Logo, launcher and interface icons for the CalorieQuick Android app.

CalorieQuick is an Android app that helps you manage your eating and your exercise. Developer John Van Roekel contacted me to create the logo (launcher icon) and several smaller interface icons to represent food groups and individual items.

The logo (launcher icon)

The logo of the app depicts an apple sitting on a colorful kitchen scale. Here it is in all sizes from 512 to 36 pixels.

The logo was first created as vectors in Illustrator then refined in Photoshop with the addition of subtle shadows on the scale and color variations and reflections on the apple.

Take a look below at the sketches I submitted to John. The idea of a kitchen scale came right at the beginning but it looked rather drab being empty and made of colorless chrome. John suggested the apple early on as a symbol of health. I later made the scale blue-green, complementary color of the apple’s red and a favorite shade of mine. I also tried another concept, a tape measure wrapped around an apple, but we settled on the initial idea for it was clearer.

Interface icons

John also asked me to create 7 icons for the app’s interface: breakfast food, breakfast meal, lunch food, lunch meal, dinner food, dinner meal and excercise.
The meal icons identify the day’s three main meals whereas the food icons accompany single food items and identify when they were consumed.
With the help of John’s suggestions I created detailed icons at the small size of 32×32 pixels.

As you can see the meal icons depict the food items on a plate together with some side dish.

I’m pleased with the result and surely had fun creating the artwork. Unfortunately John ultimately decided to simplify the interface and eliminate the icons, using instead colors to identify the meals.
You can find more information on the CalorieQuick website where John gives you a video tour of the app (still in development).

I’m happy to repeat that good clients are invaluable during the design process. Not only are they personally invested in the outcome, they also look at the designer’s work with fresh eyes and can easily spot occasional inconsistencies and lack of clarity in the solutions we propose. So thank you John for this great opportunity!
Read what John had to say about our collaboration.