Fun and Instructive Icon Design Tutorials

These days, custom icons are everywhere, being used not only for web applications, but also desktop and mobile applications, application icons, favicons and even some icons that are adapted as logos.

Being able to create quality icons is not as easy as it seems. It requires a minimal touch while still achieving enough detail for the icon to be recognizable.

In this post, I’ve gathered up some fun and instructive icon design tutorials to get you started.

Create a Book Icon in Photoshop

Create a Glossy Mouse Icon

Tron Style App Icon Tutorial

Sleek Download Icon Tutorial

Create an iTunes 10 Icon

Realistic Coffee Icon

Create a Cute Twitter Bird Icon

Create a Detailed Circuit Chip Icon

3D Industrial Style Icon Tutorial

Digital Camera Icon Tutorial