Iconshock professional icons

New Blog post - Computer icon history: a complete review

Iconshock professional icons — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:00:42 +0000

Icons are fascinating pieces of work. They are graphic elements that need to keep a balance to give stability to the design. A computer icon is a graphic symbol that helps users understand all kinds of messages in a computer, serving the same purpose of a traffic sign on the street. They are part of the graphic user interface of any system, and they were the first design element that changed the way users interacted with computers, leaving aside text based user interfaces to replace them with clickable graphics, reducing the amount of time users need to think before they proceed.

New Blog post - What's new in icon design?

Iconshock professional icons — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:30:36 +0000

Every day emerges a new way of designing things, although they might not be recognized due to various aspects. However, when they do, they become trends to the point of tiredness. But we're not here today to establish trends in icon design. What we're going to do is to analyze 5 concepts of designing icons, new characteristics or "patterns"� that could become relevant, and the characteristics concerning new paradigms.

New Blog post - Creating a mobile app icon in less than 30 minutes

Iconshock professional icons — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 10:00:07 +0000

Humans are nostalgic by nature. A few months I started to get captivated by the simplicity and beauty of flat design, and I started experimenting with it. But now I think some things are better represented in a realistic way. Simplifying things to it's minimum is a great option due to the nature of our current devices, which even though they're fast, they're not as fast to handle lots of data from different sources and in different sizes and shapes. Skeuomorphic design had its glorious days, and everyone who know a bit about design is assuming it dies. Well, nostalgically, I think we still need it, but that's a matter of another article. That's why in this guide I will create a skeuomorphic icon for a mobile app resembling the icon of the Mac Mini. It is a simple icon to create since its shape can be assembled within the confines of the iOS 7 app icon grid. Also, its sleek and clean design makes it look very nice. And for those flat design lovers there's also something, so let's begin.

New Blog post - Outlining iOS 7 icons: the ultimate flattening

Iconshock professional icons — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:00:32 +0000

Just for fun, there are times when you want to embody some of your ideas playing with somebody else's creations, and nowadays, iOS 7 is probably the mobile OS people has proposed improvements for the most. This is basically because we all want, at some point, to see at least one of our ideas implemented in major updates of a widely spread product. On the other hand, another most subtle reason is because Apple messed up in some parts of the design, and somehow we see ourselves as crusaders on a mission to save them from this, but hey, is not our work to remember that every time we publish a post, but to propose improvements to the elements we think are wrong, so that's what we'll do today: since I enjoy creating outlined icons, I will outline some of the native apps icons of iOS 7.

New Blog post - iOS 7 Icon Colors: improving user experience

Iconshock professional icons — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:00:48 +0000

Colors in iOS7 are part of a "trend"� that has both detractors and backers since its release this year. First, those who rightly criticize it, argue flaws in some defining aspects of the OS, hard to ignore for the design community; on the other hand, those who support Jony Ive's experiment, tend to play the "nobody cares"� card, which is a little sloppy but still accurate in the way that regular consumers don't care about this, focusing instead in other aspects of the product like the fact that it's a novelty. In this article, we'll show you how Apple implemented colors in iOS7 icons, how it affects and benefits the usability of the OS and identify those icons that need an improvement, and improve them!

New Blog post - Simple guide to creating outlined icons

Iconshock professional icons — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 09:00:23 +0000

Outlined icons are right now more useful than ever. Not only because of flat design, but for the great amount of web and mobile apps which have been created. These types of icons are sleek, awesome creations, which we all should learn how to make, even if it is for fun. So with that in mind, this article will guide you through the process of creating an outlined icon in adobe Illustrator, which can be fully understandable.

New Blog post - Google Glass Interface: Simplifying Icons

Iconshock professional icons — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 12:40:18 +0000

It is 2013, and Google still hasn't established a release date for its most awaited and reviewed product. They have us waiting for a device that can be as revolutionary as it would be a failure: Google Glass. But, what is it anyway? And why it has become so popular? Google Glass is an Android based headset that connects to the Internet through a phone via Bluetooth; its a device with the ability to display real life information thanks to a prism and it works both through the voice command "Ok glass"� and touch gestures in the side panel, etc. In this article, we'll analyze the design characteristics of Google Glass' OS and identify its flaws to know what improvements can be made to it.

