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Useful and Free Pictogram Dingbat Fonts

anime_t — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:34:31 +0000

Pictograms are essentially a graphical idea, sign or simple instruction that has been stripped down to its bare and basic details, yet is still recognizable as the original idea. There versatility and simplicity offers an universally easy to understand language that can be seen in anything from road signs and posters, to icons and logos, and can be found everywhere from the North to the South Pole. Yep, Pictograms are awesome.

Previously, we published a pictogram article that focused on free icon resources (8 Free Pictogram Icon Libraries and Collections) this time around we focus on fonts, or to be more specific, on pictogram dingbats.

Glyphyx (OTF)

Glyphyx (OTF) Downloads →
License: View license for ‘Glyphyx-One-NF’ →

Notice (OTF)

Notice (OTF) Downloads →
License: View license for ‘Notice’ →

Symbolix (TTF)

Symbolix (TTF) Downloads →

SirucaPictograms (TTF)

SirucaPictograms (TTF) Downloads →
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 →

Ding Dongs (TTF)

Ding Dongs (TTF) Downloads →
License: This font has been distributed as Freeware. It may be freely used, copied and distributed, as long as it is not sold.

Symbol Signs (OTF)

Symbol Signs (OTF) Downloads →
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported →

Santiage Icono (TTF)

Santiage Icono (TTF) Downloads →
License: This font has been distributed as Freeware. It may be freely used, copied and distributed, as long as it is not sold.

Pictogramz (TTF)

Pictogramz (TTF) Downloads →
License: This font has been distributed as Freeware. It may be freely used, copied and distributed, as long as it is not sold.

Dingbests (TTF)

Dingbests (TTF) Downloads →
License: View license for ‘Dingbests-Regular’ →

Hazard (TTF)

Hazard (TTF) Downloads →
License: This font has been distributed as Freeware. It may be freely used, copied and distributed, as long as it is not sold.

Travelcons (TTF)

Travelcons (TTF) Downloads →
License: Free for personal use.

Via: speckyboy.com

Social Media Icon Sets – Best Of

anime_t — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:19:04 +0000

With innovations of web-based technologies, social media is now everywhere, changing the way human interacts. Thus, demands for social media icons are raised within web community especially web designer who creates commercial site or theme.

Hongkiat Exclusive: Social Network Icon Set

“These Iconshock icon set comes in 6 different sizes: 12×12, 16×16, 24×24, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512, covering various social network logos like Blogger, Delicious, Facebook, Flickr, Linked-in, Reddit, RSS feed, Stumble Upon, Technorati and Twitter.” Created by Iconshock exclusively for Hongkiat.

‘+’ Icon Set

“This icon set has the ability to grow into the complete social bookmarking set, but only with your help.” Originated by Nouveller.

Circular Social Media Icons

The zip file includes 3 sizes for 27 icons: 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32. There is an icon for the following: Blogger, Delicious, DesignFloat, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Google, a heart icon that will work for anything (such as bookmark), MySpace, Reddit, an RSS icon, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Twitter, WordPress, Yahoo!, YouTube, AIM, Bebo, eBay, Hi5, Last.fm, LinkedIn, Windows Live, Ning, Orkut and Yahoo Messenger.

3D Icon Set

“Inside this Icon Pack are twenty 3D social media icons, created exclusively for the viewers of Tutorial9 by Dawghouse Design Studio.”

3D Statuette Icon Set

“This is a set of 3D social bookmarking icons that are placed over a platform like statuettes. They come in a pretty big size (435*424px) which can be scaled to a preferred custom size and the format is transparent PNG.” Released on Web Resources Depot.

A Life in Pixel Icon Set

“The set includes 16 32px x 32px PNG files. They are monochromatic and can work with many other colors, which is perfect if you are looking for icons that are subtle and muted so that they do not dominate your design.” Designed by Daniele Selvitella for release on Six Revisions.

Bevel Dark Icon Set

“The set includes 10 icons featuring the logos of popular social bookmarking sites. Bevel Dark includes 512×512, 256×256, 128×128, and 64×64 icons in .png format.” Published by Tutorial9.

