Tuesday, March 30, 2010

82 - Iconography




This is a set of icons I worked at for a brochure.  The idea was, if a picture is worth a thousand words, a bunch of little pictures would allow me to condense what amounted to a twenty-minute speech onto a single side of paper, and I could even use large fonts. 

The more complicated icons tend towards the left of the page, some simplfied versions show up on the right.  Blank areas or blue pencil represent parts that I thought would be easier to draw with a computer stylus than by hand. 

I ended up scrapping the whole page in favour of even simpler computer rendered icons.  Even though the duck tested well, simplest turned out to be the best.