I need to create an icon which to demonstrate the passage of time – which will go with the brewing information on the rear of the packaging. I've experimented with an hour glass, however this was difficult to illustrator in a minimalist icon, which would work on a small scale. As seen in a previous post.
The icons above are in a similar style as to what I'd like to use for the icons. Using lines and colours to illustrate the time on the stop watch. Red for start, yellow for 'in progress' and green for complete. Using the start/stop and lap buttons around the face of the watch reinforce the shape and familiarity that the icon is indeed a stop watch.
Above is an animation, which contains a stop watch. The stop watch used in the animation is much more realistic than the much more minimal watches, pictured above the animation. This wouldn't really work for my icon, as it will be very small. As it's so small the detail and texture would be lost to the size – keeping it minimal is the way to go.
The animation above, which contains another stop watch is a much more minimal, flat design. Not as simple as a line icon, pictured in the top image – however the lack of detail and texture makes the illustration much more effective and easier to use on a smaller scale.
The illustration also has points on the watch face, to mark the seconds or minutes on the watch. Adding these also helps exemplify that the illustration is a watch. However using too many markers could be come difficult to see at a small scale, perhaps reducing the markers to every quarter hour mark would be more beneficial.
The illustration/icon above is a play on the dribble logo, incorporating the design of a stop watch by adding two key features which really transform the basketball into a stop watch – the addition of the start-stop button and the lap button. It's essential I include these in my illustration to really display that the icon is a stop watch.
The stopwatch icon above used markers on the watch face at every quarter-hour mark, which would work much better at a small scale rather than with the full twelve markers on the watch face.
The stop watch pictured above is more in the line art style which I would be using, it used the lap button and the stop-start button, and the really – in as few shapes as possible, looks like a stop watch.
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