8 Beautiful and Free Flat Icon Sets

For the past few years in web design, we’ve noticed a trend in moving toward simplicity and minimalism. It seems that designers are realizing that you don’t have to over design something just because you can, or because you have the software to do it. It’s become more about the content and less about the design elements.

All of this means less 3D effects and less gradients, and more solid flat colors. So to help you incorporate this style in your projects, today we have 8 beautiful and free flat icon sets for you. (more…)

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15 New Icon Sets for Your Next Web Design Project

Web Icons are used to improve web design and make it easier for visitors to use websites. They can also improve the overall look of your website. Icon designs can be simple, with flat two-dimensional drawing or a black silhouette, or complex, presenting a combination of graphic design elements. Here we have collated the following 15 new icon sets for your next web design project, and best of all, they are all free for download. (more…)

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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. (more…)

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15 Icon Design Photoshop Tutorials

Icons are a very important element of web design and play a big role in a website. Designing the perfect icon is definitely a challenge and is always good to have resources and tips in this matter. Today we decided to gather a few Icon Design Tutorials to keep your ideas flowing and to increase your resource library. From new and fresh tutorials to a little bit older but still classic ones, you will find a lot of tips and inspiration in this list, enjoy. (more…)

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14 Fresh Free Icon Sets

Here at WDL we really like to keep you posted on the best resources available out there, and of course we are also talking about freebies! Today we decided to gather 14 fresh icon sets for your designs, so check it out. Click on the images to be redirected to the website where you can download the icons. Enjoy! (more…)

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20 Excellent Examples of Icon Usage in Web Design

Here on WDL we love icons! From Icon Tutorials to a list with the Best Free Icon Sets of 2010 and a 15 Must-Have Minimalist Icon Sets, we already showcased a lot of great icons around here to boost your inspiration. Today we decided to gather some examples of icon usage in web design to show you how icons can make a difference in a layout, giving a page a nice touch, in both interface and experience. Check out the examples we got and start to think about giving icons a new try on your next design. (more…)

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20 Fresh Icon Design Photoshop Tutorials

Icons are an important element of an effective and attractive web design. An appropriate use of icons will help you to achieve a professional and solid website design look in your client eyes. Most of the icons are small and very detailed and often it can be challenging to create the quality ones. Designing icons by listed tutorials you will learn a lot of useful and trendy techniques and you will gain a valuable experience and skills in this field.

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25 Fresh and Useful Icon Sets

We all love icons. They can help give life to a website, but it’s been a little while since we’ve rounded up some free icon sets for you. So, here we have a list of 25 fresh and useful icon sets that are professionally designed for various purposes. I’m sure you’ll find them useful when working on your personal and commercial projects in 2011. Enjoy!

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How to Design App Icons for iPhone and iPad

Mobile iOS devices have seen some tremendous growth over the 2010 period. With the growing sales of iPads and the popular release of the new iPhone 4 Apple has had an amazing year. Not only in these two markets but all iPod Touch devices are also running iOS which can access the App Store.

Here we’ll be going over brief ideas of how to design icons for iOS devices. There are many sizes and scales which require careful attention to detail and focus. iOS designers are required to submit an icon with their app into the store during publishing.

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15 Must-Have Minimalist Icon Sets

A few months ago we posted a collection of icon sets for minimal style web design. It was quite the challenge finding high-quality icons of this style, but I was able to find some gems and the effort was greatly appreciated by our readers. Since several months have passed, I decided to scour the internet again for new sets and ones I may have missed the last go around. You’ll be pleased to see that I was able to find 15 Must Have Minimalist Icons Sets. These icons are perfect for designs that are focused on content and typography. (more…)

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