Icon Designer needed? We got you covered
Whether you’re updating legacy software or building a new user interface from scratch, choosing the right icon designer makes a world of difference. Great icons don’t just look good, they enhance usability, reduce training time, and elevate the perceived value of your product.
At Creative Freedom, we bring together some of the UK’s leading icon designers under one roof. With over 25 years of experience and a team of specialist designers, we deliver consistent, pixel-perfect icons for software, engineering, data tools, and enterprise platforms.
Find the perfect Icon Designer for your Software, App or Web project, any style you need!
Why Choose an Agency ofIcon Designers Over a Freelancer?
If you only need a handful of simple icons and have a limited budget, hiring a freelancer from a site like Fiverr might seem like a quick fix, and for small jobs, that’s often enough. But when your icons need to integrate seamlessly with complex interfaces, match brand styles, or scale across hundreds of assets, the limitations of a single freelancer become clear.
Creative Freedom offers a better alternative: a team of specialist icon designers working together under one roof. That means:
- Design variety – Choose from multiple visual styles and approaches
- Faster turnaround – More designers = more capacity for large or urgent projects
- Quality control – Every design is reviewed for consistency, clarity, and usability
- Professional management – You work directly with our founder Adam, not a gig worker juggling multiple jobs
- Ongoing support – We’re here for future updates, additions, and refinements
We’ve helped dozens of software teams move beyond patchy, mismatched icons to fully custom, brand-aligned sets that improve the user experience and enhance product perception. Whether you need ten icons or ten thousand, our team of experienced icon designers is ready to deliver.
As part of a broader rebrand project, we at i2 engaged with Adam and Creative Freedom to create a new set of 2D & 3D icons in SVG for use within our investigative/analysis products. These icons needed to represent real world items. Adam’s team of icon designers produced some wonderful designs that were iterated over easily and quickly using Icon Manager. It was a pleasure to work with them on this year-long project. I highly recommend them to others, and I’m sure we will use them again in the future.”
Mark Bingley, Lead UX, i2 Group
More Designers,Greater Flexibility and Speed
One of the biggest advantages of working with Creative Freedom is the flexibility and scale our design team brings. Unlike a solo icon designer, we have the capacity to run large-scale projects using multiple designers simultaneously, without compromising consistency or quality.
A great example is our work with Aveva, a global leader in industrial software. For over 12 months, we provided a dedicated team of four icon designers, each contributing to the creation of hundreds of custom icons every month. The volume was high and the deadlines tight, but with the right systems and team in place, we delivered on time, every time.
We worked to a detailed style guide and managed the team through our in-house Icon Manager platform, which allowed:
- Centralised asset delivery and feedback
- Live tracking of progress and approvals
- Style consistency across all contributors
- Streamlined client reviews and revisions
All design work was overseen and quality-checked by our founder Adam, ensuring visual consistency throughout the project. The result was a vast icon library with a coherent look and feel, designed by multiple hands, but speaking with one visual voice.
If you’re managing a UI/UX overhaul or need to scale quickly, our team approach can save you weeks of coordination time and give you confidence in the end result.
Icon Manager
Making the most of our team of Icon Designers, with Icon Manager our bespoke project management and collaboration software, that transforms and simplifies all aspects of the icon design process.
What Makes a GreatIcon Designer?
Not all icons are created equal. A professional icon designer needs to combine creativity, technical precision, and an understanding of the user experience, and often, all within a 16-pixel square.
At Creative Freedom, our icon designers are chosen not just for their artistic skills, but for their ability to translate complex ideas into clean, recognisable symbols that work at any size. That means:
- Pixel precision – Icons that remain crisp and legible at small sizes
- Visual clarity – Instantly recognisable symbols that reduce user confusion
- Style versatility – Ability to match your existing UI or brand guidelines
- UI awareness – Designs that enhance usability, not just aesthetics
- Production-ready assets – Delivered in all required formats (SVG, PNG, ICO, XAML and more)
Whether you need a single expert or want to hire icon designers for a long-term project, we have the flexibility and capacity to match your needs. We’re equally comfortable building new icon languages from scratch or working to extend an existing set in your current style.
