Project 1

 Moon Mountain Icons

Vapor Cafe 

    For Project 1, I decided to use Moon Mountain as a client to create icons for. The first set of icons are catered to the cafe side, were they serve hot and cold drinks as well as smoothies and acai bowls. The second set of icons are crafted for the vape shop side of things, where they sell disposable vapes, mods, pod systems, and e-liquids. 

    I started off over thinking my icons and tried to put too many details in my icons. It was a struggle at first trying to design my own icons rather than tracing them. Once I finished some of the drafted objects I realized that my icons either had nothing to do with what we sell or had too many detail for just being an icon. Like the game system, I started off thinking it would be good to include because we have one for our guests but we don't sell them so it was omitted from the final project. The acai bowl in my draft had too many elements too it for it to be a small icon although I did love how it was coming out. I also had a great time using my touch screen to create organic shapes for some of the elements. The coffee cup, vape, and the drink with the whipped cream and cherry fit the bill more so they made it to the final design. 

    So I focused in on the edible side of things, mainly using the pen tool and the shape tools to create clean and cohesive designs. It was difficult to come up with an icon for a smoothie so I opted to go with a blender in hopes that it would read as such. Now that I think about it, I could have included a cup with fruit inside which would have been different but may have executed the idea. I to include the bowl just because the first design was to busy and I wanted to perfect it. 

For the vape side of things, mainly used the shape tools to create these icons. Again looking for something clean, that is visually appealing. I was very pleased with these designs and felt they all tied together nicely for the client. Normally people would think of vaping and cafe items in the same series, that is what made me choose this client.