Black Ink Grunge Stamp Icon Set

Black Paint Splatter Icon Set

Bookmarking Icon Set

Released by Elmastudio.

Bubblicons Icon Set

“Each icon has dimensions of 48×48px and is in PNG format. It’s perfect for blogs and content-centric websites.” Authored by Supratim Nayak for Design Instruct.

Burnt Wood Icon Set

“Each icon is a 420×420px PNG file that can be scaled down to any size needed.” Burnt by Chris Thurman of Visual Swirl for Six Revisions.

Character Icon Set

“Downloading this package you get PNGs + AI file with fully editable source for all characters.” Released on Bevel and Emboss.

Cheers Icon Set

Circular Icon Set

“The download includes .png files in grunge & clean versions and three sizes (128×128, 64×64 & 32×32).” Presented by Arbenting.

Crumpled Paper Icon Set

Dark Denim Social Media Icons

Dellifeed Icon Set

“A set with 8 tasty and appealing social icons in the format .png.” Baked by Dellustrations for Smashing Magazine.

Elegant Themes Icon Set

“The package includes 42 64×64 icons in both PNG and PSD form.” Created by Elegant Themes.

Function Icon Set

Presented by Function.

Furry Cushions Icon Set

“A set with 6 transparent furry social icons in .png.” Designed by Andrea Austoni especially for Noupe.

Glossy Waxed Wood Icon Set

Grass Textured Icon Set

“The icons are packaged with 3 different sizes to suit your needs: 256px, 128px and 64px.” Texturized by Richie Thimmaiah from RichWorks for Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Green Thumb Icon Set

“All icons are available in four sizes: 256×256, 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32 pixels.” Planted and released by Visual Swirl.

Grunge Peeling Stickers Icon Set

“Each icon is in .png format sized at 128x128px with transparent backgrounds. The pack comes with a .PSD source file so that you can customize your own icons.” Created for Tutorial9 by Dawghouse Design Studio.

Grunge Warning Stripes Icon Set

Hand Drawn Icon Set

Drawn by rafiki270.

Heart Icon Set

“A set of 22 social icons in .png and in resolutions 16×16, 32×32, 64×64.” Designed by Aravind Ajith from The Design Superhero for Smashing Magazine.

inFocus Icon Set

“A huge free set of 1,540 social networking icons, our standard 154 icons in 10 colors. We’ve included layered PSDs of their implementation as well as a matching About the Author Box.” Created by WebTreats ETC.

Kadom Icon Set

“Each icon is in .png format on transparent background.” Released by Kadom.

Lighter Grey Icon Set

“Icons are 16 by 16 pixels and in transparent PNG format. The set also includes one extra blank icon base for making additional matching icons.” Presented by Nymphont.

Little Sketchy Monster Icon Set

“In the download file you will get a preview image and seven transparent .PNG images (these can be scaled down easily if you require them to be smaller).” Spawned by Circlebox.

Matte White Icon Set

Nurture Icon Set

“The set includes 10 icons featuring the logos of popular social bookmarking sites with 512×512, 256×256, 128×128, and 64×64 icons in .png format.” Designed by David Leggett for Smashing Magazine.

Old Bottle Crowns Icon Set

“This set contains 20 200px x 200px PNG files that you can easily resize and edit for your website design.” Created by Dawghouse Design Studio for Six Revisions.

Orange Grunge Stickers Icon Set

Pagepeel Icon Set 1

“The set contains 16 social icons in (transparent)PNG format.” Published on Productivedreams.

Pagepeel Icon Set 2

“Icons are transparent PNGs and the available dimensions are 128 x 128 and 64×64″. Published on Productivedreams.

PinkStrip Icon Set

Created and shared by Webstuffshare.com.

Pixel Perfect Icon Set

“Each icon is hand crafted and available as a large share button, 32 pixel and 16 pixel icon.” Brought to you by PSDTuts and Benjamin Reid.

