New Favicon Big City Pictures Style

Posted on: Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
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Freshing-up our Big City Pictures favicon

You know, that little graphic you find just to the left of any bigcitypix.com url that happens to be in your browser, or perhaps in a browser tab, or even in your handy history drop-down list.

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Out With the Old: The Problems with the Big City Pictures Favicon Design

The old Big City Pictures favicon was pretty much slapped together and in desperate need of a refresh. It was basically the bcp logo sliced down to a square, cropping the design at the edges, with the word mark removed from the cross streets. The fat, tall cross street just looked blank and empty and the business of the logo detailing didn’t translate well at all when scaled down to micro-mini favicon proportions.

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In With the New: Refreshing the bigcitypix favicon image

Graphic designer Johanna Abzug who also recently did the holiday styling for big city’s logo took on the task of cleaning up and revamping the bcp favicon. Details about the creative process and concept art over at Splicelicio.us Basically the detail needed to be stripped, the design needed to be reduced to simple geometric shapes and blocks of color, but most of all the cross streets needed to be tightened.

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