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- 2September 16th, 2009 2:59 am
grreat collection, indeed!
- 3September 16th, 2009 3:21 am
Super Collections! Thx SM!
- 4September 16th, 2009 3:22 am
Very nice sets. Good job.
- 5September 16th, 2009 3:22 am
Very nice collection…i love the Webdesigner Mini Kit :)
- 6September 16th, 2009 3:25 am
Nice collection there, will no doubt use some of these in the future.
Not important in the slightest but the Nikon Camera one appears twice for some reason.
- 7September 16th, 2009 3:49 am
WOW, what an amazing collection…
Thanks a lot!
- 8September 16th, 2009 3:55 am
Hi’q'h? lol.
- 9September 16th, 2009 4:00 am
A great collection, Thanks guys. (You may want to look at the slight typo in the page title……)
- 10September 16th, 2009 4:12 am
Nice work on the stratocaster although the head actually looks closer to a Jaguar than a Strat.
- 11September 16th, 2009 4:16 am
You guys ROCK !
- 12September 16th, 2009 4:30 am
I love this icon collections. I will use it on my blog.
- 13September 16th, 2009 4:32 am
Fantastic article and very comprehensive resource list. One of the best and NEWEST!! Keep up the good work guys. I can’t wait to get your book here in Italy!
- 14September 16th, 2009 4:43 am
Love these icons, and all the others posted here. Great resources.
- 15September 16th, 2009 4:47 am
Thanks again, you guys are always a great source for inspiration.
- 16September 16th, 2009 4:57 am
Thanks a lot ! Very usefull.
- 17September 16th, 2009 5:00 am
Cool! Thanks a lot!
- 18September 16th, 2009 5:05 am
Awesome !!
Should put a ‘Download full package link’ :P !
- 19September 16th, 2009 5:05 am
You guys are incredible.
- 20September 16th, 2009 5:08 am
Amazing collection. Just downloaded some of these.
- 21September 16th, 2009 5:17 am
Brilliant collection of top notch icons! Thanks :D
- 22September 16th, 2009 5:18 am
Wonderful Collections :)
- 23September 16th, 2009 5:48 am
Once again, Smashing Magazines delivers a quality collection of icons!
- 24September 16th, 2009 5:54 am
Smashing mag has done it again… an awesome collection..
- 25September 16th, 2009 5:56 am
Never liked so many in one set… lovely!!!
- 26September 16th, 2009 6:10 am
There are genius. I have to learn a lot…
- 27September 16th, 2009 6:16 am
I’d like to suggest vectors icons i made a few time ago…. There are several usual bitmap icons, vectorized :
http://www.reticula.fr/index.php?page=vector - 28September 16th, 2009 6:50 am
Nice icons, though left-handed Stratocaster guitar messes with my mind. Just looks wrong!
- 29September 16th, 2009 7:00 am
Wow. this is great stuff. I love your great work to look this up for us. I will definately buy the smashing book! It’s good and you guys deserve to be succesful!
- 30September 16th, 2009 7:30 am
2 Errors: Snow Leopard has been released, It’s ‘high’ not ‘hiqh’
- 31September 16th, 2009 7:30 am
the article title reads “HIQH quality icons”.
- 32September 16th, 2009 7:43 am
Awesome post! Usually I end up having to create my own icons like on my portfolio, but Its awesome that you continue to give sources for inspiration!
- 33September 16th, 2009 7:54 am
good looking out!
- 34September 16th, 2009 8:09 am
Awesome post! Usually I end up having to create my own icons like on my portfolio, but Its awesome that you continue to give sources for inspiration!
- 35September 16th, 2009 8:20 am
when did the term “icon” and high resolution vector graphic become intertwined?
half of those are graphics you would use on a full page print spread, or some home page advertisement…
i dont know. not impressed.
- 36September 16th, 2009 8:39 am
Sweet, more icon collections
- 37September 16th, 2009 8:44 am
These are great!
- 38September 16th, 2009 8:48 am
This is awesome. Probably one of the better icon round-ups to date.
- 39September 16th, 2009 9:24 am
This one is probably my favorite icon set posts ever. Great stuff.
- 40September 16th, 2009 9:32 am
Awesome! Thanks SM, this roundup is great. Love the money back guarantee icons and the XP web designer’s kit.
- 41September 16th, 2009 9:59 am
thank you very much ! you guys always smashing !
- 42September 16th, 2009 10:11 am
Great job SM! Love these collections. Keep them comin’
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- 44September 16th, 2009 10:21 am
OK so any one else think the live journal set looks like a bunch of bank robbers with stocking on their head? look at the one to the right really! interactive artist Michael Austin
- 45September 16th, 2009 10:49 am
THESE
ARE
AWESOME.