Rivet Social Icon Set

“You’ll find 14 different 64px x 64px icons in this set in .jpg format.” Designed by John Campbell from DesignBump, released on Six Revisions.

Robotic Icon Set

“The set consists of various popular social media icons and is available in three different resolutions – 64 x 64px, 96 x 96px, and 128 x 128px.” Invented by Spencer Sy for release on Onextrapixel.

Simple White Icon Set

“Another huge set of 1,540 social networking icons, our standard 154 icons in 10 colors corresponding to each of inFocus‘ color variations.” Released by Web Treats ETC.

SleekSocial Icon Set

Authored by Andrew S. Roberts for publish on Design Instruct.

Social Buzz Icon Set

Crafted by IconShock, released on Tutorial9.

Social Cat Icon Set

“There are three cat colors, with 15 social media icons.” Created by animal lover, Petshopbox.

SocialClean Icon Set

“A set of 12 icons delivered as PNGs in 4 different sizes: 16×16, 32×32, 48×48 and 128×128 covering various social networks.” Designed by Iconshock exclusively for InstantShift.

Social Sketches Icon Set

“In the package, you’ll find 16 different icons for Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Facebook, and more. Each icon comes with 6 standard sizes (32px, 48px, 64px, 128px, 256px, and 512px) in PNG format.” Published on Six Revisions.

Social Media Icon Set

“16×16 and 32×32 icons included, in both transparent PNG and GIF.” Created by sm07.

Social Media Stars Icon Set

“Since you are all stars to us, we made this icon set available for you in two different sizes (128×128 & 64×64) for your convenience.” Presented by Arbenting.

Splatter Icon Set

“These icons are conveniently designed at 8 different sizes ranging from 12px to 512px in png format.” Brought to you by MyInkBlog and Iconshock.

Sticker Style Icon Set

Created by claycauleyinc.

Stitch Styled Icon Set

“All of these are in PNG format with a size of 512 x 512 px.” Created by Creative Repository.

Subtle Grey Icon Set

“Icons are 16 by 16 pixels and in transparent PNG format. The set also includes one extra blank icon base for making additional matching icons.” Designed by Nymphont.

The Leaves Fall Icon Set

“Icons are available in the .png format in various resolutions.” Made by Templates.com for Smashing Magazine.

Typography Icon Set

Typographed by Mulletized.

Vintage Stamp Icon Set

Crafted by Dawghouse Design Studio exclusively for Tutorial9

Web 2.0 Gift Icon Set

“This icon pack contains 14 icons, including popular social bookmarking services and our favourite browser, Firefox. Icons are available in PNG, ICO and ICNS format.” Presented by IconsPedia.

Wooden Badges Icon Set

Crafted for Tutorial9 by Dawghouse Design Studio.

Worn Cloth Icon Set

Woven Fabric Icon Set

Hand crafted by Jan Cavan from Dawghouse Design Studio for Web Designer Depot.

Yammy Icon Set

“The set consists of various popular social media icons and is available in two different sizes – 64 x 64px and 128 x 128px.” Beautifully designed and baked for Onextrapixel by Helen Gizi.

via: hongkiat.com

50 examples of data visualization and infographics

anime_t — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:15:53 +0000

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1) Twitter Users Infographic

Twitter has revolutionized the way we look at social media. It has improved interaction and elevated collaboration to a whole new level. This Twitter Infographic tries to show the different types of twitter users out there, with a humorous twist. Using the twitter mascot was a clever ploy and adds a visual interest many infographics with their overuse of circles seemingly choose to ignore. eye-catching, clever and entertaining – what every infographic seeks to be.

2) BuySellAds Infographic

Arguably, the most awesome Ad service agency we have seen, BSA has evolved to a whole new level in two years, completely changing the way we interact with our advertisers. They recently celebrated their second birthday and what more could make things better than looking at their success in an artistic manner. In today’s Internet, promoting your site, your self or your company can be tricky. BSA has done a decent job of this with this company infographic.

