Smashing Magazine
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
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December 15th, 2009 9:30 pmMarvellous
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December 15th, 2009 4:08 amLovely as per :)
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December 15th, 2009 4:25 amAwesome! – Thank you. Keep these posts coming!
I’ve been following SM for over 2 years now and I am yet too see one post that I think is of “low quality” – The critics are very few and far between. Please ignore them, and keep doing what you do best!
Thank you to all the designers featured above for sharing these icons! – Very useful!
Merry Christmas!
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December 15th, 2009 4:43 amThanks for the icons!!
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December 15th, 2009 4:29 amWTF! Thanks :)
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December 15th, 2009 4:30 amexcellent icons
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December 15th, 2009 4:41 amWOW! they really r beatifull
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December 15th, 2009 4:53 amGreat list – once again :-)
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December 15th, 2009 4:56 amI love this collection :)
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December 15th, 2009 5:01 amgood work
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December 15th, 2009 5:14 amReally love your icon sets that you have put together. Extremely timely for me to create my Xmas card for the family.
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December 15th, 2009 5:14 amI love this collection!
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December 15th, 2009 5:14 amAwesome! You saved my time, thanks SM! :)
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December 15th, 2009 5:28 amAwesome set, mate! Thanks very much!
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December 15th, 2009 5:29 amThanks for including my sets Vitaly!
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December 15th, 2009 5:29 amGreat list Vitaly, I need to design some of my own icons but just haven’t got around to it yet!
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December 15th, 2009 5:35 amWow great set Smashing! Still waiting on my pre-ordered book… any idea when it will hit Florida, USA?
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December 15th, 2009 5:36 amAs always, great collection for those who really need such freebies.
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December 15th, 2009 5:41 amincroyable, époustouflant, completement ahurissant, et totalement inutile, j’adore !
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December 15th, 2009 5:44 amActually, some of them aren’t made for design use.
Photoshop sketch, for example, is only for customization, as can be read in the author’s original post: http://blog.cocoia.com/2009/photoshop-replacement-icon/
The article title leads to believe that all of them are available to use all the icons in a web project, which is not true.
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December 15th, 2009 6:03 ampretty awesome collection.
i like it!!
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December 15th, 2009 6:12 amStunning! Thanks for the great list.
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December 15th, 2009 6:15 amPersonally I like these roundups and they are the reason that I first started reading smashing magazine in ’07. I guess the problem is that these days there are many more blogs out there and this leads to repetition and saturation.
One suggestion though – how about indicating against each item licencing restrictions. Although all these might be ‘free’ I’m pretty certain some (the JD bottle is a trademark) can’t be used commercially.
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December 15th, 2009 6:19 amAbsolutely some great work in here. Thanks for gathering this collection!
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December 15th, 2009 6:24 amThe Helvetica moleskins are funny. Didn’t think I’d see them offered as icons this soon. Thanks for the post!
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December 15th, 2009 6:31 amOne of the best collection i`ve ever seen!
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December 15th, 2009 6:32 amwow, this is the most complete icon round-up.
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December 15th, 2009 6:36 amYet another excellent post with a ton of very useful icons, thank you!
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December 15th, 2009 6:40 amBut Christmas isn’t on 25th December? ;-)
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December 15th, 2009 6:47 amGreat list! These are exactly what I was looking for…they sure will come in handy!
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December 15th, 2009 7:03 amFeels like Christmas today!
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December 15th, 2009 7:07 amNice collection of icons – Thank you for sharing
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December 15th, 2009 7:09 amCool icons!
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December 15th, 2009 7:24 amThank you guys thank you very much…
Nice collection of icons . . .
Thanks to SM
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December 15th, 2009 7:35 amI’m a huge fan of the Milky icon set (previously featured on Smashing Magazine http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/07/50-fresh-useful-icon-sets-for-your-next-design/). In fact, Icon Eden (creator of Milky) is selling their entire icon collection for $99 (http://iconeden.com/).
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December 15th, 2009 7:40 amExcellent collection. That was a nice Christmas gift :)
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December 15th, 2009 7:47 amAwesome list and great icons too! Thank you
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December 15th, 2009 7:48 amGr8 material, keep going! thnx 4 showing us how the work must be , see u in my RSS!
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December 15th, 2009 8:00 amwow…great list!!
thanks…
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December 15th, 2009 8:14 amAwesome icons…
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December 15th, 2009 8:19 amA+ list
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December 15th, 2009 8:31 amThis is fantastic. As a young designer, I’m still gathering all kinds of resources. This is a fantastic group of links. Thanks!
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December 15th, 2009 8:41 amЭтот набор вынес мне мозг. Очень круто и масштабно.