New Blog post - iOS7 flat icons: evolution from unicolor to multicolor design

Iconshock professional icons — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:00:14 +0000

A good creative mind cannot afford to think the continuous chatter that flat design is water off a duck's back. Even something so simplistic like flat design is continuously moving forward, and examples can be noted all around the web; even more now that the 3 monsters Microsoft, Google and Apple are using it. In this post, we will give some background about flat design evolution, and then we will go into the case of iOS7 icons, in which we are seeing the maximum exponents and, in a certain way, defenders of the widely known skeuomorphic design, who recently made a 180° twist.

New Blog post - Flat icons: avoiding semantic mistakes when creating them

Iconshock professional icons — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:30:03 +0000

There's no doubt that icons are an essential part of any website, and as one of the most important features, their function is to give a visual touch to a structure which, otherwise, would be plain text and lines. Icons are powerful visual tools that usually represent something out there in the real world; they are good at portraying and explaining things to new users -better than word do- and when they're used correctly, they can transmit a message without requiring a lot of space. Images are easily recognizable, and the brain can process them faster than words; they reduce the amount of information the brain needs to deal with, thus making the process of icon creation a fundamental part of every website.

New Blog post - The road to flat: making icon aesthetics more expressive

Iconshock professional icons — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:35:44 +0000

Hello everyone! Today we want to go over a big and notorious change in visual styles for graphical user interfaces (GUI) and web design going on right now amid several background circumstances. In a decade, computers have become more portable, and the classic PC (including its three main species: Windows, Mac and Linux based systems) ceased to be the most popular device: mobile phones and tablets came to be preferred, since today they bring enough processing power, portability and memory capacity to fully support rich applications and Internet browsing.

New Blog post - Master pixel perfect design

Iconshock professional icons — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:25:42 +0000

Hello Shock Followers, let's consider for a while the importance of mastering pixel perfect design as a way of boosting the quality of our designs and consequently marketing ourselves as great professional designers and developers, that's what we will be discussing in this opportunity: the basic tips to achieve a clean and visually consistent product, either in icon design, application development or web design, through the implementation of pixel perfect design practices.

New Comercial icon set - sophistique-flags-vector-icons

Iconshock professional icons — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:45:24 +0000

This stock is one of the best ways to enrich and keep your applications updated. This vectorial version of the Real Vista Icons created in Illustrator will allow you to personalize each one of them to fit your application. These files are perfect to modify and enlarge since the excellent quality bright and details, characteristic of the Real Vista stock icons, won't be lost. These vectors are perfect for printing and using in all kinds of projects, since you'll get the unity you need. Top quality and charming icons now ready to represent a complex world without real borders. Every country in this modern planet has its own flag made with the well known Windows Vista style. These icons will help to enhance visual communication by giving the way to assign a specific geographical location for every possible user. Naturally, this new collection of national flags has the accurate and realistic style of Real Vista icons.

New Comercial icon set - brilliant-text-vector-icons

Iconshock professional icons — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:48:06 +0000

They are just brilliant!! The major characteristic of this collection is the look that gives the glassy finished, beautiful concepts and objects made graphics, this collection combines bright tones and perfectly finished details to bring your application into a new design level. Improve the competitiveness of your web developments. It would be a BRILLIANT idea to use them in your software applications. This perfect and useful stock includes the most common icons that complement word processor softwares. Full of great tools representation to create, organize, select, highlight, change color, change font, align, insert, displace and make other interesting text actions. This collection contains all about text matters to make easier the understanding of the user interface, also comes with orthography tools that let you manage the checking of the correct way to write words , in addition it comes with icons to insert symbols, tables and graphics, also the import and export tools.

New Blog post - 15.000 iPhone icons. An Incredible Freebie

Iconshock professional icons — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:51:10 +0000

Hello everyone! Just as you enjoy downloading free stuff, we enjoy giving freebies away! That's why today we want to present this awesome and complete set of iPhone icons for you to use in your next projects, your website, your mobile apps or just to decorate your desktop! This set features pixel perfect icons, even in smaller sizes...

