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- 2July 2nd, 2008 4:57 pm
Wow! Very impressive collection here.
- 3July 2nd, 2008 5:02 pm
There was a couple of these sets that look like some iStock icons I’ve seen. I wonder if they bought some extended right or just ripping them off. Still, an awesome list!
- 4July 2nd, 2008 5:06 pm
I want to make these.
- 5July 2nd, 2008 5:06 pm
I want to make these
- 6July 2nd, 2008 5:50 pm
Beijing 2008 Icons are ingenious i’m totally downloading it (:
@ Rype
I also saw similar ones like iStocks. oh well at least they are sharing - 7July 2nd, 2008 6:22 pm
Wooow…
I love it soooooo muuuchhh!!
thanks for the list.^^ - 8July 2nd, 2008 6:32 pm
awesome!
- 9July 2nd, 2008 6:35 pm
icon overload! I love it :D
- 10July 2nd, 2008 6:39 pm
That is a lot of icons!
- 11July 2nd, 2008 7:11 pm
great icons sets…. amazing …
- 12July 2nd, 2008 7:13 pm
Tasty!!!
- 13July 2nd, 2008 7:50 pm
wow… i wanna eat em!!!!
- 14July 2nd, 2008 8:19 pm
The Online Shop Icons & BKdesign icons look deceptively similar to a series that is available on istockphoto.com (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=2786120). I’m wondering whether the authors are the same or the icons have been ripped off.
- 15July 2nd, 2008 8:23 pm
hmmmmm. delicious. i always want to make some like them but i think i am not that goood. :-(
- 16July 2nd, 2008 8:25 pm
wow……awsum……..
- 17July 2nd, 2008 8:35 pm
Alternatively, it could be the original author giving them away. I don’t think iStock requires exclusive reseller rights.
- 18July 2nd, 2008 8:45 pm
this is too much……… luv it :)
- 19July 2nd, 2008 9:04 pm
Nice!
But… why is every monitor a Mac monitor? They still make other ones too, you know…
- 20July 2nd, 2008 9:04 pm
I’m pretty sure the BK Design icons are ripoffs… Check out the “Satin” icon sets by Scott Dunlap:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=2786120 - 21July 2nd, 2008 9:08 pm
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- 22July 2nd, 2008 9:17 pm
Wow.!!!!! Amazing….!
- 23July 2nd, 2008 9:24 pm
great compilation as always.
But i don’t think that some of them should fall under icon category, an icon should be visible even in smaller version and some of them are too detailed for that, so they are just a well finsihed beautiful graphics but surely not icons.
- 24July 2nd, 2008 10:02 pm
Few months ago I bought the “BKdesign Icons Pack 2″ sets at istock photo.
How come it’s free now?? - 25July 2nd, 2008 10:15 pm
how to download the whistle icons?? that page’s all in foreign language!!!!!!!
- 26July 2nd, 2008 10:33 pm
Well… As (almost) always: Very inspiring!
But as exited I am – I’m missing something everytime I see your collection of icons.
The icons are ALWAYS for desktop use, and I have a whole other approach- or idea.
I look for icons, that I can use on my portefolio-site.
I’m taking about icons that symbolize: pencil-drawings, aquarelle, acryllics, photoshop-works, illustrator-works, flash-works, website-design, photography and so on. Creative motives…Am I the only one, that miss that?
Acctually I’ve made a couple og icons my self in the past, but everytime I change the look of my homepage, I need to make new ones, and it’s a big job.So here is a question:
Like you have the amazing desktop calendar of the month, perhaps you-Smashing Magazine- could ask your viewers to contribute with 100% free icons perhaps in first round with symbols for creative portefolios?I promise, I vill contribute my selv with beige and creme icons!!
:) Well. Just a suggestion.
Sandie
- 27July 2nd, 2008 10:54 pm
Some of those are rips from iStockphoto and StockXpert.
- 28July 2nd, 2008 11:09 pm
very useful – thanks a lot!
- 29July 2nd, 2008 11:13 pm
A great collection of icons!
- 30July 2nd, 2008 11:15 pm
several of your featured icon sets are stolen from royalty-free icon sets on istockphoto.com and are being distributed illegally, particularly the BKdesigners packs and the “online shop icons”.