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December 15th, 2009 8:44 amWow, thanks for featuring my gaming icon set!
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December 15th, 2009 9:16 amGreat. Thanks.
I’m still waiting for article with list of tutorials about creating such a lovely icons. Anyone? ;-)
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December 15th, 2009 9:49 amExcellent icons Vitaly, but not only that, most of these will be very useful as well.
BTW, lots of these I’ve never seen before. Thank you for this great resource post.
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December 15th, 2009 9:59 amawesome! great collection!
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December 15th, 2009 9:59 amI love the collections of freebies. VERY USEFUL. Thanks!
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December 15th, 2009 10:40 amThank you very much for these, I find things like this so useful for my job, and they are all of such high quality. Merry Christmas SM :-D
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December 15th, 2009 11:00 amThis mix of icons is really great because here is something for everybody and also a fresh access to icons.
Also, the kind of mixing shows big taste.
Thx, VitalyYours sincerely
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December 15th, 2009 12:06 pmthnx so much just when needed
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December 15th, 2009 12:24 pmAwsome! I found a lot of new icon sets! Thanks!
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December 15th, 2009 12:25 pmThese literally could not come at a more perfect time
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December 15th, 2009 1:03 pmAll of it are great! Thanks for sharing
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December 15th, 2009 1:05 pmVery good! Congratulations!
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December 15th, 2009 1:09 pmSorry to say that but this article is bogus. You can’t state that everyone can use the “Free” icons listed here in their “Next Design” without the slightest notice that a lot of the icons here are clearly just for personal desktop usage. So the title is misleading and untrue and you either didn’t check the licensing or you just ignored it.
You do two things with that article: tricking your users into thinking they can just use these icons everywhere AND showing disrespect to icon designers by not respecting the licensing of their work. Just not cool!
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December 15th, 2009 1:15 pmwow..
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December 15th, 2009 1:41 pmWe thank Smashing Magazine for including our icons in this exceptional list. Merry Christmas to everyone here!
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December 15th, 2009 1:53 pmVery Cool List. Thanks for sharing. I bookmarked. Thanks smashing..
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December 15th, 2009 2:03 pmExcellent list, many thanks
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December 15th, 2009 2:13 pmAs always: THANKS! Great list.
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December 15th, 2009 2:21 pmShopping bag is niiiice!
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December 15th, 2009 2:29 pmHave to second the thoughts of Vitor and kremalicious: The majority of these icons aren’t for usage in anyone’s design but just for personal customizational desktop usage. So they’re absolutely not free in the sense you try to let your users think. You even start your list with icons which can’t be used freely. Even your teaser image, the Leica camera, isn’t for free usage.
While everyone enjoys having a nice handy list of icons usable in their designs, this article just isn’t that. It’s just a trick at the expense of the original icon designers.
So what to do? If you remove the problematic icons this list will be reduced by nearly 50%. If you just add a note that everyone should check the license for every icon, the purpose of this article is obsolete and you would have to change the heading.
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December 15th, 2009 3:32 pmSome amazing icons here. I’m designing some websites in the very near future and these will be a huge helping hand potentially ;)
Thanks!
Sarge
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December 15th, 2009 3:41 pmPeople complain about these ‘list’ articles? These are my favourite articles by far! Super useful. Keep up to good work with these.
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December 15th, 2009 4:38 pmBeautiful collection!
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December 15th, 2009 8:33 pmThis is really cool, but it would have been even cooler if the post started with Christmas icons just to stay inline with the celebration mood. Gr8 work keep up…
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December 15th, 2009 8:47 pmReally wonderful collection… Simply syperb stuff… Thanks for sharing it…
-Deepu
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December 15th, 2009 9:02 pmAwesome collections!
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December 15th, 2009 9:32 pmMarvellous
- san
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December 15th, 2009 9:35 pmHi,
I have downloaded all icons………. ;)
Great collection !
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December 15th, 2009 11:07 pmThe mighty IconEden just released their brand-sparking-new iconset called “Shine”, I think it deserves a place in this list http://iconeden.com/icon/shine.html
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December 16th, 2009 12:12 amThis type of collection is something we all look forward. Thank you very much.
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December 16th, 2009 12:41 amVery beautiful icon, I’ve downloaded some of them…thanks
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December 16th, 2009 1:19 amgreat collection, thanks!
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December 16th, 2009 1:20 amReally awesome collections….. Thank you SM
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December 16th, 2009 1:28 amThank you thank you thank you. Merry Xmas all at Smashing mag.
P.S. just to add to the debate. It’s obvious that you need to check license agreements for all icons you download anyway. stop being lazy.
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December 16th, 2009 2:43 amThanks a lot!!!
