No Headphones Icon Design Contest

So next do we ban deaf runners and foreign runners who don't understand English. Those 2 are also hard to communicate with and unsafe. And then we need those baby joggers/strollers banned also, and anyone with a dog on a leash.

And maybe barefoot runners too, got to think about that one. And people that wear hats on windy days because you know how often those things fly off in the wind and could put an eye out. Oh and people that drop paper cups on the road or spill their water because another runner could slip and fall.

Where do we stop?

cgray, you are a complete moron.

And I guess you have following Dilbert, Far Side comics and other tongue in cheek media.

Kind of sad,

cgray wrote:

And I guess you have following Dilbert, Far Side comics and other tongue in cheek media.

Kind of sad,

Sorry meant to say And I guess you have trouble following Dilbert, Far Side comics and other tongue in cheek media.

Sorry, I don't read comics and the only sad thing was your opaque attempt at humor.

Now for something completely different ... constructive advice.

I think the face distracts from the no headphones message.

Why not create an icon with a generic iPod-ish music player and the circle+bar depiction overlayed on top?

This would be a more clear warning that music players are banned, and eliminate the needless (and goofy) face.

We all know where people position their headphones so that part of the image does not add any information.

cutter wrote:

Now for something completely different ... constructive advice.

I think the face distracts from the no headphones message.

Why not create an icon with a generic iPod-ish music player and the circle+bar depiction overlayed on top?

This would be a more clear warning that music players are banned, and eliminate the needless (and goofy) face.

We all know where people position their headphones so that part of the image does not add any information.

I agree with this. This guy is a thinker.

cutter wrote: Now for something completely different ... constructive advice.

I think the face distracts from the no headphones message.

Why not create an icon with a generic iPod-ish music player and the circle+bar depiction overlayed on top?

This would be a more clear warning that music players are banned, and eliminate the needless (and goofy) face.

We all know where people position their headphones so that part of the image does not add any information.

Precisely. Isn't the principle "extra stuff distracts and detracts" universally understood, at least by graphic designers? It's true in writing, more true in visual design, and nowhere truer than when conveying a simple imperative to a distracted audience jogging twelve minute miles with their ipods cranked up.

Keep it simple.

Maximum two colors (perhaps headphones and optionally ipod black, circle red); no head let alone facial features; phrase "no headphones" once, flat, at the bottom. Period.

Umm, umm, here it is again...

http://www.gallerynews.com/nohp.gif

On second (twenty-second?) thought, it's not that bad, the RRCA design. It says NO Headphones three times. Gets the point across.

Here we're all trying to be Raymond Loewy and what's really needed is a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Here's mine. Took me about ten minutes.

http://picasaweb.google.com/crazier/UntitledAlbum/photo#5173093534043913874

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