I Overcomplicated Popular App Logos

The Process
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In this video, I use Photoshop to create 3 new app icons for popular brands! This is a whirlwind of painting, shading, and throwing together every texture under the sun. We've got some custom illustrations and a lot of photo editing tricks too!

My Tools
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Find Me Here
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Instagram: @thebrandonshepherd
Twitter: @designerbran

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[BrandonShep]

It's full of my most commonly used textures like grunge, dust, scratches, paper rips, and soooo much more!

[Rain_boot]

4:01 This really does give old app icon energy. The nostalgia's real. 😭

[stormzplays]

With the world slowly starting to hate on minimalistic designs, it is a matter of time where realistic stuff like Y2K or Skeumorphism will return back in principle in design. And you have perfectly captured the old and gold days of the old iPhone Icons and aesthetic.

[timon-emch]

Brandon, your understanding of lighting is incredibly impressive. I'm floored by how you recreate reflections and shadows

[Adriana_does_stuff]

See this is why we need the more detailed app logos back. I didn’t even know that Spotify was sound waves, or that discord was a controller

[garretreed]

With Spotify I was like “bro that’s too much” then read the title & saw ‘I overcomplicate...” And makes sense. These new icons do respect the originals & add their own patina. Very well made!

[Vortexxon]

Brandon's designing skills range from ultra minimal to realisitic.. What CAN'T this guy do? I'm serious, tell me in the replies :)

[Vortexxon]

3:55 "And with that our old spotify app icon has been transformed into a vintage radio so that you can listen to all of your favourite songs and ads through" Brandon knows our pain

[mythic_py]

"...to keep your goldfish attention spans hooked"
"...since I know none of you ever touch grass yourself"
"...assuming you have any friends yourself"
brandon chill 😭

[smarts-ic]

8:12 "Now we have gone to a simple off-brand contoller to a full-on mini arcade machine that is sure to bring all your friends around, assuming you have any in the first place." Bro why'd that hit so hard, I'm crying lol 😭😭🖐🏻🖐🏻.

[FisayoFosudo]

You’re such a great designer and you explain so well. I love all your videos and I think I’ve binged everything 😅

[akwright]

8:14 "...that is sure to bring all your friends around, assuming you have any in the first place." Haha, the sass in this video is next level! Excellent as always, Brandon!

[teenyweenykiwi]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who misses the dimensional skeuomorphic app designs. I like how the methods you used are relatively simple but create a very convincingly dimensional object.

[Vortexxon]

4:14 "Since I know none of you touch grass yourself" Brandon is wilding today 💀

[Noah-A]

These icon designs honestly made me shed a tear at the nostalgia they have brung me, I remember the 2010's were just starting to begin, and I'd play Angry Birds on my Aunt's IPad, and in the process, just admiring all those incredible app icon designs while she flipped through her home screen; amazing Job at these!

[Seed]

Can we download these? I want to change the app icons to actually be these!

[cliffpeterson]

this is all we’ve ever wanted. more brandon shepherd content!!

[YellowSabre]

I like how in one frame it just looks like he slaps on a random texture and the next frame it completely blends in

[Boxscape_]

WAIT DISCORD'S ICON WAS A CONTROLLER???

[Kayzewolf]

As someone who was an app designer in the skeuomorphic age of design, it was great seeing such detailed design again! Though, better than a lot of what was seen then.