Digital Icons For iPhone

My aim was to do research in images and Icons and then eventually to create my own icons for the Apple Iphone. When I started this work on Icons I started by doing research into current symbols, icons and logos so that I new what makes a good icon. I wrote a bit about each one which got me thinking about colours used, common themes and how to make it memorable and stand out.

As I was designing the Icons for the Apple Iphone I did research into apple and the products they have and the software with their products and I learnt that colour is the key. There products all have different colours which makes them appeal to a wider audience. So as apple products are visual I have had to think about that for my Icons. I did research into rival products to find out what the competition was like, what the graphics on their phones are like, are they visual with the colour used, what features they have and how you could represent that feature e.g. Text message. I found out that Apple is the most visual with the colour it has for it’s products and the Icons on the Iphone.

The Icons I had to produce couldn’t just be any old icons, they had to have a genre and those genres included Horror, War, Fantasy, Sci-fi and Humour. So I did research into this by getting images of the internet that represented those genres so I could pick out the visual theme’s such as horror is dark, sci-fi is quite unusual, comedy a lot of light laughter, war is dirty and fantasy is full of bright colours and impossible scenes. I then applied these visual themes to the 5 concept ideas that I designed below.