Archive for February, 2010

21/02/2010 - Blogger.Iconshock

Political characters vol 2

If you thought our first volume had controversial characters, you’ve haven’t seen nothing yet! These are double the nasty, double the fun!

This set includes Russia’s very own Vladimir Putin, French president slash celebrity Nicolas Sarkozy, Uruguay’s face of new hope José “pepe” Mujica, Tourism entrepreneurs Fidel and Raul Castro, Afghanistan’s puppet- sorry president Hamid Karzai, famous ladies lecturer Mu’ ammar al Gadhafi, Israeli president and Nobel prize winner Shimon Peres, and China’s iron leader and Google’s best friend Hu Jintao. Icons come in ICO, PNG and ICNS. Btw, I’m only joking. These are very respectable leaders, and they all deserve a place in heaven beside Ginger Rogers and mother Teresa of Calcutta.

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19/02/2010 - Editorial.Iconshock

Folder icons totally free

Enjoy this carefully designed folder icons, are u tired of your old styled folders ? please try these, feel free to use them in any commercial of free project.

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18/02/2010 - Blogger.Iconshock

Iconshock icon sets: original film director icons vol 1

We at Iconshock are big film buffs. If you’d ask us if we had any common love besides Icons, I’d say its film. And that’s way we wanted to pay homage to the most successful and influential filmmakers of all time. This is our first installment, with six of the most talented and box office grossing directors of all time. The set comes in ICO, ICNS and PNG formats, and includes, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Alfred Hitchcock, Tim Burton, and James Cameron. Which one is you’re favorite?

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13/02/2010 - Blogger.Iconshock

The ultimate collection of free movie icon sets

We are very proud we have assembled here a list with the most extraordinary icons you can find on the net. We have only chosen the best of the best. From The Exorcist to The Polar Express, you will find the most rare, amazing and useful movie themed icons in the entire web. Look no further. As the Oscars come near, this is the best way to fuel our expectations. Enjoy!

1. Cinema Sigma Style
Iconshock

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This is truly a one of a kind icon set, because each icon comes with 17 add-ons, each one made in the beautiful Iconshock trademark style “sigma”

2. The Addams Family
Silvia Selvi

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Ta ra ra ran! Ta ra ra ran! This was my favorite tv show as a child. And I have to confess I had a thing for Morticia. Genius icon set by this very talented artist form Italy.

3. Kung Fu Panda
Mhmood Zaidan

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This set just has one icon, but it’s full of detail and identical to the movie character. It could easily be an official icon from the Dreamworks marketing campaign. Excellent.

4. Transformers
Pf Yuan

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I think both transformer movies were really, really bad, but these icons are the exact opposite! A shame only Optimus Prime is featured.

5. The Bourne Ultimatum
Nic Works

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Each Icon is a perfect key feature of the movie. Didn’t expect to find an icon set of this movie. I’m not a fan of the series I must say, but I do like this set very much.

6. Kill Bill
David Lanham

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Perfect! This is one of the best Icon Sets ever! The complete set features many more icons besides these, including the Kaboom cereal! Check the detail at the smaller sizes. This is just genius.

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10/02/2010 - Blogger.Iconshock

Vector vs Bitmap for dummies

Oh no! Not another vector vs bitmap article! Well… Yes. I’m afraid to tell you that I’ve come from a land far, far away, just to add to Google yet another post about the differences between vector type images and Bitmaps. So, why should you, dear visitor, continue reading these lines any further? What will make this article different from the rest? Well, for starters, I’m going to insert at the end of this post a hidden URL with hundreds of videos of my steamy, vicious, dirty, prolific sex life, and besides that, this article would be loaded with information so exclusive, so intelligent, so enlightening, that it will increase your credit card limit, save the Amazon rainforest and improve your digestion. How about that?

Hmmm. My nose has grown so much its pushing the monitor away.

Let’s get things straight. I’m still in love with a girl that left me almost two years ago, so my sex life is pretty much restricted to my daily dosage of lyrics from AC-DC and The Rolling Stones… the only way to improve your credit card limit is saving as much as you can… and not even god himself can save the Amazon rainforest. Oh, and I really don’t care about your digestion.

So with all things cleared out, I will now proceed to write about vector and bitmap images. Of course you are free to go on and make your own steamy videos instead of reading this.

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Bitmap image enlarged to see the individual pixels

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09/02/2010 - Blogger.Iconshock

Best 100 free social media and web 2.0 icon sets

I want to show you the most original and beautiful icons web 2.0 style ready for download. Use them wisely dear readers, and please show your love for their talented creators writing on their blogs and telling them how cool their art is.

0. Iconshock Social Icon Set

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07/02/2010 - Editorial.Iconshock

icon tutorial: Windows 7 icon with Illustrator

step015Hello. In this tutorial we will use Adobe Illustrator CS4 to create the music icon of the Windows 7 style.

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06/02/2010 - Editorial.Iconshock

Illustrating a business briefcase in Windows 7 style

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The new O.S. Windows 7 has improved aesthetics to make the user interface at least more appealing. There are huge ultra detailed icons for folders, devices and so on. This time we will use Illustrator CS4 to create a nice briefcase with the Windows 7 style. You need only a few basics on how to copy, paste, rotate, scale and color the shapes. Let’s focus on business.

