Inspiration from Icon Design
Icons are graphic representations of motives, entities, programs, data, actions and so on. The inspiring thing about icons is that they represent something in a tiny graphic where details and good design are everything. Today we gathered a few examples of inspiring icon design from Dribbble to give you some ideas for your next project. From nice textures, lines and typography, there is a lot if inspiring elements in these icons for you to check out. And remember to click at the images to read more about each icon’s designer.
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13 comments
Web Design Wolverhampton and Birmingham
June 21, 2012Love the pool table icon!
Vanessa Colina
June 21, 2012Here’s another http://dribbble.com/shots/611576-DoReMi-Zoo-final-icon
aledesign.it - Creative Graphic
June 21, 2012Very very incredible set and inspirations..I love the icons by camera canon and Pomato.. Lovely design! Thanks!
Earl Varona
June 21, 2012Haha, that’s so cool! I love the pool table, twitter, and the scotch with ice. Great post!
Design Turnpike
June 21, 2012Those are unbelievable!
Adam Kelly
June 21, 2012Loving the espresso one – have one of those coffee machines, it’s a kenwood cafe retro, a really lovely piece of design on its own. Translates so well here…
Matt Saling
June 21, 2012These are great but I have a question… according to an article on this site (that lead me to this article) you should design your icons to have 90 degree corners, and the radius corner will be applied at run-time. I think that the radius is different depending on the size the icon draws (512×512 – 29×29). So if this is accurate how do you accomplish the Whiskey glass icon so that it will always appear to be 3D (thinking about the rim of the glass) or the swim trunks having an accurate “lip” at the top?
Dev Digital
June 22, 2012Very creative, I love each and every icon and especially like the last one – veg sandwich.
Claude Meri
June 22, 2012I really love the tomato, the bubble, the radio and the camera icon.
Btw all of these are Awesome
Anthony
June 22, 2012These are what I call “smart as”! Great selections Gisele
Shine Eddy
June 22, 2012Absolutely cools icons! Creative ideas. Especially chilli in the ice, twitter and canon camera. Really love it. Many Thanks.
Morgan & Me Creative
June 27, 2012Really wonderful and well executed icons!
Mary
July 5, 2012I love that the designer of the sandwich one encourages you to add it to your phone, for no good reason!