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This is beautiful. Not very useful but Beautiful.
Thanks :-)

Are they icons? No, those images break all the principles of icon design!

Acorns? I mean, they’re nice and all, but not very practical I suppose. Perhaps if i made some stickers out of them and give it to my niece to stick it on her school folders. :-P

What the hell? They’re cute and all, but not very useful.

So who do you have to have sex with to get your icon set on smashing magazine?

hmm… first to show me a practical use with these thingemajiggs (not icons, not illustrations, what are they?) get’s a beer from me!

” bring a piece of nature to life. ” some things are better left dead….

You guys who complain should 1) read the artists’ insight 2) look at the large preview. On a cartoon style website they could become useful. They’re more specific, admitted, than most other icon sets but there are situation they might fit… And if not useful, at least they’re a beautiful piece of art =)

i agree: they are very well designed. i imagine they’d be good for an ad.

Felicitaciones a todos los colegas diseñadores en su día!!!!

Would you people stop whining? It seems that some of you got a bit too used to freebies.
If you don’t like it don’t download it.

What a bunch of losers….

This icon set is nuts!

Now everyone is going to start using acorns because of this cool icon set =P Not really, but nice set nonetheless.

Can “Mr. Acorn” be our new mascot? lol – good job Monica.

I am sorry, those are just not up to par with Smashing’s standards. Ignominious.

I’m sorry some of you don’t appreciate the set.
It supposed to be funny, it’s 100% vectorial, and usefull for cartoon art creation :D

Super Monica!

Great for cartoon style sites :)

Inca o data, felicitari!

okie dokie…

this seems to have literally no use

I like it. I think people should put themselves in the shoes of a website owner. Don’t you think how SM people work hard to keep this website the best web resource ever ? Could you show a lil bit of appreciation at least. If this icons don’t fit your needs, fine, maybe for some other user it may be helpful. C’mon. Don’t be rude, people. Thanks Monica, and Thanks Smashing Magazine for providing us really good stuff FOR FREE!

what? don’t touch that squirrel’s nuts! =]

To all who said this is not useful: I’m looking forward for the day you’ll need this for a client with a site requiring such a style (knowing already you’ll come with your tails between your legs ;) )

Monica, don’t get discouraged, these are awesome and reflect your talent, even if the area of use is limited.

Heck, if it wasn’t for creatives like Monica and others, we would be still facing tables and IE :)) Remember how long it took for developers to switch to CSS websites? Wasn’t that also look at with doubt? Even today, the swithching process goes on… Funny…

@spritzstuhl : lol man :))

None of you re designers, The day I meet someone who can design, and design for print and screen…will be the day I die…
Designers are overrated, if u cant design for final product wether its print or screen..just STFU, you losers.
These icons are clever, and oh where is your submissions at so I can rip on your crappy art work

@ 44, Mike

Dude..Are you for real? The only reason you can flame like that would be because you rock screen and print. 50 bucks and my aforementioned beer says you’re not rocking anything.
Designers are not overrated. The only reason you were able to make the comment that assured you look like an idiot, is because a designer made the comment form. He (or she) knew he (or she) had to think about the fact that people like yourself would need to post moronic comments on posts. The mere fact that you were able to post, shows designers are not overrated.

Furthermore; you claim that the icons are clever. Somehow you seem to find a purpose for these icons. If you’re as brilliant as you claim to be, I challenge you to show me a design where these acorns are used as icons and actually adding something to the whole. If you manage to do that, I’ll buy you a beer (paypal, you’ll have to buy it yourself, but I’ll sponsor you).

I don’t want to flame the designer of the icons. Obviously, she has some purpose for these thingemajiggs. The problem is that it’s promoted as an “icon set”, where I only see freaky little acorns, doing human stuff. Nice illustrations, but they’re faaaar away from being icons.

Wow, since when did smashing magazine comments become so hateful?

I remember it used to be all “thank you”s

Not so keen on these acorn thingys though…

Very cute.
And ignore rude comments. People are just jealous.

Monica tried, ok … but please, SM, try to filter the content to keep the reached level of your site. To be free isn’t a reason to publish whatever people send. I respect everibody’s work, but I think this icon set is not serious at all. Thanks for all.

These are cute.. lol..

man o man o man just get a load of those acorms!!

Lovely as these icons are (& I appeciate the work that has gone into them) I am not sure that they can be utilised anywhere. Very strange collection!

HOLA MONICA, GRACIAS POR TU INGENIO CON ESTOS ICONOS FELICIDADES.