New Comercial icon set - real-vista-jobs-illustrator-files-icons

Iconshock professional icons — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:41:15 +0000

Sigma General Vector includes full editables Adobe Illustrator files, Those icons can be fully edited and scaled to any size with no loss in quality; this makes them ideal not only for applications but also for print media. Change color or edit so that they fit to your desired look or specific software. In this stock you will find icons looking like 3D objects you can almost touch. This vectorial version are made in Illustrator, this source files allow you to enlarge the icon as much as you want without loosing quality and details, as well you can move, rotate, warp figures and change colors, loads of action that give you the opportunity of personalize your Beta icons. This icon set is not only useful to integrate into your software applications; it is great and really useful for printing too. Can you imagine a printed Beta icon, full of details and shiny image? It will look great in any printed project!!! The jobs icons set has a great variety of jobs, gender and ethnics that are common so people can relate to, it could be useful to deal with different kind of personal making easier the communication process between them.In this collection you can find unlimited icons related to different ,careers, races and different kind of people in general (such as Japanese, black and white, even native people), very useful to build up children’s encyclopedias to teach them about people and cultures around the world, could be useful too for websites and/or applications releated to manage different kind of personal and workers or dating services that need an interesting way for arranging their contacts.

New Blog post - Icon design, the ultimate guide

Iconshock professional icons — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:38:08 +0000

Everyday we're permanently interacting with icons, from the TV to the metro station and our mobile, icons are present everywhere as an important element that helps people interact with their surroundings without using any spoken or written language. Creating an icon is a whole science that hundreds study, from semiotics to graphic languages, understanding how to represent something and make it universally understandable is a complete learning process.

Today we want to share our experience here at Iconshock and bring you a complete handbook that will show you all the steps that creating an icon leads, from listening to the client's needs to defining the fittest style, this article will show you how to begin and conclude an icon design process successfully.

New Comercial icon set - stroke-video-production-illustrator-sources-icons

Iconshock professional icons — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:50:17 +0000

New Comercial icon set - stroke-security-illustrator-sources-icons

Iconshock professional icons — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:32:21 +0000

New Comercial icon set - supervista-3d-graphics-illustrator-files-icons

Iconshock professional icons — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:54:49 +0000

In this stock you will find icons looking like 3D objects you can almost touch. This vectorial version are made in Illustrator, this source files allow you to enlarge the icon as much as you want without loosing quality and details, as well you can move, rotate, warp figures and change colors, loads of action that give you the opportunity of personalize your Super vista icons. This icon set is not only useful to integrate into your software applications; it is great and really useful for printing too. Can you imagine a printed Super vista icon, full of details and shiny image? It will look great in any printed project!!! In this brand new collection you will find a full range of icons based in 3-dimensional design, useful and helpful tools for webs, softwares and applications releated to modelling objects, getting renders and animating techniques. Best quality Icons you can find, designed in a bright scale of tones using primary colors contrasted with white to make them stand out, each graphic piece is smoothly shaped. to give them the best look possible, it makes your applications difference from others as well it makes easier to manipulate the graphical user interface which allows people to interact fully understanding the icons they are using which is the most important thing speaking of modelling softwares.

New Comercial icon set - sophistique-electrical-appliances-vector-icons

Iconshock professional icons — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:05:43 +0000

Front view icons set, not very detailed to make easier the use of small size icons. This way they don’t loose its characteristics, sophistique is one of the cleanest designed icons you can find made with soft colors so they can match perfectly to your corporative softaware, website and other applications, there is a touch of class and elegance in this set of icons. this icons are thought for food and home software. Chairs, clock,closet, couch, desk, drawer, dresser, fan, frames, hair curler, lamps among other are some of the home icons, but for those who are looking for electrical appliances such us adaptors, air compressor, air conditioner, battery chargers, cell phones, coffee makers, computers, electric tooth brush, fondue, juicer, home theater, razor machines, waffle makers and we even offer personal stuff icons such us ipods and computers. Thinking in some icons related to food? well, how about ice cream makers, juicier, deep fryer, pop corn maker, raclette and much more.

