When you’re designing an iOS app, keep in mind that it’s the app icon that will be seen on a daily basis. While you’re refining and polishing and perfecting the app interface, it’s the icon that will be seen most often – and so it’s important to spend a lot of care and attention on creating a beautifully crafted app icon too.

A superbly designed icon has unexpected benefits. A nicely designed icon may be more likely to be added to the user’s home screen, and as such could result in your app being used more often. It may even be the difference between a user choosing to download your product from the App Store instead of a competitor.

To help give you some inspiration, we’ve collected some amazing examples of expertly crafted, beautifully designed app icons. We hope this collection gives you some creative ideas for your next iOS app design.

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FileSquare is a prototyping tool and a remote collaboration platform for designers and developers. They just launched a new set of 200 well-designed vector icons, which are perfect for iOS toolbar and tab bars, Android app, websites, t-shirts, tattoos… anything you want to use them for.

About PixelGlyph

PixelGlyph is a set of icons, and it comes with two versions.

The free version has 2 sizes (16 and 48 pixels squared), 1 color and in PNG format. You can directly download this 4.2MB zip from its website. Just leave your email, and download link will be sent to your inbox. No other information required.

For $25 version, besides PNG files, FileSquare provides you with the vector source files in AI and EPS formats. It’s better for you to have vector icons because you’ll be able to change them into the color and size that you want.

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Icon design is one of the most important skills a designer can have, because the principles used in icon design overlap so significantly with other fields such as user interface design, web design and logo design. Designing a good icon can be a lot more challenging than it seems, because the small size makes it hard to integrate the desired detail, but a certain amount of detail must be present in order for the icon to be convincing.

The best way to learn icon design is to practice and follow tutorials.  In the year 2012, there’s already been a lot of great new icon creation tutorials that you can follow, and they all show off some cutting edge techniques.

Here’s the best new icon creation tutorials so far in 2012.

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Dribbble is show and tell for creatives. Designers, developers and other creatives share shots—small screenshots of the designs and applications they are working on. Dribbble is a great source for inspiration in web design, icon design, interface design and many others. In this article I compiled a list of 36 Delicious Icon designs that I found and like at Dribbble, the icons displayed here is all about food and drink icons that is designed with an eye on little details.

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Displaying in these series the highest quality icons designed with very careful attention to the smallest detail. All these icons are found on deviantART. These icons are very professionally designed that makes you believe that they are real. All icons featured in these series have icon sizes that range from 512px to smaller icon sizes.

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