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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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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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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Hello icon lovers! As I promised last week , here it is, the second installment of our brand new “radioactive” system set. This one includes “My documents”, “My images”, CD, Removable media and Hard drive. We made a very strong and vibrant set overall, that looks particularly good at small sizes. Hope you can give your system a striking and fun look courtesy of Iconshock. We will continue delivering. Not to worry.
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System icons are the most searched throughout the web as almost everybody wants to customize their User interface appearance and give it that extra personal look. To me, system icons are the perfect showcase of an icon artist ability and style. Iconshock wants to give blog readers two different system replacement sets, and this is the first installment of our brand new radioactive set. Enjoy!
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Remember my article regarding the evolution of graphical user interfaces? You better, because I spent two whole F@! days writing it! Well, I found this post by Leander Kahney from Cult of Mac who tells us how to find a little Easter egg back from the time when Steve Jobs hated apples and had breakfast at NEXT instead. (Guide to understand this not-funny-at-all-joke-even-to-geeks here.)
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I found this brief introduction to icon creation made by English company Hicksdesign. Simple and straightforward slideshow that takes us into the world of icon design in a clear and quick manner.
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Icon Design
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This is a special icon set that Iconshock designed for the Ruby Inside website. These guys are a popular gathering place for programmers and techies interested in Ruby on rails. If you are a developer interested in the latest new and forums about the world of ruby, This is certainly the place to go. This set includes The ruby on rails shortcut, a Ruby, Ruby and Rubygems file types, an app and a Ruby on rails cog. Geek only set.
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I really don’t know anybody that actually does sandsurfing. But if you do, this icon set will really rock your world. I personally like soccer very much. What is your favorite sport? Which sport icon set would you like us to make?
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What is a favicon? The word “Favicon” is an abbreviation for “favorites icon” and usually refers to those 16×16 pixel icons used on the address bar to graphically identify your domain name. They also appear beside the title of the websites you bookmark or on the tabs on your browser. Although not entirely necessary, they do add up to complete a neat and professional look to your websites. Favicons are not utterly essential, but the lack of one might be interpreted by your potential clients as a sign that you aren’t a reliable and trustworthy provider, or when bookmarked, the absence of graphical ID will leave your web page invisible beside other websites that do have attractive favicons to identify them.
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I just found out this very interesting post by Rob Griffiths, where he gives us a clue on how to change those strange icon mess-ups you find under Leopard. Rebooting your Mac, using mace pepper spray or unplugging the power chord are options not included.
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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?
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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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. |
Icons are a mandatory subject matter in the daily life of programmers, bloggers, designers and software enthusiasts. And there are so many sources around, that sometimes its almost an impossible mission to find just the icon you want. You can easily spend many hours browsing through thousands of motifs, sizes and styles. Regarding free icons sets, I have to say that there is so much poor quality material out there, that it turns out to be a difficult task to purge all the garbage. The whole chore can be sometimes an entrepreneurship almost as discouraging as finding logical sense in a David Lynch film.
A friend of mine used to joke that usually programmers have bad taste (even for their clothes) and always choose efficient, but rather ugly icons for their applications. I think that thought could make an interesting pole don´t you think?
Anyhow, I have made a selection of original, stylish, beautifully designed icons so you can save clicks and have more spare time to go to the beach, look at he beach from your office window…or at least, think about the beach.
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The detail they give to their creations is simply fascinating. I believe their pallete harmonizes with a wide array of desktop colours.
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