Why Icons Matter!

For all you designers, artists and creatives out there, a great post about Why icons matter and what goes into a great design. By Gedeon Maheux – the co-founder of the Iconfactory

Read it HERE

Indiana Jones Desktop!

Indiana Jones and the Mac Desktop of DOOM!

Today is a day that many people have been waiting 19 years for. Today, the 4th Indiana Jones film, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” officially hits theaters.

In conjunction with Lucasfilm, the Iconfactory has produced a set of icons for each of the 4 films, and I have to tell you, the ones I’ve seen so far are simply some of the most beautiful icons I’ve ever seen.

You can download the icons for the first 3 films right here, with the “Kingdom” icons coming soon. If you use Iconfactory’s Candybar application on your Mac, you also get a customized Dock for each film as well – allowing you to completely trick out your Mac with Indy flair.

To top if off, the Iconfactory has also produced a fantastic desktop wallpaper for your desktop and iPhone called “Indy’s Desk“.

When you combine them all you get the ultimate Indy desktop experience!

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(Via Apple Gazette.)

Free “Web 2” Icons

Fast Icon Releases “Web 2” Free Icons

The Fast Icon has released "Web 2 Icons", a collection of 23 freeware icons.

This icon set, designed in iPhone-like style, includes icons for Blinklist, BlogMarks, Delicious, Digg, Diigo, FaceBook, Favorite, Feeds, FeedBurner, Flickr, Furl, Google Magnolia, Misterwong, Myspace, Newsvine, Netvibes, Reddit, Simpy, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Twitter and Youtube.

Web 2 Icons is available for download as standard Mac or Windows icons as well as a handy PNG files for Linux, web or blogs at Fasticon.com.

All icons are sized from 512X512 to 16X16 pixels. A great and useful stuff for blogs.

(Via MacMegasite.)

Indiana Jones Icons from Iconfactory

Iconfactory Announces Indiana Jones Celebration for Mac

In celebration of the new Indiana Jones movie, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the Iconfactory announced on Tuesday that it has set up a page that will include Leopard (and Vista) resources: icons, custom dock for Mac, and desktop pictures. Get them HERE

(Via macobserver.)