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05/02/2010 - admin

Earthquake prevention icon set

Tragedies like the one that Haiti is suffering remind us of how fragile our life is, and the importance of prevention. Anything can happen to anyone, anytime. This is a small contribution to make us remember the importance of being prepared. We hope you can share them with the people you know.

How to help Haiti Victims – information and resources

Juan S
iconshock founder

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05/02/2010 - Blogger.Iconshock

Best 50 undercover icon sets

Iconshock wanted to give the maximum gift any icon lover can have. We wanted to give to our readers, the ultimate, definitive, mega, super, hyper, ultra, mega, … you get the point…

Here it is ladies and gentlemen. No more B.S. The best Icons of 2009. There are some icons of 2008, but who cares if they’re good? Enjoy.

1. Iconshock Folders
Iconshock

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The concept behind the design of these is very original; you have a pretty good idea of the contents of each folder without any extra graphics outside the actual envelope. One of the best folder icons out there.

2. Lovely Website Pack 2
Lazy Crazy

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These icons didn’t go for the easy way and chose the difficult top view, that at the end is what makes them unique.

3. Tools
Dave Mottram

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Clean and clear as all Icons should be.

4. Fat
Harwenzhang

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The obesity concept is taken way to the edge without sacrificing the identity of the elements. A shame there are so few icons on this set.

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01/02/2010 - Blogger.Iconshock

100 most creative folder icon sets

Personally, I think folder icons are the most useful of all the icon sets you can think of. Designing a good folder set requires special taste and inventivity, since they are so embedded in your operating system, and so continuously clicked, that a poor design can be obtrusive and disfigure your computer entirely. Contrary to the movie themed icon list I made last week, were the selection was difficult due to scarce sources, finding folder icons was like shooting fish in a barrel. (not that I ever shot a fish. Nor a barrel. In fact I haven’t shot anything in my life outside Halo)

The difficult part was to debug the humongous quantity of low fi stuff. I think I saw almost 500 folder icon sets for three straight days to get down to a hundred, and if I didn’t have a deadline, I would have probably continued this list to 200. I am really proud of this selection, being my longest top list so far, and really expect you readers out there to dig your icon hungry fangs in each set.

Rejoice, this is the longest list of this particular kind of icon sets on the whole web till date. (hope Smashing magazine isn’t reading)

So, Without further ado… Enjoy!

1. Rise for Windows

Vincent Garnier

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Click on the Image to download

2. Christmas Folder

Vincent Garnier

Christmas_Folder
Click on the Image to download

3. Avalon

Wil Nichols

Avalon_Folder
Click on the Image to download

4. H2O

Iconblock

H2o_Folder
Click on the Image to download

5. Eclipse

Iconblock

Eclipse_Folder
Click on the Image to download

6. Zero

Iconblock

Zero_Folder
Click on the Image to download

7. Somatic Rebirth

The Iconfactory

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01/02/2010 - Blogger.Iconshock

Iconshock Interview: Tutorial 9 wunderkind David Leggett

Tutorial 9 is one of the most successful examples of web entrepreneurship in the design industry. It has grown in less than two years to become THE place to go for designers and artists to find free tutorials and resources, This marvelous site is just one of the many profitable projects run by under 21, self taught blogger from Atlanta David Leggett. Many of us couldn’t even tie our shoelaces properly at 21, but this guy already has one of the most respected design forums in the web, and has been featured in tons of interviews and “best of” lists. He became interested in computers at age 10, when his parent gave him Adobe Pagemill as a gift.  (I had a Chewbacca at 10. No wonder.) Who would have thought that was the beginning of one of the most rocket rising, fast paced careers in blogging history. Well, I now “blogging history” is less than 10 years old, but, you get the point.

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01/02/2010 - Blogger.Iconshock

Political characters vol 1

Right wing, left wing… extremists, dictators and madmen. Party junkies and power addicts. The good, the bad and the ugly. We have them all here, Iconshock’s first volume of the most controversial and talked about political leaders of this year.

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01/02/2010 - Blogger.Iconshock

100 Best logo tutorials

Finding a good logo is crucial in your pathway to achieve a good corporate identity. In my many years of work in the graphic design business, I have found that Logo work can be the most time consuming and a real sanity sucker. Itineration after itineration, you sometimes  feel you will never get to that magical moment when client and designer agree on the final product. The road is in deed long and winding. Because of that, I wanted to make a lost of great logo tutorials to help you in your everyday creative battles. Use wisely.

1. Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough
Spoon Graphics

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Click on image to access tutorial.

2. Create a fly logo Design
Sean Hodge

Fly_Logo
Click on image to access tutorial.

3. Modern Green Logo
PS Freak

Freak_Logo
Click on image to access tutorial.

4. Creating a crazy cool logo
Abduzeedo

Cool_Logo
Click on image to access tutorial.

5. Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways
Spoon Graphics

Vivid_Logo
Click on image to access tutorial.

6. Web 2.0 Logo Reflection in Vector format with Illustrator
Jay Hilgert

Bitbox_Logo
Click on image to access tutorial.

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