Calling K10K!

June 14, 2004 11:15 AM

300 images from 1800 sites. Ro London sifted through icons from Fortune 1000 company sites, major online retailers, well known blogs, top advertising, publishing, and design agencies, technology and software industry leaders, & the very largest online news publisher and created a collection of the most interesting, unique, and beautiful formations of pixels to display. [via svn]
posted by riffola (13 comments total)

I could have sworn this has been posted before, but damned if I can find it.

It's really amazing how many truly ugly "shopping cart" icons there are.
posted by me3dia at 11:45 AM on June 14, 2004

Interesting post.
posted by rudyfink at 12:14 PM on June 14, 2004

Maybe websites should not use shopping carts at all. What's is the point, other than cheapening the whole process?

I mean, who doesn't love a regular shopping bag that can comfortably hold all the stuff you care to throw inside?
posted by magullo at 12:36 PM on June 14, 2004

Great post. thanks!
posted by tomplus2 at 12:43 PM on June 14, 2004

On shopping cart icons.

We were integrating a product here at work that is used by car dealerships to manage their loans and whatnot with banks.

It used shopping cart terminology and icons and what not.

So as a result, dealerships, to deal with their line of credit on a specific car first had to put it in the shopping cart.

We recommended that they make the shopping cart icon much larger. And then we told them that the whole shopping cart paradigm was going to die.
posted by obfusciatrist at 12:54 PM on June 14, 2004

I'm sure this is a double post too, but hey. ;)

Some interesting icons. Some bloody awful ones too...
posted by twine42 at 2:38 PM on June 14, 2004

If it was a double post, then at least the domain would show up in the search since day 1.
posted by riffola at 3:27 PM on June 14, 2004

Sad life Ro must have, to have to spend so much time on something of so little significance.....

Might as well collect dust. I know I do.
posted by terrymiles at 4:18 PM on June 14, 2004

It was mentioned on the green in a thread about icon sites. Deserved it's own post though.
posted by ALongDecember at 4:27 PM on June 14, 2004

Ah thanks ALongDecember!
posted by riffola at 4:52 PM on June 14, 2004

And none of these images are copyright by the original site or someone else? Is this truly fair use? Boring as heck, for sure, but fair use?
posted by billsaysthis at 8:31 PM on June 14, 2004

Hey Me3dia, it was "in the white" of boingboing a while back. And I think I read about it in a magazine (eek!) as well.
posted by shoepal at 8:41 PM on June 14, 2004

It was on Kottke's remaindered links, too.

But thanks for linking again. It deserved a second once-over. Definitely interesting stuff.
posted by rafter at 8:46 PM on June 14, 2004