1. Hello!

2. Icon Design Explained (quickly) JON HICKS : HICKSDESIGN

3. Anatomy of desktop icon (The Techie bits)

4. 48px MIRO ICON 128px 32px 24px 16px 256px 512px

5. SCALED DOWN REDRAWN

6. SCALED DOWN REDRAWN

7. APPLICATION ICON RESOURCE CHART 16 24 32 48 128 256 512 OS X 10.5 .icns OS X 10-10.4 .icns Windows Vista .ico Windows XP .ico Windows 95-2000 .ico Linux .svg .png (uses .svg) Favicons .ico

8. Tips for creating icons

9. THE METAPHOR Keep the idea simple and memorable Dont feel you have to be too literalbut Dont be abstract for the sake of it - if its a home icon, make it picture of a home! Make it fun if you can!

10. EXAMPLES OF FUN APPZAPPER TRANSMIT

11. USE CONSISTENT LIGHTING

12. My Workflow

13. RESEARCH

14. SKETCHBOOK

15. VECTOR SKETCHES

16. ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR or FIREWORKS

17. ICONBUILDER

18. DONE!

19. FREE TOOLS Inkscape is especially suited to making Linux icons - direct to .svg Other good free tools like png2ico or online apps like favikon.com

20. Icon Design Explained (quickly) h p://del.icio.us/jonhicks/ icondesigntalk