The enclosed folders contain 35 icons based on the great Saturday morning educational cartoon, School House Rock. If you're like me, you grew up with the likes of Conjunction Junction, The Bill Dude, and Rufus Xavier Sasparilla, so I've created an Icon set so you never again have to be without them.
Since this is the second set of School House Rock Icons I've done, I've tried to create the remaining characters of the series. Many of them were based on suggestons that you all e-mailed to me. Included in this set are the Bear and Turtle from "Unpack your Adjectives" and the popular "Mr. Morton". Although there are not many SHR characters left, if you don't see a character here that you want, just drop me a line and I'll try and put it in the next SHR Volume. If you don't have SHR:Vol 1, then write to me and I'll either send it to you or tell you where you can get it.
How To make Use of the Icons:
1. You need system 7 or higher.
2. Do a "Get Info" (File menu) on the original SHR icon file that you want to use.
3. Click on the icon in the window; choose "Copy" (Edit menu).
4. Close the window, then "Get Info" on destination file/disk.
5. Click on the icon, choose "Paste" (Edit menu).
6. Don't forget to e-mail me and let me know what you think!
Contact:
Gedeon Maheux - GedeonM@aol.com
Legality:
I do not claim to have created the characters herein. The copyrights for the characters depicted here rests with their individual creators. You may freely distribute this collection of School House Rock icons, provided you please give me credit, distribute the collection in its original form with all the files intact, and you cannot charge a fee for them. Also, you cannot publish anything about my icons without my permission. I would love to hear about any applications for the icons that you might be thinking about. Just write me and I'll be happy to give you permission to use them.
Fan Repsonse:
"Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know how much I love your School House Rock icons. I'm 26 and have not seen School House Rock since I was 10 or 11. Thanks so much for making them. You have brought me much joy and I feel like a kid every time I look at them!!!"
"Thanks again! Once I get my web site written, I'll probably mirror your icons there. And if you're taking requests for Volume II, think, "Interplanet Janet.""
"Just wanted to say thanks for the Schoolhouse rock icons. They are so professionally drawn and so many to choose from. They brought back so many memories of sitting in front of the television with my can of soda and my bowl of lucky charms! I am sooooooo looking forward to volume II !!!!"
Personal:
Being a multi-media designer by day and an icon creator/Marathon player by night does have its disadvantages. For one, I don't get out much. But making these icons has been a blast from the past. I work for a Greensboro based multi-media company named Paradigm Interactive. We have done two educational CD titles named Discover The Elements (a jr.high/high school ROM about the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements) and another called Skyworks (that teaches kids grades 3 and up to look up and observe the sky and all the wonders in it).
Thanks:
I wanted to say thanks to a few key people. First being my best friend Mindy who always provides me with emotional support, as well as being the first person to see my creations and give me solid feedback. She puts up with me making icons all night instead of paying attention to her, what a gal! The second are all the people who have e-mailed me about my first School House Rock Icons as well as my Batman:The Animated Series icons. You have all given me tremendous feedback and I can't say enough how much I appreciate it. Keep the e-mail coming, it makes up for not being able to ask for money for these icons!
About the Title Icons:
The title image you see in the main folder is actually a set of twenty individual icons. They are arranged butted up against eachother to form the picture. If you move one of them, its name will come to the front and you will have to select them all in order to get it to look right again. In addition, if you move the them make sure you grab all of them from the top down, and you have the destination folder OPEN and in view to put them in. If you simply drag the group to a closed folder, they will be snapped to the grid and will look incorrect again. They are mainly for decoration, so if they get screwed up its no big deal. It does make an interesting puzzle though. Be careful not to "Clean-up Window"!
