Tomat App Icon

We’ve been making cooking apps as side hustle over the years and it’s a great way for us to try ideas and learn new things. Tomat remixes our previous efforts with a focus on user created recipes first. When contemplating the design of it, I went back to the very first app we made; Veggie Meals. It had a carrot and a tomato for icon, back in the iOS 6 era. So that tomato has a long running history for us. It’s a very iconic vegetable.

To get started with the new icon I first prompted Midjourney for ideas. The following initial sketches were done right in Figma in my App Store template. Turning its leaf into something that resembled a star was a fun idea that could convey how the app contains your favorite recipes. I then recreated it in Cinema 4D which added a final level of fidelity, with final touches in the old work horse Photoshop.

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https://blog.applaudstud.io/thoughtful-apps-have-a-story-and-a-launch-trailer/