Out With the Old: The Problems with the Big City Pictures Favicon Design
The old Big City Pictures favicon was pretty much slapped together and in desperate need of a refresh. It was basically the bcp logo sliced down to a square, cropping the design at the edges, with the word mark removed from the cross streets. The fat, tall cross street just looked blank and empty and the business of the logo detailing didn’t translate well at all when scaled down to micro-mini favicon proportions.
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In With the New: Refreshing the bigcitypix favicon image
Graphic designer Johanna Abzug who also recently did the holiday styling for big city’s logo took on the task of cleaning up and revamping the bcp favicon. She and George Spyros used the old e-mail digital workflow to get the job done. George doodled off a back-of-the-envelope sketch to get the ball rolling.
December 15, 2009 3:02:40 PM EST
George Spyros: BCP ICON / FAVICON
Maybe the 2nd one that looks like window panes or the 3rd that has the depth. Main idea is to make symmetrical and square.
Once we have it, we’ll have the 2D art and then treat that like an iPhone App icon with gloss.
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Creative Work
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January 1st, 2010 at 12:17 am
[...] city’s logo took on the task of cleaning up and revamping the bcp favicon. Details about the creative process and concept art over at Splicelicio.us Basically the detail needed to be stripped, the designed needed to be reduced to simple geometric [...]