New Comercial icon set - sophistique-communications-vector-icons

Iconshock professional icons — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:13:49 +0000

Sophistique Vector includes full editables FLA and SWF vector files, Those icons can be fully edited and scaled to any size using Macromedia Flash, more than 1000 x 1000 pixels with no loss in quality; this makes them ideal not only for applications but also for your business card,presentations, documents, catalogs and much more. You can also combine them, change color or edit so that they fit to your desired look or specific software. You are going to find here the largest and greatest icon collection related to communications including standard functions for instant messaging software, they make a great method of presenting information to other users trough programs, softwares or websites. Helpful icons to enrich your applications and show emotions, status, active groups, backgrounds, conversation, font color and much more. This icon set makes much easier to say what you want to say putting in graphics along with expressions, emoticons and smiles. This set of icons totally overcomes other communication icons, including standard options related with communication softwares, giving you the best way of express feelings and emotions.

New Comercial icon set - sophistique-video-production-vector-icons

Iconshock professional icons — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:03:24 +0000

Sophistique Vector includes full editables FLA and SWF vector files, Those icons can be fully edited and scaled to any size using Macromedia Flash, more than 1000 x 1000 pixels with no loss in quality; this makes them ideal not only for applications but also for your business card,presentations, documents, catalogs and much more. You can also combine them, change color or edit so that they fit to your desired look or specific software. This collection has a great range of icons including process of recording; editing and exhibiting visual and audio information it can be used in a wide range of demands, from mixing, post producing, animating, filtering and much more. It is a growing fast industry in which most important process could be the editing part, here you can find issues releated to editing images, video or sound for presentation after doing some correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications represented in this gorgeous icons. This set of icons will become useful to develop video software. It contents icons to represent effects, language flags, camcorder, and video production. This collection includes a selected list of useful icons for software related to the video production, including creation, editing, mixing, post production and more.

New Comercial icon set - sigma-jobs-mail-illustrator-files-icons

Iconshock professional icons — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:04:35 +0000

New Comercial icon set - sigma-mail-illustrator-files-icons

Iconshock professional icons — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:35:57 +0000

Sigma mail icons Vector includes full editables Adobe Illustrator files, Those icons can be fully edited and scaled to any size with no loss in quality; this makes them ideal not only for applications but also for print media. Change color or edit so that they fit to your desired look or specific software.

New Comercial icon set - sophistique-jobs-vector-icons

Iconshock professional icons — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:37:53 +0000

Sophistique Vector includes full editables FLA and SWF vector files, Those icons can be fully edited and scaled to any size using Macromedia Flash, more than 1000 x 1000 pixels with no loss in quality; this makes them ideal not only for applications but also for your business The jobs icons set has a great variety of jobs, gender and ethnics that are common so people can relate to, it could be useful to deal with different kind of personal making easier the communication process between them.In this collection you can find unlimited icons related to different ,careers, races and different kind of people in general (such as Japanese, black and white, even native people), very useful to build up children’s encyclopedias to teach them about people and cultures around the world, could be useful too for websites and/or applications releated to manage different kind of personal and workers or dating services that need an interesting way for arranging their contacts.

New Comercial icon set - sigma-web-design-illustrator-files-icons

Iconshock professional icons — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:52:54 +0000

Sigma General Vector includes full editables Adobe Illustrator files, Those icons can be fully edited and scaled to any size with no loss in quality; this makes them ideal not only for applications but also for print media. Change color or edit so that they fit to your desired look or specific software. In this stock you will find icons looking like 3D objects you can almost touch. This vectorial version are made in Illustrator, this source files allow you to enlarge the icon as much as you want without loosing quality and details, as well you can move, rotate, warp figures and change colors, loads of action that give you the opportunity of personalize your Beta icons. This icon set is not only useful to integrate into your software applications; it is great and really useful for printing too. Can you imagine a printed Beta icon, full of details and shiny image? It will look great in any printed project!!! This set of icons can be a helpful tool in order to create web pages that in turn make up a web site. There are many aspects important in order to create an useful web applications, software, applications or programs. It is an amazing option to use in web applications and software development this web icons are made to suit all your needs. Inside this expansion set there are various icons useful for Webmasters (for example, BBS, symmetric network, back bone and more), web designers (offer bullets, logo design, assorted country flags, banner, brochure and card design, and more) and hosting companies (different plans, ID, certificate, proxy server, FTP software and more). For each icon there's also a subset of adds-on with various common tasks (add, cancel, lock, info, etc.)

