Lists like Noupe’s 50 Most Beautiful Icons Designed in 2008 are exactly why I started Prettify—I completely disagree with 98% of their choices. That list is full of icons that, no offense to their creators, don’t deserve to be anywhere near a “best of” list for icon design.

As a prime example, that list includes, at #20 no less, a set of—I fucking kid you not—“Validation icons” which have aliased text and look like horse shit. Or iconographic horse shit. Actually, an icon of horse shit, if done well, would look better.

Viel mehr kann ich dazu auch nicht sagen, außer: Way to go, Garrett!