Assignment 03
Logo Icon Set

Your tasked to design four icons based on a brand’s logo. In class, you will be assigned logo and you must design four icons that borrow it’s visual language and communicate the four associated concepts. Consider these icons as a functional element of a user interface, as if they were at the bottom of the brands app or in the nav of their website. Remember, icons are different than illustrations. They must work at large and small sizes and typically convey an idea or function. Plagiarism will not be tolerated.

Deliverables
4 icons
— 6x6" squares
— Final versions mounted on ⅛" white foam core
— Example of your brands logo, also mounted as a 6x6" square

Background
In class we went over a quick lecture about the basics of icon design. The lecture can be downloaded as a PDF file here. The main points are as follows...

Concept
A concept is an abstract idea representing the type and fundamental characteristics of some set of objects. In terms of graphic iconography the concept is what you need to communicate to the user.

Symbol
A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship.

Style
The visual details in which an icon is rendered. This can be fill style, line weight, round corners, color, size, etc.

System
The consistent details that carry from one icon to the next. How are the stylistic details executed across the set, and what is the underlying grid or scale relationship the icons follow.



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