FIRST ASSIGNMENT

Make an icon for an application to wash a car (or any other

application). Here is the specification: it has to be a 2D pixel image,

size 32x32 pixels, in black and white on a transparent background.

Black and white icons are hard to make, you can not use colors to set

objects apart. You will have to keep it 2D. Making a black and white

icon may be the most valueable learning expercience you ever get (in

the icon field...). For pixel images you can for instance use the GIMP.

Taken from the KDE Corporate Identity Guidelines on wiki.kde.org.

Detailed KDE Logo (Lineart)

KDE Logo Detailed SVG, KDE Logo Detailed PNG (3000x3000 Pixels)
screen design: to be used in large appearances (> 128x128 pixel), e.g. watermarks, patterns etc.

print design: for use in corporate context in printed matters (letter
heads, business cards, etc.)

K Desktop Environment -  This is our formal name; it is
especially used on all communications intended for external groups
which might not be familiar with KDE yet.

KDE - This is our informal name and abbreviation; it is our preferred casual name.

Do not use different capitalization and hybrid forms, such as:
kde, K desktop environment, KDE Desktop Environment (used upper case
and stand-alone -- note that there are no restrictions for the (lower
case) descriptive usage of "the KDE desktop environment" in continous
text).

In KDE there are basically two types of icons. There exist special guidelines for each of these:

Toolbar icons are very often concrete icons They are pictures or close representations of the operations which they represent. Toolbar icons are generally used much more than application icons. So one needs to find them and recognize the purpose they resemble fast. Therefore they are usually more symbolic and simple than application icons to improve usability. Toolbar icons are tools one just wants to use. Making them toodetailed would decrease usability a lot.

Application icons being used to start applications, to resemble folders, mimetypes and devices. They are are abstract designs that may have only a superficial or simplified representation of the operation. Some bear no relation to the functionality at all. Instead application icons try to be much more unique, original and beautiful. They are the brand of the application and are used to "advertise" the application (Think of the CorelDraw icon - If you wouldn't know what this icon is about you would never guess that a vector-graphic-application starts once you click on it).