You're better off with the park service icon.
The new design is unnaturally squared off at the foot and the spacing between the sleeper's body and bed results in ambivalence and muddiness.
Redesigning the hotel icon
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#12It's a good thing they got rid of that chap's arm, or they would have got a cease and desist from HostelWorld.com
http://blog.keepmebooked.com/2011/09/what-happened-to-our-ma...
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#13This new icon is definitely much easier to see at lower resolutions, nice work. Can you talk about the choice of using the bed icon versus a hotel-building icon that e.g. Hipmunk uses? http://www.hipmunk.com/hotels
The hotel-building icon to me looks too ambiguous. Is this representing a city? An apartment complex? An office building? I think the bed icon clearly demonstrates what you use a hotel for - a place to sleep. This encompasses hotels that aren't several stories tall as well.
We came to that conclusion too and originally had the silhouette of a bed rather than the exterior or a hotel building[1]. Our client[2], however, had different ideas.
And no, I have no idea why flight plus hotel equals desert island with palm trees...
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#14Just use text.
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#15Anyone else think the stairs down and escalator down icons need to flipped horizontally (direction of travel left-to-right?). As it stand's there's little to distinguish up and down, and it doesn't "read" naturally.
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#16This new icon is definitely much easier to see at lower resolutions, nice work. Can you talk about the choice of using the bed icon versus a hotel-building icon that e.g. Hipmunk uses? http://www.hipmunk.com/hotels
The hotel-building icon to me looks too ambiguous. Is this representing a city? An apartment complex? An office building? I think the bed icon clearly demonstrates what you use a hotel for - a place to sleep. This encompasses hotels that aren't several stories tall as well.
In the context of flight / hotel / car / etc., I think hotel-building is very clear. In fact, much clearer than a bed -- after all, having an airline seat represent a plane would be quite confusing, and having a bed represent a hotel is no clearer.
However, outside the context of other reservation-related icons, I agree that the "building" icon is lacking in specificity. The bed icon is slightly better, but still by no means good. It could just as easily mean sleeptime or rest, as opposed to daytime or work.
It's a shame there are no symbols or architecture inherently associated with hotels. Maybe that's why they tend to feel so anonymous and devoid of any soul...
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#17It's still a bed, which is still hard to see from afar.
It's also the letter H.
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#18The redesigned icon has the added benefit of subconsciously conjuring thoughts of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
The hotel-building icon to me looks too ambiguous. Is this representing a city? An apartment complex? An office building? I think the bed icon clearly demonstrates what you use a hotel for - a place to sleep. This encompasses hotels that aren't several stories tall as well.
We came to that conclusion too and originally had the silhouette of a bed rather than the exterior or a hotel building[1]. Our client[2], however, had different ideas. And no, I have no idea why flight plus hotel equals desert island with palm trees... [1] http://i.imgur.com/VJKiI.png [2] http://www.onthebeach.co.uk
It means "package vacation" which for lots of people means "Caribbean island and it doesn't really matter which one."
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The hotel-building icon to me looks too ambiguous. Is this representing a city? An apartment complex? An office building? I think the bed icon clearly demonstrates what you use a hotel for - a place to sleep. This encompasses hotels that aren't several stories tall as well.
We came to that conclusion too and originally had the silhouette of a bed rather than the exterior or a hotel building[1]. Our client[2], however, had different ideas. And no, I have no idea why flight plus hotel equals desert island with palm trees... [1] http://i.imgur.com/VJKiI.png [2] http://www.onthebeach.co.uk
The island photo is pretty synonymous with package holiday in the UK, which flight + hotel approximates in this case.