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07/02/08

Icon Design Explained (Quickly)

Last night was a great Oxford Geek Night, with a good mix of topics. I particularly enjoyed ‘Designing a web app with character’ by Denise Wilton, not because I got a mention, but because she brought up concepts that saved me some time in the wee 5 minutes that I had to explain Icon Design!

As promised, here are my slides for the presentation. They are a very quick run through of some guidelines for icon design, as well as a workflow using the Pathfinder icon as an example. You can also “download the PDF”: http://www.slideshare.net/hicksdesign/icon-design/download of the slides, but they’ll make more sense once the audio/video from the talks is available. The links are at http://del.icio.us/jonhicks/icondesigntalk

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Desmond Elliott said 96 days ago:

Thanks for sharing your slideshow.

I wanted to attend the evening but couldn’t get through from Bristol in time.

Matt Carey said 96 days ago:

Really interesting, thanks Jon. I didn’t know you did the pathfinder logo!

beth said 96 days ago:

Great slides, thanks for giving us a peek at your work flow! One question, in the slides you say Illustrator or Fireworks. Out of curiosity, which do you personally prefer for icon work? I like Fireworks, but sometimes I find it can’t do the heavy lifting Illustrator can.

Alex Buga said 96 days ago:

@ Matt Carey: Me neither :) Now I love it even more.

@ Jon: Great stuff as usual, man! I really enjoyed this one considering the fact that I currently work on an icon set for a recruitment app :)

Tim Jameson said 96 days ago:

Thanks Jon — always really handy to be privy to others’ work flows. Thanks for the download link too.

Denise said 96 days ago:

Glad to hear i could be of service :)
Really sorry i missed your talk, but thank you for putting the slides up.
Hopefully we’ll get to talk for longer next time and I’ll stop babbling like an idiot :)