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Fotek2001 · Jul 27, 2004, 01:38 PM

Hello everyone!

I thought I'd try asking here (kind of as a last resort) because I'm looking for someone to design some custom icons for a web application I'm making and I'm having absolutely no luck at all! I'm not intending this message to be spam so please go easy on me, I've never posted in the Lounge before

Basically I'm looking for Mac OS X Aqua styled icons and although I've contacted a few people, I've not had any response... I've of course looked at the usual suspects like Iconfactory (too expensive) and Shopicons.com (limited selection) but I'm at a loss now...

The requirement I have is for about 17 40x40 pixel icons for the software which is an online photo gallery package. The icons will be distributed as part of a collection of PHP scripts so ideally they need to be supplied in PNG format.

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The software currently uses a mish-mash of icons from both Mac OS X and various other applications but this obviously not ideal as some of them are Apple copyright material. I'm not bothered about the icons being completely unique and using bits of existing icons is not a problem (for me at least

...

I really like the styling of the icons on this page but I can be flexible:

http://www.objective-decision.com/en...ts/od4contact/

I don't have an enormous budget for this but I'm open to offers so if you are a designer or know someone who is, I'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

Cheers, Jamie

gorickey · Jul 27, 2004, 01:41 PM

In Adam We Trust.�

d4nth3m4n · Jul 27, 2004, 01:41 PM

uh, try mindfad. hes the best there is on that god-forsaken sandbar in the gulf there.

Fotek2001 · Jul 27, 2004, 01:43 PM

Crickey! Is there nothing he can't do

I'll drop him an e-mail!

xi_hyperon · Jul 27, 2004, 01:44 PM

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
uh, try mindfad. hes the best there is on that god-forsaken sandbar in the gulf there.

Aw man, he sucks. Uses paintshop pro or something, and does only 8-bit icons.

Seriously, Adam and MindFad are masters of icon design. Pretty talented with interweb page design too.

philzilla · Jul 27, 2004, 01:59 PM

Originally posted by xi_hyperon:
Pretty talented with interweb page design too.

dude?

Originally posted on Adam's site:
Site Coded by Jan Van Boghout

MindFad · Jul 27, 2004, 01:59 PM

Originally posted by Fotek2001:
Crickey! Is there nothing he can't do I'll drop him an e-mail!

Hmm. Seeing as Adam and I got plugs within the same minute�I love you guys

�and I didn't get an e-mail, I'll take it you contacted Adam.

I have a pretty big project coming up, but I should have time for this one as well if you want to talk it over. Drop me an e-mail.

And yeah, I may design an OK website, but I don't have the CSS kung foo that was put into Adam's site.

xi_hyperon · Jul 27, 2004, 02:04 PM

Originally posted by philzilla:
dude?

Oops. Hats off to Jan on the design and CSS work.

Fotek2001 · Jul 27, 2004, 02:05 PM

Well, that was quick! Thanks for all the help, you should have all received e-mails by now.

The software the icons are for can be found at http://popsoft.info/popphoto/ which should give you an idea of the kind of thing I'm after (except better of course!)...

It's a while since I've used this forum so it's good to see it's as useful as ever..!

philzilla · Jul 27, 2004, 02:08 PM

Originally posted by xi_hyperon:
Oops. Hats off to Jan on the design and CSS work.

it just bugs me that everyone thinks Adam did it, and i've never noticed Adam putting people straight. if he has, then that's cool. if he hasn't, then i just did. coders union rep, me

gorickey · Jul 27, 2004, 02:14 PM

Originally posted by philzilla:
it just bugs me that everyone thinks Adam did it, and i've never noticed Adam putting people straight. if he has, then that's cool. if he hasn't, then i just did. coders union rep, me

He has from the very beginning...

xi_hyperon · Jul 27, 2004, 02:16 PM

Originally posted by philzilla:
it just bugs me that everyone thinks Adam did it, and i've never noticed Adam putting people straight. if he has, then that's cool. if he hasn't, then i just did. coders union rep, me

That's understandable. I was just so taken by the CSS work, I didn't notice Jan's name down there.

Synotic · Jul 27, 2004, 03:16 PM

If you're e-mailing around there's always the venerable Mike Matas. I'm not sure how busy he is but if you're getting quotes from everyone you might want to try him too.

In the interest of full disclosure, I have worked with him in the past but obviously this doesn't benefit me. If you decide to e-mail him, don't mention me

f1000 · Jul 27, 2004, 03:34 PM

Susan Kare: User Interface Graphics

Icon designer for the original Macintosh!

http://www.kare.com/index.html

Note: This is not an endorsement.

Fotek2001 · Jul 27, 2004, 05:45 PM

Thanks for all the help everyone, I knew I could count on you!

Jamie

tooki · Jul 27, 2004, 06:16 PM

www.iconfactory.com

tooki

KrazyEvilGoat · Jul 27, 2004, 06:39 PM

www.bombiadesign.com

gorickey · Jul 27, 2004, 06:41 PM

Originally posted by Synotic:
If you're e-mailing around there's always the venerable Mike Matas. I'm not sure how busy he is but if you're getting quotes from everyone you might want to try him too.

In the interest of full disclosure, I have worked with him in the past but obviously this doesn't benefit me. If you decide to e-mail him, don't mention me

He's damn good.

moonmonkey · Jul 27, 2004, 07:32 PM

Originally posted by gorickey:
He's damn good.

Methinks he is the best.

Adam Betts · Jul 27, 2004, 08:05 PM

Originally posted by philzilla:
it just bugs me that everyone thinks Adam did it, and i've never noticed Adam putting people straight. if he has, then that's cool. if he hasn't, then i just did. coders union rep, me

Actually that's not exactly correct. I designed everything from scratch first, including layout, CSS, XHTML and graphics. When I realized that my CSS and XHTML code wasn't clean (thank to dreamweaver), I hired Jan to do the site with cleanest and most compatible code possible and plug it in MovableType. I did give Jan plenty of credits, much more than he would like to see. Hope that's clear to you

Thanks to those who brought my name up but unfortunately, I will not be doing icon designs for a while. I really need to focus on personal stuffs first.

My only recommendation for skilled and friendly icon designer is MindFad. I know many people who are really happy with his services. Mike Matas's very good too but frankly not many clients like his policies.