Posterino 4 app icon

Recently I reworked the app icon of my photo collage app Posterino 4. The goal was to: Create an icon in line with the visual language of app icons of modern macOS and refine the identity of Posterino.

The idea the icon communicates is: "Assemble a new whole from individual parts in endless ways of creativity". Which is rooted in the meaning of the term collage: "A technique of art creation by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole."

The icon consists of tree parts: A canvas, a blossom and a cutter knife.

The canvas is the foundation on which the individual parts of the collage are arranged. The frame holding the composition. Here as a square with rounded corners referring to the way apps look like on macOS and iOS today. Making the icon instantly recognizable as an app.

The cutter knife as the principle tool of a collage artist. The original knife of the app icon was designed by Marcelo Marfil for Posterino 2. I did some cleanup and color adjustment to align it with the style of the new icon.

The blossom reminds of stained glass windows. Where small pieces of colored glass are arranged to form patterns or pictures. Held together traditionally by strips of lead. The individual photos - which were recognizable in the previous Posterino app icons - are now an abstract concept: The individual parts making a new whole.

The basic building blocks of the blossom aren't circles. If you follow a "strip of lead", you can see, it is an infinite loop. A reference to the infinite possibilities of creativity or to creativity itself.

The endless loop is a Hypotrochoid, a special type of Cycloid. A subtle hint to my company Zykloid Software.

I think, the new app icon is not only a refinement of the identity of Posterino, but also a vision for its future.