Many graphic related professionals, with different backgrounds or activity domains have a relative new way of becoming popular. This thing is getting more and more adopted by everyone. I’m talking about designing and offering free icons packages.

Not so long ago, the market was full of Wordpress themes (and still is) or other web templates. But it looks that this approach is no longer productive. A lot more productive are the icons. Why? Well maybe because of the upcoming and existing web products and services or rich user interface applications. The demand for UI designers is also increasing on the job sites.

So it looks like from this trend everyone has some gain. The internet gains more free resources, the companies have more people to choose from and the some traffic and income is also available in some situations. I will give you some links in order to give credit for the work involved in the icons design process.

Here are the links:

1. Bright Icon Set
2. Web Application Icons Set
3. Bagg and Boxes
4. Feed Icons
5. Pi Diagona Pack
6. Simplistica
7. Vista Icons
8. Vista Pack

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There has been a time where you needed an icon in your work. I don’t know … maybe just as a placeholder or maybe the final graphic element. Well most people believe that besides Google Image Search and some major search engines, there are no other resources for this kind of artwork.

Well the concept of icons search was niche a while ago, but now there are several products on the market to satisfy every need. This fact combined with the repeated release of new icons packs under different licenses were good reasons for developing search engines exclusively for icons.
In this case the search engine covered here is Iconfinder.net. First of all, compared to other search engines of any type, the user interface from Iconfinder is unique and with a very nice design.

With simple yet effective features like background color (black or white), tag system, license info or icon size selection this is a great tool in the development and design process. A big advantage is also the availability of Crystal Project icons pack which is from my point of view the best and most comprehensive icon pack online. Another important factor is the scalability and good response time of the search engine.
Also there is a widget available for Mac users for improved accessibility.

In the end I think that this is a good product and also a very useful one. Kudos for the developer and keep up the good work.

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