Icons: Research & Development

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Work in progress

I've been developing icons at work recently and doing a little R&D in my own time too - thought I might post a little of the personal progress, it's a fair change from the type of stuff I usually post. The icons are created in illustrator. I expect final icons will be cleaned up in Photoshop before being called finished.

Apr4th--
Some progress with the icons, I am still modifying the process and have already planned trying some new variations.

June21--
A few more addition to the collection

June22--

Submitted by Johnn on Fri, 04/04/08 - 9:02 PM Permalink

once I've finished tinkering with the process I might make a tutorial if popular demand and spare time are available.

Submitted by Johnn on Sat, 21/06/08 - 10:35 PM Permalink

I decided to upload a few more samples (see initial post). These are very close in look to what I am producing for a mobile interface I'm currently working on.

Submitted by LaughingStock on Sun, 22/06/08 - 11:33 AM Permalink

The yellow, diamond thing. No idea what it is or what it represents - needs to provide immediate visual feedback about what it might do, ie more descriptive of its function.

I would also play around with the angles, so you are seeing the icons more straight on. Try an angle of about %5 and post those for comparison?

Submitted by Johnn on Sun, 22/06/08 - 2:48 PM Permalink

Thanks for the comments LaughingStock. Everything i have posted in this thread is experimental rather than actual icons (or WIPs). The yellow diamond thingy is not of anything, just an experiment in style and procedure. Hope that clarifies things.

The latest additions of emoticons really are very close to the icons I am producing at work (I exaggerated a little with the last post saying they were 'very close' to the actual items). They are also about the size the icons with this treatment will appear in the application.

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Work in progress

I've been developing icons at work recently and doing a little R&D in my own time too - thought I might post a little of the personal progress, it's a fair change from the type of stuff I usually post. The icons are created in illustrator. I expect final icons will be cleaned up in Photoshop before being called finished.

Apr4th--
Some progress with the icons, I am still modifying the process and have already planned trying some new variations.

June21--
A few more addition to the collection

June22--

Submitted by Johnn on Fri, 04/04/08 - 9:02 PM Permalink

once I've finished tinkering with the process I might make a tutorial if popular demand and spare time are available.

Submitted by Johnn on Sat, 21/06/08 - 10:35 PM Permalink

I decided to upload a few more samples (see initial post). These are very close in look to what I am producing for a mobile interface I'm currently working on.

Submitted by LaughingStock on Sun, 22/06/08 - 11:33 AM Permalink

The yellow, diamond thing. No idea what it is or what it represents - needs to provide immediate visual feedback about what it might do, ie more descriptive of its function.

I would also play around with the angles, so you are seeing the icons more straight on. Try an angle of about %5 and post those for comparison?

Submitted by Johnn on Sun, 22/06/08 - 2:48 PM Permalink

Thanks for the comments LaughingStock. Everything i have posted in this thread is experimental rather than actual icons (or WIPs). The yellow diamond thingy is not of anything, just an experiment in style and procedure. Hope that clarifies things.

The latest additions of emoticons really are very close to the icons I am producing at work (I exaggerated a little with the last post saying they were 'very close' to the actual items). They are also about the size the icons with this treatment will appear in the application.