New Comercial icon set - windows-7-general-extended-illustrator-files-icons

Iconshock professional icons — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:48:53 +0000

This new edition of the Windows 7 icon set has been specially designed with the aim of continue extending the visual richness and variety characteristic of the latest operating system Win 7. With the characteristic glass feel included to fit the enhanced GUI look. Realistic and bright style to convey a clear message and strengthen usability of application interfaces. Modern and up-to-date designs to make a neat difference with styles and concepst from the past. And a carefully color palette to increase appeal but mantaining a smooth look and feel, just as in Win 7.

News just out - 40 new and free high quality social icons

Iconshock professional icons — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hi shockers, please check our latest freebie, 40 social icons carefully designed and ready for download

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News just out - one free license each week via twitter !

Iconshock professional icons — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, follow us in twitter and win 1 free commercial license each week !! keep tuned to know how to win. http://twitter.com/iconshock

News just out - Poll!!

Iconshock professional icons — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community!! Great news!! We have a poll for this week, so be prepare, be ready and vote! The choices for this week are: AVENGER VILLAINS, CIRCUS, X_MEN and POKEMON all in Lumina Style. Yes, I know we have been giving you a lot of Lumina lately, But the thing is we have to release this, to make space for new designs.. I hope you can understand us. Have fun voting guys!!

News just out - New free icons

Iconshock professional icons — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Go for it, download it, put some comments in our blog :) and spread the word ... http://iconlibrary.iconshock.com/icons/free-icon-sets-global-warming-advices/

News just out - Tomorrow

Iconshock professional icons — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community! Hope you had a great week! Be ready tomorrow you will have Iconshock`s surprise set!

News just out - Suggestions needed urgenttttttttt

Iconshock professional icons — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hi shockers, we are going to extend our accounting icon collection, you can check the current one here: http://www.iconshock.com/icon-sets/real-vista-accounting-icons.html We need suggestions of missing icons related to money, finance, accounting etc etc... Thanks for your help !!!

News just out - New Poll

Iconshock professional icons — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community!!!:) The time we were all expecting. For the poll this week we have: The Jungle Book Vol2, Batman Vol2, Shields and Tennis all in Lumina Style. Please vote and Have a great time with the poll!!!

News just out - Hello!

Iconshock professional icons — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community!! Tomorrow we'll release PLANES_VECTOR SOURCES. And for next week we have Iconshock's surprise choice. From now on we have to publish the free set every Saturday due to some internal changes. Have a great weekend guys!

News just out - Search the icon you want

Iconshock professional icons — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hi iconshocker's .. we have released a new search engine for our commercial icons, please check it here:http://www.iconshock.com/icon-finder.php It's in beta, please use it and let us now your comments... :)

News just out - New Poll

Iconshock professional icons — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community! For this week we are releasing The Little Mermaid II_ Vector Sources, It would be available tomorrow morning, today we are fixing something on our site. And for the new poll the options are INSECTS_FUTURE STYLE, PLANES_ SIGMA STYLE, POKEMON II_ LUMINA STYLE and HERCULES_LUMINA STYLE. Please vote, have fun, and a great 2010!

News just out - Happy 2010

Iconshock professional icons — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community, Iconshock wants to wish you a Happy New Year, full of happiness and dreams come true. We are really grateful for your company this year and from the bottom of our hearts we hope have you here next year. Today we are releasing a new different Little_Mermaid set for you to complete the collection. Have a Great 2010 guys!!!

News just out - MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ICONSHOCK!

Iconshock professional icons — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Iconshock wants to thank all our community members for your patience, loyalty and permanent involvement with our forum. We dearly wish you a merry Christmas full of warmth, comfort and love. Your comments and good vibes will always be our best Christmas gift. We feel your love people, and hope that through our work we give a little love back. HO HO HO from Iconshock! Check out the blog, we have new a free set for you.

News just out - MERRY CHRISTMAS! :)

Iconshock professional icons — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Iconshock team wants to wish you a merry Christmas, full of happiness and wishes come true!! Thanks for being always there and make our company a better place. Today we are releasing Little Mermaid_Vector Sources and we will see you on December 28 God bless you!! :)