Wow finally done - this multiMINIMAL icon set includes all icons I consider to be necessary within a windows enviroment
I will add further icons to this set, which can be looked up @ my journal
I just wanted add a few special thanks and explanations:
I wanted to thank Christian and Björn for their help and time reviewing this set over and over and helping me to get some ideas for it!
a very special thanks goes out to ~dojoh for his continuing support! thanks dude! you are my saviour some times Again your support helped me to get this thing here straight!
well so now it's time for some clues why I did some icons the way they are right now:
I'll start with the Mozilla Icon:
I know many will think this is a Mortal Kombat Icon, but this is far from the truth. I found out that this illustration is a part of an chinese calender, representing the time of the dragon. I took this symbol for Mozilla because the Devolpers of Mozilla took a large lizard as a symbol for their browser. I decided to relate dragons to lizards - this is how I came up with this icon
the Log-off icon has to be explaned too:
I decided not to move to far away from windows original icons, so in this case the windoes icon is a key with a windows sign on it. I wanted to draw a special key. A day before I did this icon I watched the animatrix again. This key is a adaptation of the key that the main character of "World Record" carries and throws in one scene. I like this key very much so that's why I did it!
I think the rest of the icons will be self-explaining but if there are questions, just send me a note and i'll answer them!
I just want to add some technical aspects:
All icons have been made with Freehand 10, exported to PNG(32Bits) rescaled with Photoshop and compiled to one single ICL (Icon Library File) with Microangelo. All icons are saved as XP icons with 128x128,64x64,48x48,32x32 and 16x16 pixels
ICL's can be used by all Windows Versions because it is a native Windows file type. To enable your special icons (my computer e.g.) to change you will need a special programm that is able to change system icons (like microangelo On Display)
So I hope you like these icons
Comments and Downloads are appreciated
multiMINIMAL ICONS are NOT ALLOWED FOR COMMERCIAL USE WITHOUT PERMISSION!
1. I never said anything about a "full system set", it's just as far as I got (just got the 1.0 version because it has all the icons I needed back then)
2. I share my stuff with all the Deviants for free, so I will submit my stuff in the way and format I want to do so, wether you like it or not! if you have a problem with this, then fine, get used to it, because I won't chance my submitting principles!
no need to be so defensive, 'comments appreciated' implies both +ve and -ve: otherwise why not write 'shameless flatery wanted'
'this multiMINIMAL icon set includes all icons I consider to be necessary within a windows enviroment' kind of implies that it inclued everything that other people might need too. 'i have an icon set with all the windows system icnos i need!' 'its just one icon.' 'i only look at the 'my documents' icon anyway, go away' would be taking an extreme example but you can get my point
most people find it difficult to use an .icl because they don't look like the icons and are therefore les easy to distribute in your system. most people include an icl to make it easier for some applications but the windows .ico fromat is more widely accepted as the windows format for icons. (wierd? huh?). 'i share my poetry for free so i'm going to switch the top and middle rows of my keyboard and write from right to left!' 'but that alienates and annoys us, your audience!' 'i will use my system and refuse to make my work easier to view!' 'fine we'll go somewhere else!' again, i think that my unneccesary use of gross overstatement and unrelated maxims that have no reference to the subject has proven its point, and just in case it hasn't: 'there are no coincedences!' 'oh yes?' 'yeah! what'cha gonna do about it? huh? think you're so hard, do ya?' etc.
thank you for bothering to read this pile of raw thought that i haven't even had the respect to format into a vaguely readable form, yes, indeed
no need to be so defensive, 'comments appreciated' implies both +ve and -ve: otherwise why not write 'shameless flatery wanted'
you stated your opinion so I did a simple statement to get things clear, simple as that!
'this multiMINIMAL icon set includes all icons I consider to be necessary within a windows enviroment' kind of implies that it inclued everything that other people might need too
kid, you gotta learn that not every thing in this world has to be interpreted. some things are just to be taken as they are.
eg this multiMINIMAL icon set includes all icons I consider to be necessary within a windows enviroment != kind of implies that it inclued everything that other people might need too
what folder do i put them in, they are great, i just got a new computer and i am custromizing the display and stuff, i want new icons and these are perfext, i just dont know how to install them grr.
and just giving them as a icl, well that's just plain rude
2. I share my stuff with all the Deviants for free, so I will submit my stuff in the way and format I want to do so, wether you like it or not! if you have a problem with this, then fine, get used to it, because I won't chance my submitting principles!
'this multiMINIMAL icon set includes all icons I consider to be necessary within a windows enviroment' kind of implies that it inclued everything that other people might need too. 'i have an icon set with all the windows system icnos i need!' 'its just one icon.' 'i only look at the 'my documents' icon anyway, go away' would be taking an extreme example but you can get my point
most people find it difficult to use an .icl because they don't look like the icons and are therefore les easy to distribute in your system. most people include an icl to make it easier for some applications but the windows .ico fromat is more widely accepted as the windows format for icons. (wierd? huh?). 'i share my poetry for free so i'm going to switch the top and middle rows of my keyboard and write from right to left!' 'but that alienates and annoys us, your audience!' 'i will use my system and refuse to make my work easier to view!' 'fine we'll go somewhere else!' again, i think that my unneccesary use of gross overstatement and unrelated maxims that have no reference to the subject has proven its point, and just in case it hasn't: 'there are no coincedences!' 'oh yes?' 'yeah! what'cha gonna do about it? huh? think you're so hard, do ya?' etc.
thank you for bothering to read this pile of raw thought that i haven't even had the respect to format into a vaguely readable form, yes, indeed
no need to be so defensive, 'comments appreciated' implies both +ve and -ve: otherwise why not write 'shameless flatery wanted'
you stated your opinion so I did a simple statement to get things clear, simple as that!
'this multiMINIMAL icon set includes all icons I consider to be necessary within a windows enviroment' kind of implies that it inclued everything that other people might need too
kid, you gotta learn that not every thing in this world has to be interpreted. some things are just to be taken as they are.
eg this multiMINIMAL icon set includes all icons I consider to be necessary within a windows enviroment != kind of implies that it inclued everything that other people might need too
so just take it as it is, punctum
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