Thanks for the votes for Twitterrific and Frenzic, naturally we put a great deal of effort into their design. This thread has been great because I've seen so many icons I didn't know about before. There's just too many apps in the App Store to browse them effectively. The comment about apps that have words in their icons is dead on. An icon in the App Store is always accompanied by the apps name and it really doesn't belong in the graphic itself IMHO. I realize this is the fault of marketing people who don't know any better, but SPORE could totally have done without it and just used their little spiral logo instead. Missed opportunity there. If you *have* to put the name of your app in your icon, then at least do it with style and integrate it well, like Dash Ball does. Sim City's icon is just a blob, which is disappointing.
I definitely agree, as you said, the name is always there anyway so why waste the space? Personally I'm biased, but let out a little giggle every time I see our icon.
Hmm, that's not necessarily a bad thing. the SE logo is quite good. It's not similar enough that it's any sort of problem. I've worked with the Ericsson SDK, btw, and I can tell you one thing - the iPhone SDK is infinitely better!
I just noticed that the App Store had updated it's Features and New apps list. Oneid called Wine Enthusiast (Lifestyle app). On one hand it looks like the middle part of a wine glass... On the other hand it looks like a woman's crotch! Sorry I cannot paste the image on my iPhone. I'm really quite stunned Apple would let this through, given their stance against xxx stuff. Anyway, definitely a contender for the most tasteless icon (no pun intended)
Dizzy Bee Spin And I know it's not very objective since it's my own work but I like how Das Boot's Icon came out.
Haha. I hadn't seen this one. It is a great icon, as this is the kind of icon that all apps should have. One that provokes a thought. This one is just has alcohol and naked persons. Naked Lady Wine App Don't know how to copy the image??
1. Appsniper icon - the way it looks in the black background of the iphone / ipod touch it's like a circle that's why is unique 2. Frenzic icon 3. Rolando icon - the king looks really nice when he's not sleeping
Ha ha - I'd actually just started another thread about this icon over in the lounge, and then I see it's already been mentioned loads of times here. Glad I'm not the only one who thought that upon seeing it — I was worried I was the dirty old man of TA!
