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
2- 7 Principles of Effective Icon Design - Some guidelines and principles before approaching icon design
3- Icon Design: Bitmap vs Vector - a good article about differences between bitmap and vector file formats
4- Drawing an Icon: Sketches and Metaphors - Process of sketching of an icon
5- Icon Design Explained (Quickly) - quick slides for teaching some fundamentals
6- How to Design Mini Icons - the technique of using Photoshop pens tool for creating mini pixel icons.
7- The Making of an Icon - a great article on process of designing an icon
Photoshop Tutorials
8- Create a Shiny Lock Icon Design
9- Creating a Cool Yellow Helmet Icon
10- Handy Web 2.0 Icons In Photoshop
11- Illustrate a Traffic Cone Icon in Photoshop
14- Create a Jaguar Style Folder Icon
15- Creating an XP Style Monitor Icon
16- Create a High-Gloss Graduation Hat Icon Design
17- Computer icon
19- Clock Icon
20- Creating a marker with Windows XP look
Illustrator Tutorials
25- How to Create a Vector iMac Graphic in Illustrator
26- Illustrate a Fun Magnify Zoom Icon
27- How to Create a Vector Safari Compass in Illustrator
29- Create a Detailed Camera with Photo Icon
30- Creating an icon “about company” in Illustrator
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5:18 am on July 17th, 2008
Great, I like them.
10:15 am on July 18th, 2008
Thanks for the sharing
11:59 am on July 19th, 2008
These are great.
Thanks a lot!
11:20 pm on July 30th, 2008
Super Informationen verpackt in einem tollen Design.