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This will help you to sell more stock icons
If you’re selling or planning to sell stock icons online, this article is a must read! The amazing team from Iconfinder was so incredibly kind to have shared their data to help icon designers like you and I to succeed in selling stock icons. If you have ever tried to do it, you will already know how important it is to pick the right niche. Of course, you can always try and guess what customers want, but you don’t want to spend hours creating an icon set just to see that nobody is interested in it, do you? That is a waste of time and your energy. I would get up the nerve to say that doing proper market research might be even more important than creating the set itself.
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Best Icons of the Month! (March 2017)
As I do every month, I collected the best icons to give you this essential pinch of inspiration and keep the fire inside of you burning. Take a peak into these different styles and unique approaches towards icon design! It’s always a great pleasure to discover them. I’m pretty sure that you will find some fantastic icon designers and icon sets amongst the ones I selected for you this time.
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Interview: Andrei Stefan
Interview with another great icon designer — Andrei Stefan. Andrei is one of those rare people that have come to realize that life is too short to spend it chasing corporate dream jobs. Instead, he chose a path that has led him to something entirely different.
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Best Icons of the Month! (February 2017)
As I do every month, I collected the best icons to give you this essential pinch of inspiration and keep the fire inside of you burning. Take a peak into these different styles and unique approaches towards icon design! It’s always a great pleasure to discover them. I’m pretty sure that you will find some fantastic icon designers and icon sets amongst the ones I selected for you this time.
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Interview: Budi Tanrim – Budicon
Today I’m extremely happy to be bringing to you an interview with another great icon designer – Budi Tanrim. He is a deep-thinking digital multidisciplinary designer who believes in simplicity and user-oriented approach. Apart from being an incredibly skilled product designer and illustrator, Budi have rocked the icon design world with the amazing icon set for Yahoo, and his own premium icon set Budicon!
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Best Icons of the Month! (January 2017)
As I do every month, I collected the best icons to give you this essential pinch of inspiration and keep the fire inside of you burning. Take a peak into these different styles and unique approaches towards icon design! It’s always a great pleasure to discover them. I’m pretty sure that you will find some fantastic icon designers and icon sets amongst the ones I selected for you this time.
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Best Icons of the Year 2016
Recently I went through my icons collection and picked the ones that got the most attention, shares, and likes, and arranged them into one huge list that you are looking at now — The Best Icons of the Year 2016.
Am I qualified to make a list like this and all the more so — call it the best icons of the year? Probably not. So don’t take it too seriously and consider it my personal best icons of the year 2016. Look at it as a list of amazing icons that I’ve curated throughout recent years.
Let me present to you — The Best Icons of the Year 2016.
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Best Icons of the Month! (November)
As I do every month, I collected the best icons to give you this essential pinch of inspiration and keep the fire inside of you burning. Take a peak into these different styles and unique approaches towards icon design! It’s always a great pleasure to discover them. I’m pretty sure that you will find some fantastic icon designers and icon sets amongst the ones I selected for you this time.
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Best Icons of the Month! (October)
Check out incredible collection of icons!
It’s unbelievable how many different styles and unique approaches towards icon design there are! Always a great pleasure to discover them. I’m pretty sure that you will find some fantastic icon designers and icon sets amongst the ones I’ve selected for you today.
The key to success is deliberate practice
It is no secret that to get better at something, you have to practice. A lot. It, among other things, applies to iconography and design in general. Have you ever heard of the 10.000 hours rule? According to it, if you want to become an expert at anything, be ready to practice it for at least 10.000 hours.
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