Nice.
Reminds me vaguely of constructing an ellipse through concentric circles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UYRkFjA_Sw
Regards,
Des
Joey
on 13 Feb 12
Out of curiosity, what purpose are the left- and right-most gray circles serving? They don’t intersect with the black, final graphic at all, nor do they intersect with the other guides in a way that suggests they were used to position them. Thanks!
I would quibble with the tropic lines… they should be parallel with the equator. As it is, it looks more like a basketball.
JD
on 13 Feb 12
Joey, admittedly they were added to make the image look best on this blog post. I didn’t use them, but they make the image fancier. :P
Colin, thanks for the feedback.
Alejandro Moreno
on 13 Feb 12
@Joey, I doubt the icon would look good with three parallel horizontal lines.
But now that the source has been offered I think I’ll play with the tropics and try it out for myself.
GeeIWonder
on 13 Feb 12
Well, the lines are // or perpendicular to the equator, on the surface. This naturally should provide some curvature when projected to 2d. You might not buy the curvature (I look at these a lot and they do look a tad off) but the fact that there is curvature is correct.
GeeIWonder
on 13 Feb 12
Yeah, looking closer the halfway line should be halfway up the latitude on the sides too, so it’s a little high (on the upper half)
Ryan
on 13 Feb 12
Just wants to point out that your world graphic is nearly identical to the world bank logo: http://www.cev.washington.edu/files/world-bank-logo.jpg
Ed
on 13 Feb 12
Looks very similar to the world bank logo
Daniel
on 13 Feb 12
@Colin: If you want non-equatorially-parallel tropic lines, look no further than Pan-Am’s logo
In any case, it’s definitely the most iconic way of representing “the world” in whatever sense (Parallel tropic lines be damned!) Hence, as Ryan points out, the World Bank also uses it. There’s a few dozen other companies that use it too, but Pan-Am was the first to come to mind for me.
Anonymous Coward
on 14 Feb 12
wait… wat?
Anonymous Coward
on 14 Feb 12
Same as the Apple world logo found in the iOS keyboard (when having more than one language).
I too thought “seen that before”. I don’t think it was just The World Bank who used this sort of globe though – I swear a media company used something similar…
@Joel it’s in fact also the logo of Metro, the world’s largest global newspaper. It’s a free daily commuter paper with local editions for many large cities/countries worldwide. http://www.metro.lu
Anonymous Coward
on 13 Feb 12@Jamie
What are all the extra light gray circles for?
Just the dark black globe graphic is enough.
Michael
on 13 Feb 12The Ball and the Cross.
Joe
on 13 Feb 12The gray circles were guides. Where the guides fell into the center circle created the end result as seen in solid black.
JD
on 13 Feb 12AC, yeah Joe’s right. I drew those circles to create the middle graphic.
Anonymous Coward
on 13 Feb 12@Joe
No way.
How are those gray marks guideline? Look carefully at them. Some of these “guideline” are not even circular, nor oval. They are odd shaped.
It looks more like the gray lines where added in AFTER the dark black globe was drawn.
JD
on 13 Feb 12AC, I appreciate your skepticism. The world needs more of you. If you have Adobe Illustrator, you can download my source file.
NW
on 13 Feb 12The guides are not particular,nor oral… They are epileptical
Des
on 13 Feb 12Nice. Reminds me vaguely of constructing an ellipse through concentric circles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UYRkFjA_Sw Regards, Des
Joey
on 13 Feb 12Out of curiosity, what purpose are the left- and right-most gray circles serving? They don’t intersect with the black, final graphic at all, nor do they intersect with the other guides in a way that suggests they were used to position them. Thanks!
Colin Carmichael
on 13 Feb 12I would quibble with the tropic lines… they should be parallel with the equator. As it is, it looks more like a basketball.
JD
on 13 Feb 12Joey, admittedly they were added to make the image look best on this blog post. I didn’t use them, but they make the image fancier. :P
Colin, thanks for the feedback.
Alejandro Moreno
on 13 Feb 12@Joey, I doubt the icon would look good with three parallel horizontal lines.
But now that the source has been offered I think I’ll play with the tropics and try it out for myself.
GeeIWonder
on 13 Feb 12Well, the lines are // or perpendicular to the equator, on the surface. This naturally should provide some curvature when projected to 2d. You might not buy the curvature (I look at these a lot and they do look a tad off) but the fact that there is curvature is correct.
GeeIWonder
on 13 Feb 12Yeah, looking closer the halfway line should be halfway up the latitude on the sides too, so it’s a little high (on the upper half)
Ryan
on 13 Feb 12Just wants to point out that your world graphic is nearly identical to the world bank logo: http://www.cev.washington.edu/files/world-bank-logo.jpg
Ed
on 13 Feb 12Looks very similar to the world bank logo
Daniel
on 13 Feb 12@Colin: If you want non-equatorially-parallel tropic lines, look no further than Pan-Am’s logo
In any case, it’s definitely the most iconic way of representing “the world” in whatever sense (Parallel tropic lines be damned!) Hence, as Ryan points out, the World Bank also uses it. There’s a few dozen other companies that use it too, but Pan-Am was the first to come to mind for me.
Anonymous Coward
on 14 Feb 12wait… wat?
Anonymous Coward
on 14 Feb 12Same as the Apple world logo found in the iOS keyboard (when having more than one language).
CH
on 14 Feb 12Did 37signals steal the logo from the World Bank?
http://data.worldbank.org/
@DHH
Ironic that you freak out about people ripping of Hiserisehq.com yet your own company is ripping of the World Banks logo
Peter
on 14 Feb 12whats the best icon for “change language”? maybe a globe?
Joel
on 15 Feb 12I too thought “seen that before”. I don’t think it was just The World Bank who used this sort of globe though – I swear a media company used something similar…
Tom
on 15 Feb 12reminds me of the ancient BBC logo
Kelvin
on 16 Feb 12@Joel it’s in fact also the logo of Metro, the world’s largest global newspaper. It’s a free daily commuter paper with local editions for many large cities/countries worldwide. http://www.metro.lu
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