Excellently executed paper bag icon.

Some sweet and simple variations on an arrow symbol (or any other graphic symbol) can make a kick-ass home page.

When you move your mouse over the red button, the pin icon starts its crazy spinning.

You can play this incredible human beat-box by drag-dropping a set of fanciful black-and-white icons.

Congrats and respect to Ryan Putnam who recently launched Vector Mill, a website selling finest vector art, patterns and useful resources designed to speed up and improve your workflow. Definitely loved the crate imaginary and these icons displayed on the website home page.

I was casually browsing the Daily‘s website when I catched a little detail in the home page: as the slideshow progresses, a paging made by little icons lights up, making the slide’s topic clear. By the way, I really dig the blue/purple textured buttons.

Grain & Gram is an online magazine for gents, based on a two-colums grid with strong horizontal subdivisions. The big amount of blank space gives emphasis both to titles and teasers, where nicely styled pictograms and pull-out quotes break the columns, avoiding a stern effect and adding a classy touch to the whole page.

André Gonçalves‘ portfolio is visually built around a set of astounding geometric illustrations that define and characterize his website’s identity.

Loved this food icons set about food and cooking, found on an interesting culinary blog called Recetas de rechupete.

How am I supposed to categorize these impossibly beautiful display ampersands, packaged both as .eps vector files and opentype font? Are they typography or just icon design? While I try to solve this “visual” conundrum, you can take a look at this website and find who really were Haäfe & Haph.

A nice set of 30 icons in free download, ideal for developers, with eps source included. Here you are some details from the website: All icons are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. Feel free to use them in any form in you projects or even remix them. No need to link [...]

Fruttabuona, which is Italian for Good Fruit, is our first free icons set. When I first started drawing the apple, which originally was intented to be a personal avatar, I knew I wanted to do something glossy but not too shiny, with a heavy outline and a strongly circular set up. But, once I was smitten with [...]

An awesome set of icons for Iphone has been released by App Bits in free download. Here you are some details about it: Set of 48 toolbar icons for the iPhone toolbar. These buttons contain beautiful shaded portions to give added depth and to highlight icon features. The icons in the preview to the left [...]

When we first saw it, our jaws fell to the floor. Freezed, we’ve been keeping on staring at the screen, mesmerized by what our doubtful eyes were seeing. Then we burst out laughing. Then we started worrying about how one could possibly categorize this crazy web 2.0 app. The quirky idea IJML (that’s our short [...]

I’m definitely an icon person. I mean, I really love drawing my own icons: maybe, since I’m not a full-time icon designer, they’re not quite as perfect as those you buy on stock images websites or you can get sometimes for free online but at least they’re mine, I know how I did them and, [...]

When Virb was launched, people acclaimed it as a sort of new Myspace. Actually, time has proved it’s much more: Virb is a very smart and elegant multi-media collective purpose-built for creative people who want to share online their arts, photography, music… Since the main audience is likely to be composed by enthusiastic and, let’s [...]

Nestingmode is the first-time parents’ guide for ultimate baby products. For most of us: so far, so boring. But what really sets this site apart from the heap of children’s related blogs and websites, is the quality of its illustrations and icons which are neatly drawn and pleasantly colourful. The navigation menu also with its [...]

Helveticons is a set of royalty-free icons based Helvetica Bold typeface. There is also a sample set of folder icons available for free.

365icon is a directory that provides for free an icon or a set of icons every day.

Icon Dock is an online shop for stock icons, some of which are downloadable for free. It’s designed and created by Nick La, author of many famous designers including Webdesignerwall.com.com andBestwebgallery.com.

Beautiful icons and manga-style-avatars in FaceYourManga : a wizard will take you through all the necessary steps to create  your digital alter ego.

Stunning icons designed by Eugen Bouzouki (some are free).

The icons slash characters in this Japanese web site related to environmental education in the city of Kunisaki, deserve a honorable mention.

Well contextualized and nice, the icons of the splash page of Adexcel serve to indicate different types of products depending on the kind of customer.

Iconpot, a gallery of icons absolutely free. A resource not to be missed!

Searchinsidevideo is a platform that allows you to make video contents searchable. The icons illustrating  product workflow are not only decorative, but truly explanatory.

Loved the clean and fresh layout for this site that collects everything about icons: an icon for different kind of posts,  additional infos when you hover on items , a dots style paging.

The icons on Eintelli.com web site.

I immediately loved  Modalinc low-fi icons, an U.S. study of interaction and design.

Icons on web sites often tend to get standardized (a heart, a star, the magic wand …): if this uniformity promotes understanding, on the other hand mortifies the originality of the site and conveys a nagging feeling of “pre-packed thing”.  One way to personalize your icons style is, as in this case, characterizing them with a [...]