Dailyui 005 - Juniper

A day of a couple challenges. I don't use green that often, even though it's one of the colours that has the most recognizable ranges. Then the actual challenge, creating an icon for an app... I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, the first few ideas that came to mind were for re-imagining existing apps, but I felt it wouldn't allow for much connection between me and the design. So, I ran through things I liked and gin is one of those things I enjoy.

I made the illustration for the icon in Illustrator. Because juniper berries look like blueberries I went for adding the GIN text to make it more obvious they were illustrations of blueberries. I could have added the juniper needles, but I went for keeping the icon simple and they would have made the icon too busy when viewed small or from a distance.

And now I could go for some gin...