Icon Library

Some of our community users have won a great award, this is because of their commitment with us, and because they are constantly involved in all of our publications.

They have won a great set of lumitown icons. Icons created in a unique style, with great colors (blue, bricks, carbon, green, magenta), shiny touch, different variations and utilities that they can use however and wherever they want. The icon colors make them look smooth, with a great aspect that make them stand among other icons.

The winners are:

1. BEST SCORE:
leo_doerr34665: 72370
Sherwood: 64490
Zandor: 56190
Nix:21710
mmkt1000: 17975
SonicBoom: 14880
Iconoclast: 13205
JJay: 12645
Sven: 10390
Gswd: 6380

2. GREATEST NUMBER OF COMMENTS
Zandor: 10381
Sherwood: 10248
SonicBoom: 2737
JJay: 2371
Iconoclast: 1773
Cnshck: 684
one8seven: 563
efox: 518
Zorba: 483
marly: 451

3. DAILY LOG IN
Mak: 209
Sherwood: 203
sven: 200
Zandor: 199
tomahawk: 174
SonicBoom: 166
Bast9: 158
iconoclast: 154
EarthwormGim: 153
aterron: 143

4. LINKS TO OUR WEBSITE (NEW USERS)
leo_doerr34665: 5141
Nix:1458
mmkt1000: 1150
Sherwood: 795
watchlist_in: 355
susana_v: 344
sven:225
efox: 218
Squall: 74
SonicBoom: 67
Swifty: 60

Hope to come and visit us more frequently and bring to our community a lot of new users.
Thank you all for participate and being part of the iconshock team!

I was just checking a practical traslator between english to spanish and viceversa. As we all know, there are hundreds of translators services all around the web, sometimes they are not as close as we would like them to be but they give us some tips that are very helpful to have a clearer idea of the text that we want to deeply understand but is in a language that is practically out of our hands.

Of course Microsoft is part of this, they have their own translator website, but this is not astonishing, what made me do this post was to let you know the possibility that they are giving to us to use a Microsoft Translator Widget in our own blog. “What it is: Built on top of the Microsoft Translator AJAX API (also announced today) it is a small, customizable widget that you can place on your web page – and it helps you instantly makes the page available in multiple languages.”

This would give us the possibility to share our thoughts in a deepest way with all people around the world, they won’t have to go site by site to translate our info, I know this doesn’t sound that amazing, it’s probably something usual for most of us but I have a strong hope that this translator works as exact as posible in all of our languages!

Please let me know if you have try it, I’d love to share ideas and opinions about it!

“It all begins with an idea (ideas make money: money doesn`t make ideas) and you respond to that idea, using your knowledge to present it in the most seductive, engaging manner posible.”

Fernando Gutierrez

Sometimes we are always worried about million of new stuff that is created on the net, how many tutorials have been created, and how can we apply new technology to our system, designs, and of course to our life.

But in this century, we are living the life so fast that we forget to search or learn somethings about the roots of our profession, or suddenly we realize that we don’t even know them. There are a lot of designers that made a difference in the graphic industry.

Saul Bass (1920-1996) was one of them. This Graphic Designer, best known for his cinematographic  projects, was born  on New York. He could create and original and unique graphic style.  Simple shapes with a casual geometric appearance, were the principal key that made his work known around the world.  Brands as Minolta, Quaker Oats, AT&T, among others… are some of the companies that still have the corporative logo that Bass created.

These are greatest samples of his work,I’m pretty sure  this companies are well known because of its image, wherever we go, doesn’t matter how old are we, we can always recognize their logos.

Please take your time to check some history related to the world of design. There are a lot of traditional tips, and techniques that are always going to be useful for develop our ideas.
Bass could relate his graphic instincts and desires, to the cinematographic world of his ages, definitively he could make the difference, how do you think you can make it?

“Good graphic design is the result of the endless search for beauty in things”

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