- 46September 16th, 2009 11:17 am
Wow this is the best Icon collection i’ve ever seen. Usually you just see the same ones over and over again.
Stay Smashing!
- 47September 16th, 2009 11:55 am
Great Collections…
- 48September 16th, 2009 12:41 pm
there are some good guitar icons here: . Good for replacing the Garage Band icon.
Ben.
- 49September 16th, 2009 1:11 pm
Great List… some are going to be of great use for my next design.. Many thanks ! :)
- 50September 16th, 2009 4:37 pm
thanks.. great collection…..
- 51September 16th, 2009 5:39 pm
AAAmazing.
- 52November 18th, 2009 4:01 pm
Agreed! :)
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- 53September 16th, 2009 6:09 pm
Wow, really a great high quality free icons. Never imagined they are free for download. THought this was a premium set.
- 54September 16th, 2009 6:44 pm
Thanks Share!
- 55September 16th, 2009 7:25 pm
very very nice icons… i like it
- 56September 16th, 2009 10:11 pm
That’s really a fresh collection – good job and thanks for sharing…..
- 57September 16th, 2009 10:23 pm
Hmm – Nothing new here. I get tired of seeing the same old icons and graphics all over the web.
Come on Smashing Mag. Feature things we have not seen before.
- 58September 17th, 2009 12:15 am
Nice collection indeed. You’ve gotta love icon-wednesday!
- 59September 17th, 2009 12:41 am
wow, nice collection! thanx!
- 60September 17th, 2009 1:26 am
OMG! How on earth did you guys find all these?
- 61September 17th, 2009 1:26 am
Nice, just a pity that I cannot use them all somewhere :-)
- 62September 17th, 2009 4:45 am
Very nice collection, thanxs!
- 63September 17th, 2009 5:03 am
:) I love smashing ^_^ it’s always full of goodies!
- 64September 17th, 2009 6:51 am
Michael Austin: Yeah, I thought so too.
- 65September 17th, 2009 7:47 am
fantastic collection. Thanks for sharing.
- 66September 17th, 2009 8:05 am
Wow! great collection… thanks.
- 67September 17th, 2009 11:20 am
Nice icons, loads I don’t have.
- 68September 17th, 2009 5:57 pm
Thank you very much for this. As an avid graphics designer, this will be extremely helpful. Thanks again.
Corrado Coia
- 69September 17th, 2009 6:34 pm
It is very useful. Thank you.
- 70September 17th, 2009 8:55 pm
Very nice and useful…
Keep Rocking…
Thank You… - 71September 17th, 2009 9:27 pm
lovely collection. thanks :-)
- 72September 18th, 2009 2:18 am
Thanks SM, I think is the best icon round-up so far
- 73September 18th, 2009 7:14 am
Hey! those strats are all southpaw.
- 74September 18th, 2009 1:52 pm
Wow, that’s one of the best collections I’ve seen in a while.
- 75September 18th, 2009 3:33 pm
perfect collection! thanks..
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- 77September 19th, 2009 8:11 pm
WOW. I want all!!
- 78September 20th, 2009 6:31 am
That’s an awesome collection TY!
- 79September 20th, 2009 1:26 pm
a good post, some icons set are really fantastic, and so fabulous for every site!
- 80September 20th, 2009 6:16 pm
so good icons,thks a lot……
- 81September 21st, 2009 2:56 am
tnx a lot
great icon packs , It’s very useful for me… - 82September 23rd, 2009 5:36 am
very useful for ingress design knowledge…………Thanks!
- 83September 30th, 2009 6:07 am
ALL Very nice Design I Like it….
- 84October 2nd, 2009 5:30 am
thanks! Very nice and useful collection!
- 85October 4th, 2009 3:31 pm
Great Collection
Thanks alot - 86October 7th, 2009 7:47 am
So great…… thank you very much and CONGRATULATIONS to all the creators !!!
- 87October 22nd, 2009 3:36 am
These things are really helpful.Awesome Creativity.
Thanks to creators for their Creativity - 88October 25th, 2009 9:58 pm
Great Icons! Can we use it on our websites ?
- 89October 31st, 2009 6:25 pm
the icons list are great. look beautiful. thanks
- 90November 6th, 2009 2:05 pm
very nice, I will use; :)
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Some great icon sets there – randomly I have used a few on my site in the past.
Love the Strat set – just wish I had somewhere I could use them! Keep em comin SM!