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Book review: The Icon Handbook
Jon Hicks, a veteran in icon design and best known for the Mailchimp and Firefox logo, has finally released his book about icons: The icon handbook.
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Januar 12th 2012
Create a gingerbread man icon
Giorgio Cantù will show you how to draw a gingerbread man icon in Photoshop.
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December 18th 2011
Easter icons by VisualPharm
Easter is here so we decided to get some special icons made for the users of Iconfinder. Visual Pharm has done a real good job on five nicely crafted icons.
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April 20th 2011
Interview with Firefox logo designer Jon Hicks
Jon Hicks is one half of Hicksdesign and has been working as a lead designer with Opera software. He is known as the logo designer of Firefox, Thunderbird, Silverback and Mailchimp. Needless to say, he is one of the most talented and hardworking designers focusing on both icons and logos.
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March 18th 2011
6 advanced icon design techniques + freebie
Making an icon is a delicate process that not everyone is able to complete, there’s a series of techniques that need to be mastered before becoming an icon expert.
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December 19th 2010
Exclusive release: IconEden's free icons
Good news everyone! IconEden and IconFinder have teamed up and all of IconEden's free icons, will be available and searchable here on Iconfinder.com.
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November 17th 2010
Interview with Anton Zykin and Dmitry Tsozik from Softfacade
I got a chance to interview some really talented guys icon designers, Anton Zykin and Dmitry Tsozik from Softfacade. In the previous blog post, I asked for you to suggest interview questions, which I have based this questions on.
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July 12th 2010
Your chance to submit interview questions for Anton Zykin
Anton Zykin from SoftFacade is one of the most talented icon designers. IconFinder is interviewing Anton Zykin and you have a chance to submit your own questions to him. The best and most popular questions will be posed in the interview.
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June 26th 2010
Football icons
World cup 2010 has just started in South Africa and to join the celebration of this great event, I have collected football related icons in a single blog post.
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June 12th 2010
Jon Hicks: Icon Design
I just found a great video I want to share with you. I know there are lots of icon designers using IconFinder for inspiration, so this video should be particularly interesting to you.
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May 25th 2010
IconFinder's three-year anniversary
It's time to celebrate. In 2007 IconFinder launched and now three years later, the site is growing with thousands of new users every month.
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May 6th 2010
12 great monotone icon sets
Simple monotone are the most flexible icons and works great in mobile interfaces. Here is a collection of the best monotone icon sets on IconFinder.
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Apr. 13th 2010
IconFinder moves to www.iconfinder.com
I am excited to announce that IconFinder is moving to www.iconfinder.com
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Apr. 10th 2010
New exclusive icon set: Copenhagen
IconFinder has hired the talented Asher Abbasi to design an icon set suited for web apps.
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Mar. 28th 2010
Tips for using icons in interface design
Icons and pictograms as a form of communication are effective to communicate meaning quickly and where space is limited. Not only that, they also reduce language barriers because symbols are not tied to a language like written text.
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Mar. 19th 2010
12 new free icons
These new icons have been designed especially for the users of IconFinder. The choise of icons are based on the search terms that were popular, but gave no results.
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Jan. 19th 2010
Create a beautiful Christmas tree icon in Photoshop
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to design a Christmas tree icon in Adobe Photoshop.
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Dec. 22th 2009
New blog and a free gift
To kick off the new blog on IconFinder I hired IconBlock to do an icon set based on the most popular keywords used by the users.
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Dec. 19th 2009