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The Robust Collection Of (50) Mindblowing Icon Sets For Your Next Design

AN Jay — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:17:36 +0000

Icons can be useful to furnish users with unforgettable images and examples if used properly, and this is the reason why Icon sets always come in handy. You will find the huge collection of recently released icon sets which are believed to assist you in bettering your designs on websites as well as on web applications.

In this post, we have also gathered some useful icon sets for your inspiration. If you like them, you can use them in your next design project. The icon sets that we have provided below may become valuable and useful in corporate designs, portfolios, blogs, and magazines as well as in Web-applications. Feel free to suggest and share more icon sets in the comments section below.

Pos Machine Icons

ADOBE CS5 PREMIUM ICONS

Android 2.2 Official Icons

Daft Punk Helmets v2.0

New exclusive icon set: Copenhagen

Apple Mug Icons and Extras

Hel?

Detailed 3D Icon Set

Alias Badges

Applications Icons and Extras

Briefcase

Camera Sony Alpha 380

Social Buzz Icon Pack

Mixed Icons Pack

Payment Method Icon Set

Umbrella

The ‘Square’ Social Media Icon Set

E-Commerce Icon Set

Sketchy Social Media Icons Freebie

IronMan Icon Pack

Cute Blogging Icon Set

Freebie Fiesta – Twitter Bird & Egg

The Ultimate Free Web Designer’s Icon Set (750 icons, incl. PSD sources)

NIXUS Icon Pack

Great Web Button Set

Designer Icons – Professionally Hand-Crafted Free Icon Set

FontLab Studio Icons OS X

Glass icons

The ‘Free Style’ Social Media Icon Set

Mobile Icon Set

Ball

Picasso: A Free Social Media Icon Set

Isometrica (Volume 1): A Free Social Media Icon Set

Free Social Media Icons: Tricons

Content Management System Icon Set

Cartoon Icons

This is ART Icons

Free Computer Part Icon Set

Oxe Icons Set

El Bandito

Women’s Day Icons

‘The’ Lens

CalorieQuick Icons

PixeloPhilia 32PX Icon Set

Free Web Design Icon Set By Iconshock

OLED social icons

FriendFeed

Once

Touchscreen Icons

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15 New And Awesome Developer Icon Sets

DB — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:29:41 +0000

The icons you get for your computer’s shortcuts are separate from developer set icons. While creating a program, web application, or website developers have to come up with small images for buttons, shortcuts, etc. The icons used here come in the form of developer icon sets.

You can find many free great developer icon sets online. They often come in ZIP files; the images contained in the archives can be used in private projects by the developer; some of the icon sets allow the developer to use them in commercial projects as well. Below you will find 15 of the best developer icon sets you will come across on the web.

You are welcome to share if you know more developer icon set which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter.

1. Cologne – Download

2. Boolean Icon Set - Download

3. Berlin – Download

4. Macchiato – Download

5. Vector Pictograms / Icons - Download

6. Wireframing Developer Icons – Download

7. Hamburg - Download

8. Project Icons – Download

9. Spirit20 - Download

10. Payment Icon Set for E-Commerce Sites – Download

11. Social Buzz Icon Pack – Download

12. Mobile Icon Set – Download

13. Vector Graph Icons – Download

Or you can alternatively download AI Version here and Download SVG Version here

14. Gesture Icons – Download

15. iPhone App Icon Set – Download

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10 Best Websites To Generate Buttons Online

DB — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:38:51 +0000

Are you a developer looking for a great online tool to create buttons? If yes, then I have got a great list for you. Below you will find my collection of 10 best online button creators. Buttons are an important part of our website’s interface and these tools will help you create brilliant buttons.

Give each entry a read and a thorough try. See which ones can make your job easier. You are welcome to share if you know more useful Button Generators which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter.

1. Button Maker

Button Maker is a wonderful free tool to generate the CSS codes for your buttons. You have access to different colors for different parts of the button. Sliders on top of the color choosers let you modify the size and shape of the button which you can see on the left. To obtain the code, you click on the button. Click here to visit Button Maker.

