Five basics of great icon design
0We are back to basics this week: our contributing editor looks at some of the elements of effective icon design. A set of well designed icons can make a big difference to the look and usability of any website or application. Whether you are on …
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Free Windows Icons
It has actually been a while since we released our first set of free windows icons, but in case you missed them on the main site, here they are again. I have also included a new set of ‘hot’ and ‘disabled’ states for each icon. …
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Custom Icons for GIS Software
The latest addition to our portfolio is an icon design project recently completed for Geograt GmbH. Geograt specialise in Geographical Information Systems software and required an icon style that would fit in with Windows 7 but also reflect their brand identity. For more information, please …
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Making your icons package a winner on all fronts
This 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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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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Icon Design Software: ‘Icon Workshop’ Part I
Axialis have recently released version 6.62 of their excellent ‘Icon Workshop‘ Icon Design software so I thought it was a good enough excuse to talk about the software and how I use it. Icon Workshop What does it do? Icon workshop has been around for a …
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