Class Info:

This agenda provides a detailed outline to give a clear vision of the day’s class.

• Category: Icon sketches

To-Do: before class

• • Prepare to describe your work in terms of graphic shape

Topic

Icon design

Goal: Create forms that signify essential qualities

Objectives: define images that communicate

Activities

• • Video: negative space logo design

Lecture

• • Subtractive drawing
  • Review deductive method of cropping
  • Video: negative space logo design.  start at 2 minutes and 3:45

Workshop

• • Combine one icon with a letterform.
  • Like we did with our letterforms, continue to focus on figure/ground, and balance.
  • Create different combinations by combining images with cropped letterforms.
    • In some variations, call attention to the icon.
      In others, allow the letter to become the dominant form.

About

The goal of this assignment is to simplify the form of a familiar object, through the process of documentation. For this reason it may be more rewarding to select a fairly commonplace object instead of a very unusual or rare one.

Process

In class, we will start to document your images with sketches.

1. Combine one icon with each letterforms.
Continue to focus on figure/ground, and balance in your studies.

2. Investigate your object to reveal its most interesting visual qualities.
These qualities may not be evident at first glance.

Consider looking at existing icons and photographing your object from different angles (e.g. frontal view, angle, profile view, top view, etc.) and under different lighting conditions (artificial vs. natural light, day vs. night).

3. Create different combinations by combining images with cropped letterforms.
In some variations, call attention to the icon. In others, allow the letter to becoming the dominant form.

Due Next Class

• • 20 diagrams of icon configuration
  • You MUST subtract from the letter. Do not add to it.

Resources:

Preparation resources

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/comd1200d052-f2022childers/2023/02/04/icon-design/

Use negative space in logo design; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzvJWWLTuEM

For reference, look at icons in The Noun Project for ideas https://store.thenounproject.com

Creating images in Illustrator: Adobe shape builder: (2 mins)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaXc3nU6ZNo

Icon reference: https://www.pinterest.com/sharp/icon-inspiration/?lp=true

Symbol reference: https://www.designspiration.net/search/saves/page/1/?q=icon%20symbol