New Iron Man icons!!!

Based on the comic book character created by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber and on the screen play directed by Jon Favreau!!!

Enjoy, they are free!!!

The Care Bears appeared in their own television series from 1985 to 1988, I was still a kid and used to love the show. hope that you willl enjoy with me this nostalgic icon pack.

I wish your next year will be as new as “New Years” should be. After all, it would be crazy to obtain different results doing the same thing.May new horizons be revealed to your eyes, with the same intensity and strength of a passion that carries dreams and sow them in reality.May God’s grace give us comfort and peace. And love, even if briefly. Be safe and light.

Happy new year!!!

A friendly kiss!!.

Everaldo

“The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.”

Benjamin Franklin

Hello!!

This year was great.We had lots of work and had a great time doing it.We got the chance to meet and work with great people and company’s and also had the opportunity to accomplish great things.

It is Yellow Icon team wish that you have a wonderfull holiday season.We wish you all the best.

A lot of discussion has been thrown about the new Mac OS interface features, specially when it comes about the new dock, and how icons have been displayed over it. We have been testing the developer’s version of Apple’s new “feline”, and, as icon designers, we have came accross questions that also seem to have some real importance to our fellows around the world.

The main point of discussion is based on some subtle inconsistencies that the new dock presents, when put against Apple’s HIG.

We have found this very interesting article, posted by Craig Hockenberry at furbo.org, , where the author points out some of these little look’n'feel issues on the new dock’s depiction.

Basically, the major complaint is all about the shadow sistematically added over the top of the icons - wich sometimes already have an embedded alpha channel drop shadow, making the light sources conflicting when placed in the new dock.

Could this be the end of the reliance on embedded 8-bit alpha channels for shadows, and the start on a way to doing 3D icons?

Our Chief Art Director Everaldo wrote an awesome text about what is an icon in a semiotics and phycologic view is in his personal web-blog. Here is a little stretch of it: “The word icon comes from the greek word “Eikon” that means image, and according to the semiotic definition of Charles S. Pierce,“icons are signs that relate to their objects by resemblance”. It’s a really interisting text. Check it out the full text at www.everaldo.com/blog/ and this way you can also see his new personal site. Don’t waste any more time and check it out!

After about one and a half year of really hard work, it is now finally time to present the newest version of the so-loved Crystal Icon set. It’s a pleasure to say that, because we at Yellow Icon are really involved with this project. Uncountable hours of work and some nights without sleeping were dedicated to it, and releasing it to the public today is a great achievement for us.

This is probably the biggest update of Crystal, the majority of icons have been completely refreshed and redesigned, others have been added, special care was given to every last pixel. Attentive to the last interface trends, this new set will be provided also in 256×256 sizes, compatible with Windows Vista. The look’n'feel has been improved, and evolved from the style “fun” and sometimes even “childish” of old packs Crystal GT/SVG/CLEAR to a more consistent, vivid and professional style. Precision in details, brilliancy and “coolness” icon by icon. Really.

Everaldo is happy and so are we all at Yellow Icon staff.

Get to know more about Crystal at http://www.everaldo.com/crystal

Needless to say you’re gonna want so bad to download them. You already know, Crystal is for free, entirely. =)

Just head up to http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/?action=downloads and enjoy!

Back in the 80`s, Steven Spielberg launched a film that would change many lives, including the lives of our designers.

With a nice script, cool special effects and a car that no one can forget, that was

“Back to The Future”. As movie freaks we are, we decided to present the fans of this great movie with a cool set of exclusive icons.

The designer behind those great icons is Rhandros Dembicki, one of the finest designers at Yellow Icon Studio. Rhandros is addicted to science fiction movies and is a huge Spielberg`s fan. As so he couldn`t let the opportunity of creating the icons of one of his favorite movies go by! Don`t waste any more time and download these incredible icons!!!

Just a few months ago, while talking about icons and the different ways of depicting them, a different idea came around, just for fun. André and Everaldo were discussing about the use of gradients, gaussian blurs, and stuff alike. The point was, would a mac icon with no gradients or shade effects be still elegant and realistic? André, passionate for vector-based graphics, decided to give it a shot. The kind of game let’s-see-what-happens, he started to play with a few icons. Only flat colors and shapes. No gradients, no blurs. Cut the story short, the results were cool, really, and it was funny to draw 41 icons that way.