3) Can I afford an iPad

Achieving over 300,000 sales in the first couple of days, iPad has definitely become the most popularly sold gadget after the iPhone. But, at an exorbitant price of $729 for a mid-range iPad, here’s a look at what you’ll have to do to earn the scratch to get one.

4) Digital Lifestyle Infographic

How does your choices affect your digital life? This infographic tries to answer this question in a very interesting and fun manner. It maily answers these questions:

What kind of batteries should I use?
How much and what kind of memory will I need?
How do I connect to my existing gadgets and computers?
How will it work in my car?
Do I have an available connection?
Where can I add a new gadget?

5) Top World Football Earners’ infographic

This infographic sports a very detailed and large collection of information on the top earners for world football (soccer for US fans). It showcases crisp graphics with vibrant colors that pop from a neutral gray background; and easy-to-find information make this a winner of a sports infographic.

6) The Human Subway Map

Underskin is an infographic that traces the routes of eight different systems within the body (Digestive, Respiratory, Arterial, etc.), and highlights the major connection points.

7) Rubik Cube Infographic

The king of all puzzles, but the most annoying realisation once solved, the Rubik’s cube has been puzzling us for years. However, this infographic is Simple and right to the point. Exactly the opposite of Rubik’s Cube. What puzzle solver from the 80s wouldn’t have wanted this infographic on their wall. Well, okay, only the nerdy ones. But you still have to appreciate the simple style of this image. The 2.25″ x 2.25″ square that took over world.

8 ) The Crayola Crayon Timeline (1935-2010)

This infographic depicts the average growth rate for color: 2.56% annually. For maximum understandability and to make it simpler, Crayola’s Law states: The number of colors doubles every 28 years!

9) Infographic Airplane : The Kulula Airlines

A new way of understanding the anatomy of the Airplane

10) Big Brothers Satellite orbiting the Earth

How many countries have stuck satellites up into space, how many of those satellites are working, part-working or just bits of junk? This graphic may help to shed some light on this.

11) Historical Browser Statistics

This is one of my favorites. Its a Flash Application and It shows the browser share of various browsers from the time it started to the time it started looking more like a dominance thing. A cool online tool for viewing historical browser market share statistics. Witness the demice of Internet Explorers dominant control of the market with this intelligent custom visualisation. This somewhat reminds me of the Firefox logo.

12) Electromagnetic Spectrum

Its XKCD, and I dont need to explain further

13) 16 Infographic resumes : A visual trend

A number of designers have attempted to design a visual, infographic resume, and while this is certainly not mainstream (yet), it is gaining some momentum.

14) How 3D works

For those of you who saw Avatar, I’m sure you are bamboozled about how the 3D glasses work and what the heck it actually is. Well, think no more. This, one of a kind infographic might help you understand the working of the glasses better.

15) The Conversation Prism

The art of listening, learning and Sharing.

16) World of Warcraft

Only after looking at this infographic, i understood the magnitude of popularity, WoW a.k.a World of warcraft has. The creators of WoW, Blizzrd entertainment have created a revolution in the MMoRPG industry. Take a look at this awesome statistics

17) Web 2.0 Visual Thinkmap

18) US Money Infographic

19) 50 years of Space Exploration

The space has always enchanted us with amazing new possibilities of perception. The cosmic world is a huge experience in itself. The space nerd in me can’t stop looking at this however. Stunning / beautifully drawn info-graphic of the past 50 years of space exploration.

20) A illustrated guide to using Twitter

Twitter has seen an immense growth within a very short amount of time. Whether it’s the web we are surfing or the TV, there is somebody somewhere talking about twitter. I am an avid user of twitter since the design boom caught up I use twitter to meet like minded people, share content and stay informed about current news and any events that might be of interest to me.

Below you will find a visual guide to twitter which highlights some of the ways twitter can be helpful either for personal use or business.

21) Balance your media diet

Practicing good nutrition keeps your mind sharp, your body fit, and your life long. The same could be said for consuming media.

