I learned this technique last week and I thought its a really good way to create unique modern icons, so I decided to come here and share it with you.
Staylization is a representaiton of an image as an icon. An stylized art piece tends to have a set of rules, a
very particular style, in its representation of an image, almost like a
code for the ‘reality’ of the image,
There are 2 easy steps to do this. You first start with a photograph of what you want to stylize. I decided to do a lemon, I figured it could be for a lemonade stand called “Lemonchello” Its a Lemonade stand owned by Marcello, so the combination of the two names gave me the perfect name.
This is the original image that I had. 
What you do is you trace the lemon, do not add any details just the main lines of the shape you are working on.
(picture to be uploaded soon)
Then, you just doodle around those lines and shapes. With stylization there is no right or wrong, it is your own style. The only rule is that at the end of doodling around it, the icon will still have to be recognizable as the original object.
doodling has always been one of my favorite things to do, so this project was really exciting for me. My result? well.. a very iconic stylized lemon. I decided to work within the triangle inside the lemon and for the complete lemon on the right, just use lines to create the shape.
My next step would be to create text for this icon to make it into a logo for “Lemonchello”. Hopefully this gives you an inspiration to create you own stylized icons. If you do, post a comment and a link to your design to see your wonderful creation! oh yeah.. by the way.. the teacher liked my lemon so much.. she kept it to show it next semester as a sample to other students… Have fun with this project, I sure did!
