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Making your icons package a winner on all fronts
0This week we discuss a set of distinctions that we’ve mentioned before on this blog but which we need to revisit every so often in this business: What are the criteria that make a good design package? How do we make our icons package a …
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Asking simple questions to create a great design brief
Although we’ve been focused on icon design tutorials for designers in recent months, there are other aspects of this business that we want to cover from time to time. For example, how do we want our clients to communicate with us when commissioning icons? What …
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How to Create Vector Drop Shadows in Illustrator
This article looks at how to keep your Illustrator files ‘fully’ vector and still create an attractive Drop Shadow effect. It’s a straight-forward process to create a nice, feathered, transparent drop shadow in Photoshop, and the same process can be followed in Illustrator too by …
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Icon Design Software: ‘Icon Workshop’ Part II
Icon Scaling What I really love about Icon Workshop is its fantastic scaling engine. I did a comparison in a previous post (Why Fireworks Rocks for Icons), of how the Adobe products render off 16×16 PNG files and the results were different for each product …
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