IBM Smarter Planet Icons in SVG format

Published: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:25:59 +0000 Updated: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:25:59 +0000 |

These are the 25 Smarter Planet icons I’ve collected on an internal work I did at IBM. They are smart and I love them.

They are also impossible to find in high definition or in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format on the net so I’m posting them here for your convenience.

I got these icons as many Adobe Illustrator (AI) files from Ogilvy and just aggregated and labeled them using Inkscape on one single SVG file — a much more open format and ready to be used on modern browsers too.

This SVGZ file was produced with Inkscape, a free, excellent and recomended alternative to Adobe Illustrator. If you need to use them on Adobe Illustrator, I think SVG (same as SVGZ but uncompressed) is supported so just download the icons file and uncompress it with gunzip:

$ gunzip smarter-planet-icons.svgz

Ciaran

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:03:43 +0000 at Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:03:43 +0000 · Reply

This is awesome! You saved me having to try to redraw these!!

amasun

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:54:46 +0000 at Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:54:46 +0000 · Reply

cannot open the svgz rightly in ai

Avi

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:45:48 +0000 at Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:45:48 +0000 · Reply

I’m showing how to uncompress at the end of the article with gunzip. Just follow the instructions.

Angus

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:10:34 +0000 at Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:10:34 +0000 · Reply

Sorry, did not give you my email

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:09:30 +0000 at Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:09:30 +0000 · Reply

The left click does not give me that option, so no way to access these files that I can find, happy with the format, cannot get it?

Alex

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:25:19 +0000 at Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:25:19 +0000 · Reply

Why couldn’t you just provide it as an EPS instead of asking people to jump through hoops just to open the file?

Avi

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:51:00 +0000 at Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:51:00 +0000 · Reply

Because EPS is a proprietary old obsolete format and SVG is the way to go now.
And because I don’t have any software that can reliably write in EPS format.
And because I’d like to promote the SVG open format providing desired artwork that uses it.

D. G.

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:19:15 +0000 at Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:19:15 +0000 · Reply

The link is broken. Here’s the error message:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://avi.alkalay.net/articlefiles/2011/09/smarter-planet-icons.svgz
Line Number 1, Column 1:

I was looking forward to hi-def icons!

Avi

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:34:08 +0000 at Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:34:08 +0000 · Reply

Thats because your browser is trying to open and render the SVG file. It will fail because this is compressed SVG.

Try Left-click then select to download the file and open it on (free) Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator.

If it still fails, uncompress the downloaded file with gunzip and then try again with Inkscape or AI.

Good luck