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 understandable in various different sizes, from 16x16 pixels up to 512x512 pixels.
We haven't post much about icons but today we want to share with you a post showing a little bit of the workflow behind icon creation. Denis Pakhaliuk from Ramotion wrote this post listing the 5 step process they use to create icons.
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Sebastian Andaur, a 17 years old self-taught, multidisciplinary freelance Art Director, Digital Artist and Graphic Designer located in Santiago. Sebastian loves colors since he was born and when he got his first computer he started to playing with them.
For more information visit http://work.andaurstudios.cl/
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The book of this week is a book I just got from a friend. It was in my wish list for a long time. The book is called Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information and as the reviews says, it's about our ability to generate information now far exceeds our capacity to understand it.
