Many of today’s design styles derive from Swiss-style graphic design, now more commonly known today as “modern design.”

The style is recognized for its unique and rather groundbreaking attention to typography. Needless to say, Switzerland’s design culture has taken the world by storm.

Of course, the style has grown beyond the graphic design industry and made its way into web design.

When we web designers search for inspiration, though, we tend to stick to this one culture.

Though a great source of inspiration, let’s look at some graphic design styles from other parts of the world. Perhaps we could incorporate at least subtle elements from those other cultures into our current style.

Apple products are well known for their simple and elegant design, and they are favored by many designers.

Their products are often seen in web design, particularly on portfolio websites, and these products are also popular subjects for icon design.

In this post we feature more than 35 sets of high-quality icons inspired by Apple and its products.

You’ll find iPod icons, iPhone icons, iMac and MacBook icons, as well as a variety of others. This post includes dock icons as well as those intended web design or other types of design.

As is always the case whenever dealing with freebies, be sure to check the license and terms of use before using them.

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.

To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot

On behalf of myself and the entire WDD team, we’d like to wish you a very happy, healthy and successful 2010!!!

Thanks for your support in 2009; we hope you learned a few good things here while having fun and getting inspired at the same time.

The next year will be also full of great content and inspirational posts, and we’ll cover a bit more of the technical side of design as well.

And there’s ‘one more thing’… we’ll be launching another website in early 2010… stay tuned to our RSS feed and follow our tweets @DesignerDepot to be the first to know.

We wish you much success in your design career in the year ahead and all the best to you and your loved ones… Here’s to an awesome 2010…