I have a thing for awesome icon design. There’s something really fun and challenging about reducing a large concept down to a simple image, often without words or photographic detail. The wallpaper on my laptop is actually made of the icons for Epcot Center attractions, which are all fantastic.
I’m in the middle of redesigning my career website, and I was trying to come up with an icon for the concept of web development. I messed around with a lot of the typical ideas (Who doesn’t love the letters “WWW” in crazy fonts?), and eventually I came up with this. I started thinking about common elements in web design and code, and what would be more common in the less-than and greater-than signs? Toss in a graphic of Earth (and a bias toward my hemisphere), and there you go. I really love the way this turned out.
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