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December 16th, 2009 2:49 amI think some one needs to look up the definition of ‘icon’!
How can a large, detailed graphic of a camera be considered an icon? More than half the “icon sets” presented here are just pretty pictures.
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December 16th, 2009 2:55 amThank your very much. It’s a great collection everyone should mind or bookmark.
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December 16th, 2009 3:15 amone of the best Icon collection so far.
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December 16th, 2009 3:33 amRomantic and Designer’s tools icon – WD2 are too good….. Excellent…… Thanks……….
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December 16th, 2009 4:50 amThat’s a fantastic list of icons! I especially like the social network grunge icons and I can see plenty of potential in my own design projects for others. There’s even a boatload of free inspiration emerging from the various designs, so thank you very much for posting these! I note that a lot of them remind me of the website design on DubLi.com, so anyone who likes these icons should go and check out that website.
Happy Christmas and thanks for the earlier present :)
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December 16th, 2009 7:23 amThank you for this amazing resource. I can’t imagine how long it took to put together a collection like this.
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December 16th, 2009 10:22 ami love with the “Extreme Grunge Garments Icons”…so cool b-)
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December 16th, 2009 11:43 amReally useful set, I love them :)
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December 16th, 2009 11:54 amI really like the lists of different stuffs that Smashing Magazine releases. All these lists are one of their king. I liked these icons list extremely. Thanks a lot, all the icons are extremely wonderful.
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December 16th, 2009 2:04 pmSurely no critics!! really helpful stuff thanks.
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December 16th, 2009 3:25 pmWell, just to ad to the debate, you can use my icons as you like. Do what ever you want with them just don’t resell them. I’d like to see the result if possible. Not to approve it, just to see how they work in the real life.
I’d like to thank Smashing Magazine for this feature. I already got few e-mails from people offering me some jobs. Which is good. Really damn good. ;-)
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December 16th, 2009 3:52 pmWow, this is probably one of the best collections I’ve seen. Wonderful work by so many — I’ll return to this page to look for the eye candy on upcoming projects. Thank you.
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December 16th, 2009 5:31 pmGreat list. :)
But the “Worlds icon set” (this one http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/worlds-icon-sets.jpg) is linking to the wrong website –Kal Michael’s Icons– I think. Could you please add the correct link? I’m really interested in those icons and can’t find them anywhere. :)
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December 28th, 2009 9:14 amAgree, can we please have the correct link?
thanks :)
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December 16th, 2009 10:31 pmThis is 100% awesome…. Thanks for sharing.
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December 17th, 2009 12:10 pmvery nice thank you smashingmagazine…
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December 19th, 2009 10:22 amGeorgeous list!
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December 20th, 2009 12:31 amGreat list of Icons, Great work, to all the artists
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December 21st, 2009 8:45 amthanks :)
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December 22nd, 2009 6:58 amThank you, very much!
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December 23rd, 2009 7:52 amthat was awesome. than you for this one.
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December 24th, 2009 10:15 amNice collection – great variety too!
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December 24th, 2009 10:41 pmcool! thanks for sharing
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December 26th, 2009 10:40 pmamazing icons some are so cute others hilarious and the ones i left out totally amazaing hope you come up with more.
heres some for ya ;-D :) - 107
December 29th, 2009 5:36 amThank you so much for this post!
Please continue doing them, and ignore the people who state otherwise. If they don’t like the post, they don’t have to read it. ;)
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January 5th, 2010 2:02 pmUsefull
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January 28th, 2010 10:17 pmnice and cute……………….. thnx alot…
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February 8th, 2010 7:22 amJust to add to the list, famfamfam.com has a good open source set too. I’ve seen their icons in a few Firefox themes.
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February 8th, 2010 5:18 pmGracias por las portaciones.
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February 10th, 2010 5:23 pmThis is really help full tools thanks for shearing
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February 24th, 2010 11:00 pmI love designer’s tool icon the glass is very realist.
Cooool!! - 114
March 15th, 2010 11:07 pmone day i said i would marry you….well i’m getting the ring! ;D …AWESOME !!! love you Smashing!!
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April 14th, 2010 11:26 amThe guy who did the Token set is not asking that people buy commercial licenses, fyi
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April 22nd, 2010 1:42 amreally usefull :} thx
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April 29th, 2010 10:58 pmReally helpful
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May 8th, 2010 10:17 pmAwsome icons!So inspiring,thanks“““`:))
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August 1st, 2010 12:13 pmI usually recommend to everyone 17 free icon sets from http://www.aha-soft.com/free-icons.htm
They can definitely be used by designers (licensed under Creative Commons) and cover the majority of design needs. - 120
August 8th, 2010 6:21 ameyvallah. çok makbule geçti.
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