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Ask HN: Who are the best icon designers?
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.
- Chirag 17y agoPlease have a look at http://www.iconarchive.com http://www.iconarchive.com icon designer put there work on this site you'll be able to contact the authors via the site.
- taitems 17y agoJust 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/ http://www.madebysofa.com/ - Pinvoke: http://twitter.com/pinvoke_com http://twitter.com/pinvoke_com + http://www.pinvoke.com http://www.pinvoke.com - ByLine Break, Midtone Design: http://www.midtonedesign.com/ http://www.midtonedesign.com/ + http://twitter.com/DDrDark http://twitter.com/DDrDark + http://twitter.com/bylinebreak http://twitter.com/bylinebreak + http://bylinebreak.com/ http://bylinebreak.com/ - Cocoia: http://twitter.com/Cocoia http://twitter.com/Cocoia + http://www.icondesigner.net/ http://www.icondesigner.net/ - Louis Harboe: http://twitter.com/spiralstairs http://twitter.com/spiralstairs + http://www.graphicpeel.com/ http://www.graphicpeel.com/ - Jonas Rask (retired): http://twitter.com/JonasRask http://twitter.com/JonasRask + http://jonasraskdesign.com/ http://jonasraskdesign.com/ - Mathieu White: http://twitter.com/MathieuWhite http://twitter.com/MathieuWhite + http://mathieuwhite.com/#funtime http://mathieuwhite.com/#funtime
- henriklied 17y agoI'd also add Jared Christensen to that list. He made the icon for http://sifterapp.com http://sifterapp.com, amongst others. http://www.jaredigital.com/ http://www.jaredigital.com/
- az 17y agowww.iconfinder.net has collections of icons and should lead you to some designers
- cromulent 17y agoJon Hicks work always impresses. http://hicksdesign.co.uk/ http://hicksdesign.co.uk/
- iconfinder 17y agoI 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
- gte910h 17y agohttp://www.virtuallnk.com/ http://www.virtuallnk.com/ did nice icons for a client of mine
- bradrydzewski 17y agoCheck out http://yellowicon.com/ http://yellowicon.com/ The design company is run by Everaldo, the creator of the Crystal Project http://www.everaldo.com/ 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
- tbgvi 17y agoThe 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 http://iconfactory.com/design/icon
- fras0132 17y agoI'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/ http://www.crowdspring.com/