Art at your fingertips. iOS icons

One of the main features of the App Store is that it awakens creative thinking in designers. It seems that every week there are great ideas for interfaces, which makes all the community very happy.

One of the sub-sections of mobile design is icon design on the App Store. He seems to have become a separate art form. Very talented artists are finding more and more interesting ways to demonstrate the application in a small space.

From the translator: examples of beautiful icons and a little more text under the cut.
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Never underestimate the importance of the application icon. This is the first thing that the user sees before downloading your application (I downloaded several applications that caused my interest only in my icon).

Companies seem to rarely make decent icons for their customers, but this is very simple:

set aside 25-40 thousand rubles. your budget
contact any of the guys below
get your gorgeous icon

You can watch a great video, where the designer makes an icon here . Or, if you want to make your own - here is a handy PSD template that will save all the necessary dimensions of the icon.

Here are my favorite icons: