Icon Maker Appreciation -- just early is all

[applecameron]

First off, I go back and forth about icons, I mean, sometimes I find them really meaningful and whatnot, and other times, I page through a bunch of stuff and say "oh, were there little pictures attached to various comments or something?"

Obviously, my mileage varies. Significantly.

However, I can say, that day in and day out, I adore cortese for a variety of reasons, only a small subset having to do with her eye for and skill with graphics.

Anyway, I'll repeat some of this on March 31st (Icon Maker Appreciation Day), but I certainly am entirely capable of not noticing who makes which icons. So.

I like cortese's icons a great deal. I have two marvelgirl icons, a jidabug icon, and a couple lavellebelle blanks (whose icons I love, I just have this nonconformism THING about everything, much less icons....I don't want to share. I want things that shock, that juxtapose ideas, that force new connections between ideas. For fuck's sake, I have an icon that smites.) that haven't become icons yet, but may at some point.

I want an icon that says "secret supervillain hideout" with a globe/map and an arrow pointing to some remote island off Madagascar, or in the midst of the Pacific. That's my idea of a cool icon. But that's just me. The stuff that leans to recognizable-characters/fandoms somehow doesn't feel as right to me because I'm not *in fandom*. I just write fic sometimes. Or not.

Don't mind me. It's just my compulsion to not fit in.

Anyway, intellectually, I like the idea of LiveJournal's icons. They're a new art form, like a sonnet: limited in some ways, infinite in scope in others. Very neat.

Comments

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I tend to prefer "blanks" over icons with text, simply because not many people seem to buy into "brevity is the soul of wit" as strongly as I do. A great picture covered up with four or five lines of in-jokes or dorky text just causes me pain.

Don't really care for animated icons either--brevity works in the visual sense too.

[jidabug.livejournal.com]

They're a new art form, like a sonnet: limited in some ways, infinite in scope in others. Very neat.

I've always thought this, too. And I can understand wanting to be a non-conformist. The design of icons is very much a matter of personal taste and style (and skill with a graphics program). Personally, I don't care for the really artistic icons with a severe case of being overdone, but that's just me. I like them relativley straightforward and any text should be easy to read. Prosaic art? Hmmm.

[jcortese.livejournal.com]

I want an icon that says "secret supervillain hideout" with a globe/map and an arrow pointing to some remote island off Madagascar, or in the midst of the Pacific.

Hrm ... *googles a couple of maps*