Learn Icon Designing: The best of tutorials and articles
Jul 16, 2008 by Mohsen
Maybe you think that designing an Icon is very difficult and just some professionals can do it.
But those professionals are here to teach you how to design your own simple icons just by reading some of the best tutorials have been collected here.
I’ve placed these tutorials into 3 categories; Articles, Photoshop, and illustrator Tutorials.
Articles
1- 10 Mistakes in Icon Design - Denis Kortunov explains the mosty commonly observed mistakes in icon design
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2- 7 Principles of Effective Icon Design - Some guidelines and principles before approaching icon design
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3- Icon Design: Bitmap vs Vector - a good article about differences between bitmap and vector file formats
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4- Drawing an Icon: Sketches and Metaphors - Process of sketching of an icon
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5- Icon Design Explained (Quickly) - quick slides for teaching some fundamentals
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6- How to Design Mini Icons - the technique of using Photoshop pens tool for creating mini pixel icons.
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7- The Making of an Icon - a great article on process of designing an icon
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Photoshop Tutorials
8- Create a Shiny Lock Icon Design
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9- Creating a Cool Yellow Helmet Icon
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10- Handy Web 2.0 Icons In Photoshop
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11- Illustrate a Traffic Cone Icon in Photoshop
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14- Create a Jaguar Style Folder Icon
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15- Creating an XP Style Monitor Icon
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16- Create a High-Gloss Graduation Hat Icon Design
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17- Computer icon
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19- Clock Icon
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Illustrator Tutorials
25- How to Create a Vector iMac Graphic in Illustrator
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26- Illustrate a Fun Magnify Zoom Icon
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27- How to Create a Vector Safari Compass in Illustrator
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29- Create a Detailed Camera with Photo Icon
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30- Creating an icon “about company” in Illustrator
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Great, I like them.
Thanks for the sharing
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Super Informationen verpackt in einem tollen Design.
Very nice information, thanks for share it….
Thanks a lot!