Ask HN: Who are the best icon designers?

Posted by rgrieselhuber on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @12:58AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I will be in the market for some custom icons in a few months. If anyone here has experience hiring a custom icon designer for high-quality icons (such as those used by CulturedCode, etc.) or is a designer with a strong portfolio, I'd love to hear about it.

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Re:Ask HN: Who are the best icon designers? by taitems on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @01:43AM (#1177702)

Just a short list of icon designers I follow on twitter, I plan to collate this into a blog post eventually:

- Sofa: http://www.madebysofa.com/

- Pinvoke: http://twitter.com/pinvoke_com + http://www.pinvoke.com

- ByLine Break, Midtone Design: http://www.midtonedesign.com/ + http://twitter.com/DDrDark + http://twitter.com/bylinebreak + http://bylinebreak.com/

- Cocoia: http://twitter.com/Cocoia + http://www.icondesigner.net/

- Louis Harboe: http://twitter.com/spiralstairs + http://www.graphicpeel.com/

- Jonas Rask (retired): http://twitter.com/JonasRask + http://jonasraskdesign.com/

- Mathieu White: http://twitter.com/MathieuWhite + http://mathieuwhite.com/#funtime

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Re:Ask HN: Who are the best icon designers? by henriklied on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @06:39AM (#1178008)

I'd also add Jared Christensen to that list. He made the icon for http://sifterapp.com, amongst others.

http://www.jaredigital.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Who are the best icon designers? by bradrydzewski on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @03:39PM (#1179297)

Check out http://yellowicon.com/

The design company is run by Everaldo, the creator of the Crystal Project http://www.everaldo.com/

His icon sets have been some of the highest rated and most downloaded at kde-look.org for years now

If you are not familiar with kde-look.org, check it out. There are hundreds of very impressive icon sets you can download for free. Many are released under LGPL and can be used in commercial software

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Re:Ask HN: Who are the best icon designers? by Chirag on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @01:04AM (#1177652)

Please have a look at http://www.iconarchive.com icon designer put there work on this site you'll be able to contact the authors via the site.

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Re:Ask HN: Who are the best icon designers? by fras0132 on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @04:54PM (#1182099)

I've heard good things about CrowdSpring, price efficient and get your pick of the litter from thousands of prospective Creatives.

Crowdspring even guarantees 25 entries, worth checking out

http://www.crowdspring.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Who are the best icon designers? by tbgvi on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @12:55PM (#1178926)

The best I've seen is Icon Factory, I have a feeling they're pricey though :)

They've done the icons for Coda, Windows XP, and others I believe.

http://iconfactory.com/design/icon

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Re:Ask HN: Who are the best icon designers? by iconfinder on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @04:26AM (#1177871)

I run Iconfinder (www.iconfinder.net) and have hired many good icon designers. Please send me a mail if you would like to have a talk: martin.leblanc [at] iconfinder [dot] net

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Re:Ask HN: Who are the best icon designers? by gte910h on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @06:54AM (#1178016)

http://www.virtuallnk.com/ did nice icons for a client of mine

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Re:Ask HN: Who are the best icon designers? by cromulent on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @03:48AM (#1177840)

Jon Hicks work always impresses.

http://hicksdesign.co.uk/

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Re:Ask HN: Who are the best icon designers? by az on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @02:31AM (#1177767)

www.iconfinder.net has collections of icons and should lead you to some designers

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