How would you design icons for these apps/app types without resorting

>>61873098
>home
the brand's logo

the rest is difficult since a camera is a camera, just try to represent bread through another image that's not bread but clearly refers to bread and not wheat products in general

How about a simple rectangle with the word "Camera" "Maps", and so on in it, in an easy tobread font.

op you seem like a skeumojew to my eyes, so I give my Aryan answers:


* Home button USE A "H" LETTER
* Camera app USE C
* Photo/image gallery USE P
* Clock USE T (Time)
* Contacts USE F (Friends)
* Notes USE W (words)
* Maps DON'T USE IT

I USE THE SUN AND THE MOON FOR ORIENTEERING

>>61873098
Why would you want to do that? Just make monochrome vector versions if you're feeling buyer's remorse for that jillion megapixel display.

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here's my new icon for the home button
- comforting hands for returning to mother's embrace
- heart because home is where the heart is

>>61875780

As a homeless, I feel offended.

>>61875811
homeless can't afford apps so it's all good

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>>61875577
This. Or, if the name is too long, an abbreviation or acronym would work as well.

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Basically you would want to create something very simple, but unique that relates the idea without using actual items or words.

You shouldn't use words, because there are different languages.

You shouldn't use physical objects because they change, like camera symbol you have is an old style camera, right now we have cameras in cellphones, webcams, etc. In future it might be something else, so using a physical object in non-skeumorphism should be avoided, represent the idea instead.

Here is my crude attempt, you would need to spend far longer into getting ideas down and making very unique icons.

Some ideas:

Coming back to something familiar
Capture something
Objects interconnected some how
Objects in movement
Interconnected to single object
Different paths of data merging into a single object
Objects intersecting on a single point