Icons8 について
2012年創業
400万ユーザー
No venture capital— Who are you?
Ivan, founder of Icons8
After a little small talk, the ABC reporter became serious.
— With all the AI-generated stuff, how do I know you're not a generated person?
Maybe we should create a better about page, I thought.
要約すると
We help designers by creating
- Quality graphics
- Graphic design apps
- AI tools
Unlike other graphic design marketplaces, we’re are artists, not resellers. Our design library is the result of 12 years of hard work, refining our processes, and talking with customers to get things right.
Here are the things that make us different from the rest.
社内デザイナー
We have our own teams of icon designers, illustrators, animators, and 3D artists who produce hundreds of visuals every week.
We adopt the best practices from IT and apply them to everything. We use Scrum and run sprints in Jira. One artist can never draw a pack of 15K icons or 2K illustrations, a team with solid processes can.
And yes, Icons8 is the largest library of consistent icons in the world. Period.
The only content we don't produce internally is music.
Creativity based on analytics
We don’t guess what designers need — we analyze and listen:
- We study searches and downloads of our icons and illustrations to spot trends and identify gaps. No download after a search? That’s our cue to create the missing graphic.
- We keep an eye on global trends and use SEO tools to discover what people are searching for.
- We conduct structured interviews with designers: What problems are they facing? How do they choose a style for their project?
支払えるようになったら
どんな予算規模であれ、誰もが素晴らしいデザインにアクセスできるべきであると、私たちは信じています。
私のデザイナーとしてのキャリアは、バナー広告を月額100ドルで制作するところからスタートしました。Photoshopの海賊版を使用してです。その頃のライセンス費用は自分の年収の半分もしました。お金ないことの辛さは理解しています。だからこそ、お金をまだ稼げていないデザイナーのために Icons8 を無料で提供したいと考えました。帰属表示が必要でビットマップ形式のみの提供ではありますが、作品を作るには十分なはずです。稼げるようになれば、サブスクリプションを購入して私たちをサポートしてください。
Ivan
当社の製品には豊富な無料オプションが含まれており、オープンソースプロジェクトに対しては、常に無償でご提供しています。
デザインはテクノロジー
Icons8 is not only about cute pics. To help people quickly find the exact visuals they need, we had to build a whole platform. Nearly half of our team are software engineers.
Here is what they do:
- Frontend. It's the most visible part of our work. This page probably fits your screen nicely, but there's so much more: filters, collections, online editor, Figma and Photoshop plugins, etc.
- Backend. Every day, we upload, tag, classify, and name hundreds of items. The backend handles millions of requests from the website, desktop apps, and API users.
- Desktop software. To bring our graphics closer to users, we made Pichon for macOS and Windows. We created Lunacy, a powerful graphic design tool with our graphics inside.
- AI. We started with internal AI tools that saved us tons of time to tag images, remove backgrounds, and even compose pictures. Then we made Background Remover and Smart Upscaler. We generated photos of people that don’t exist, launched Human Generator, Illustration Generator, and GenYOU. And there are even more exciting products on the way.
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