept dry.
13. The last icon symbolizes that no more than 6lbs can be stacked on top of the box for the risk of it collapsing.

Digital Icons

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1. This icon is seen here on blogger while writing a post, which is "undo" and "redo".

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2. This is an icon found on amazon.com indicating that this book can be read on a computer, kindle or phone.

         

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3. This icon symbolizes a thunderstorm, and is frequently seen on any weather forecast.
4. The next icon symbolizes a partly sunny day, and is also seen on any weather forecast.

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5. This folder icon is very popular, and symbolizes all of your folders/ files on your computer, all in one easily accessible place.
6. This is an icon representing a map, which is an indication that you can find out the location of this business or organization.
7. Here you see the cart icon for amazon.com, which has the number of items cleverly placed inside the cart.


                   

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8. The vast majority of social media users recognize this icon as the "like" icon for Facebook for a post or a page.
9. This icon represents Google notifications, such as any updates from your smartphone if it is connected to a google account, or any other notification from Google.
10. This icon is meant to indicate that you can upload a file to a website.
11.This icon is the Facebook representation of "tagging" a friend in a post.
12. This is the icon that represents a folder which contains several files.
13. This icon represents a file on Google which is an image.
14. This icon is seen in front of the URL for all secure sites that contain people's personal information.
15. This is an icon seen on the top of any Google page representing the list of apps, such as Google Drive, Blogger, and Gmail.