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08 June 2007

I'm an icon junkie.

Untitled-1I'm mid-way through a Silverlight application I'm writing called "MossyVideo Player". In the design of my application, I am making use of Icons to represent navigational elements that whilst aren't 100% relevant to the task, they are however close.

I could of designed the icons from scratch, but in truth I don't have the time or patience to do this, so in light of this I began an online hunt to find out what Icons are available today that are worth buying.

I've begun to compile a list of Icon providers I've found, but would love others to ping me with their favorite source for these little nuggets of brain candy (which I'll then post online somewhere with summary of each provider).

Icons can make the difference in my opinion on whether a user interface is visually appealing or absolute rubbish. I'm sure their is a detailed brain dump on why they exist and how important they are from a user experience perspective (I'll also dig up some more detailed wording on why, where and how they should be used from some of our UXE folks when i'm next in the room with one of them).

I also think that if you have the design ability and know how, you could make some nice $change in selling them (royalty free) to the next generation of RIA designers.

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# Uwe Keim said:

Here are free icons:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Icons_themes

08 June 07 at 12:39 AM
# Will said:

These guys provide some nice icons, and have a free collection too. http://www.iconexperience.com/

PS: The 'mirror' effect in your app isn't setup correctly - you need to apply another transform - horizontal flip :)

08 June 07 at 1:53 AM
# Mark Cohen said:

I like http://www.iconaholic.com/ - I like his "web 2.0" style.  He also has stacks of downloadable content

08 June 07 at 2:32 AM
# Daniel Tome said:

I would recommend Everaldo Coelho's icons:

He does linux icons, that you might not like ;-)

But they are really good.

Here's his stock icon site.

http://www.iconbase.com/

cheers,

08 June 07 at 4:11 AM
# Emanuele Cipolloni said:

I bought the entire collection of IconShock http://www.iconshock.com (about 500 USD), but you can buy single sets. They offer both pixels and vector based icons, highly recommended!

08 June 07 at 6:22 AM
# Mark said:

There is also free icons search engine with detailed information about licensing type http://www.iconlet.com

08 June 07 at 9:45 AM
# Micha said:

@ Daniel Tome

Thanks for your link.

It was very usefull for me

11 May 08 at 10:34 AM

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About scbarnes

Scott Barnes currently is a Rich Platform Product Manager (WPF & Silverlight). He has been working with Adobe/Macromedia technology for the past 10 years with a main focus specifically on Internet Applications (aka. RIA, Rich Client Technology etc).

Scott first started out as a graphic designer in the late 90’s and over the years developed a passion for programmatic art (Designer + Developer mind). He recently has branched out further into 3D modelling and animation making full use of both his designer + developer mindset.

"..The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man..." - George Bernard Shaw
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