Just beacuse you can download it for free does not mean it’s legal.
Please screen your featured sets more thoroughly. - 31July 2nd, 2008 11:27 pm
Thanks! Great collection of fantastic icons here!
- 32July 2nd, 2008 11:28 pm
@evan: You are absolutely right on that note. The Online Shop Icons are a part of the Satin Icons, and this is Set 9 from iStockphoto.
A quick translation of the site that provides that icon pack in the list above states that Who is the author of icons, is unknown, but we know better now ;)
- 33July 2nd, 2008 11:31 pm
My comment above was directed to evan in comment 19 ;o)
- 34July 2nd, 2008 11:34 pm
guys, you keep me amazed every day. I’m hitting F5 like nuts every 5 minutes when awaiting for your new article :-)
- 35July 2nd, 2008 11:42 pm
Thanks for this selection ! :-)
- 36July 2nd, 2008 11:58 pm
Ich bin immer wieder erstaunt, wieviele schöne Beispiele ihr immer findet. Danke.
- 37July 3rd, 2008 12:19 am
Really cool, thanks.
- 38July 3rd, 2008 12:28 am
Sweet!
- 39July 3rd, 2008 12:40 am
Very nice set
- 40July 3rd, 2008 12:46 am
great stuff … i love smashmag …
- 41July 3rd, 2008 12:49 am
Just WOW!!! thanks
- 42July 3rd, 2008 12:53 am
Thanks a lot!
- 43July 3rd, 2008 1:02 am
This a great collection of great looking icons, also my first recomendation by the Digg recommendation engine. I think i’m already liking it..
- 44July 3rd, 2008 1:35 am
@Pepa You could always Subscribe to the RSS feed, that will update you as soon as there are any updates.
Thanks for featuring my Function Icon Set, It’s a huge honour.
- 45July 3rd, 2008 1:40 am
Excellent Collection
- 46July 3rd, 2008 1:59 am
simply AWSOME !
- 47July 3rd, 2008 3:03 am
wooow… so huge..
omg, sleepless again… - 48July 3rd, 2008 3:22 am
STOLEN ICONS!
BK stole from here:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=2786120Come on smashing… be more careful :(
- 49July 3rd, 2008 3:49 am
I’d love to see some tutorials on some of the techniques used to make these amazing 3D icons.
- 50July 3rd, 2008 5:50 am
nice icon sets :D
i love the weather ones - 51July 3rd, 2008 6:03 am
Wow.. this is an impressive list guys! Well done!
- 52July 3rd, 2008 6:06 am
I keep waiting for some well-designed icons for desktop use at very small sizes. Seems all the great icons nowadays roll at big, Mac-style sizes. I’m not interested in:
a) big buttons anywhere on my desktop
b) using large files (wrt disk/memory space) for decorationUnfortunately, most of the new icons I see (like most of the ones in this collection), are designed to be gigantic and don’t scale down to something like 16×16 well. These icons are gorgeous, but I don’t see them being that useful.
- 53July 3rd, 2008 6:34 am
Nike doesn’t make ping-pong paddles?
- 54July 3rd, 2008 6:36 am
thanks, very long & cool icons list :)
- 55July 3rd, 2008 7:05 am
I’ve been waiting for this sort of posts! Great work S!
- 56July 3rd, 2008 7:18 am
=’)
Nice shit SM ! - 57July 3rd, 2008 7:40 am
huh? A bunch of these were on the last series.
- 58July 3rd, 2008 7:41 am
Very nice set thanks
- 59July 3rd, 2008 8:15 am
I’m currently working on an icon set (very early development) but it’s basically the same types of icons as the silk icon set by famfamfam but bigger and redesigned. Check it out: http://is.gd/LgS
Thanks,
Alan. - 60July 3rd, 2008 8:23 am
Cool icons i always use my dsktop icons BIG AND SHINY !!!
- 61July 3rd, 2008 8:50 am
Thats some quality icons right there ;)
- 62July 3rd, 2008 9:25 am
I’m the designer of the Satin icons up at istock. The Online Shop icons and most of those from BK Design are stolen from that series.
I see smashingmag removed the text link to BK Design, but the preview image is still up and it still links to the site. Please take them down. And the Online Shop icons as well.