2. Da Button Factory

Da Button Factory offers great button creation tools to you. You can vary the button’s size, text shadow, style, colors, and output type (PNG / JPEG / GIF / ICO). The changes you make to the button get updated as you work. When done, you can click on the button to download it. Visit Da Button Factory by clicking here.

3. Buttonator

Another great button creation online tool, Buttonator will satisfy most of your button needs. You can start off with selecting a particular button style from the right pane. You can then proceed to make changes to the button; changes include modifying color and font style / size. Buttons can be downloaded as GIF files. Click here to visit Buttonator.

4. Free Flash Button Generator

If you are looking for a source to create Flash buttons, then the Free Flash Button Generator will do the job splendidly. You start by selecting a button style. Colors can be changed through the HEX values. The bottom pane lets you add links to the button and the names of the links. Clicking one final button generates your button and its corresponding HTML code. Click here to visit Free Flash Button Generator.

5. Cool RGB

Cool RGB is a wonderful website for creating numerous webpage parts. You can create logos, banners, panels, and of course buttons. The button creation interface has many customization options that range from font selection and colors to transparency and linear gradient. Click here to visit Cool RGB.

6. As Button Generator

With As Button Generator, you can create buttons by editing through a tabbed interface. The customization options cover a lot of ground and will satisfy all of your button creation requirements. The result can be downloaded as a PNG image file. Click here to visit As Button Generator.

7. HTML and CSS Rounded Corner Button Generator

This site is for developers looking for a very simple but 2-in-1 button creation online tool. With HTML and CSS Rounded Corner Button Generator you can create buttons but modifying their colors and obtaining a ZIP archive that contains PNG image file of the button as well the HTML and CSS code. Visit the site here.

8. Feed Icon

If you are looking for a tool to create a simple feed icon for your site, then Feed Icon does the job splendidly. All you have to do is enter your website’s URL and then pick from 3 of the generated HTML codes. The three codes have the same icon shape but different size. Visit Feed Icon here.

9. Adam Kalsey’s Button Maker

This button creation tool by Adam Kalsey has a straightforward interface. You can choose to split the icon by a bar and select the pixel distance between the bar and an edge of the button. Visit Adam Kalsey’s Button Maker here.

10. Button Maker

This tool is quite similar to Adam Kalsey’s with the notable difference that you can choose the separation bar’s placement as “left,” “center,” or “right.” You can also choose a button size from the two sizes available. Visit the Button Maker by clicking here.

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Icon Creator: Opera Widget To Easily Create Icons

DB — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:34:51 +0000

If you are an Opera (the web browser) user, then there are not many places to go for tips and tricks. Apparently the web is filled with Firefox addons and Chrome extensions. This is so because most people are not aware of the massive potential of Opera. Not only is it a lightning fast browser but it has rich library of widgets. Opera widgets are not only for average browsing users but also for web developers.

Take Icon Creator for instance. Icon Creator is an Opera widget that lets users create a simple icon of different colors. After installing the widget, you might need to open up the widgets sidebar and access Icon Creator from there.

You will notice that Icon Creator will open in a new window with its own entry in the Windows taskbar.

Closing Opera will not close Icon Creator as it will operate independent of Opera. This is what Icon Creator’s window looks like:

The buttons in the top left let us choose the overall style of the icon.

The bar below these buttons let us change the background color and symbol color of the icon.

The shape of the icon can be changed by a small arrow button in the middle pane.

Clicking on this button presents us options of other shapes.

Using all these options we can create custom icons. Then we can port them to the sizes available in the right pane.

Available sizes include 128×128, 64×64, 32×32, and 16×16. The resultant file is in PNG format.

In conclusion, Icon Creator is a great a widget for Opera that helps create custom icons in a very user friendly way. Get Icon Creator from here.

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Smashing Release : Free Web Design Icon Set By Iconshock

AN Jay — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:08:19 +0000

Today, we are releasing new set of Web Design Icons, a free icon set designed by Iconshock for exclusive readers of Smashing Apps. Iconshock – stock icons is a professional stock icons for web and software application. If you like, you can contact them for developing of a custom icon design project too. There are 8 icons included in this free icon set having a size of 512x512px in PNG format. Have you seen our previously released Free Computer Part Icon Set.

