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Icon design

Find the best free or paid icons, as well as some inspiration and tutorials.

November 24, 2011
The Sketchbook of Susan Kare
The Sketchbook of Susan Kare

That’s a bit of icon design history, the sketchbook of Susan Kare, the designer who worked on the first Mac icon. I strongly suggest that you read this article on NeuroTribes.

August 17, 2011
Pictogram History Artprints
Pictogram History Artprints

H-57 Creative Station, an italian design studio, decided to have a little fun and explain some stories with pictograms only. It’s a great demonstration of the power of pictograms to convey ideas. Via TrendsNow.

August 4, 2011
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May 9, 2011
Facebook icons
Facebook icons

Facebook would probably be a little less boring if it included these wonderful icons by Leonard Savage.

April 25, 2011
6 tips for designers to create brilliant icons
6 tips for designers to create brilliant icons

What are the functions of web icons we observe on various websites? How are they used most efficiently? In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of effective icons creation. Web icons are generally indicators and separators, they help to navigate and emphasize some key ideas of the content. If you drive a car […]

March 29, 2011
January 26, 2011
November 27, 2010
Icon Notebook
Icon Notebook
November 19, 2010
5 websites to get Photoshop freebies regularly
5 websites to get Photoshop freebies regularly

Tired of searching like crazy for some useful freebies? A good way to avoid that is to follow websites or blog that offer quality freebies and build up your own personal freebies stock by downloading regularly. Here is a list of websites (and feeds) that you can follow to get regular cool Photoshop freebies. 1. […]

November 4, 2010
October 7, 2010
The movie icons
The movie icons

A great project by Timo Meyer, synthetizing movies into a single icon. A 2 hours movies cannot be summarized in an icon, but these icons show that a movie can be recognized through extreme simplification.

September 6, 2010
iTunes logo icon redesign
iTunes logo icon redesign

You have probably already seen it, iTunes icon has been redesigned recently. The good part of this redesign is that Apple is getting rid of the disc, which makes perfect sense (Windows still has a floppy disc as a save icon for Word 2007). The bad part is that the gradients in the new icon […]