This button design is for the Microsoft Mobile Application. It can incorporate Microsoft applications, all MSN network information sites, and emails into a workspace that can be used as an interface for all communications. I used de Saussure's Semiotics for this project. It was the study of signs and codes. I like that people can be taught to recognize a whole list of capabilities and emotions based on seeing the button for an APP. 

I used the colors because they are recognized as Microsoft's colors. I used the pattern for the bout because it was industrial and futuristic. I used the skew tool quite a bit to get the shape of the sails and the boat. 

More to come about the NEW Microsoft App that can do it all for you