Anatomy of an Icon

✎ Published: 2005-12-11 10:30:30

Creating effective icons is a complex process that involves detailed planning, drafting, and refining. A tutorial from creativebits explores the steps in designing an icon, using the example of a key fob. Understanding these stages can enhance the quality of icon creation.

Anatomy of an Icon

Creating icons is a difficult process. Well, creating good icons is a difficult process, that is.

Creating an icon ranges from the initial planing phase over first drafts to the final creation and subsequent polishing.

creativebits has a very nice tutorial which examines the creation of an icon (in this case an Keyfob)

Keyfob: Anatomy of an Icon | creativebits