Brief 14 - Iconography

For the categories I wanted each to have their own individual icons. I really want these to be consistent and be simple, but detailed.

I looked into some icon designs which were similar to the style that I wanted to move forward with.

I chose these three to follow the same style of aesthetic as the three above because they are simple, but clear and easy to understand.

I wanted to create simple, but individual icons with a bit more detail on, like the top icons. I really like that the icons can be small and still have detail to them.

The main icons that I need to create are the ones for the City home page for the following:

• About
• City Map/View Map
• Sight Seeing
• Food
• Culture
• Entertainment
• Sports
• Popular

I had a few ideas for these already. But I won't be sure until I start creating these.

About - A outlined version of the logo

Map - an unfolded map with points and lines joining them together

Sight seeing - A camera, binoculars, a small icon of a famous sight e.g. statue of liberty

Food - plate & knife and fork, ice-cream cone, dinner bib, reserved sign

Culture - Tickets, a small icon of a famous cultural spot e.g. Sydney Opera House

Entertainment - Tv, microphone & stars, drama masks, tickets

Sports - basketball hoop, baseball bat & ball, tennis racket

Popular - star, thumbs up, bar getting larger at the top

I think that hardest icon to think about was the 'Culture' section. It's very hard to sum up culture in one icon, which is why I had so very little ideas for it.

I feel that its stereotypical to go for the Statue of Liberty for sight seeing, so I want to go with something that can be more general and apply to everything, so the camera or binoculars

Final Icons

I kept a very simple aesthetic for them, the most complicated being the culture icon. It is more complicated, but I still think it works well, especially because of the detail on the Sports and City Map icons.

Overall I'm happy with the icons I've created. I think that they are consistent and are visually simple and self explanatory, while not being too obvious/generic. I'm not too sure about the Entertainment icon of the tickets, but I think that it works over a wider category and applies to more than a microphone or tv set would.