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Subject:Thanks--Horton's Icon Book From:Angela Williams <williama -at- COGNOS -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 23 Feb 1996 16:57:51 -0500
Hi Techwhirlers,
Thank you very much for all your prompt and informative help on Bill
Horton's The Icon Book.
Specifically I want to thank:
Bill Sullivan <bsullivan -at- deltecpower -dot- com>
John Renish <John -dot- Renish -at- conner -dot- com>
Avon Murphy <amurphy -at- wln -dot- com>
Geoff Bradbury <bradg -at- intext -dot- cpsg -dot- com -dot- au>
Marilynne Smith <mrsmith -at- cts -dot- com>
Sally Yeo <sallyyeo -at- execpc -dot- com>
Eric Chalmers <echalmer -at- research -dot- westlaw -dot- com>
Robbie Rupel <robbie -at- meridiantc -dot- com>
H. Frank Harper <hfharper -at- pobox -dot- com>
"Katherine W. Horton" <william -at- horton -dot- com>
For anyone else who might be interested, here are the particulars:
Horton, William K.
The Icon Book: Visual Symbols for Computer Systems and Documentation
ISBN: 0-471-59901-8 (book/disk)
0-471-59900-X (paper)
0-471-02497-X (disk)
$39.95
New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1994. 418 pages, softcover. Everything
you ever wanted to know about icon design. Describes the process for
designing icons, provides guidelines for icon design, and gives advice on
how to design for international audiences. One version of the book includes
a disk with a set of 500 icons. Small companies that can't afford graphic
designers might find this set of icons useful as a starting point for
design.
I knew I could count on Techwhilers.
Thanks again,
Angela Williams - Technical Writer
williama -at- cognos -dot- com