Maxvoltar - My love for icons

My love for icons

I’m currently working on multiple projects, and would love to show them, but I can’t (yet). Instead, I’ll show you the icons I made for them.

I’m a huge fan of icons, and love designing them. I think an icon is design in its purest form. Try cramming an almost photo-realistic object in 16×16, and you’ll know what I’m talking about. Pixel-pushing to the max!!

And it’s not just one icon, it’s a whole collection! You have to make sure that each icons has the same visual weight as the next one (unless you really need one to pop out of the collection). I could go on for hours, but will spare you the boring stuff.

Anonymous clients

Disclaimer

You don’t have the right to use or copy these icons. However, I do invite you to get inspired by them.

Client “A”

These are for a personal project.

Client “B”

Client “C”

Client “D”

Client “E”

12Comments

Sarah

633 days ago

I love your style! They are simple & clean.
“C” is an other style, I see you’ve put a lot of effort in them and they are great though I don’t like the purple.
The car from client D is so funny!
They are awesome, I’m jealous actually :D Great job Tim!

Elena

633 days ago

I love the white icons (Client D).
I’m trying to make some icons for myself, and I’m shocked it was so hard..

Sam Brown

632 days ago

Superb icons Tim, really love your work!!

Especially like D & E and can appreciate all the hard work that went into set C in particular. Really good job; would buy an icon set of yours in an instant! :)

Jason Cale

632 days ago

Excellent work Tim, really love them all – especially like D & E.

On the couple of occasions I have tried, I’ve struggled to produce 2 or 3 when needed – not sure I could stretch to a whole set :)

I am indeed, inspired. Good work!

matthew Smith

632 days ago

Tim. Solid work. How long did you find it took you to work out some of these groups of icons? I’ve been asked about icon work recently and am considering dabbling. Are these products of illustrator or fireworks or something else?

Kevin Smith

632 days ago

Wow. These icons absolutely rock! Great work.

Tim Van Damme

632 days ago

@Sam: You just gave me a brilliant idea :-)

@Matthew: It depends on a number of things:

Number of icons
Number of sizes
Style (an icon in C takes about 5 times as much work as one in A)
The things they need to represent. Common things like comments are easy, but a lot of actions/things/concepts are hard to frame in a single icon.

Every collection you see here, took between 2 and 16 hours to design.

@everyone: Thanks for the kinds words, I’m flattered!

You can expect a follow-up post on this one!