22/05/2013 - admin

The road to flat: making icon aesthetics more expressive

Screenshot20130425151742

Hello everyone! Today we want to go over a big and notorious change in visual styles for graphical user interfaces (GUI) and web design going on right now amid several background circumstances. In a decade, computers have become more portable, and the classic PC (including its three main species: Windows, Mac and Linux based systems) ceased to be the most popular device: mobile phones and tablets came to be preferred, since today they bring enough processing power, portability and memory capacity to fully support rich applications and Internet browsing.

(more…)

04/03/2013 - admin

Master pixel perfect design

pixel_master


Hello Shock Followers, let’s consider for a while the importance of mastering  pixel perfect design as a way of  boosting the quality of our designs and consequently marketing ourselves as great professional designers and developers, that’s what we will be discussing in this opportunity: the basic tips to achieve a clean and visually consistent product, either in icon design, application development or web design, through the implementation of pixel perfect design practices.

(more…)

02/11/2011 - admin

15.000 iPhone icons. An Incredible Freebie

Hello everyone! Just as you enjoy downloading free stuff, we enjoy giving freebies away! That’s why today we want to present this awesome and complete set of iPhone icons for you to use in your next projects, your website, your mobile apps or just to decorate your desktop! This set features pixel perfect icons, even in smaller sizes…

(more…)

15/06/2011 - susana

Icon design, the ultimate guide

Everyday we’re permanently interacting with icons, from the TV to the metro station and our mobile, icons are present everywhere as an important element that helps people interact with their surroundings without using any spoken or written language. Creating an icon is a whole science that hundreds study, from semiotics to graphic languages, understanding how to represent something and make it universally understandable is a complete learning process.

Today we want to share our experience here at Iconshock and bring you a complete handbook that will show you all the steps that creating an icon leads, from listening to the client’s needs to defining the fittest style, this article will show you how to begin and conclude an icon design process successfully.

Icon design

(more…)

18/01/2011 - Blogger.Iconshock

Icon sets, 150+ best designs

Icons have definitely become one of the most useful resources to implement in web design thanks to their lightweight and high communication level. Ranging from truly minimal creations to realistic and big designs that can barely be considered icons as they’re more a piece of art themselves, icons offer many different styles to satisfy all the people’s needs. On this countdown we’ve gathered the greatest icon sets that were released throughout these past twelve months (some sets were released before that period but we just could not leave them out of this list) with the only purpose of supply you a high shot of inspiration that will help you understand the true meaning of icons as powerful communication tools that should never miss in any good web design.

(more…)

01/12/2010 - Editorial.Iconshock

Content management system icons

Great Content Management system icons in Perspective style if you want to check more icons on this style take a peek on our entire perspective collection http://goo.gl/v80Cy

content-management-system-icons

(more…)

14/09/2010 - Editorial.Iconshock

Design kit icon set

Great icon set based on your must have kit of design elements

design-kit-icon-set

(more…)

27/07/2010 - Editorial.Iconshock

Social icon set moleskin style

Amazing social icon set inspired in the classic moleskin journals specially designed for our friends at littleboxofideas.com

social-icon-set-moleskin-style

(more…)

06/07/2010 - Editorial.Iconshock

Apple gadgets icons

An awesome icon set containing a series of high quality Mac icons, ready to be implemented in your different projects with the classic quality level that we have always been providing. Enjoy it and please comment about it.

apple-gadgets-icons

(more…)

16/06/2010 - Editorial.Iconshock

Payment methods icons

Another great vector set, including lots of payments methods, high quality icons ready to use in your project.

payment-methods-icons

(more…)

28/05/2010 - Editorial.Iconshock

Camera icons

A tiny set of photography related icons, very useful for your photo applications, please stay tuned to get more great icons like these :)

photo-icons-camera 

(more…)

18/05/2010 - admin

Vector social beaker icons

Here we go, with another set of social icons, this time this quality vector icons we designed for our friends of Noupe.com  :) Download after the juuuuuuuuump !

social-icons-icon-library

(more…)

12/05/2010 - Blogger.Iconshock

100 free web elements sets

To be successful, every web and app designer has to communicate ideas to clients in a clear and effective manner. You can’t have clients imagine your ideas, the client has to SEE them. Web site mock ups are the perfect way to pass on your ideas so they can be approved or modified easily and efficiently. Here we have listed the best Graphic user Interface elements in the web. (GUI) From icons, to buttons, menus or scrolls, you will find everything you need to build your fancy mockup. In the case of icons, there are some of such high quality, that including these in your final designs is a must. Your blog will look a million bucks with these fantastic freebies.  So carry on and skim through these wonderful resources created by our community’s finest designers.

Icons

separator

1. Bitcons by P.J. Onori

bitcon-iconshock-icons-free
Massive set of 120 icons in 16×16, 32×32 & 64×64 pixels in 10 different colors.

(more…)

07/05/2010 - admin

55 Original Vector twitter icons

Hey friends, we have just released one of the bets freebies for your social media development, A massive set of more than 50 twitter icons, with the best quality, And to make this even more impressive, they include vector sources in Adobe Illustrator, Can u beleive it? Ok, download it after the Jump :)

twitter-icons

(more…)

20/04/2010 - admin

ipad vector GUI elements: tabs buttons menus icons

Another great freebie from iconshock, this set contains almost all ipad UI elemments, including buttons, tabs, menus, keyboard, balloms, etc etc… very useful for designers and developers, it includes scalable and totally editable vector versions (adobe illustrator), enjoy it and spread the word twitting and stumbling :)

ipad vector buttons GUI
Download after the jump :)

(more…)

Page 1 of 41234