iOS7 icon redesign – Maps

Unfortunately I thought I had uploaded this to my wordpress last term, but alas the majority was left in draft, during my USB problems last week of term. Here is my map icon, uploading my stocks icon shortly.

Reference images:

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/anthonykosner/files/2012/09/iOS6-AppleMaps-icon.jpg

http://www.hailleygriffis.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Google-maps-icon1.png

http://corrupteddevelopment.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/google-maps-icon.jpg

http://gheymann.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/google-maps-icon.png

Roughs:

Final:

I am quite happy with the final product, once completing the entire set of icons I will refine them more so they follow a strict scheme (eg. button gloss, depth). I decided for the maps icon to be kept quite plain, as a road network that is detailed would have caused too much cluster in the icon, creating a distance from its original meaning.