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15 Must-Have Minimalist Icon Sets

Henry — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:32:03 +0000

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.

Default Icon

Goo-EE Icon Set

bwpx.icns

Munich

Sanscons

Wireframe Toolbar Icons

Eclipse 2

PICOL

Dortmund

UIDesign Icons

Symbol Signs

Mnml Icon Set

Only2 Icons (92 icons in set)

Devine Icons 2

Devine Icons

55 Examples of Beautifully Integrated Social Media Links in Web Design

gmuller — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:50:50 +0000

I believe that everybody already understands the importance of social media, and incorporating it into a web design. To get the attention of your viewers to your social media links you need to use both strategy and good taste. To design a good call-to-action social media icon/link you need to think about its positioning, its color, approach, style, size, everything. You also need to keep in mind that you want to get the attention of your viewers to the social side of your website without distracting from what’s important, such as the content. In my opinion, a good social media link is one that you have no trouble to finding and when you find it, you like what you see.

To give you some ideas of how you might integrate social media links in your next project, I’ve put together a collection of 55 Examples of Well Integrated Social Media Icons in Web Design. There should be plenty here to inspire you.

What’s Up Cupcake?

Jason Howmans

Brett Chaney

dConstruct2010

The Waiting Room

Sky’s

Francesco Molezzi

veerle’s blog

danscotton

coolandtheguide

acosmin.com

Midtsommerjazz 2010

Taming the Wolf

The Pineapple Thief

precinkt

Aran Down

taami berry

brizk

The Many Faces of

Daniel Marques

Jonas Eriksson

Creative Soapbox

Poolga

the ship and the sea

Ricky Ryan

madewithlove

fullyi llustrated

freshlimesoda

monkeyworks illustration

Work at Play

AgencyNet 2.0

Healthy Harvest

shout

Crush + Lovely

The Walk

ok.cogaoke.com

Blissfully Aware

Andrew Greig

Oslo Internasjonale FilmFestival

Truf Creative

Behind my Scenes

Oliver James Gosling

Carl Rosekilly

They Make Apps

Behind the Websites

Vegas Uncorked

Foxtie

Zee

R/GA

Nocturn

Carsonified

EnviraMedia

ectomachine

Tapbots – Pastebot

Creanto

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About the Author

Gisele Muller is someone that recently discovered a new career online. A person that really likes technology, design, photography and creativity. An eternal geek wannabe, tech fan and a communication lover! Current location: Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil. Twitter: @gismullr

20 Excellent Icon Sets for Application Design

Henry — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:23:59 +0000

In our continued effort to find and deliver to you the best free design resources, we’ve compiled a list of 20 excellent icon sets for application design. Just like fonts and textures, you can’t have too many icons in your design library. In this collection you’ll find a variety of icon styles that should fit any type of application design.

Basic Set 2

iconSweets

Mini Icons

Free iphone toolbar icons

Glyphish

Splashy Icons

Token

Basic Set

WooFunction

Vaga

Pixelated

Nixus

Vaga Icon Set

FAMFAMFAM – Mini

Free web development icons #1

Free web development icons #2

Tango

Led Icon Set

FAMFAMFAM – Silk

Pixel LED Icon Set

The Best E-Commerce Icons All In One Place

Henry — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:14:49 +0000

Whether it’s textures, Photoshop brushes, or fonts, we love finding top notch free files and sharing them with our readers. We do the searching so you don’t have to. This saves you time and helps you focus on what’s important. For this article, we’ve rounded up high-quality icons that you can use in your e-commerce projects.

Checkout Process Icons

Shopping Bag

Money Back Guarantee Icon Set

Free eCommerce icons

Shop Cart Icons

Chalkwork Payments

CSS Globe e-commerce icons

High-Quality E-Commerce Icons

Weby Icons

Milky

Siena

Finance

Basket

Shopping Cart and Basket

Credit Cards

Fresh

Money Icons

E-commerce Icons

Shopping Cart

Business Icons

20 Fresh Sets of Free Icons for Web Designers

Henry — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:26:46 +0000

We love finding and sharing freebies with our readers, especially icons. We do this so you can focus on doing what’s important, instead of spending all your time searching the internet. In this article, we’ve rounded up 20 sets of freshly created free icons. If you don’t have an immediate need for them, I’m sure you can find a place for them in your icon library.