So… dear folks, this fresh icon set made just for fun is now available for download. Just head up to our download section or click here to put some cool flatness on your desktop. After all it’s not everyday you can call flatness a cool feature in an icon. =)

We went together to see the new Spidey movie, a couple weeks ago, a little time after its release. You know, it’s the kind of film to be seen on the big screen. And, despite what great part of the critics have said about the film, overall, we loved it. We’ve heard that there were too much villains fighting for some screen time, that there were too much coincidences and some unrealistic and obvious moments… but hey, it’s not supposed to be super-reallistic, like comics aren’t. It’s just a totally cool super-hero hanging between NY’s skyscrapers, villains, and the love of some beautifull ladies. What else could you expect? A Shakespearean philosophically-coherently-profoundly written movie script? Come on. Except for the Peter-dress-like-an-emo parts, we loved it all. The special effects are amanzingly well executed, and everything needed to make you have a great time with your buddies in the front of the big screen. After all, anyone in the world involved with arts, illustration and design has, at least one time in life, flirted with all this comics universe, with its heroes and heroines. To have drawn or sketched Spider-Man then, at least once or twice in life, is a totally common-place to us, illustrators. After this last movie from the Spidey trilogy, Rhandros Dembicki’s fingers couldn’t help dropping a cool hand-made Spider-Man wallpaper to put on our desktops. And now, free to put on yours. All credits to Rhandros talent for this stylish Spidey illustration. Download section, dude. Get yours.

A total nostalgy hit us just when the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie came around. We’ve watched the animation on the big screen together and, you know, the idea of doing all these green dudes land around everybody’s desktops was just unavoidable.

Edson Farias, one of our best icon designers, is the man behind this incredibly cool icon set. He’s loved TMNT since its very begining on the media, and couldn’t help drawing everything like a mad fan. Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, and the always wise Master Splinter are there in a set of 9 icons. Absolutely ninja-crafted icons, by the way. You should wait no more to get your mouse clicking on our download section and getting those great icons.

We love Mozilla apps. Really. We have followed Firefox and Thunderbird since their very first beta versions. They’re a fantastic applications and we got excited with their ever-growing popularization. So, if we are icon designers, why not making some custom icons for these so-loved softwares?

We really like the original icons - all credits and praise to Jon Hicks, from hickdesign, only stunning works, by the way. So, we wanted to play around with those, keeping the same soul, and yet giving them some tweaks and modifications. The goal was to have fun - we always have fun drawing icons - and make them more compatible with the look’n'feel of the yet-to-come MacOS Leopard and the new Windows Vista interfaces. And, after all, you have just gotten a cool icon option to put there on your desktop. Just head up to our download section and enjoy.

The dream continues. The journey gets to new level. Our involvement and passion for design has unavoidably increased. A passion that has reached out the most incredible corners of the world before we could even take notice. It’s crazy but clients from the seven continents have already come, seen, and experienced Yellow Icon’s passionate design. The result of this unbelievable Yellow trip is right here: our brand new website.

Needless to say we are totally excited with our new home, sweet home!. Our goal is to make it an entirely enjoyable place, where companies, developers, designers, ad agents, students, fans - and virtually any individual in the world - may come, get wow!!, and find out cool, effective and intelligent stuff for their design needs.

Everything here has been built block by block, with really hard work, endless brainstorm and planning meetings, uncountable hours in front of a computer’s screen, innumerable design sketches, and of course, much laughter, fun, and piles of overnight pizzas.

Our icon web community, where artists from all around the world can post their crazy icon packs is here, one click away, at IconBase.com. The neatest, coolest and complete royalty free icon sets we’ve become famous for? No better place to go. It’s everything at our Stock Icons Store.

The rest is all about Yellow Icon itself, the awesome people who work here, their incredible talent and expertise, and most importantly, each of you, amazing clients and fans, who truly believe us. You are the ones who caused Yellow Icon to be what it is. This fantastic journey is only possible because of you.

C’mon. Take a seat, get comfortable, browse trough. After all, all we want is to see beautiful things. Simple like that.