Boatman also says that they plan on adding marketplace features so that creators can sell and distribute kits of visual assets through Lingo, with a similar 60/40 revenue split to the one they currently use with their partners at The Noun Project. Although Lingo is free to use for individuals, its more advanced features (like keeping your design assets synced across a team) require a monthly “Pro” subscription. That’s a lot of friction added to what should be a simple exchange, if you’re not going to buy into Lingo entirely as what Boatman would call the default browser for all your computer’s visual assets.īut if you are willing to do that, Lingo may well simplify your workflow. So instead of forwarding an email with a zip file to our art editor, I had to install Lingo, login, download all the images, then attach it, and forward it. To art this story, I asked the Noun Project to send me images, which they did through Lingo. Of course, the real question remains: Do designers want to have to deal with another app? Working with images in folders may be inelegant, but it has the benefit of not being another piece of software to install. Ultimately, Boatman says the goal is for Lingo to become “the default browser for all the world’s visual assets.” Follow our Blog or the social links above for. Thanks to your purchases, we’ve been able to donate 100 of proceeds to ACLU, Clean Air Task Force, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Teach for America, and the U.S. It encompasses colors, illustrations, photographs, even GIFs.” Lingo is The Noun Project’s way to move beyond icons. Our Noun Project holiday store is now closed, but stay tuned for more limited-edition merchandise drops in the future. “But visual language is so much bigger than just iconography. “Our mission is creating, celebrating, and sharing visual language,” Boatman says. But as an animator and motion designer, I read. Lingo might seem like a strange offshoot for The Noun Project, best known for creating an online dictionary of universal symbols. The headline on The Noun Projects website reads, Icons for everything. Lingo really helps to take the chaos of asset management company-wide and distill it down.” video and we will make an animated gif, webm and mp4 for you. You can also simply paste any youtube, vimeo, facebook, vine, instagram, etc. While there are many common topics for which a universal symbol is not available, The Noun Project provides symbols for such topics which can be universally used in various academic and professional projects. Turn vine videos into gifs using our vine to gif tool. The Noun Project is a project aimed at building a global visual language using symbols. Turn Facebook videos into gifs using our facebook to gif tool. Then when you take that and add in product shots images, lifestyle imagery, social posts, illustrations and content visuals for our monthly member magazine, it’s chaos. Turn youtube videos into gifs using our youtube to gif tool. “From icons the UX team uses in flow diagrams and wireframe assets, it gets hard to manage. “As Dollar Shave Club grows and launches more products, new features and improving existing features we have a plethora of assets we need to manage,” he says. Matt Reamer, a designer at Dollar Shave Club, has been using Lingo for about six months and says it has become an essential part of the company’s work flow.