Ask HN: Who are the best icon designers?

21 points by rgrieselhuber 16y ago ↗ HN

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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Chirag 16y ago ↗

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.

taitems 16y ago ↗

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

henriklied 16y ago ↗

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

http://www.jaredigital.com/

az 16y ago ↗

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

cromulent 16y ago ↗

Jon Hicks work always impresses.

http://hicksdesign.co.uk/

iconfinder 16y ago ↗

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

gte910h 16y ago ↗

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

tbgvi 16y ago ↗

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

bradrydzewski 16y ago ↗

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

fras0132 16y ago ↗

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/