Iconoclastic Plastic

::..:.....::::How to turn an everyday object into an icon? Well the first hurdle was to define an icon, or iconography!

This is what i found:

i·con  (kn)

n.

1. also i·kon (kn)

a. An image; a representation.

b. A representation or picture of a sacred or sanctified Christian personage, traditionally used and venerated in the Eastern Church.

2. An important and enduring symbol: "Voyager will take its place ... alongside such icons of airborne adventure as The Spirit of St. Louis and [the] Bell X-1" (William D. Marbach).

3. One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol: "He is ... a pop icon designed and manufactured for the video generation" (Harry F. Waters).

4. Computer Science A picture on a screen that represents a specific file, directory, window, option, or program.

Really it was just a situation of pick one of the above. I decided to go with pick 2 of the above.

the first one is the image shown^, i used an Iphone app icon and based my coffee cup around that iphone app. the reason for the cup is that it is so commonly used an an everyday object. It was the first thing that came to my mind when i first read this brief, it was the first example given by Ed and was one of the first images to appear on a google search. 

Using illustrator i drew my representation of a coffee cup. I then moved over to Photoshop to create the shiny button itself and simply imported the vector over. I actually made 2 designs for this. The first is the larger image at the top. This was simply to fill the page, and then i made the smaller ones below. This was because the rounded corners matched the actual iphone app shape so it had to be made smaller. Imported them all over to Indesign and the final product is complete:.........::