Week 01: Research Icons

Assignment: This week please look for and collect five examples of Icons. Add the image or photos of these icons to your blog and please add some notes about what you like, or don't like about the icons. How are they effective or not. etc.

1. Nigel Holmes

"When Apple wanted to increase designers' awareness of the Colorsync system, CKS asked me to work on a diagram explaining it. These simple drawings of the hardware that makes use of Colorsync were part of that."-Nigel Holmes 

• I like this first set of icons because of their simplicity. Although they are just simple drawings in only two colors (black and white) they are able to effectively communicate an idea. Also they look like they belong to a set which increases their effectiveness and appeal.    

http://www.nigelholmes.com/work/icons1.htm

2. Nigel Holmes

"Icons for the Journal of the American Medical Association. They were developed to identify different columns in the Journal, and were part of a redesign by Will Hopkins and Mary K. Baumann. -Nigel Holmes

•  I liked this second set of icons because although the main symbols are all different they are look like they belong to the same system because of their style and color along with the same stethoscope showing that the main topics are different but all belong to the same overall idea. 

http://www.nigelholmes.com/work/icons2.htm

3. Nigel Holmes

"Qtopics is a new online polling company. Here are some of the idea that preceded their final logo, which is the larger one at the right." - Nigel Holmes

• I liked these icons because they show how similar icons can be used to create a larger scale idea such as a logo. And how they can be manipulated in different ways but still convey the same idea.  

http://www.nigelholmes.com/work/icons3.htm

4. Post Typography

• Title: If You Liked This...
• Client: Time Magazine
• Year: 2010

"For an article on web recommendation engines, we created this ridiculous flowchart showing how Netflix movie suggestion algorithm might work to recommend Rocky IV to fans of The Sound of Music." -Post Typography 

• I choose this project because I liked how Post Type turned these different movies and ideas into icons and although the subjects are very different they all look like they belong to each other and are able to convey specific ideas. 

http://www.posttypography.com/site/index.php?action=portfolio&tid=10&iid=832

5. Facebook

• This icon has become very famous over the past couple years especially now that technology allows us to download things just as applications on our phones and other devices. This icon is an extension on the Facebook brand but unlike the actual logo this icon services a different purpose. It is the representation of the facebook application on iphones.