These vending machines needed some kind of branding, so I conceptualized the simplest logo I thought I might be able to paint with a very fine brush. At first it was just a stylized T, but then I added the small i, driven by some strange impulse. While imperfect, I think my crude branding looks slightly better than nothing.
The goal of icon creation is to jam as much information possible and to make it as simple and legible as possible using a tiny space - as opposed to iconography, where you try to be as orthodox as possible and avoid Purgatory, yet remain sane and keep from developing strabismus.
ReplyDeleteIf you look up a fellow named John Maeda, he has a lot of somewhat self-serving yet decent instruction on the topic. What you've done is attribute form in search of a function. Since it's purely decorative, you are safe to stop there. Even so, you've no doubt run against the limits of what is possible with a paintbrush (for a non-Master, anyway, ie. 99.99999% of painters). That dictates the form of the design. Now imagine what you'd have to do if you really needed a specific function, such as "Marquee Wand Boolean Deselector" or "Vend Cherry Cola Jarritos".