Smashing Community Icon Set: Vote Now!
Two days ago, we invited you to participate in the Smashing Community Icon Set event, in which you would tell us what icons you want and we would design them for you together with the design agency SoftFacade of Russia. We express our sincere gratitude for the engagement of our readers, the useful feedback and the support. Thank you!
Indeed, we were overwhelmed by the amount of ideas and suggestions. Overall, we received over 430 comments in our announcement post and in the forum. We identified over 120 (!) various ideas, combined them according to similarity and ranked them in order of popularity. We ended up with the seven most popular ideas.
And now it is your turn to decide which icon set we should design. Please vote for your favorite set in the poll below. And please spread the word so that as many users as possible can participate, so that the set that is truly most wanted by the community is chosen. You have 48 hours.
Your ideas for the community icon set
Let’s take a close look at the most popular ideas that were presented in your comments in the magazine and in the forum:
- Portfolio Icons Set
A set of icons that could be used in portfolios and sites of design agencies. Examples: showreel, hire me, future projects, invoice, cv, graphic design, product design, illustration, drawings, brainstorming, donate, photography, freelance, full-time, finished work, current work, collaboration, free for job, busy, upcoming work. - E-Commerce Icons Set
A set of icons that could be used in various commercial applications (e.g. online-shops). Examples: credit, bank, bestseller, featured, premium, special offer, limited edition, payment cards, basket, product, category, attributes, brand, order, shipping, bank, credit card, PayPal. - Web Application Set
A set of icons that could be used in web-applications or online-services where registration is required. Examples: login, logout, edit, my account, settings, sign in, sign out, sign up, contact, collaboration, process/workflow, project, publish, library, cost, ticket, milestone, issue, comment, invoice, order, product, category, customers, suppliers. - Blog icon set
A general icon set for bloggers, containing icons comment, email, feed, user, delicious, twitter, pencil/pen, star/heart, folder, pencil, calendar, date, sitemap, search. - CMS Icon Set
A set of icons for interface designs in CMS. Examples: archives, old versions / draft versions, document library, consulting, business contact, networking, communication, statistitcs, advertising, administrative docs, billing. - Forum / Community Icon Set
A general set of icons for various forums and boards. Example: reply, new thread, new topic, save, preview, submit, active topics, new posts, unanswered posts. - Robots / Geeks Icon Set
A set of original creatures (robots or some other geeks). Examples: single robot, multiple robots, robot with a shout bubble, robot with a heart, robot with a gear, robot with envelope.
What icon set should we design for you?
Winners
Also, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Mac Dock Icon Throw Pillows. The winners were chosen randomly among all commenters in the magazine and the forum.
The winners are:
- Melissa (comment #292)
- Martin S. (comment #207)
- Jeff (comment #338)
- Evody (forum member #2919)
- lewii (forum member #5533)
- Leissa (forum member #5115)
All winners have already been contacted. Thank you for your participation, folks! Please stay tuned (RSS and Twitter) — more giveaways and contests are coming! And don’t forget to visit our forum from time to time: the in this forum thread!
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lilithbloody
March 20th, 2009 4:49 pmcongrats to the winners!! :)
DKumar M.
March 20th, 2009 5:21 pmCongrats Guys !! Enjoy you pillows ;)
DKumar M.
KC TAN
March 20th, 2009 5:24 pmVoted! Congrats to the winners =)
Matty
March 20th, 2009 5:55 pmnice guys! get voting!
comment #4 woo! LOVE THE SITE been using it for ages! keep up the good work!!!!!!! xxx
David
March 20th, 2009 7:22 pmInteresting!
Taowie
March 20th, 2009 7:28 pmCongratulations to all the winners!
pradeep
March 20th, 2009 8:51 pmI voted…Congrats!!
mee
March 20th, 2009 9:54 pmCool Idea :-)
Team Nirvana
March 20th, 2009 10:01 pmCongratulations to the Winners.
Keep the various contests and designs coming.
WPDONE
March 20th, 2009 10:34 pmYou do a great job here. I think a blog icon set will be welcome. Thanks
Jose Luis
March 20th, 2009 11:11 pmBye, iChat pillow…
Danni
March 21st, 2009 12:40 amwoot my suggestion made it to the list :) thought that would give a pillow, thought for a second I had won! But happy that the suggestion made it, lose-win situation :D
Armen
March 21st, 2009 3:07 amcool
Simeon
March 21st, 2009 5:07 amI really want to see some UI icons with clear and nice style.
