iPhone application icon needed

Hendrik Holtmann

Small business developing applications for the iPhone and MAC

The application icon and signature icon (incl. title) will be used to represent and promote Sales Buddy – an intuitive, easy-to-use sales tax/discount converter which provides the following features:

- Simple intuitive user interface; center of the user-interface is the receipt where most of the user-interactions happens
- Calculates the final price based on an user selectable discount and sales tax
- Taxes for US states are included in the app and are selectable form a list. Sales taxes for other states or countries can be added/updated
- Includes user interaction related sounds & animations
- Primary target audience is the United States.

WHY WE WANT IT DESIGNED:
- To grab the attention of users visiting the application store on iTunes
- To promote the sales of the Sales Buddy application

YOUR TASK IS TO DESIGN: :
- “Application icon” that represents the iPhone application
- “Signature icon” (incl. title) with the same look and feel as the application icon The signature icon will be used in the TITLE area of the receipt (http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/363242/a…hment1.png) . The title has to read „Sales Buddy“ and the font can be chosen freely. The font used in the attachment is only an example.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION:
- Two sizes for the application icon : 512x512 (for the AppStore/iTunes); 57x57 (for running on the iPhone itself)
- Size of the signature icon: 36x36; size of the title "Sales-Buddy" 150 (max width) x 36
- Application icon and signature icon MUST visually represent/denote the theme ‘sales tax’ e.g., shopping bag, sales receipt, sales tag, sales buddy (person), sales shield, price tag, piggy bank etc.
- Signature icon and title must look like ONE entity that are part of the receipt

DESIGN MUST HAVE:
- Application icon and signature icon (incl. title) must denote sales
- Application icon and signature icon (incl title) must use colours (or shades of them) as specified in the colour palette (http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/363242/a…hment2.png)
- Application icon and signature icon (incl. title) do not have to use ALL colours in the colour palette (http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/363242/a…hment2.png)
- Application icon must look good against the specified background colours (http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/363242/a…hment3.png)
- Signature icon (incl. title) must look good against the sales receipt paper in the application interface (http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/363242/a…hment1.png)
- Icons must be attractive, modern and noticeable