Looking for cute icons for your desk?
I hope you like today's freebies edition from Smashing Magazine. They're always looking for creative and talented artist and designers, and this time they chose my colleague and friend Maja Benčić. She made 8 very nice icons and sad:
I prefer clean and simple designs with lively colors and original elements such as icons. Since I love creating characters and try to include them often in my designs, I wanted to use them for a set of trendy and cute icons inspired with cartoons and picture books.
I think these icons could be used to make web-sites more lively and friendly no matter how serious they are supposed to be. At least that’s how I like my web-projects to be. I hope people will find a way for incorporating some or all of these icons into their designs.
Maja Benčić
Download from Smashing Magazine:
- PNG files (0.25 Mb)
- Windows icons (0.23 Mb)
Cutting Pizza Like a Big Boy!
Tired of cutting pizza with some not-so-sharp metal, sadly called knife? That's over! Check this pizza cutter, and next time, you would be invited to pizza party only with this!
Cutters are designer by Fankie Flood:
Are you tired of your regular pizza cutter? Then check out these awesome custom pizza cutters based on chopper style motorcycles.
Moonstream, new city gadget?
Great example of non-earth vehicle designed by Anthony Sims. After the Phoenix has landed to Mars, could Moonstream be the next vehicle that we will send? That would be awesome, I can't imagine Mars ride with this monster...
The designer claims to have taken cues from nature, citing the turtle shells and the stance of giraffes as inspirations. To be completely honest though, it looks like a DLP projector with wheels.
In this moment, I would love to have it for city traffic. Want pizza, sure, give me 5 min...
Where to search for design inspiration
You're sitting in your home or work, without inspiration? Well, Smashing Magazine made a selection of few destinations where you could find it. And of course your boss is going to pay a trip!
México Web 2.0 Conference, Cancún
Great location and great topics. Could it be an event of the year? I hope so. Speakers are international, generally from Latin America and with one special guest from USA, Molly Holzschlag (Author: Zen of CSS Design).
Some of the topics are:
- World 2.0: World has changed, but companies didn't noticed
- Usability and Accessibility
- Effective design: Designing the interface
- Measure for deciding: Tools and strategy for analysing results
- And many more…
Beside the interesting topics, there would be also several workshops:
- Web application development with Flex Builder 3
- Look mum, without tables Designing with standards
- Javascript, jQuery for dynamic sites
- And many more…
More info about the speakers, prices/reservations:
México Web 2.0
November 3 and 4, 2008
Cancún, México
