Tim Boelaars is an independent graphic designer and illustrator from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tim specializes in icon designs and have worked with some major brands creating amazing little icons that you can see on this post.
CreativeDash is a digital studio based in San Francisco, CA, focused on enhancing your customers’ experience via incredibly attractive, vivid graphics and engaging interface design. I am a huge fan of their work, I have been following them...
We all know by now the importance of sketching. It's the essence of idea exploration and budget friendly to boot. Grab a piece of paper, a pencil and let your imagination flow. To inspire you to incorporate sketch in your daily life we're...
With the launch of iOS7 we have been noticing an increase in some particular icon style and illustrations. From skeuomorphism to flat vectors and now, thick strokes. It's not a new style, however it's getting pretty popular especially for...
Last week I posted about some icon design inspired by pancakes and donuts. Those icons were pretty cool and super realistic. Today we bring to you another amazing case study for an icon, this time inspired by a cooking glove. The cool...
Weirdeetz is specialized in Icon Design and his work is awesome. I always admired the details on these little icons and the patiente the designer must have to get it done. In this post you will see a quite a few cool icons to inspire you.
Icon design is a craft that requires some incredible amount of skills. It's all about creating simple representation of actions, products or services that can be use in interfaces. It sounds simple however these icons have to be...
Hi everyone, today we're going to do a really simple exercise on creating this slick clock icon on Adobe Illustrator. If you're beginning in using this software, well this tutorial will be very suitable for you, so let's begin! Just a...
A few weeks ago I decided to create a camera icon. Usually I would do that in Illustrator or Photoshop, however as I use Fireworks pretty much most of my time I chose to create the icon using it. The cool thing about Fireworks is that you...
A few weeks ago a friend of mine wanted to know how to create a sort of 3D globe effect using Photoshop. I didn't know how to do that but I got really intrigued with that, so I decided to give it a try. I knew that the Spherize would work...
Last Saturday I was checking Dribbble for some inspiration when I came across this beautiful design created by a Portuguese designer called Emanuel Sa . It was an icon with some beautiful metal effects, so I decided to learn how to do that...
I think one of the most common problems that graphic Designers have with clients is that most of the time clients tend to think that the more detailed a project is, the better he will become. This happen with all type of projects, from...
A few weeks ago I showed you how to create a Mac style icon using Photoshop. It was a radar one inspired by the Network Utility icon. As I like to play with all tools I decided to give it a try in Pixelmator as well. So, in this tutorial I...
We have received quite a few emails with requests about some icon design tutorials in Photoshop. I'm not an icon designer per se however I love icons and really admire guys that are good at that, including my friend Everaldo Coelho,...
Everaldo Coellho is one of the most talented icon designers out there, since the very first time I saw the Crystal icons I became a huge fan and even more when I found out that he was Brazilian. Everaldo has been working with icon and UI...
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