
Design icons that convey information at a glance using imagery, and learn to create high-impact icons or icon suites for print or digital delivery with Illustrator and Photoshop.
Explore semiotics to understand how signs convey meaning through icons, shaped by signifier and signified. Design icons for diverse cultures and international audiences by applying conventions and accessibility considerations.
Explore how icons communicate ideas through pictograms, ideograms, and symbols, and apply conventions, unity, labeling, readability, and accessibility to reach international audiences.
Explore inspiration sources for icon design by studying real transit pictograms, revamping existing icon suites, and reverse engineering details to maintain unity, recognizability, and accessibility.
Explore how to create and analyze a design brief to plan icon projects, identify client goals, audience, brand guidelines, mood boards, color specs, deliverables, milestones, and approvals.
Explore how to use metaphors to design meaningful icons, align with client briefs and targets, and brainstorm six service icons through structured planning and metaphor selection.
Sketch and refine metaphor-based icon concepts—use word associations and mind maps to generate three ideas per icon, then explore tools, styles, and color options to finalize.
Crop and adjust the icon using the adjustment panel, balance highlights and colors, and save for web as png to finalize a hand-drawn style icon.
Compare icon design tools like Illustrator, Photoshop, and Sketch, weighing vector versus bitmap capabilities, and learn key formats such as SVG, PNG, and GIF for scalable icons.
Master illustrator workspace setup, learn to customize panels, create a dedicated icon design workspace, and apply grids and pixel units for consistent icon creation.
Learn to design icon shapes by building layered rectangles on a snap-to-grid, adjusting strokes, fills, and corner radii, and aligning lines and images within proper layer order.
Refine the icon design by adjusting strokes, creating bleed lines and printer marks, aligning and layering shapes, centering circles, and embedding the word design in the yellow rectangle.
Learn to design icons in Illustrator for multiple sizes by using layers, Pathfinder techniques, and color choices to create simple, bold, readable icons at small scales.
Discover how to export icons in Illustrator using export for screens and save for web legacy, manage transparency and backgrounds, and export by artboard or asset for multiple formats.
Explore how icons communicate and what makes them compelling by applying design principles, planning with a design brief, brainstorming metaphors, sketching ideas, and using Adobe Illustrator template to save time.
Design creative suites of beautifully crafted icons with our SIMPLE & PRACTICAL icon design beginners course!
Icons have become integrated into web design, playing an important role to web pages and users around the world. The vibrant colors and bright images can help light up any website, making it far more interactive than simple words.
Google’s G+ and Twitter’s Blue Bird have become extremely popular and play a huge role on the visual aspect of the page. At the end of a blog or article, these little symbols allow users to know that they can share this particular piece of content with their followers on social media websites.
However, designing icons from scratch is not the easiest job in the world, and it requires time and creativity. That being said, there are some tricks and techniques that you can use to make things simpler and this is what our course brings! From inspiration to actual creation, this course will get your creative juices flowing.
Our Icon Design beginner’s course includes the theory behind icon design, as well practical exercises that can help you solidify you knowledge of icon designing. This epic course has been created as a mini bible for all your icon designing needs.
In this tutorial, we will include various topics such as the power of design, why icon design is important, basic icon designing principles, different places to get inspiration from, various exercises to fuel your inspiration and help you put it down to paper. But that’s not all, you will also become acquainted with multiple designing tools including Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop Creative Cloud.
At the end of this course, you will not only have the knowledge of the icon design industry, but also exactly how can start working on designing logos that are print and digital delivery ready.
So, prop up your easel and let’s get going! Enroll now and start designing some amazing icons!