Comments on: Calling K10K!

Calling K10K!

riffola — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:15:48 -0800

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]

By: me3dia

me3dia — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:45:37 -0800

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.

By: rudyfink

rudyfink — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:14:45 -0800

Interesting post.

By: magullo

magullo — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:36:52 -0800

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?

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:43:12 -0800

Great post. thanks!

By: obfusciatrist

obfusciatrist — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:54:42 -0800

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.

By: twine42

twine42 — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:38:15 -0800

I'm sure this is a double post too, but hey. ;) Some interesting icons. Some bloody awful ones too...

By: riffola

riffola — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:27:53 -0800

If it was a double post, then at least the domain would show up in the search since day 1.

By: terrymiles

terrymiles — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:18:39 -0800

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.

By: ALongDecember

ALongDecember — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:27:14 -0800

It was mentioned on the green in a thread about icon sites. Deserved it's own post though.

By: riffola

riffola — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:52:01 -0800

Ah thanks ALongDecember!

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:31:43 -0800

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?

By: shoepal

shoepal — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:41:58 -0800

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.

By: rafter

rafter — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:46:38 -0800

It was on Kottke's remaindered links, too. But thanks for linking again. It deserved a second once-over. Definitely interesting stuff.