22) PETA vs Animals (with all due respect)

PETA a.k.a People for Ethical Treatment for Animals is a non profit animals rights group which works on protecting animals and liberating them from any kind of evil/ non-domestic treatment. They are doing a great thing, however there are some things which cannot always stay away from the radar. Take a look

23) 15 things you don’t know about the Human Brain

The human brain is arguably the most complex control system ever modeled. Nobody yet understands to a satisfactory level how it works at the molecular level. Although so many attempts and theories have been proposed, its still under speculation and empirical stages.

24) Happiness in countries

25) How much is a Petabyte?

26) Graphical History of the American Flag

The graphical history of the American Flag shows a circular timeline of when changes were made over the years and when stars were added.

27) Where does the water we use come from?

Take a look at which cities in the US have sustainable, self-contained water supplies, and which cities are forced to turn to outside help.

28) Where does the Internet come from?

Last year, important internet cables connecting Europe to Asia were mysteriously severed, resulting in days of outages for millions of internet users. It was a stark reminder that, no matter how instantaneously our information seems to travel, it is, in fact, moving through cables on the bottom of the ocean.

And, while the internet might seem like the cutting edge of technology, it’s interesting to note that information has been traveling this way since the first telegraph cables were laid across the Atlantic ocean in the 19th century.

In this infographic, we look at how information moves now, and how it moved 100 years ago.

29) What has changed this decade?

30) The numbers behind CHINA

31) College in America

32) The Periodic Table of Typefaces

This is pretty cool and needs no explanation at all.

33) The Life of a web article

34) Why do freeways come to a stop?

This is a simple, good infographic that seeks to explain why traffic on freeways slows to a crawl without any apparent reason to drivers.

35) 25 years of MAC

36) Evolution of Storage

37) The pyramid of Piracy

38) Human Storage

39) Google Facts and Figures

Google has perhaps more than any other company, become “The Internet Company.” It’s grown hand in hand with the internet and its entire business model has from the start been totally focused on the internet as a delivery platform. This infographic explains eveything you need to know about the giant.

40) Map of online communities

41) When’s the best time to Tweet?

42) Geological Time Spiral

43) 1 hour in front of the TV

A visual summary of a man, his children’s movements over a period of an hour during Christmas.

He used a marked-out equally-spaced grid in masking tape and filmed them moving via video across the grid for an hour. He then reviewed the video and plotted their movements on each minute of the video’s timecode onto a ‘room map’ with corresponsing grid.

44) Global distribution of water?

45) GE Smartgrid

46) LEGO Timeline

This timeline shows the 50 years of building frenzy by happy kids and kids-at-heart, all the milestones from the LEGOLAND themed sets to TECHNIC and MINDSTORMS NXT, as well as all kinds of weird curiosities about the most famous stud-and-tube couple system in the world.

47) The Life cycle of a Blog Post

You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you’ve written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers.

Here’s how the whole process goes down:

48) The inner mind of a geek

It illustrates the intricate, interwoven relationship between businesses and their brands. It is a self-promotional poster that was sent out to prospective and existing clients. The idea was to avoid marketing cliche and instead focus on the creative process. A visual stream of consciousness provided the solution.

49) Starbucks vs McDonalds

50) Stop Smoking

Here is a great infographic about how your body reacts to stopping smoking and when it actually starts to recover. It a great combination of a timeline with a description of the symptoms that smoking quitters experience over the period of time.

via: http://richworks.in

1000+ Photoshop Custom Shapes

anime_t — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:56:17 +0000

Today, we gathered together in a single post a total of more than 1000 custom shapes that you can download and use for free. These shapes range from decorative to sketches to logos to silhouettes and many other shapes and objects. Again, we would like to stress that we are not releasing these packs as freebies from this site. Thus, you need to go to the respective author’s page where you can download the pack which are usually in .rar., .zip., or .csh format. Make sure you read and understand the terms of use first before using any of these sets as they may vary from one author to another. To download the set that you like, just click on the text link found below each preview image.

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Useful and Free Pictogram Dingbat Fonts

Social Media Icon Sets – Best Of

50 examples of data visualization and infographics

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4) Digital Lifestyle Infographic

28) Where does the Internet come from?

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