This week’s ELH challenge is to create and share a set of icons for the e-learning community. (I’m in!)
Theme: Language Learning
For last week’s emoji challenge I created a language learning demo. It’s a topic near and dear to my heart, so I kept the theme going this week. These are the icons, and they align with most of the basic activities you engage in when learning a language.
Design
I created them in PowerPoint and made them simple and flat. To save time I took one of David Anderson’s challenge suggestions and pulled the basic images from The Noun Project. Credit and links back to the original images are in the file.
Colorize Your World
To show how you can customize them I mocked up a few color combos. They’re in the PowerPoint file, too. To color the PNG images I used Format > Color, and to add texture I used Format > Artistic Effects.
basdenleco says
Very interesting and appealing Icons.
Excellent
Thank you for sharing much appreciated.
Jackie Van Nice says
Thanks so much, Derek! I’m glad you like them. :)
Dianne Hope says
Great designs Jackie! I have taken the long way around and am creating all my icon images from scratch – but I really like this idea of using the basic outlines and designing around them to save time. Thanks for sharing!
Jackie Van Nice says
You’re welcome, Dianne! Yes, the long-way-around, all-from-scratch method is my standard too. This week necessity (dealing with mountains of client work) is the mother of invention (trying out Creative Commons images to save time.) No doubt a more realistic approach for most under-the-gun designers. I’m glad you like them. :)
Angela Jimenez says
Jackie, this is great.Thank you for sharing!
Jackie Van Nice says
You’re so welcome, Angela! Thanks for stopping by! :)
Richard Watson says
Nice icons Jackie. I’m sure I can find a way to use them on one of my projects that is coming up next week!
Hope you are doing well.
Jackie Van Nice says
That’s great, Richard! I’m glad you can use them!
Things are good here. Hope Portland is treating you well, too!