Website (Daranet) Icon Design
By Oneli Adikari
Visual Communication Design
Daramalan College - Year 11
At Daramalan College a design icon competition was held to gain an icon for the schoolās student website, āDaranetā where currently the icon is the school logo. My design for the icon was greatly inspired by the original Daramalan College eagle (seen in figure 1). The eagle is a necessary addition to the icon because itās one thing that represents Daramalan College since āStrong in Faithā or āFortes in Fideā, the latin phrase, is our motto and strength and faith is represented by the wedge-tailed eagle. My design doesnāt look the same as the original eagle thatās seen in figure 1 but I wanted to create somewhat of a similarity. I aimed for a minimalistic look because it seems to be taking over a lot of logos and icons in the present day and I think I achieved that goal because there arenāt any fine details. From the original Daramalan College eagle I included a close representation to the head of the eagle, along with the wing design. It does look a bit more compressed since the original eagle is quite long. Red and Black, along with white, had to be used because they are the school colours and without it, it wouldnāt be a āDaranetā icon. The triangle thatās seen at the rear end of the body of the eagle is the representation to the wedge-tail of a wedge-tailed eagle. Finally, the āDā inside of the wing represents the āDā in Daranet, so it creates a connection to the websites name.