Hand-drawn or generated? Provenance of the archived icons and illustrations #207

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opened 2026-10-10 18:13:04 +00:00 by peterswimm · 3 comments
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@ville: one question about where some old artwork came from.

On 2026-10-08 we recovered the design system that was imported from the old claude.ai Design project in June. It's now kept, read-only, at archive/design-system-superset-20260628/ (#202, #204). Before any of it can go back into the live brand, we need to know who made the artwork. Generated artwork cannot enter the live tree; only hand-drawn work can.

The files in question

Icons, in archive/design-system-superset-20260628/assets/icons/: check, check-dark, cog, comment, cross, edit, image, mail, phone, piechart, pin, zoom

Illustrations, in archive/design-system-superset-20260628/assets/illustrations/: cta-image, feature-1, feature-2, feature-3, hands, quote

Questions

  1. For each file (or the whole set): hand-drawn by you, generated by Claude or another tool, or from somewhere else (stock, another designer)?
  2. If hand-drawn: do your originals (.af) still exist, and are these newer or older than the hand-drawn icon bundle in #141?
  3. Anything here you'd want back in the live library?

Your answer decides what the salvage review (the issue linked below) can recommend. Nothing will be moved or changed before you reply.

@ville: one question about where some old artwork came from. On 2026-10-08 we recovered the design system that was imported from the old claude.ai Design project in June. It's now kept, read-only, at `archive/design-system-superset-20260628/` (#202, #204). Before any of it can go back into the live brand, we need to know **who made the artwork**. **Generated artwork cannot enter the live tree**; only hand-drawn work can. ## The files in question **Icons**, in `archive/design-system-superset-20260628/assets/icons/`: `check`, `check-dark`, `cog`, `comment`, `cross`, `edit`, `image`, `mail`, `phone`, `piechart`, `pin`, `zoom` **Illustrations**, in `archive/design-system-superset-20260628/assets/illustrations/`: `cta-image`, `feature-1`, `feature-2`, `feature-3`, `hands`, `quote` ## Questions 1. For each file (or the whole set): **hand-drawn by you, generated by Claude or another tool, or from somewhere else** (stock, another designer)? 2. If hand-drawn: do your originals (`.af`) still exist, and are these newer or older than the hand-drawn icon bundle in #141? 3. Anything here you'd **want** back in the live library? Your answer decides what the salvage review (the issue linked below) can recommend. Nothing will be moved or changed before you reply.
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Wish: 97414e4d. Your answer here feeds the icons and illustrations section of the salvage review, #208.

Wish: `97414e4d`. Your answer here feeds the icons and illustrations section of the salvage review, #208.
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None of the 18 files is mine. I do not know where they come from. I have no originals (.af) for them.

I have not approved any of them for the live library. If any icon or illustration is needed, I will redraw it.

@peterswimm

None of the 18 files is mine. I do not know where they come from. I have no originals (.af) for them. I have not approved any of them for the live library. If any icon or illustration is needed, I will redraw it. @peterswimm
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lets just ditch them

lets just ditch them
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