See our icon design approach to learn how we keep quality and consistency front and centre on every project.
We will cherry pick the perfect icon designer from our team, for your project.
Meet Our Team ofProfessional Icon Designers
At Creative Freedom, we’ve built one of the most experienced and diverse icon design teams in the UK. Each of our professional icon designers brings their own unique style and strengths — from crisp flat UI icons to richly detailed 3D graphics. This collective depth means we can match the perfect designer (or team) to your project, whatever the complexity or scale.
We operate as a coordinated remote studio, using streamlined workflows and our own Icon Manager platform to keep every project on track. You’ll work directly with Adam, our founder and creative director, who ensures every icon meets our pixel-perfect standards.
Explore our team below to see the range of talent and specialisms we bring to your icon design project.
Industry Experience
We’ve worked with clients across dozens of specialist sectors, so chances are we already understand your space. While icon design is a universal visual language, we’re also familiar with the specific demands and metaphors common to many technical and enterprise domains.
We follow proven visual standards but also design icons that work across cultural boundaries, something less experienced designers often struggle with.
Industries we’ve worked in include:
- Aerospace
- Aggregates
- Agriculture
- Analytics
- Audio
- Automotive
- Business Management
- CAD / CAM
- Defence
- Education
- Electronic Manufacture
- Environmental
- Finance
- Healthcare
- Industrial Design
- Law Enforcement
- Mapping / GIS / DEM
- Marine / Maritime
- Medical Equipment
- Music
- Network Management
- Petrochemical
- Pharmaceutical
- Retail
- SaaS
- 3D Design
- Water Treatment
We recently worked with Adam at Creative Freedom on a re-vamp of our product icons. He took the time to understand exactly what we wanted, and was on hand throughout the process to offer us advice and to ensure we were completely happy with the end result – no detail was too small. He offered a professional and friendly service, against a tight deadline. We would definitely work with him again.
Steve Tongish
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Joe
Our longest-serving and most experienced icon designer. Joe consistently delivers beautiful, clean icons for professional software UIs.
Specialising in:
- Flat icon design
- Windows menu icons
- App interface design
Phil
Phil is a 3D motion graphics specialist and a rare icon designer with real cinematic flair. Perfect for high-impact, animated, or dimensional icon sets.
Specialising in:
- 3D animation
- Motion graphics
- 3D icons
Tanya
With a strong sense of style and a love for soft gradients, Tanya brings warmth and clarity to flat and almost-flat icon sets across interfaces.
Specialising in:
- 2D icons
- Almost flat icons
- Interface design
Zufa
A meticulous icon designer known for sharp execution of flat icon styles. Her clean lines and structured design suit everything from dashboards to mobile UIs.
Specialising in:
- Flat icon design
- Web icons
- Material Icons
Andrew
Andrew combines icon design with project management, bringing clarity and control to large-scale icon libraries. Expert at flat and pseudo-3D SVG workflows.
Specialising in:
- Flat icon design
- 3D SVG Icons
- Project Management
Branko
Branko delivers versatile icon designs across web, desktop, and enterprise platforms. Known for fast adaptation and style matching across brands.
Specialising in:
- Flat icon design
- Web icons
- Windows app icons
Anna
Anna’s clean, modern icon style is ideal for product UIs and iOS interfaces. She’s also one of our best sketchers for concept work and icon prototyping.
Specialising in:
- Flat icon design
- App interface design
- iOS icon design
David
A natural illustrator with a unique flair for comic-style icon illustrations. David’s organic lines add personality to software and gaming UIs.
Specialising in:
- 2D icon design
- Comic style icons
- Windows app icons
Olga
Olga excels in pixel-level precision, especially for small icons like toolbars and status indicators. A reliable icon designer for technical applications.
