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A spanner (for my US readers - a wrench) is usually associated with maintentance (tighening bolts and whatnot) perhaps you could cross this imagery with something computer or website related. Crossing the both images will give your user an immediate idea of what the icon represents. Could you perhaps post an image of one of your other icons, we may be able ...

We don't do brainstorming here but we can help refining what the problem is and looking at the way to approach coming up with ideas for something like this. We're talking about visual metaphors that evoke the right kind of associations and that set the right mood, tone and associations. 'Cyber' in the late 90's and early 2000's generally evoked the ...

The things that come immediately to mind are: envelope with a no entry symbol overlaid; envelope with a green check for "included" and a red X for "excluded"; and green envelope for inclusions and red envelope with a slant mark across it for the exclusions. Hope that gives you some ideas.

Yep, that's a drill. A ray gun is not "newfangled and risky." It's either "dangerous assault from outsiders" or "futuristic protection against dangerous assault." I am a Trekkie. Trust me on this. "Science" would be represented by a beaker or a flask. What about a beaker with a question mark in it?

I'm not sure of a general library, but this is the symbol for centre of gravity in engineering. You also see it used on crash test dummies and vehicles, where apparently it's a danger symbol.

I would look at classical forms. In architecture we studied how Greeko-roman architecture has been re-employed by empires and institutions (think government, banks etc) of all forms to conjure a sense of stability, security and authority. Additionally the historical period was one where great minds pushed the boundaries of the arts and sciences. This is ...

Leonardo Da Vinci was the pinnacle of art, design and science of his time. Thinking along those lines, objects that are similar to being a nice combination of the three, assuming authority, could be the wonders of the world, especially the pyramids. The pyramids represent an interesting idea since the three sides which coincides with your three criteria as ...

It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's.. SUPERMAN! Go for something bold and simple, like the Superman logo! Although this specific logo may have certain associations with invincibility built up over many decades, the imagery of bold logos also has the same, and will inspire the message you're trying to get through. Also for winning without fighting, ...

I like thebodzio's idea. I also wonder: Do you HAVE to make an iso icon? I'm asking you this because not long ago someone wanted to design programming languages icons, and I instantly thought of HTML5. You could do something that includes the word API and has a graphic element as well. Something in the line of these images below, but perhaps including also ...

An API can also be an abstraction of a complex process, so that the end the user will get the desired output without having to go through the complexity of the application programming after using the interface (API). Now, having considered this , any symbol that provides this idea will be good to go. For example, a connector of headphone, start button of ...

My first thought: a list with lines simulating different text strings. One of this lines highlighted. Over, and a bit to the side of this list would be a "scrap of paper" with "text" looking exactly the same as highlighted piece. Above all this: a "check" sign. Yes, I know… simple… maybe even dead simple, but I hope this will help even a tiny bit :).

[...] what is an effective research process for looking into the existing meanings of a symbol you might be using in a drawing or icon? If you don't recognize the symbol and you can't easily locate it using methods like Googling for "symbol" or "symbols" or using other reference material you have available, then perhaps the symbol has no traditional, ...

With Laurem Ipsum's input, I could create a picture which is at least medical (probably not inherently dangerous, but I am happy to get so far as a newbie). Plus, it was decided that a poster should have an eyecatcher, instead of black lines and black text on white. So here is the final gaudy version. (at least I could resist the idea for a psychodelically ...

After the quick discussion, I have used before a simple icon of an eye. It's simple but sometimes can be a bit cartoony. Other ways I experimented with is to have the other icons overlaid on each other in your one icon, so it shows "all tabs." You ocould also have some sort of columned icon, like a 3 row/column table, but might not be as effective. Hope ...