Just to clarify, I am exclusive at iStock and can’t sell (or even give away) those icons because of my agreement with iStock. And even if an extended license was purchased for those sets, that does not allow them to be resold. This is blatant ripping.
Finally, thanks to everyone that notified me and commented about this. I really appreciate it! I put a lot of effort into these sets and it kills me to see them stolen.
- 63July 3rd, 2008 9:35 am
Great collection, as always :)
- 65July 3rd, 2008 9:40 am
Great list – although yes I have seen some of these on previous smashing lists. You missed a great set of new icons that came out yesterday from wefunction.com you can check em out here: http://wefunction.com/2008/07/function-free-icon-set/
- 66July 3rd, 2008 9:57 am
That is a lot to deal with. *head explodes
- 67July 3rd, 2008 10:01 am
Wow, very impressive! Thanks so much!
- 68July 3rd, 2008 10:36 am
Really nice collection of icons and graphics.
Thanks guys, keep up the good work. - 69July 3rd, 2008 10:40 am
thank you very much :)
- 70July 3rd, 2008 11:02 am
1ST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!! - 71July 3rd, 2008 11:57 am
Thanks for another load of great icons. :)
- 72July 3rd, 2008 1:10 pm
Me gusta!
- 73July 3rd, 2008 1:57 pm
Can’t forget my own submission, Free Replacement Apache Icons. Might not be as glossy or detailed as some of the above (excellent) examples, but the 85 PNG files come in 32×32 and 128×128, and offer a designed alternative to the generic Apache Icons most web servers install by default.
- 74July 3rd, 2008 1:58 pm
72. elik, woot woot, 2nd.
By the way very nice and usefull list, thanks alot guys..
- 75July 3rd, 2008 2:22 pm
Yeah- new icons for our pleasure!
Very very useful. - 76July 3rd, 2008 2:54 pm
Nice!
- 77July 3rd, 2008 3:10 pm
Fantástica, enooorme Seleccion!!
- 78July 3rd, 2008 5:28 pm
inspiring collection!
- 79July 3rd, 2008 11:45 pm
damn! that was great!
- 80July 4th, 2008 3:33 am
I really love those “Beijing 2008 Icons” made by kidcomic..
I´d love to use them in a commercial project.
Since i do not understand any chinese, i´d like to know more about the terms of use…Thx alot!
- 81July 4th, 2008 4:01 am
Wow, nice Sets. Thanks a lot.
- 82July 4th, 2008 5:29 am
really2 nice…
- 83July 4th, 2008 6:35 am
I can only say:
WOW!
Great, you are the great!!!
Thanks a lot, really - 84July 4th, 2008 2:58 pm
Awesome!! thanks ;)
- 85July 4th, 2008 6:48 pm
Great, that’s very nice.
Thanks. - 86July 4th, 2008 9:03 pm
Great icon pack collections.
- 87July 5th, 2008 3:20 am
thanks solve my problems :D
- 88July 5th, 2008 3:55 am
Really Nice,Thanks
- 89July 5th, 2008 7:24 am
man this is quite a collection. it took me around 10 hours plus to download all of them ;)
- 90July 5th, 2008 8:50 am
Realy great collection ! THANX !
- 91July 5th, 2008 9:40 pm
Simply amazing icon collection. You guys are really amazing in providing these resources.
- 92July 7th, 2008 2:23 am
this really inspiring…
- 93July 7th, 2008 8:54 am
Very NICE!!
- 94July 7th, 2008 8:03 pm
I can’t believe that not one of these sets has a image icon and a video icon in the same set. Very dissapointing, you can’t expect someone to add an icon from one set and that one from another set…
- 95July 7th, 2008 8:10 pm
Great icons – thanks!
- 96July 8th, 2008 9:00 am
Thanks – these are great!
- 97July 9th, 2008 4:13 am
Beautiful stuff here ….
Ummmmmmmmmmmmaaaa !
- 98July 9th, 2008 4:54 am
It is really very nice. Thanks very much.
- 99July 10th, 2008 1:36 am
Really good work especially Ferrari stuff as well as Beijing 2008 Icons. I like the glow effect on the top of helmet.
