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9 Sites With Cool Stock Icon Sets

June 16, 2008

Icons are part of our lives these days when we are involved as webmasters. Gone are the days of drab looking designs and the lack of choices we had. Today, we find groovy looking icon sets all across the web and with a bit of digging, even you can find some that appeal to you. Icons aren’t just icons either. They make a bold statement about you and your ability to look cool. They help you to set yourselves apart from the masses and like a car number plate they say something about the owner. On my search for some nice and different sets of stock icons I came across some very good designs. Some cost a little more than others but in the end, you have to decide whether it is worth the expense or not. As you know, looking good has its price. Enjoy! Read more

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Blogging Icons Set

June 12, 2008

There are total 12 shiny and modern icons for your blogs. Bloggers can use it on their own personal and commercial projects.

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DeviantART Icon Sets

May 27, 2008

40 incredible icon sets which you can use for your web designs or your desktop.

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Free eCommerce icons

May 22, 2008

Presenting 32 free icons to use or remix in your eCommerce projects complete with master SVG file. Enjoy.

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7 Principles of Effective Icon Design

April 12, 2008

Before approaching icon design there are some guidelines and principles that are worth studying. If you want to create effective icon designs, then you should take a holistic approach to issues such as: audience, size, simplicity, lighting, perspective, and style. This article gives you a good starting place for creating icons that work well together and fit seamlessly within your designs.

1. Approach Icon Design Holistically

Icons fit within graphic systems. Whether they are designed for desktop applications or websites an icon is one of many graphic elements that need to work together harmonically. Carry this logic across icon sets as well. Icons can be appreciated for their esthetic solutions individually, but they don’t function alone. Evaluate your icon designs relative to the graphic system your using them in. Make sure that each icon differs from surrounding icons, while still working together as a whole. In the article Designing an iconic language over at Turbo Milk the author Yegor Gilyov states, “If you need to draw several icons, you need to think over images for the whole set of icons before proceeding with illustrating activities.” This is one of two major points made in this article on icon design. He goes on to explain how failing to plan how the whole set of icons will work together from the beginning will ensure a huge waste of time, as redesign will be inevitable. Read more

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Create a Cool Music Logo on a Grunge Background

April 5, 2008

I really like the artwork that is used in Pitchfork’s website; So, I decided to re-create something similar in Photoshop, and make a tutorial on how I did it. These techniques can be used to make a logo and background for a cool grunge style website.

Step 1

Make a new document that is 1500px wide and 1000 px height. I decided to make the document extra large for use to work with; So, we can see the effects really well. With the Text tool set your text in a font that looks similar to the image below. I used the font Blackoak STD. Kern and scale the font as you desire.
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Best of the Web

April 2, 2008

Wow, another month has gone by already. Have you gotten all the tutorials done you wanted to last month? Already, another fresh list of tuts, freebies, and articles. So much great content; so little time. That’s a good thing though. Always, lots of high quality material to pick and choose from. It has been another rock solid month here on PSDTUTS and across the web. Let’s check out that elsewhere material.

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