April 30, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Icon Design in 5 Steps - Free Icon Set…

Icon design is a craft that requires some incredible amount of skills. It's all about creating simple representation of actions,

November 28, 2011 marcos333's blog

Beginner Tutorial: Easy Clock Icon on Illustrator

Hi everyone, today we're going to do a really simple exercise on creating this slick clock icon on Adobe Illustrator.

September 12, 2011 abduzeedo's blog

Easy Camera Icon in Fireworks

A few weeks ago I decided to create a camera icon. Usually I would do that in Illustrator or Photoshop,

July 04, 2011 abduzeedo's blog

Easy 3D Globe in Photoshop

A few weeks ago a friend of mine wanted to know how to create a sort of 3D globe effect

April 11, 2011 abduzeedo's blog

Stylish Metallic Button in Photoshop

Last Saturday I was checking Dribbble for some inspiration when I came across this beautiful design created by a Portuguese

February 25, 2011 marcos333's blog

Sweet Minimalist Designs by Celeste Prevost

I think one of the most common problems that graphic Designers have with clients is that most of the time

January 31, 2011 abduzeedo's blog

Radar Icon in Pixelmator

A few weeks ago I showed you how to create a Mac style icon using Photoshop. It was a radar

January 10, 2011 abduzeedo's blog

Radar Icon in Photoshop

We have received quite a few emails with requests about some icon design tutorials in Photoshop. I'm not an icon

November 10, 2010 fabiano's blog

Interview: Everaldo Coelho

Everaldo Coellho is one of the most talented icon designers out there, since the very first time I saw the

July 12, 2010 guest's blog

Real Apple Logo in Photoshop

In this case study/icon tutorial Edward Sanchez will share with us the creative process behind one of his personal projects,

August 03, 2009 abduzeedo's blog

New Quicktime Icon in Photoshop

Apple is about to release their new version of Mac OS X, code-named as Snow Leopard. With this new release

March 17, 2008

Time Machine Icon in Photoshop

Last week I got sometime to study a bit of icon design, specially the Mac OS X icons.

Featured Tutorial

Magic lighting effect in photoshop
Magic lighting effect in Photoshop
Since my last article on how to create smoke generated lots of traffic, I decided to write another one on some of the photoshop effects. Although I use Photoshop on a daily basis, I am by no means a photoshop expert. Well what I want to show here is how to create a nice light and magic effect. 1 - Create a radial gradient, in this case from a purple to a really dark purple

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week 176 by Przemek Nawrocki
Wallpaper of the Week 176 by Przemek Nawrocki
The wallpaper of this week is an image from the Abduzeedo book called, Abduzeedo Inspiration Guide for Designers. This image was created by Przemek Nawrocki and it's called medusa. Przemek Nawrocki was born in 1991 in Lodz, Poland and he is a graphic designer and illustrator with three years experience. For more information visit http://www.keid.org/ or to buy the Abduzeedo book visit http://book.abduzeedo.com

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion - Color Design Workbook: A Real World Guide to Using Color in Gr
Book Suggestion - Color Design Workbook: A Real World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design
The book suggestion of this week is about colors, one of the most important skills for any designer. The book is called Color Design Workbook: A Real World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design and it's not only a very useful book, it's a very well designed one.