Imperial Porcelain: Free Icon Set
Today we are glad to release Imperial Porcelain Icons Set, a set with 5 beautiful original icons in .png (160×160px). This set was designed by Roman Khramov and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. It can be used in various settings — for instance, on hotel and restaurant websites, in e-commerce-sites or even on food-related blogs.
Download the icon set for free!
You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.
- download the set (.zip, 0.11 Mb)
Behind the design
As always, here are some insights from the designer himself:
Icons were made in design of Russian imperial porcelain. We wished to perform this work with humour and in Russian traditions. The icon “partners” is especially distinguished. We tried to pay huge attention to difficult pictures and small details. The icons set is freely available for commercial and non-commercial use, without any restrictions. The set consists of 5 custom-made icons in the resolution 160×160 .png.
Thank you very much, Roman! We appreciate your efforts.
azizbaba
April 8th, 2010 1:44 amamazing, thanks
Pieter
April 8th, 2010 1:47 amWow, this is unbelievable!
Great design! Thanks!
MysteryE
April 8th, 2010 1:52 amWow, a detailed one!
Nice work! :)
precapice
April 8th, 2010 1:58 amGreat work, but why not in 512 px ?
PvdB
April 8th, 2010 1:58 amNot necessary for me, but looks very nice! If u can use these, ur blessed ;-)
Rajesh R Nair
April 8th, 2010 2:04 amgreat icons! thanks for sharing with us
Martin
April 8th, 2010 2:14 amreally impressive!
Callum Chapman
April 8th, 2010 2:21 amI unfortunately have no used for any of these icons in my upcoming projects, but will certainly remember them if I ever need porcelain icons! These are incredible!
Thany
April 8th, 2010 2:24 amNice set. But… An SVG icon set would be much more awesome :)
Niubi
April 8th, 2010 2:39 amThanks! I’ll be using this on my Dubli storefront!
ptarmigan
April 8th, 2010 2:51 amamazing work of art :)
jess
April 8th, 2010 3:57 amim coming to this website less and less
Ian Storm Taylor
April 8th, 2010 7:18 amAgreed. Another post that might possibly be useful to 0.1% of the population… and even in those cases probably shouldn’t be. But I guess “Free Icon Set” gets them tons of pageviews…
Thanks SM.
Javi Saro
April 8th, 2010 5:49 amBeautiful icons!
Thanks
JC
April 8th, 2010 7:08 amWow, the detail on these are amazing….they almost look like tiny photos. Hats off to Roman and THX!
santabarbara.co.cr
April 8th, 2010 7:24 amThey are lovely! Thanks for sharing.
Javier Mateos
April 8th, 2010 8:53 amThanks for the share just downloaded the icons, also thanks to Roman Khramov! Love the detail on them. :)
Georgi
April 8th, 2010 12:48 pmits…. wow!!!
Chris
April 8th, 2010 1:17 pmIn my opinion …useless
solari
April 8th, 2010 6:56 pmfantastic！
shujing
April 8th, 2010 7:18 pmnice work!
Aravind
April 8th, 2010 8:55 pmlooks nice……
div
April 8th, 2010 9:09 pmvery well designed…….
Nicole
April 9th, 2010 1:08 amI actually find those really interesting. You have to think a bit to get to the meaning of each icon, but when you got it, it totally makes sense. :) Very creative!
Ado
April 9th, 2010 3:02 amthe designers remark “The icons set is freely available for commercial and non-commercial use, without any restrictions.”
conflicts with the readme.txt file in the zip file ie the “no restrictions” bit while in the read me file you specify that you can not give as download on your own site but rather link to SM website.
While personally I would prefer to link to it on your site can you explain your standing on this besides not wanting other design site to basically rip off your sites content.
Thanks
Ado
Thomas
April 9th, 2010 4:49 amWow, nice work. I would love to design a new website for a restaurant when i saw this set of icons
Gustavs Cirulis
April 9th, 2010 10:45 amHmm, not much to do with them.
Francis Baptiste
April 9th, 2010 12:21 pmOther than their size, I fail to see how these function as icons. If you have to spend so much time figuring out what an icon might mean, you might as well just call them little pictures. Thumbs might be a better term.
Igor
April 10th, 2010 11:55 amDoes the licence allow me to change them? For example remove the vase with the flowers. I would like to use only these two cups. Thank you for your answer
cuberto
April 12th, 2010 5:40 amYou may use this icons as you want
Danko - LogoFoo.com
April 12th, 2010 6:01 pmLovely icon sets! Thanks for sharing, Roman..
Eunju
April 14th, 2010 12:42 amThanks~☆
Yensi Madarani
April 14th, 2010 8:12 pmthanks for share ;)
Darren Keirle
April 15th, 2010 12:54 amDamn, another pointless post.
These arn’t icons, they’re pictures.
Fujiko
April 15th, 2010 1:56 amAwesome, thank you so much!
gatekeeper
April 15th, 2010 10:55 amThank you Roman, lovely icons !
Erin
April 20th, 2010 5:56 amwaa pretty, thanks mate ^^
yas
May 3rd, 2010 4:00 pmvery good~! thanks mate!
Seenu
June 8th, 2010 3:53 amLov that…thanks alot mate…
Manu Parashar
July 2nd, 2010 11:09 amAwesome, thank you so much!
Asim
October 29th, 2011 12:50 amThanks a lot……………..!