Shiny Icons

Once

Mini Icon Set

Fidelity

Vector Social Media Icons

TRANQUILITI

WooFunction

32 Pixel Social Media Icons

Oxe Icons Set

Mixed Icons Pack

Touchscreen Icons

Applications Icons

Nixus

Roundy

Help

Sketchy Web Icons

Medical Icons

MinIcons

Pos Machine Icons

Absque

20 Different and Beautiful Icon Sets

Henry — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:33:43 +0000

We are accustomed to seeing icons as bright and glossy bundles of pixel perfection, but this typical style of icon doesn’t always work for all styles of web design. For instance, grungey designs need icons to be a little dirty. While icons on a hand drawn style site should have line marks or brush strokes. In this article, we’ve rounded up 20 icon sets that break the mould of the typical icon. Here you will see icons that make use of painted brush strokes, sketchy line work, and grungy textures.

Old Bottle Crowns

Sketchy Web Icons

Grunge Peeling Stickers Social Media Icons

Watercolor

Natsu Icon Set

Nurture

Woven Fabric Social Media Icon Set

Sketchy Icons

ICon Pack

Hand Drawn Doodle Icons

Red Little Shoes Icon set

Social Icons Hand Drawn

Page Peel 1

Page Peel 2

Handy

Handycons

Handycons 2

RM Kute Toolbar Icons

Wooden Badges

The Best Icon Sets for Minimal Style Web Design

Henry — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:21:18 +0000

With so many free icon sets available now, sometimes it makes more sense to not spend countless hours designing and creating your own. However, it’s important that you do find the right style of icons to match your design. In the case of minimal web design, it’s all about clean layouts, little use of color, and few design elements. This means that when icons are required, they should posses the same minimal design qualities. Here are some of the best icon sets for this type of design style.

Mono Icons

Pictodeck

The Webdesigner Sketchup Icons

Free Vector Icons

Pictoico

Token

Glyphish (130 Icons)

BrightMix

Pixelated

Two Tone Icons

Mini Icons

BackToPixel

Iconic

Kostenlose Icons

200+ Big and Beautiful Highly Detailed Icons

Henry — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:36:42 +0000

If you’re one of many web designers suffering from an icon collecting addiction, you should probably skip over this article. It might be too much for you to handle. However, if you’re addiction is under control, read on. In this article, we’ve rounded up over 200 icons that are big, beautiful and have lots of detail – and with such a wide variety of subject matter in these icons, you shouldn’t have trouble finding some that you will want to use or add to your icon library.

Cemagraphics Dock Icons (17 icons)

Gentle Romantic icons (5 icons)

Lovely website icons (8 icons)

Designer’s tools icon

Shopping bag icon

Leica Camera Icon

iMod (146 icons)

Moleskine Helvetica Icon

Magic tablet (2 icons)

Outdated icons (8 icons)

Red Moleskine

Lightroom or Aperture

Playground icons (9 icons)

Canon 400D + lens 17-85mm (2 icons)

Moleskine Helvetica Icon

Massive Media Icons (3 icons)

Archigraphs Collection Icons (10 icons)

Hrvoje Bielen Icon Set (9 icons)

Moleskine Icons (8 icons)

Archigraphs Cars Icons (7 icons)

A UI Design and Prototyping Treasure Chest

Henry — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:45:20 +0000

When designing a user interface there are always times that you will find yourself using the same graphical element over and over. So in order to be more productive, it’s a good idea to keep a library of common elements such as form elements, buttons, icons, browser templates, and windows. Having these close by will save time and speed up your design and prototyping work flow. Here is a collection of these types of elements that should be a big help to you.

Browser Templates For The Website / Web Application Designer

WEB UI Treasure Chest v 1.0

Webdesigner kit

Turquoise PSD

Vector Pack: Browser Screens and Website Elements

Browser Form Elements PSD

iPhone GUI PSD 3.0

OmniGraffle Wireframe Stencils

Web Form Elements Vol.2

21 Best Icon Sets for Designing Web Apps

OmniGraffle Wireframe Stencils

Web Form Elements

Windows 7 Taskbar .psd

Windows 7 Window PSD

Web Browser Elements

Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0

Quommunication Starter Kit

The Best Free Icon Sets of 2009

Henry — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:39 +0000

In 2009 we’ve witnessed many talented and generous designers creating tons of amazing stuff and giving it away for us to use. We’ve already shown you all of the best free fonts from this past year. Now we’re going to show you the best free icon sets. There were plenty of free sets created this year, but these stand above the rest in terms of quality and usefulness.