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Forum Contest: Design an Icon Set

EDIT: This contest has ended! Congratulations to Viacheslav Proshechkin for his winning entry! Our next contest involves creating an analog clock using any combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Hi everybody,

It's time for a new Treehouse Forum contest! First, watch this video to learn more:

After you've watched the video, please read the details below carefully. I'm looking forward to your entries!

How to Enter: First, create your icon set however you'd like. You can use an image editing program like Illustrator or Photoshop, you could make them with CSS, or any other method you can think of. For this contest, the methodology is not what's being judged.

Then, place all of your icons together in a single image and upload it to an image hosting service, like Imgur. Any other image hosting service will work just fine, as long as you can link to your image easily.

Finally post the link to your image as an "answer" to this post.

Due Date: All entries must be submitted by May 18th at 11:45pm ET. Here's a timezone chart so you can see what time that is for your locale.

Prize: The entries will be judged by Treehouse teachers based on both consistency, originality, and design. One winner will receive a free month of Treehouse Pro on us! :) We'll announce the winner on May 19th and reveal the next contest.

42 Answers

Sheharzad Arshad May 14, 2014 1:44am

Derick Moncado May 14, 2014 4:22am

Hi, this is my first challenge and I had a fun time with it. My entry: Retro Funk Icon set.

I took my inspiration from the font Ed Interlock, out of the House Industries foundry.. While working on this project I thought a lot about mental maps and signifiers as I pushed the boundaries of icon design. Thanks for a fun challenge!

Ashley Carter May 18, 2014 7:33pm

Submitting my icon set! I'm really proud of this piece of work that I've produced and I hope you all enjoy! Fingers crossed!

Sam Feigenbaum May 19, 2014 12:00am

And here is my icon set! Was an awesome challenge and a lot of fun to make my first official icon set. http://bit.ly/1gfrv3O

Hey Treehouse community! There are some AWESOME icons going around here. I was inspired to join in and showcase some of my icons. I decided to do medical/health hazard icons. Here they are:

http://imgur.com/N8Bk4RQ

Honey Bongo May 14, 2014 6:57am

My set:

Green Orb Icons

(Click to view fullsize image.)

Tunde Adegoroye May 15, 2014 11:57am

Here is my icon set. Hope it fits in in with the rest. I call it my desk theme because these are the items usually on my desk minus my sticky notes and notebook and my content stream of coffee cups. http://i.imgur.com/gjV5ulO.png.

Nikita Kramarenko May 17, 2014 1:53pm

Evan Salzbrenner May 18, 2014 4:17am

My set was made thinking about the ways an insurance company might set up a page for making claims on a life insurance policy: http://imgur.com/7NHDnJL

Hi, everyone! I'm new to Treehouse and love it so far. Here's my icon set :) I hope I understood the criteria right. Will check out some of your posts now. Happy Sunday..

http://imgur.com/ung2t4s

Adam Bennett May 18, 2014 10:11pm

Here is my icon set. They are simple but, this is my first attempt at making icons and I think they came out pretty well. http://imgur.com/ceIscDF

Nikita Beleckij May 19, 2014 3:19am

Made specifically for your contest,but managed only three. Icons for the panel to the left of teamtreehouse.com :) http://i.imgur.com/oIm60sH.png And it's not exactly icons :(

Ayayay... uploaded the wrong image to imgur. Here is my icon set: http://imgur.com/KWMpDjm

Inspired by your beautiful icons...

STAFF

Hi everyone,

As always, amazing entries this week! You should all feel good about the work you've done - there are some really great icon sets here. :)

Congratulations to Viacheslav Proshechkin on winning this week! He created two really high quality icon sets. One of them has a sea theme and the other is multipurpose. These icons are great because they all have a unique shape that's easily recognizable at small sizes, but they also include enough detail for larger sizes. The linework is very consistent across the whole set, and they all look like they belong together. We were also impressed by the level of abstraction; some of the images in the sea set are fairly complex in the real world, such as the nautilus, the lighthouse, the crab, or the reef knot, but the icon set manages to communicate these images while still maintaining consistency. Great work!

Here's the link to the next forum contest.

Nothing. Sorry about that.

PS If you click on "Add comment" then there are two places for me to add comments (see image). On a phone, I typically scroll past the first and type my comments in the "Your answer..." spot instead of the "Your comments..." spot.

A "nice to have" would be to either (a) jump to the comment or (b) disable the answer one.

Alejandro Cavazos May 13, 2014 8:43pm

Good contest idea! I'm in!

Alejandro Cavazos May 13, 2014 10:08pm

I started with the iphone icon but then took it a bit too far. This still count as icons? Or should I wait for some sort of vector contest cough cough? Thanks :)

http://imgur.com/jT5D8MM

Matthew Martinusen May 15, 2014 1:36am

Here is my set. Icons for a mobile app as a remote. Thanks for hosting these! http://imgur.com/lT40WHr

Ashleigh Respicio May 16, 2014 6:31pm

For the purposes of this Forum Contest, how do you define an "Icon Set?"

Laurel Hamilton May 15, 2014 1:41am

Is there any associated lesson for this icon contest?

Thanks!

@cherieburgett thanks! :)

Although I'm super busy with school and can't always do them, I love forum contests. It's a great way to continue applying what I'm learning. Even got a portfolio piece out of one.

Hey, I'm making a game for iOS. Can anyone make a store icon (a button for in app purchases)? I'd love to use some cool new icons you guys have made if you want.