GUI Olympics Results 2004: BEST OVERALL ICON PACKAGE!
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| Author | Icon Package | Points | Screenshot | Comments | |
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Rokey | The Last Order | 35 |
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While there were only around 70 of these icons, they were so unique and so well crafted that it still gave it the overall edge. |
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treetog | Thunder Storm (Icons) | 34 |
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Treetog's Thunderstorm icons were slightly more conventional but had the advantage of having around 100 of them and the judges felt that the file type icons on Thunderstorm were the best in the contest other than perhaps PirateOS (also by Treetog). |
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MindlessPuppet | Dementæcon | 33 |
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Demaneaecon was by far the most original set of icons we've seen in..well ever. Their excellence is not well served by screenshots though so don't judge these fantastic icons by this screenshot. They're not just random images put together either, they all have a subtle theme to each one that makes sense (it helps if you're a little insane too). Moreover, these icons had different images for different sizes, something the others generally didn't have. |
| 4th | Miloszwl | d3A | 32 |
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d3A has much in common with The Last Order. It might have a little bit too much in common as they are fairly similar and d3A came out a month after The Last Order. There are more icons in d3A and while it is similar to The Last Order, it is still unique on its own too. |
| 5th | - vf - | Megaton | 24 |
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Megaton were a favorite of the judges. To our knowledge, no one has ever successfully made such dark icons that "work" well in daily use at this level. These are icons people would use and there are a LOT of them - over 120 unique icons in this package giving it a significant advantage over other icons. |
| 5th | treetog | Pirate OS Icons | 24 |
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The judges liked the icon design a bit better in Thunderstorm but preferred the colors of PirateOS (the ultimate icon package might have been ThunderStorm design icons with PirateOS's colors). About 100 icons in this package make it very complete and its good use of colors make it very useful on almost any desktop. |
| 5th | - vf - | Alloy Bezel | 24 |
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Grayscale icons tend to be hard to do well but as vf has already demonstrated with Megaton, it can be done. It was as if vf were telling the world "Oh yea? I can make incredible icons only using 1 or 2 colors!" and indeed, he made his point. The screenshot here doesn't do the package justice though as there are nearly 150 of these icons in the package so that nearly every icon on your computer is changed. |
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Well done all of you guys, Bravo!
Thanks also to everyone who participated, your hard work made all our computers that much more beautiful.