Here are some icons I designed for a friend’s website. He asked me to make them at three sizes: 20 pixels wide, 80 pixels wide and 300 pixels wide.
There’s a real skill to designing icons. You have to make them simple enough to be understandable at small sizes but interesting enough to be beautiful when bigger.
I used a well-known aqua or jelly technique for the background. Basically it is a gradient with a series of superimposed arcs to give an impression of translucent 3d shape. The arcs are intersections of two circles, squeeze or stretched slightly where appropriate. I blurred the arcs at the top but at the bottom they remain sharp to give an ultra-modern feel.
Look great, Rob! Thanks again.
You get a nice mention in the show coming out tomorrow
Wow! Thanks for the mention in the show. Let me know if you want anything else doing!
Well… I am wondering if the Nearthwort logo needs to be jazzed up a bit. What do you think?
I could look at it over the weekend if you like. Maybe staying with the Helvetica Neue but with the aqua/jelly effect?
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Thanks, Rob — would be great if you’d try some stuff out
Jelly could be good.
Can’t really do jelly as it’s thin type on a white background. It’s a tricky one …