finding icons for Apps

Kevin Walzer kw at codebykevin.com
Sun May 25 10:42:06 EDT 2008


Sanoski wrote:
> This might be a dumb question. I don't know. I'm new to all this. How
> do you find icons for your programs? All GUI applications have cool
> icons that represent various things. For instance, to save is often
> represented as a disk, etc. You know, the small little picture
> references that give meaning to the phrase 'Graphical User Interface'.
> But I'm not a graphics artist! Drawing is simply one talent that
> skipped me completely. Where can I find icons to use with my programs?
> 
> I don't even know how to search for them, because I'm not sure how to
> word it. I tried Googling various things: icons, software graphics,
> application icons, custom graphics, etc, etc. But I'm not getting much
> luck here you guys.
> 
> Also, besides just finding a collection of various pre-made icons, who
> would I talk to to make me some original custom made icons? I'll look
> for hours and find one or two places, but they never respond to my
> messages, so I figure they must not do that kind of art work.
> 
> I'm looking for both: a collection of graphics and some place (or
> someone) that can make custom original graphics. The latter is just
> for future reference. The more important one is the former, because I
> can't even afford to pay for originals right now. But maybe I will
> soon, so it would be nice to have a resource.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Joshua

http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project
http://www.oxygen-icons.org/
http://everaldo.com/crystal/

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Kevin Walzer
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