Icons

Here are some icons I was working on last week. They are made for a Mac, so I don't know what happens if you try to use these on Windows.

They are developed from an icon set I made 2 or more years ago. Considered taking all the different characters and systematically creating every permutation of hair, facial hair and clothing, to create a large enough collection that (white) people could find characters that look like themselves or the white people they know. I would leave out most of the women with facial hair permutations. But it would take sometime and I don't think I can use photoshop actions to make it feasible.

Filing Cabinet
One of the reasons the filing cabinet icons are there, is me mulling over why the office/desktop metaphors stop one it gets to hard disk level icons. To most users, a hard disk is not a real world item, or anything that they have any experience or expectations of. Even if a filling cabinet is a dated metaphor to reintroduce, it is a real-world item whose purpose is widely understood, and that is important.

Internet
I was also thinking an earth-at-night icon could be a nice representation of the internet in that it can show electricity use. Needs more work to do that. Though perhaps the abstract representations you usually get would be more clear.

The folder icon is hard one to make attractive, without doing anything too gimmicky.

How to
To change an icon in Mac OS, do File > Get Info on the item you want to change and the icon you want to change it with. Click the icon in the get-info window that appears and copy and paste across.

Download
Tell me what you think, and what changes or additions you would like to see (I already have some of my own), and perhaps they will surface in many months to come.

Download the set here.