Macrike
March 21st, 2009 10:52 amI voted for CMS icons. It’s hard to find some decent icons other than famfam.
Lolka
March 21st, 2009 11:45 amI would like a portfolio icon set :D
Kane
March 21st, 2009 2:15 pmSorry Smashing… but I’ve gotta boo this one. Blog icons? CMS? Forums? Can we be any more generic? I’d love to see Smashing push design into new areas.
How about this, instead of starting directly with icon sets, maybe we can define icon styles first. Then allow people to create icons for a particular style and, after group approval, the icon is then added to that style. For example: a high-gloss “aero” set as a style -> User Bob makes a “add a comment” icon for it -> Smashing regulars vote it in (or out) and it get’s added to the official Smashing Aero Icons set.
Nicole
March 21st, 2009 3:41 pmI voted for the Portfolio Icons, I could use them for my portfolio (:
Erik M Kubitschek
March 21st, 2009 5:41 pmVoted, thanks gang!
Sue
March 21st, 2009 6:24 pmJust what *is* a portfolio set?
James
March 21st, 2009 7:24 pmNo offence, but if you are voting for a portfolio icon set you really have to evaluate what kind of job position you are really in. A portfolio is about YOU, not someone at smashing jobs who created some kick ass icons for you.
Correction, someone from the smashing community creating icons…
degentd
March 21st, 2009 9:27 pm… i love that pillows… :-) :-(
Voted for Portfolio icon set.
ume
March 21st, 2009 10:21 pmis it possible that maybe SM could design both for the 1st & 2nd winner? :)
seems like the Portfolio set and the Web Application set is keeping up to each other! wow.. really looking forward to either both… :p
germaine
March 22nd, 2009 1:47 amI voted for “portfolio”, because we already see so much icons for e-commerce and software… ! :)
Cosmi
March 22nd, 2009 1:58 amCongrats winners!
Nadun
March 22nd, 2009 4:55 amHeartiest wishes for winners!!!
cssbit
March 22nd, 2009 5:13 ambravo
thank again
Therapix
March 22nd, 2009 5:59 amCongratulations all!
jack
March 22nd, 2009 11:43 ami want ecommerce icons because good ones are hard to find! thanks
Katia
March 22nd, 2009 12:07 pmCongrats (and nice pillows!)!
I didn’t vote for the portfolio icons, thinking that a web agency or a freelance designer would naturally do its own icons.
hobi
March 22nd, 2009 2:44 pmsm! very very thanks! :)
Aakash
March 23rd, 2009 12:22 amCongrats!. You people are doing nice job. Waiting for Icons….
Nathan
March 23rd, 2009 3:14 amPortfolio??
If your designing a portfolio site it’s gonna be pretty week if you’re using someone elses icons. Design your own icons for a portfolio … or fear being punished by future creative employers who will inevitably read this blog.
+1 set of Instantly redundant icons
Christian
March 23rd, 2009 4:47 amI would love the web application set most. By the way I love smashinmagazine
David
March 23rd, 2009 5:04 amWoot! I won something for once!
Jennifer H
March 23rd, 2009 11:17 amI vote for the Web Applications icon set.
And NOT the Portfolio icon set…seriously, folks…it’s your portfolio! Either design your own icons or don’t use icons at all…jeeze…
simon
March 24th, 2009 11:05 amDo we all get the icons?
Ryan
March 24th, 2009 8:12 pmAnd all of the web designer/developer wannabes voted for…..PORTFOLIO ICONS!!!
I was really looking forward to some new app icons, oh well.
app icons :-(
March 25th, 2009 5:24 amSame here, horrible. Makes me think of redesigning my portfolio for the N-th time :-)
Giorgi
March 28th, 2009 2:48 amPolling was bad idea, there are lot of ignorants
oh well.
Hnfxfofb
June 21st, 2009 11:37 pmw0t3dP comment1 ,
isa
January 27th, 2010 11:31 pmI propose that the first, creating icons such as pets, for example gold fish, rabbits, cats, japanese carp, and others. the second, medical equipment like CT Scan, safety boxes, and more.