Today we are going to showcase the work of design agency What What, run by designers and animators Edward and John Harrison. Their work is simply incredible, trendy yet original. All their art work has a certain craziness attached to it, as you can see in this excellent icon set. They have worked for big clients like Adidas and Nick Jr, which is just one symptom of their quality. This icon set comes in .sit compression for Mac Osx.
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I personally don’t believe in destiny nor the Zodiac or any of that crap… but these animal icons are so incredible I just had to give in. These are creations of the excellent Detroit based design agency troyboydesign.They feature in this icon set some of the animals of the Chinese Zodiac in beautiful soft design and great pastel colors very suitable for almost any desktop color scheme.
By the way…What sign are you?
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Hello dear readers! This week we have a special treat for all of you. We were thinking about all those talented artists, designers and programmers out there that we really admire and appreciate, and we decided to post a weekly interview with them so you can meet our heroes face to face and know a little bit more about their workflows, their inspiration and their personality…
This week we are going to begin with the sweetest artist around. She is the superbly talented Mirjami Maninen from Finland. She is one of the most professional icon artists in the market today… Her work has been featured extensively in many, many blogs including, the almighty Smashing Magazine. I feel in love with her work the first time I had to do a compilation list for Iconshock, and after exchanging some emails and reading here answers, I am convinced that as a person, she is as special as her work. Enjoy!
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| Beautiful Mirjami Manninen |
I really loved the smurfs when I was a child. This Belgium cartoon is one of the most memorable of T.V. history, and our friends from troyboydesign decided to pay their homage. Very nice icons full of detail and very faithful to the original series… I once knew this incredible girl. The best girl in the world in fact, and among all her quirks and adorable madness, she loved smurfs. Hope she enjoys this set. And hope you regular readers forgive my reminiscence.
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Hello people. This card is a nice irony isn’t it? It’s the icon for games in Super Vista style. The symbol of love as part of a game appeared in the deck of cards towards the end of the 15th century and now we will glorify the crude facts of a divine ideal with the aid of Illustrator CS4.
Today, I can say the blog has become an art gallery. This icon set is one of the most superb and amazing pieces of design I have seen in quite a while. Give your desktop a unique and fun look and download this set by genius Yegor Gilyov.
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Every developer has to deal with sketching or charting when designing User Interface flows. It is a vital process in order to pre visualize the efficiency of our application. and this is specially true with Web based apps, were everything can go out of hand so easily. Ryan from 37signals, enlighten us with his particular review of flow design, were he approaches communication between app and user dividing it in units of “what the user sees”, and “what the user does”. Simple and effective approach. Check the article for more info.
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I really think custom scrollbars suck. They are generally as ugly as the bottom of a tractor and make navigation clumsy and tedious.
But it is true that there are certain web pages where default scrollbars break the visual design and you have to figure out a way to bring everything together. Designing scrollbars is a very difficult task, so that’s why I’m posting this interesting tutorial by the guys at Hesido where they show us how to make a scrollbar in XHTML.
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Confused by the name? bet you can’t spell it right. But I’m pretty sure you will enjoy the detail and artistry put into this set. Aotearoa is a Maorí word that means “New Zeland” and as we can see, this icon set depicts national symbols from that magical country. This set is the work of one of the most amazing icon artists out there, Mischa McLachlan. By the way, congratulations Mischa on your new job at Apple!
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I’ve always thought that the Linux logo is the coolest of all operating systems… well, French artist imacadam has made a very awesome depiction of the Linux penguin in almost every situation imaginable. And they are all unique with plenty of detail and subtle glossy feel. There are so many icons on this set that all you icon collectors will have a blast making combinations and testing how each one of them look on our desktop. This is a real treat. enjoy!
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There is a general belief that Pc’s are for programming and Mac’s are for designing. And although the market tendencies aimed at that partial truth ten years ago, the tides are turning pretty fast. In fact, we can say today that developers are turning to Mac’s and designers are turning to Linux. My question here is… who’s turning to windows?
This good article by Mark Nutter shows us five good reasons why developers are leaving their trusty, not so good looking Pc’s for the better accessibility and versatility of the always sexy MacOsx.
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Hello dear Iconshockers!. From now on, besides our weekly free and original icon set, we are going to feature daily (hopefully) a free icon set from selected icon artists from around the world. Today we will begin with talented French designer Benoit Bender. This set is called A dog’s life and is made exclusively for Apple computers, but Benoit has kindly made a version for Windows and Linux. Anyway, you could convert the Mac version easily to PC. You can read our previous post on that subject here.
Enjoy this cute icon set and stay tuned to all the info our blog has to offer.
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Ok dear readers, the day has come. After receiving truckloads of emails and comments with all your fervent and patient clamors for this blog to become a sexy, steamy forum, I finally have decided to give in. I am going to post the most dirty, nasty, naughty sex video I’ve seen in my life. Don’t really care if I get kicked out of Iconshock and get sued by the IPA (Iconshock Parent Association) This is a shitty morning for me and I don’t give a shit! Go ahead and wa#@! all you f@!# want I don’t care!
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For those of you that liked the Garret Dimon slides I posted last week or so, here goes another taste of his groove with these slides where he makes a very good overview at App UI design.
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Application Interface Design
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Huge icons come to town in the new firmware for Ps3 game consoles. Mark Wilson from Gizmodo, takes us in a quick tour throughout the new features that arrive to one of the most awesome game consoles in the market. Which game console is your favorite?
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