Icon Designers Blog

Windows 8 Icons

Designing beautiful, accessible icons

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Accessible Icons Technology has, without a doubt, improved the lives of millions around the globe. Both specialist devices, such as refreshable Braille displays and speech synthesisers, and general devices, like smartphones with voice recognition software, enable quick, efficient communication and aid the disabled with everyday tasks. Yet accessibility isn’t always an obvious concern when it… Read more »

Mac OS Icons

What we can learn from early icon design

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Icon design has come a long way from its humble beginnings. However, the more you look into the early history of computer icons, the more you might realise that things aren’t that different today. The game may have changed, but the rules have stayed more or less the same. There’s certainly a few things we… Read more »

Icon Solutions

Real world problems and their icon solutions

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The primary role of icons is to make software interaction more efficient. As the world around us becomes increasingly digitised, technology is giving us more and more solutions to real world problems. The potential application of icons for real world issues should not be ignored. Touchscreen technology has contributed a lot to helping disabled people… Read more »

Icon Design Glossary

Icon Design Glossary of Terms

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Icon design is ever evolving. As new platforms embrace the use of icons, new terms and references are dreamt up and older terms fall out of favour. This glossary is an ongoing project to document the icon design lexicon. Contributions are very welcome. 16×16 Pixel Icons This icon size has its own entry here because… Read more »

Comic Icons

Comic Style Icon Design & Illustration

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Here is another great comic style illustration from David, one of my favourite Icon Designers at Creative Freedom. This time we have a Super-Villain with a decidedly bad temper which I am sure fans of the 2000 A.D. Comic will have no trouble recalling. Comic Style Icon DesignJudge Dredd Icons & IllustrationAs a kid I… Read more »

Free Icons

Free Icons!

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We have added another lovely set of free icons to our site. These gorgeous Windows Icons were designed by Maryna. Free Windows IconsI am really pleased with this set and hope to eventually produce a much larger set we can sell on the site. Despite the recent shift in trend towards flat icons, I hope… Read more »

App Icon Designer

Iron Man Jr – Icon Designer Showcase

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Running an Icon Design agency can be a lot of fun when you have a terrific set of people working with you. Not everything we churn out is always a commercial project, sometimes the icon designers like to kick-back and have a little fun. I thought it would be nice to showcase some of my… Read more »

iOS7 Icon Size Template

iOS 7 App Icon Size Template

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As Apple have decided to make some changes to their App Icon size and corner radii form iOS7, I thought it would be helpful to myself and others to create a PSD template to both produce all the different Icon Sizes now required, as well as show how these will look on both iOS6 and… Read more »

Windows Phone 8 Icon Design

Windows Phone 8 Icon Size Guide

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Quick guide to Windows Phone 8 Icons Windows Phone pioneered the ‘Metro’ design language, the popular, iconic user interface paradigm used by thousands of apps to give end users a common basis from which to interact with their devices. The Windows Phone design philosophy is exemplified by clean, uncluttered app screens that operate quickly, minimize… Read more »

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