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Freebie: Popular applications’ icon set
Here’s another great freebie for you guys, this time a full set of icons featuring the most popular applications nowadays, it includes some nice applications like: dribbble, 280 slides, android, osx, dropbox, google plus and much more. These set was done by the design team behind iconshock , which is the artist hand in the shock family :)
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204 Google Plus interface icons
Hello friends, we hope you have enjoyed our latest article “Google Plus: The good, the bad and the ugly”, the article has generated a lot of controversy that in the end will help us spread the word about this amazing social experiment from the Google crew.
To continue with the same topic, today we have released an off the hook freebie for all of you featuring a huge bundle of Google Plus interface icons ready for download. The freebie includes both vector (PNG) and pixel perfect (PSD) sources, color and gray versions and different sizes; if you like this awesome freebie, you can show us your gratitude by sharing it with your friends or a quick tweet.
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50 Vintage web icons, an amazing freebie by Iconshock
What’s up friends?, today we have a brand new freebie to share with you, an incredible vintage web icon set ready for download. The set features 50 different vintage elements ready for download and that can be implemented in your apps and designs to add them a really nice retro look.
Google +1 button set
After months of whispering and rumors, Google has finally released the plus one (+1) button, an attempt of socializing web searches by letting people vote-up the sites and contents that they consider valuable, these votes will make an influence over their friends’ searches, giving them a hint over which sites they should be visiting right now.
Call to action buttons, curved shadows, pixel patterns and more design freebies
We’re getting closer to the first half of this year and so far there are many things in design that are still looking very 2010. What was considered good design only a few months ago is no longer the trend because as you know, design is an ever-changing field that adapts to fit people’s needs and is constantly looking to reinvent itself.
Today we like to talk about the main tendencies that will be ruling for the rest of this year as well as the ‘deadly’ sins that every designer needs to avoid at all cost in order to survive the constant critique from design purists and average clients.
Realistic vintage vector tutorial
Hello friends, did you guys enjoyed our programming tutorial on how to make a nice typewriter contact form?, well if you nailed that one now you’re probably wondering about the design itself, because it’s useless to have the code if you can’t apply it to a truly brilliant design. Don’t panic because now the second part of the tutorial has arrived and we’re about to show you how to make a great realistic typewriter with Adobe Illustrator, so fasten your seat belts and let’s go.
Free credit card icons and payment icons
Having a nice set of icons at your hand is something that can save you a lot of time when you less expect it, not only due their communication properties but because the cutting edge design that is behind them, conceived specifically to reach everyone’s needs.
With the boom of e-commerce websites and with all major companies placing their products online, it’s very important to count with fully functional websites where people can make their purchases without leaving their houses; usually these financial operations are made using credit cards, with brands like VISA, MasterCard and many more huge companies. Today we like to share with all of you the latest release from Iconshock – Icon Sets, an extraordinary set of credit card icons ready to be implemented in your e-commerce and financial projects.
Mastering shadows in Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks, who’s the winner?
Shading has been a vital part of art and design since ever, because it’s the way for people to actually be capable of emulating light and 3D environments within a 2D workspace, whether if it is on traditional techniques (painting, airbrushing, etc.) or digital work. Many times the designers stick to a single way of doing things and so they tend to forget or even to leave unexplored further methods that might be even more effective that the ones they defend, this statement made us think about the many different ways you can create shadows in graphic / web design.
We have taken the 3 most popular graphic programs utilized by graphic designers to do all their digital work, specially web interfaces: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Fireworks. We have executed a series of tests to find out the different types of shadows that you can make in these programs and then we compared and figured out which technique works better on each program, so now we like to offer you the results of our research.
Illustrator web template tutorial
Hello folks, welcome to a great new tutorial. Today we will guide you across the making of a beautiful and elegant template, ideal for all your business and company applications; we will take a look over every single element that is part of this template and will fully explain it, from gradient properties to the effects, you will find all the necessary information to complete this great template, we suggest you to prepare a lot of coffee and gather many bags of chips, also prepare all your favorite artists tracks to pass the time. OK now that we are all set it’s time to begin, so please open your Photoshop.
Christmas icons
Hello friends, hope you’re doing great these days. Today in Webdesignshock we want to talk you about a brand new freebie, perfect to be used during this Christmas eve season, we’re talking about two astounding icon sets; first one is the Christmas Social Icons, an upgrade for the original social icons set released by Iconshock. The second package is a realistic set featuring also some pretty cool Christmas icons, both packages can be downloaded completely free, you can appreciate the gesture but sharing it with your buddies and leaving us a comment.
Both sets include original (fully editable) files and different sizes so you can implement them within your different designs and applications.
Christmas Social Icons
Realistic Christmas Icons
Evolution vector set, awesome characters for free
Hi friends, today in Webdesignshock we want to offer you a stunning freebie for all our followers, a nice set of original evolution characters with original source files included, so you can easily edit and also utilize them in your own designs.
This set is brought to you thanks to our design team who actually created these characters for one of the latest articles in Tutorialshock, which of course we invite you to read to find out some awesome poster design tutorials. As we told you before, the set contains original Illustrator files with everything you might possibly need to work with these fabulous characters.
We included on the set a fancy amoeba character, a lovely tadpole that later becomes a nice lizard who finally ends up being a beautiful monkey that eventually will evolve into a homo sapiens. So these characters ain’t random, they complement each other and can be used for example in science projects and things like that.
100 poster tutorials
Posters are printed or digital artworks designed with the purpose of communicating a political ideal, informing of an upcoming event or inviting the people to purchase a determined product; there are also many posters designed to be exclusively art pieces that help artists to promote themselves. Usually posters have a combination of graphic resources and typefaces, although we can see some exceptions once in a while.
The key of a good poster design is that it has an eye-catching design and a clear message, we can translate these two elements into “remembrance”. On this showcase we like to show you 100 essential tutorials that will guide you across the road of becoming an expert in poster design, because right now you’re maybe just a tiny amoeba wanting to become a homo sapiens.
OSX Leopard GUI set, Vector Photoshop and Fireworks files included, great Freebie
Hi friends, this day Tutorialshock is releasing a stunning freebie for all our community. A previously unreleased GUI set for Mac’s OSX Leopard operative system for all web developers that want to integrate great designs into their applications, web designers that are currently working with interfaces and quality GUI sets and well, of course that is also meant to be for all the Apple lovers that want to beautify their desktops with quality designs and components.
This brilliant set was developed by our design team at Iconshock, which as most of you probably know it’s a signature of pixel perfect and top quality designs. The package includes fully editable vector Photoshop sources and a customizable Fireworks PNG file, the original fonts that were utilized for the making of the GUI are also included. We hope that you really enjoy this fantastic freebie, feel free to share it with your friends and coworkers, you can thank us by spreading the world and taking full advantage of this bundle. Read more
Vector superhero tutorial
When you’re starting to work in digital media, some things are a little bit difficult to translate for the analogical style to the vectorial and bitmap fields. Usually doing things like smooth gradients, using the pen’s hardness to define volume and more manual techniques are difficult to adapt at first to the graphic interfaces of programs such as Illustrator and Photoshop. Today we are about to take a lesson like the ones you took when you were at design school, you’re going to learn how to create the basic character design for an illustration.
Quick Tip: How to optimize an image for the web on Illustrator
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Optimizing for the web is something that every good web designer needs to know. You can have the brightest idea but when it comes to exporting the file weight goes beyond 2 mb, while another guy made a regular design but it weights only 15 K. the website with the poor design will load faster and it’s probably that the standard person will not wait until the good 2 mb design loads. That’s why we want to show you on this tip how to easily prepare your file to be web optimized. |