Nice work.
GON - 100July 11th, 2008 1:44 am
Worderful icons!
Congralulations! - 101July 11th, 2008 3:17 pm
awesome icons! very useful to web designers
- 102July 12th, 2008 1:05 pm
great works, thanks..
- 103July 17th, 2008 6:00 pm
ñam ñamm….
gracias!Thanks!
- 104July 22nd, 2008 11:59 pm
Fantastic collections!!
Keep Smashing!!
Thanks
- 105July 23rd, 2008 4:27 am
coooooooooooooooolllll!!!!!!!!!!!!! stufff…… buddy !!!!
- 106July 23rd, 2008 11:06 am
a lof of thanks!!!
- 107July 25th, 2008 1:11 am
these icons are yummy!!!
developersouvik
- 108July 27th, 2008 9:16 pm
awsome!!! incredible!!! really great icons!!! I like the ones of de OS with the boxes!!! are great!!!
- 109July 29th, 2008 12:38 am
What an amazing iconset !!
Thank you so much, it’s so beautiful.
Dj Ichtus - 110July 29th, 2008 11:40 pm
Great Icon collection. Thanks.
- 111July 30th, 2008 5:43 am
Excellent !
Thanks for this great works. - 112August 3rd, 2008 8:08 pm
Truly amazing collection. Admire the effort and time used.
Thank you.
EVo – Evolinkx.com - 113August 4th, 2008 3:50 am
See this link as well for cool icons sets http://www.designioustimes.com/freebies/free-icons-sets.html
- 114August 4th, 2008 9:36 pm
10 on 10….superb
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- 116August 12th, 2008 6:58 pm
unbelivable SHITTY icons !!
- 117August 18th, 2008 4:37 am
great icons
god bless all this designers - 118September 5th, 2008 10:51 pm
Great Icon sets.
I love that. - 119September 13th, 2008 3:47 am
This is a brilliant list of fantastic icons :) I’ll be sure to add it and promote it in my own collection
- 120September 16th, 2008 10:43 pm
This is awesome icons sets, really nice collections… thanks for sharing.
- 121September 25th, 2008 7:40 am
what software do you guys use to make this great creations? is there any other besides photoshop, (or the ones in the adobe CS), i mean.. any other easier to use without having that much experience?
- 122September 30th, 2008 6:08 am
Terrific, thanks for your jog. I’m brazilian and I will begin look more this blog
- 123December 5th, 2008 5:32 am
great icons,
explain the procedure to create such great icons and the software, if u r using other than photoshop - 124December 25th, 2008 10:11 am
e ke dhi
ti hangsha ropt
ti qifsha - 125January 2nd, 2009 1:50 am
Cool! Very impressive collections.
- 126January 28th, 2009 4:03 am
Very very good stuff. Thanks
- 127February 27th, 2009 2:14 pm
WOW! These are the best icons I’ve ever seen. I wish I had created them. ;)
- 128March 8th, 2009 7:29 am
This is some really fantabulous stuff, atleast there is someplace everything is awesome
- 129April 3rd, 2009 1:41 pm
wow wonderful collections :) thanks dear
- 130April 14th, 2009 8:20 am
Hi
Thanks for your very good collection of icon packs. thanks very much’s.
- 131April 21st, 2009 3:28 pm
Awesome icon set collection, best i ever saw on internet!!!! You smash for real ;)
Check out my website http://www.provenblue.comBest Regards Liviu,
- 132June 1st, 2009 7:25 am
Very good collection.
I will use about 5 or 6 of these sets.
Thanks for sharing them :) - 133July 28th, 2009 12:22 am
thank you for sharing.. all i can say is a big “WOW”
- 134July 29th, 2009 5:36 am
Anyone knows a icon set that contains a icon of a printer cartridge?
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- 138September 9th, 2009 1:14 pm
i found a hard time findng the download for the Olympic Beijing 2008 Icons, so here’s the direct download link
http://www.kidcomic.net/pjblog/attachments/month_0805/1200854233849.rar - 139September 15th, 2009 9:44 pm
can anyone tell me how to use these icons for ‘my computer’ n ‘recycle bin’? i want to change icons on my desktop. so please let me know how to change these icons on my desktop. thnx
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