You are welcome to share if you know more beautiful icon sets which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

Release Note And Usage Policy

This icon set is released under GPL lincense. You are allowed to use it for all (personal or commercial) your projects for free and without any restrictions. We will really appreciate you if you would like to spread the word and link to this article.

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Please do not forget to share your thoughts with us about this icon set that will help us for the next release. Because Iconshock and we are also working on another free icon set that will be released in coming week. So keep visiting us and do not forget to subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

And yes! Thank you Iconshock for working with us to deliver something really useful to Smashing Apps community.

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75+ Truly Useful Tutorials & Colorful Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In March

AN Jay — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:51:15 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 75+ Truly Useful Tutorials & Colorful Resources For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of March which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial

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Balance 3D with mixed media

A Collection of Photoshop Business Card Tutorials and Free PSD Files

Create a Digital Camera With Wooden Accents Using Photoshop

90+ Smoking Cinema 4D Tutorials and Best Techniques

How to Create a 3D House Icon with Photoshop

The Ultimate Collection Of Brilliant Web Design Tutorials

The Ultimate Guide To Cloning In Photoshop

Use Photo Manipulation and 3D Layers to Design a Surreal Cover Art Illustration

30+ Best Apple Inspired Photoshop Tutorials

Melting Girl in Photoshop

Motion Graphics And 2-D Animation: 10 Tips For A Clean Workflow

50 Hot New Tutorials (Part2)

20 High Quality Photoshop Web Design Tutorials

Create a Call to Action Button With Adobe Fireworks CS4

Learn Adobe Illustrator: All the Basics for Beginners

Make a Surreal 3D Outdoor Room Scene in Photoshop

40 Detailed Drawing Tutorials for Adobe Illustrator

Photo Manipulation Techniques to Enhance Portrait Photography

15 Impressive Photoshop Tutorials

40+ Autodesk 3ds Max Tutorials for Beginners and Advance

Achieve Brilliant Lighting Effects in Photoshop

Massive Collection of Photo Editing Tutorials and Photoshop Actions

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

40 Brilliantly Illustrated Web Designs

66 Sinister CG Monsters

45 Creative Resumes to Seize Attention

25+ Beautiful And Creative Business Card Ideas

Inspiration: Awesome Dark Portfolio Sites

Fantastic Content Sliders for your Inspiration

30 Amazing Typographic Movie Poster Designs

5 Green Websites Built on Flash

50 Epic Digital and CG Artworks

50 Beautiful Sketchbook Scans

50 Beautifully Brown Web Designs

Showcase of Inspiration Typography Text of Modern Art

22 Most Unusual Google Earth Photos

55 Latest Examples of Perfect Slideshow Presentation in Web Design

Funny Examples of Celebrity Caricatures

Collection of 30+ Stunning Hand Picked CSS-based Layouts

50 Amazing Shots Taken in the Most Dry Regions

Web Design: 40 Fantastic Examples

Call to Action Buttons: Guidelines, Best Practices and Examples

Showcase of 20 Mobile-Friendly Popular Design Blogs

30+ Artistic Examples Of Colorful Wallpapers

Showcase of Textures in Print Design

Javascript and Ajax

20 jQuery Cheatsheets, Docs and References for Every Occasion

35
Fresh JavaScript/jQuery Tools and Resources

20 Helpful jQuery Methods you Should be Using

45 Fresh Useful JavaScript and jQuery Techniques and Tools

25 Amazing and Fresh jQuery Plugins

jQuery Resources for One-Page Portfolios

xHTML and CSS

47 CSS Tips & Tricks To Take Your Site To The Next Level

22 Handy HTML5 & CSS3 Tools, Resources And Guides

Basic CSS3 Techniques That You Should Know

The Future Of CSS Typography

Resources

40 Fresh Free Fonts For Your Next Designs

Tired Of Photoshop’s Complexity? Try These Free And Easy Apps For Your Photos

Interactive Flash Graphs and Charts For Your Website

11 Qualified Mobile Interface Tools and WordPress Plugins

Ultimate Collection of Free Buttons in PSD Format

10 Blank/Naked WordPress Themes Perfect for Development

The Best E-Commerce Icons All In One Place

29 Premium-Like Free But Extremely Tremendous Portfolio WordPress Themes

25 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

Superb Free Vector Sets for Designers

9 Insanely Useful Firefox Add-Ons That Will Save Your Time

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Writing For The Web: Tips & Common Mistakes We Make

Principles to Become (and stay) Strong in the Search Engine Rankings

How To Add A “Print This” Button In Your Blog

11 Ways to Create a Mobile Friendly WordPress Site

Techniques for Squeezing Images for All They’re Worth

Custom WordPress Homepage with Customizable Widgets

5 Unique Ways to Do Keyword Research

What Every Designer Should Do Right Now

8 Tools to Analyze Your Website’s Level of Accessibility

Ten Tips to Improve your Freelance Portfolio

Progressive Enhancement: What It Is and How To Use It

8 Design Elements Your Blog Should Have

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80+ Incredible Collection Of Inspirations, Tutorials And Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In February

AN Jay — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:03:20 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 80+ Incredible Collection Of Inspirations, Tutorials And Resources For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of February which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial

33 New High Quality Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Realistically Light and Render Interior Scenes using 3ds Max and Vray

88 Ultimate Round-Up of Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials

How to Create a Dark and Mysterious TV-Head Scene

100+ Maya 3D Tutorials For Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Users

How to Create a Stylish Media Player in Photoshop

A Round-Up of 50 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials and Techniques

70 Ultimate Cinema 4D Tutorials & Techniques

How To Create A Vintage Camera in Photoshop

Create a Cartoon Car Similar to Cars Movie

30 Best Written And Explained Logo Design Tutorials

Design an Underwater Omega Code Poster

How To Draw A Funny Cop Illustration From A Sketch

Make a Freezing Cold Snow-themed Abstract Piece

50 Useful Cartoon Character Design Tutorials

How To Design a 3D Glass Icon in Photoshop

Create a Realistic Space Landscape Photo Manipulation

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

50 Breathtakingly Beautiful CG Landscapes

The Creative Examples Of Colorful Splash Pages

25 Examples of Incredible Ideas and Designs

25 Beautiful Examples of “Coming Soon” Pages

Creative Auto Ads

40 Trendy and Extremely Colorful Websites

Logo Design Inspiration: 65+ Brilliant Fresh Designs

40 Epic Digital Paintings

Email Newsletter Design: Guidelines And Examples

30 Visually Appealing Web Portfolio Designs

Showcase of Great Web App Interfaces

70+ Business Card Designs

Showcase of City Tourism Website Designs

60+ Amazing Digital Photo Manipulation Art

55 Examples of Huge Typography in Web Design

30 Free and Fresh iPad Wallpapers

Design Trend Showcase: 30 Horizontal Websites

25+ Breathtaking examples of Natural sky Photography

60 Creative Flash Websites You Should Not Miss

82 CG Superheros, Villains, and Iconic Movie and Video Game Characters

25 Beautiful Website Layouts

Javascript and Ajax

13 Useful JavaScript Solutions for Charts and Graphs

15 jQuery Plugins for Better Web Page Element Layouts

35 Useful jQuery Plugins for Slideshows, Graphs and Text Effects

24 Best Practices for AJAX Implementations

Animate Panning Slideshow with jQuery

You Can Use CSS3 Right Now

Creative Button Animations with Sprites and JQuery

How to Use jQuery to Make Slick Page Transitions

10 Best jQuery Gallery(Slideshow) Techniques

xHTML and CSS

20 CSS3 Tutorials and Techiques for Creating Buttons

The Most Common HTML and CSS Mistakes to Avoid

The Future Of CSS Typography

Design a Prettier Web Form with CSS 3

54 Awesome Tutorials To Satisfy The Appetite Of Any Web Developer

50 Awesome Animations made with CSS3

CSS Graphs And Charts: 11 Hand-picked Tutorials And Solutions

Resources

NEW Sets of Free High Quality Icons for Bloggers and Designers

45 Best Places You May Visit To Get Or Create Free 3D Models

100+ Vintage Textures and Photoshop Brushes to Decorate Your Design

60+ Latest High-Quality Free WordPress Themes

50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files

Mega Collection of The Best Free Social Media Icons for Bloggers and Designers

20 Must-Have Image Optimization Tools for Designers

40 Detailed and High Quality Mobile Phone .psd Source Files

30 Websites To Download Free Stock Photos

50 Free High Quality Professional Fonts for your new Web Design and Project

33 Free Blue Patterns to Download

60 Beautiful Premium Icons (Free)

35 Latest High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designers

158 Paper Textures For Kickstarting Your Backgrounds & Designs

Top 20 Free Fonts for Distinctive Headlines and Titles

20 Fresh Sets of Free Icons for Web Designers

Miscellaneous Articles

Ways to Make your Banners More Click-able

The AIDA Marketing Model in Web Design

The Classic Look VS The Wow Effect

Finding Inspiration in Uncommon Sources: 12 Places to Look

4 Tips to Help Promote Your Website Using Facebook Fan Pages

10 Great Tools to Create a Mobile Version of Your Site

The Three Golden Rules of Site Redesigns

How To Find Great Keyword Ideas For Your Articles

Design Envy : Make it Work For You!

Design Multilingual Website: A Beginner’s Guide

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Smashing Release : Free Computer Part Icon Set

AN Jay — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:47:40 +0000

Today, we are releasing our very first Computer Part Icons, a free icon set designed by Iconshock for exclusive readers of Smashing Apps. Iconshoc k – stock icons is a professional stock icons for web and software application. If you like, you can contact them for developing of a custom icon design project too. There are 5 icons included in this free icon set having a size of 512x512px in PNG format.

Release Note And Usage Policy

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And yes! Thank you Iconshock for working with us to deliver something really useful to Smashing Apps community.

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85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In January

AN Jay — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:42:15 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of January which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial

40+ Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Gadget Designs

How to Create a Realistic Fountain Pen

51 Bangin’ Blender Tutorials

How to Make a Professional Buddy Icon in Photoshop

Create a Stunning 3D Liquid Explosion Artwork

40 Imaginary Photoshop Tutorials & Techniques

35 Tutorials and Guides for Working With Wacom Tablets

Creating a Realistic Torn Photo Effect – Photoshop Tutorial

18 Outstanding Typography Photoshop Tutorials Of 2010

Design a Surreal Desert Scene in Photoshop

Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers

23 Professional Facial Photoshop Retouching Tutorials

35 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Web Design Layouts

Easy Digital Painting Illustration in Photoshop

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

40+ Examples of Typography Inspired in Web Design

33 Astounding CG Environments

The Colorful Showcase Of Beautiful Typography

40 Beautiful Corporate Websites

62 Gorgeously Designed CG Characters

70 Fairly Creative Fresh Logo Designs for Design Inspiration

Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends

45 Superb Examples of Warrior and Battle Art

30 Great Uses for 3D in Flash Websites

Amazing Grunge Artworks by Alex

50 Digital Fairy Tale Character Illustration Collections

Textures In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

Beautiful Digital Art by Miriam Moshinsky

35+ Fantastic Robot Art Illustration

40 Inspiring Single Page Websites

50 Packaging Designs That Pack A Punch

20 Stunning Typographic Designs

25 Absolutely Magical Fantasy Traditional Art Drawings

Newsletter Design: 50+ Great Examples

30 Clever And Creative Packaging Designs for Inspiration

Super Cool Pictures of Insects

“The Page Can’t Be Found” Coolest Error 404 Pages In Web Design

60 Sites with Attractive Typographical Introductions

Javascript and Ajax

20 Fresh JavaScript Data Visualization Libraries

45 jQuery Navigation Plugins and Tutorials

30 Stylish jQuery Tooltip Plugins For Catchy Designs

25 Tutorials and Resources for Learning jQuery UI

Sexy Animated Tabs Using MooTools

30 Useful Tutorial for JavaScript Framework Navigation

90+ Useful jQuery Plugins for Designers and Developers

xHTML and CSS

14 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Development

30 Cutting Edge Examples Of CSS Navigation

The New Hotness: Using CSS3 Visual Effects

How To Create Depth And Nice 3D Ribbons Only Using CSS3

Resources

The Ultimate Collection Of Colorful And Inspiring Vector Art

20 Fonts Ideal for Big and Powerful Headings

31 Rare WordPress Themes

33 Absolutely Free E-Commerce Icon Sets

Massive Collection of Over 1,000 Floral Photoshop Brushes

10 Free Professional PSD Web Templates

70 Awesome Wooden Texture Packs from DeviantArt

4800 Mini Icons You Ever Need for your Apps

30+ Must Have Photoshop Actions For Photo Touch-Ups

40 Valuable Tools and Resources For Web Designers

100+ Seamless Patterns Great for Creating Website Backgrounds

A Roundup of 45 Industrial Free Fonts

35 High Quality Apple Inspired Icons

50 Fabulous Flash Web Design Tools and Software

30+ Useful Free Icon Sets in PSD Format

25 New High Quality Free Fonts

20 Abstract Effects Photoshop Brushes

10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications

25 Fresh, Clean and Unique WordPress Themes

18 Useful WordPress Contact Form Plugins

35 Stunning Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs

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30+ Very Useful Color Tools For Designers

The Evolution of a Design Blog

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55+ Most Wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

16 useful Mac cheat Sheets

20 Must Have WordPress CMS Plugins

10 Tips for Better Print Style Sheets

How to Create Creativity

10 Essential Tips You Should Know

Getting Inspiration from Admiration

The Complete Guide to Getting the Most Out of Twitter

14 Traits of Successful Blogs

How to Make All Browsers Render HTML5 Mark-up Correctly – Even IE6

13 Useful WordPress SQL Queries You Wish You Knew Earlier

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Fabulously cool: Icons for any designer creation

AN Jay — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:46:23 +0000

This is fabulously cool: ready-made icons from Icons Land. A friend of mine advised me to visit this site . He was really excited telling that he tried the Weather Icons Set while designing his new weather broadcast site. After visiting the site I thought that maybe someone might find services of icons land useful for himself. The icons enable anyone to build a teardown application for any site, whether this is a website, or a presentation, or some kind of UI software and even printed production.

So I’m here. And here is what I think. A pretty easy to navigate website, with nice examples. The icons allow to spice the design while saving costs and speeding up design process. Icons look good even in small sizes, which is not so easy to draw, so respect for that!

Icons-Land seems to be a design studio which offers Vector Icons , PNG Icons, Emoticons and Custom Icon Design Service. Vector Icons are provided in Adobe Illustrator format, thus can be scaled to any size needed in design. Raster Icons are provided in PNG format in seven sizes 16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128, 256×256. All of them are unique for being worked out in details and effects, including the smallest sizes.

There are many different icons sets that cover many industries and design purposes:

Base Software Icons – widely used icons in any type of software or web application
Hardware Icons – icons that represent different modern hardware devices
Transport Icons – different types of vehicles in 6 colors each, for transportation, GPS tracking, tourist industries
GIS/GPS/Map Icons – various icons to be used in mapping, GPS tracking, construction, tourism industries
POI (Points of Interest) Icons – icons that represent different points on the maps
Sport Icons – various sports and sport inventory
Weather Icons – weather icons to be used in weather related sites and software

All icons are designed in modern Vista Style and also they are three-dimensional (3D), what makes them very realistic, glossy and eye-catching.

Icons can be bought by pack or individually. I liked that their Royalty-free license allows to distribute icons incorporated into design to unlimited number of customers in unlimited number of projects.

And what is also important is that in case you don’t find icon you need in existing packages, you may order Custom Design Service.

I would recommend everyone to visit Icons Land website if you have need for icons or even for inspiration. If you only have a look at the icons, you will understand that they are worth buying.

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