Articles Tagged 'icon'
Mascots: Where Are They Heading?
Kalmer RautamMany companies use a virtual mascot or avatar to represent their product or service on the Web. At first glance it seems so simple, just follow the well-known guidelines and voilà, you have a cool mascot that keeps people engaged with your site. But is it really that easy? After doing some research I ended up noting that most of the popular mascots and avatars are of rather the same type – there is some personality but not much movement. That raised questions: How much room is there for development and why are mascots so popular?
Designing for iPhone: The Ultimate Roundup of Resources
Ari SuardiyantiFor most Apple lovers, having an iPhone or iPod Touch can be very useful and exciting at the same time. You can transfer your music playlist, take pictures or record a video, or keep e-books to read when you're away from your Mac. Like other iPhone or iPod users, we easily get bored with how "clean" the iPhone theme is which came with it. Of course it is easy to find iPhone themes just by googling it, but have you ever think of creating your own iPhone theme, changing the icons, or design the wallpaper screen yourself? Below is the round-up collection for iPhone related designs that will give your iPhone the new look and some of them even guide you on how to create your own iPhone theme.
Draw Golden Pen and Envelope Icon in Photoshop
Mohammad JeprieIn this tutorial we will use Photoshop to create a fancy looking golden pen and envelope icon. We will be using lots of shape and layer style to achieve a realistic look. Before we start, take a look at the final image below. If you like outcome be sure to keep reading - you will learn a lot of advanced and interesting features to build these two icons.
15 Insanely Awesome Toolkits for Icon Designers
Siva KumarIcon is a visual anchor which helps us to navigate through the interface. Icon design is the process of designing a graphic symbol that represents some real, fantasy or abstract motive, entity or action. Icon designs may be of many designs and can be simple with 2d drawing or a black silhouette, or complex presenting a combination of graphics design elements such as one or more linear and radial color gradients, projected shadows, contour shades, and 3D perspective effects.
31 Free Clean Icon Sets For Minimal Web Design
Daniels MekšsAll clever things are usually very simple. Sometimes you just want to stay with the old valuables and keep it subtle. These icons will look great with clean and minimal web designs and also notice since almost all of them are monochromatic you can put different colors, create your own letterpress and different effects without spending time to create your own actual icon. I think minimal and letterpress effects currently are very popular in webdesigns and many designers will find this collection useful and worth bookmarking!
Quick Photoshop Tutorial: Create A HD Television Icon
1STWD EditorialHello and welcome to another Adobe Photoshop tutorial, today we are going to create a HD Television. I don't think this tutorial and creation will be too difficult for you because I've put everything in easy to follow steps and tried to explain the best I could.If you have basic knowledge about Photoshop you should be able to easily keep up and let me guide you through this tutorial! Let's get our hands dirty!
How to Create a Realistic and Sleek Wacom Bamboo [Highly Detailed]
In this tutorial, we will create a highly realistic and Sleek Wacom Bamboo. The process on creating this image is quite complicated but I'll try to explain it as clear as I can. Each step will be accompanied with screenshots and sometimes I will add notes for better understanding.
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Huge and Extensive Roundup of 45 Miscellaneous Icon Packs
At last we are going to show the collection of Other icon packs.These icons will be useful in designing your next Desktop,iPhone or MAC application user interface. We have sorted different type of icon packs in this roundup like animal icons, creature icons, emoticons, Food icons and a lot more. These icons are having a classy look and creative design. Please read the license usage of these icon packs carefully before using them.
1WD Social Media Icons Pack + Detailed Tutorial To Make Them From Scratch
Albertus AdriantoNowadays, there are so many graphic designers who have their own style of making icons and buttons. I have my own style too. Take your time to read on my Adobe Photoshop tutorial on making cool icons for your social media buttons. Actually, it can be applied on so many things, not only social media buttons, but I believe this effect could be the best one to be applied on your social media buttons.
The Ultimate Roundup of Amazing Free Social Media Icon Packs
We hope you have enjoyed our last collection of web and user interface icons. This time you are going to get a good and quality collection of social media icons. This list will be very useful for bloggers,web designers and graphic designers to promote their articles and their services. The usage license is described for some icon packs here.If you need more information about the icons usage you can get from their source page.
