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29/04/2009 - Lina
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ICONSHOCK AWARDS!!!

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!

24/04/2009 - Lina

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MICROSOFT TRANSLATOR

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!

15/04/2009 - Lina

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More Quotes…!

“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

08/04/2009 - Lina
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SOME GRAPHIC HISTORY IN OUR BLOG!

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?

01/04/2009 - Lina
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Quotes

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

Büro für form

26/03/2009 - Lina
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Internet Explorer 8

On March 19th “General Manager Dean Hachamovitch during his keynote (…) in Las Vegas announced the availability of the final release of Internet Explorer 8 to download and install on their PCs.”(quote from“Brandon LeBlanc”).

I still haven’t try it, but in my opinion these are great news for all of us, as web users. I’ve been reading some articules about Internet Explorer 8 that many people has published in different websites. Most of them says that it’s a great advance and an excellent tool that all of us should have it right now. I’m not a fan of downloading or purchasing programs from the first day that they are available, it’s been a week since Internet Explorer 8 its available so I would like to receive different opinions from all of you about it.
If you still don’t have it but want to prove it, click here and let me know your personal comments and opinions about it. I’m sure this topic is really helpful for all of us.
Hope to hear from all of you soon!

19/03/2009 - Lina

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Web Typography

It’s important to be aware of the way we decide to write our articules or any publication in our website. People always cares that the spelling or the principal idea of the product that they want to share is good, but sometimes we forget that the most important thing is to bring all kind of people, people from everywhere to our website to share our ideas.

A basic aspect to attract them besides of having a good graphic design, is the form that we use the typography. Spelling is important but we need that they fall in love with our work in all different ways, so if you don’t want to get them bored of your info; Here are Five(5) basic but very useful points that might help you to develop your web typography in a good way:

1. Hierarchy
2. Contrast
3. Line Height
4. Letter Spacing
5. Line Length

If you want more information, please go to smashinmagazine.com and read this complete articule about this issue. “10 Principles For Readable Web Typography”

Hope this information helps you with your website development.

12/03/2009 - Lina
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ICONS: When an image talks.

Aside of being a 100% necessary  in software apps; icons are really useful in the content of a web design.

Nowdays, when we are interested in communicate and offer a product or an idea,  a web page is the main tool that we use in XXI century.  If you are a designer you must now that the design is the most important way to attract customers and that’s why  diferent companies  come to us, they are always waiting the best image for their Project, but as web designers, do we always think of the importance of an icon?, I mean not thinking in a general image, or design, I am talking about particularly of icons.  My first experience with icon meanings was with iconkshock. I’ve never thought  how significant is an icon style in a software and in a web design development.

There are  thousands of styles, more than you’ve never known, than can make your website or any digital application so much more fascinated. The greatest fact is that an icon is never going to be only a decorative image, a good icon always can talk. A good icon acts like the best summary ever.

I would like to know, ¿what do you think about this issue?, It’d be really good to have comments from designers about what they think  when a customer asks them to create a web design and also I would like to have comments from these customers, to know what they hope when they need web design.  Is the word “Icon” always present in any web design that someone asks you for?

It’s an icon just a decorative image, a complement for the text or for you a good icon, a real one is the principal language of your website?

04/03/2009 - Lina

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PICASA: The Greatest Image Viewer!

Picasa is a google application, which allows you to see most of bitmap formats, among them you can see the most populars: .png – .jpg – .gif – .ico – etc…

Picasa Viewer

Besides being the greatest image viewer, is the easiest way to share, search, organize and edit your images, photos, graphics and also you can convert them in movie clips, collages, and it gives you the opportunity to filter your files. You can choose if you want to see only portrait pictures, movies or images you’ve cataloged as the most specials and a lot more.

Picasa Viewer

This application Works in Mac, Windows XP/Vista or Linux and you can use it as the principal application to open any kind of new images that you import in your computer.
Picasa finds your documents and organize them from albums, files and any other material that is related with an image.

You really should try it: http://www.picasaweb.google.com

23/02/2009 - Lina
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10 THINGS TO RUN THE BEST CORPORATE WEBSITE

Reading some web design articules, I just found out and interested one. If you own a large organization this could be very helpful.

Many companies are usually not aware of their web designs, because they think that having basic information is enough to bring more clients, but what they don’t know is that this is their curriculum, and as we know, everything gets by the eyes.

So check this out, and if you feel identify with this harsh truths about corporate web design, start to work on it, and multiply your web clients:

1. You Need A Separate Web Division
2. Managing Your Website Is A Full-Time Job
3. Periodic Redesign Is Not Enough
4. Your Website Cannot Appeal To Everyone
5. You Are Wasting Money On Social Networking
6. Your Website Is Not All About You
7. You’re Not Getting Value From Your Web Team
8. Design By Committee Brings Death
9. A CMS Is Not A Silver Bullet
10. You Have Too Much Content

If you feel that you are not paying atention to this tips on your website, feel free to have more information at: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/10/10-harsh-truths-about-corporate-websites/ I’m sure this would be an excellent manual for your company’s successful.