Archive for June, 2009

26/06/2009 - Blogger.Iconshock
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Why So SERIOUS? FREE dark night icon set FOR THE COMMUNITY!

At last, the people have decided! Power to the people as John Lennon said… here it is, the new, the fantastic, the ultra awesome….DARK NIGHT ICON SET! What I loved about Chris Nolan’s movie was it’s grandiloquence and sheer style. Young directors now days think that making a good movie is to hang the camera on the actors shoulder like a parrot, and inserting what ever C.G. tricks they can. The huge success of the Dark Night proves that audiences crave over good story lines and rich characters. I hope you enjoy the icons, and their whimsical details. The joker icon is my favorite.

By the way… Who else thinks Batman got ripped off at the oscars?

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26/06/2009 - Blogger.Iconshock
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Holy folders free folder icon set

So, did you like the 100 folder list last week? We know you guys just can´t have enough, so we are giving away an awesome folder set just for our blog readers.

I know my posts are the best solution around for insomnia, so I want to give you another extra reason to stay tuned to my weekly nonsense. From now on, the icon set we will give away on the blog will be in a brand new, unissued style, totally departed from the Iconshock usual commercial and free stocks. This is a really special thing we are doing as payback to your support and comments. Each week we will feature a different designer from our staff, and each artist will have total aesthetic freedom in order to give each set a unique trademark.

I am preparing my brains and my soul for three straight days of loud Rock and Roll at the “Rock al Parque” festival, the biggest free rock festival in the world, so I will be back on Tuesday. Wish me luck!

I hope you have a nice weekend.

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19/06/2009 - Blogger.Iconshock
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How to install icons on Windows and OSX

We talk about icons everyday. We search desperately for the next holy grail of icons. Some of us even make a living out of icons. Ok so, what in the world is an icon? The word “icon” comes from the Greek word “eikon” which means image. Before the consolidation of semiotics, the word “icon” referred mainly to the pictorial depictions of religious characters, but from quite some time now (a century or two) the word refers to a picture, a drawing or an image that represents by analogy or concretely, a concept, an idea, or a word. The term is much broader and deep if you get into semiotics and the meaning of symbols, but I will leave it there. I guess you clever readers get the point.

In our beloved digital world, were anything is as it seems, an icon is any graphic symbol that represents an option for interaction between a given software and the user. Brain shift to teaching-computers-to-grandma-mode, icons are those tiny pictures on a computer screen that we have to click in order to do anything. See that colored square thingy at the bottom left of your screen? See that “X” on the upper right corner of your screen? See the 700.000 little pictures on the Iconshock site?

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My old neat’n clean Iconshock desktop. There’s about 30 icons in this image.

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12/06/2009 - Blogger.Iconshock
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FREE SIGMA STYLE MOBILE SET

We are feeling the winds of anxiety and general excitement because of Apple’s presentation of the new 3Gs mobile at the World Developers Conference, so our theme this week is… you guessed it, cell phones.

Rejoice, and always remember, not everything in excess is bad.

G.

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08/06/2009 - Blogger.Iconshock
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50 Best free movie themed icons

I was surprised to see that despite the massive acceptance of movie themed icons, the amount of high quality sets on the web is rather scarce. Sure there’s a lot of sources, but most of the contributions are made with little technical care and are almost unusable.

On the other side, I was surprised to see the brilliance of the sets I did find; the love and professionalism do show through these 50 examples of the most entertaining icons to make.

Speaking of movies… what was the last movie you’ve watched?

I went to see Michael Haneke’s Funny games yesterday. Crazy and sadistic movie. I liked it.

By the way, sorry for the mess we made with the blog last Friday. I was trying to publish from word 2007 and we were doing some tests, with no success I may add. There’s a voodoo problem with the HTML tags that we are trying to fix, so your favorite blogger can let go for once and for all from the evil spell of the WYSIWYG editor of Wordpress.

Ok, so bring on the icons!

DISCLAIMER

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First things first. I have to say that I could have made this list with only Iconshock’s stock of movie related icons. I have searched and searched for about 3 days to find the best movie themed Icons on the web, and to tell you the truth, Iconshock has the biggest collection around. So, I will only list here my personal favorites from the Iconshock stock, and I will place them at the bottom of the countdown, to avoid the mention looking like a pitiful act of self promotion.

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