Icon designer Kevin Andersson

I have decided to split up my personal projects, and my professional interface and icon productions. In addition to that Emanuel Sá came on the team so we are able to make even more glorious icons. Check out the site here. 

icondesign has chosen to create free iPhone application- and icon design for a limited time period. Everyone who makes free iPhone applications, can now get some amazing graphics in their cool application, and it is free!

A lot of developers don’t always have the resources or time to create the best looking user-interface themselves, but now they can get professional help from the nice icon designers at icondesign.dk. We have worked on several projects, among others iBlackjack, Measures and ByLine.

If you are interested in getting some cool looking bling for your iPhone application, check out the details on the website.

I havn’t been posting a lot lately, but I am still here. There is a lot to do – so I havn’t had that much time for icons. But here’s a small wip I am working on. I often use Jonas Rask’ iconset Danish royalty free icons are great, but often I need a few extras on web projects. So I decided to make a few myself.

This is still big-time work in progress, but I hope for an release at some point

Basically just an afterthought on the recent mac event.

Update:

Tuaw made a small review of the new version of Byline, and it looks like they liked the new icons. The appleblog also made a really positive review.

I have been working on a few icons and illustrations for an iPhone application called Byline, made by Phantom Fish. Byline is a Google RSS reader, for your iPhone or iPod touch. Byline also has some nice offline reading abilities, check it out, you can find it here in the iTunes Store.

As usual the collaboration went very good, and we exchanged some ideas before starting the project.

Four interface icons were created, as well as a wooden backdrop:

New item (like the standard blue blob in mail)
Starred items (a simple star)
Notes (a pencil)
Folders (a folder)

The process is the same as always, the client ask for a bunch of icons, and I stars sketching them out. A lot of time is used on getting to know the expectations of the client, and I don’t stop working on the icons until the client is 100% happy. In this case, Phantom Fish was great. They knew what kind of icons they wanted, and they had some ideas of how they should look like.

Even though the icons are only 40 x 40 pixels in the final resolution, I always create a higher resolution template, to work in all details. Everything is created using vectors, so it both scales well and it is easy to edit when It comes to making the smaller sizes.

As a small service I decided to create the toolbar icons as well, but they are not used in the final release – as they have been redesigned by another designer earlier.

I had quite clear ideas about the designs I wanted for this project, but it’s always difficult to communicate exactly what’s in your head to another person. Kevin was a pleasure to work with — his rapid and incisive response to feedback meant that we very quickly began to hone in on the look I was after, which made the hard graft of the process seem effortless and gave us plenty of time to focus on the details.

Milo Bird,
Phantom Fish

Here you see the final layout of one of the screens in Byline. If you have any questions, or would like to know more about the process, just post a comment below

If you need a icon or interface designer for freelance work you can contact me by email: graphics[at]kevindersson.dk

Hello everyone

Long time no post, but I am still here, checking up on the blog every day. I have a lot of work at the moment, both freelance and at e-mergency. I have a small treat for the bunch of you in a couple of days, where I can show you a small case I worked on a while ago. So remember to check the blog in a week or so

If you by any chance are a multimedia genius who know a lot about php, and you got the social skills to match – please feel free to contact e-mergency, as we are hiring  

I made this little gem for all of you out there, who are so kind and keep visiting my tiny blog. Just a small piece, water and apples

Hope you like it, and remember to leave a comment.