This is a continuation of designing a new podcast application. You can read Part 1 here.
Sketching Initial Ideas
Designing an icon in Sketch
Based on the ideas sketched above, I decided to build an icon that would incorporate a microphone and a headphone to symbolize recording and podcasting. Along with that I wanted my icon to incorporate the primary colour chosen so the background was set to that colour. The rest of the icon is fairly simple using a combination of black and white to have a contrasting image. The icon is displayed below:
