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
Arts & Culture
List or Knowledge Check
Listening
Reading
Role Play or Discussion
Speaking
Viewing
Writing
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
Snack Pack Colors
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.
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Black & White
Feeling Neutral
Icon Feel the Blues Coming On
Texture Becomes Electra
Very interesting and appealing Icons.
Excellent
Thank you for sharing much appreciated.
Thanks so much, Derek! I’m glad you like them. :)
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!
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. :)
Jackie, this is great.Thank you for sharing!
You’re so welcome, Angela! Thanks for stopping by! :)
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.
That’s great, Richard! I’m glad you can use them!
Things are good here. Hope Portland is treating you well, too!