Specialising in:
- Flat icon design
- Windows menu icons
- Windows interface design
Maryna
Maryna is a master at emulating any icon style, making her ideal for legacy software upgrades or harmonising mismatched sets with visual accuracy.
Specialising in:
- Emulates any style
- Windows menu icons
- Scalable vector icons
Pete
Pete crafts beautifully rendered 3D icons that pop on mobile and desktop. His style is ideal for rich visual UI environments and marketing screens.
Specialising in:
- 3D icon design
- Mobile app icons
- Windows app icons
Kev
Kev blends 3D modelling with photoreal detailing. He’s ideal for icon design projects requiring lifelike effects, lighting, and realism.
Specialising in:
- 3D icon design
- Mobile app icons
- Super detailed icons
Which Icon Design ServiceIs Right for You?
We offer a wide range of icon design services tailored to software teams, UI/UX designers, and developers. Whether you’re redesigning a complex desktop application or launching a SaaS dashboard, our icon design company has the tools, talent, and process to support you from start to finish.
Below are our most popular icon design services, each tailored for different platforms and use cases:
UI Icon Design for Software
Best for: Engineering Tools, SaaS Platforms, Enterprise Software
Custom-designed UI icon sets for technical software — built for clarity, speed, and consistency. We understand the detail that goes into professional toolbars and ribbon interfaces.
Website Icons & Illustrations
Best for: Web Products, Marketing Teams, SaaS Dashboards
Bespoke SVG and PNG web icons designed to elevate navigation, onboarding, and product storytelling. Clear, fast-loading, and optimised for engagement.
App Icon Design
Best for: Startups, Mobile Apps, Cross-Platform Software
From iOS and Android launcher icons to desktop shortcuts and splash icons, we create visually striking app icons that get noticed on any platform.
Still unsure? Get in touch and we’ll help you choose the right icon design service for your needs.
Why Choose Creative Freedom’sIcon Designers?
When you need more than just a few quick icons, you need a team that understands the full picture, usability, branding, consistency, and delivery. At Creative Freedom, we’ve spent decades building that team and refining our process to deliver world-class results at scale.
- 25+ years of experience in designing icons for professional software across industries
- Multi-designer team for increased creative choice and faster delivery
- In-house project management and quality control for every brief
- Icon Manager platform for seamless asset tracking, feedback and approval
- Ongoing support for future expansion and updates
Whether you’re starting from scratch or upgrading a legacy product, our icon designers bring the skill, structure, and scalability to move your project forward with confidence.
What Our Clients AskBefore Hiring an Icon Designer
- 🧩 Can you match our existing icon style?
- Yes. We’re experts at reverse-engineering and evolving existing icon styles for consistency across legacy and new interfaces.
- 📦 How are icons delivered?
- We supply all major formats: PNG, SVG, ICO, ICNS, plus Illustrator source files if needed. You get exactly what your dev team needs, ready to drop in.
- 📆 What’s your turnaround time?
- It depends on complexity and volume, but most icon sets are delivered in phases to keep things moving. Smaller projects can turn around in 1–2 weeks.
- 👥 Can we work with more than one icon designer?
- Definitely. For larger projects, we often assign multiple icon designers and manage them via our Icon Manager platform to maintain consistency and speed.
- 🔐 Do we own the rights?
- Yes. Once the project is complete and paid, full copyright and usage rights are transferred to you.
- 🛠 Can you collaborate with our in-house team?
- Absolutely. We regularly work alongside in-house UI/UX teams, developers, and product owners, or we can handle everything for you if you prefer.
Start Your Project With a Professional Icon Designer
Whether you’re planning a full interface overhaul or just need a trusted partner to deliver pixel-perfect icons on time, our team is ready to help. We’ve worked with brands large and small, across industries and platforms, and we’d love to work with you too.
