GUARDIAN IPHONE APP DESIGN, AUGUST 2009

Guardian Iphone application icons

Guardian Iphone application icons Guardian Iphone application icons

'PROGECT UNICORN' AKA The Guardian's IPhone application.
BREIF: To produce a wide range of icons for the Guardians app, everything from breaking news to books and obituaries.
ANALYSIS: Some subjects were more difficult illustrate than others, the size was an issue too 29px x 29px is quite tight. I also would have liked to have had a bit more time to work on them, maybe a day or so, sadly we work to daily deadlines and graphics for the newspaper/web have priority.
So I came up with over 100 icon variations, a few I wasn't at all happy with but managed to make it though.
On reflection I would like to re-work a few of them, maybe when the first update is out I will had the chance to get them done.
My personal favorite is the microchip and the one I think is horrendous and should never been seen or used is the one that looks like buildings.
Personally the bar chart and line chart are better for the business icon - they are infinitely better at illustrating the business section.
A great project to work on, a little more tweaking time would have been nice.
Application release date is December 15th, or so I've been told.