Partitions

Partitions and Styled Text Plus

We recently worked with Gary and Ollie from RapidWeaver Plugs to develop some icons for their latest RapidWeaver plug-ins Partitions and Styled Text Plus. We worked from Gary’s ideas and developed them from there.

His original idea for Partitions was to have separated areas, or columns, of colors that would jut up and off of a web page.

While doing some initial sketches for this idea I did a little brain storming and came up with the following idea of separating the colored objects with physical partitions:

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Gary was happy with this direction and we decided to step it up a bit. He requested we add a divider horizontally. In doing so I decided to take a chance and develop the colored blocks into actual objects. The next iteration was a big leap forward:

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I wanted to convey to the user the sort of items that could be placed onto the page inside of Partitions. We discussed other items to add to the empty bays and to leave one empty, inviting the user to place their on content. This is the final version of the icon:

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Since finishing the icon we’ve also created an alternate version of the icon for Gary:

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Included in the project were a few internal icons for navigating the plug-in, representing the body of the content, the header and footer, and the settings:

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Another of our icons for Gary recently was for his back-to-basics plug-in, Styled Text Plus:

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