Learn how to design visually engaging and cohesive icon sets in any program. I’ll teach best practices on brainstorming icons, finding the right metaphors, sketching your ideas, and finally designing high resolution icons and simple icon versions that will work on smaller screens.
Although I’ll be teaching you in Adobe XD (because it is free), I’m going to cover tools that are also found in your favorite design programs including:
•Adobe Illustrator
•Sketch
•Figma
•Affinity Design
•Invision Studio
•and many more
The concepts you learn here can be put into practice for web graphics, web design, interaction design, graphic illustration and much more.
Things you will learn in this course include:
•Overview of Adobe XD
•Understanding types of icons and when to use them
•Creating a design brief and planning your icons to have a consistent style and colors.
•Researching icon metaphors and sketching your ideas
•Setting up your workspace for icon design
•Creating and merging shapes to create complex icons
•Using Transparency
•Balancing icon sizes and positions
•Creating a simple icon set
•Converting a filled icon set to outlines
•Exporting icons
•and more.
Design sleek, clean and elegant launcher App Icons for Android and IOS (IPhone) using Illustrator and Photoshop
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