{"id":52,"date":"2010-03-16T10:34:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T17:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2015-01-16T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:31:56","slug":"icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/icons\/","title":{"rendered":"Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another thing I like to do when I have nothing to do is to recreate recognizable icons. I like to see how closely I can approximate the original look, and often I can find new ways of using the tools available to me in Illustrator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Screen-shot-2010-03-13-at-6.34.29-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-03-13 at 6.34.29 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Screen-shot-2010-03-13-at-6.34.29-PM-288x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>The Finder icon. This was simple really. Just something fun to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Screen-shot-2010-03-13-at-6.35.00-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-03-13 at 6.35.00 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Screen-shot-2010-03-13-at-6.35.00-PM-296x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The QuickTime 7 icon. I made this one to practice using blend modes on gradients more effectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Screen-shot-2010-03-13-at-6.35.08-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-57\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-03-13 at 6.35.08 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Screen-shot-2010-03-13-at-6.35.08-PM-300x292.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Screen-shot-2010-03-13-at-6.35.08-PM-300x292.png 300w, https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Screen-shot-2010-03-13-at-6.35.08-PM.png 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The new QuickTime X logo gave me an opportunity to use radial gradients, and customize their shape and placement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ichat.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-123\" title=\"ichat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ichat-300x299.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ichat-300x299.png 300w, https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ichat-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ichat.png 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The iChat icon let me try doing some more gradient blending modes, like the QuickTime 7 icon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another thing I like to do when I have nothing to do is to recreate recognizable icons. I like to see how closely I can approximate the original look, and often I can find new ways of using the tools available to me in Illustrator. The Finder icon. This was simple really. Just something fun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/icons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Icons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}