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Pixel Bazaar — For the love of well-crafted digital icons
Reviving an old brand. Pixel Bazaar is back.
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Maker
Alex, I get you. Sorry if there are too many steps.
I would gladly exclude the “fair price” step, but Gumroad—the service I use to implement my goodies has no other option for offering a freebie.
And to be honest, I‘m contemplating whether to keep the social share. It‘s an experiment. I‘ll keep it today and tomorrow, and I might remove it during the weekend. I‘m simply testing what brings better, and fairer engagement.
Maker
Hey, Alex. An update. I made the social share optional, and found a way how to auto-populate the price to 0. Your honest opinion was really valuable. 👌
Maker
Back in the days I was known as “the icons guy”, and Pixel Bazaar was my brand.
I was designing icons from 2012 to about 2016. During that time, I mastered the icons craft and learned all the tricks on how to squeeze out maximum creativity on a minimum amount of pixels.
But I made the same mistake as 99% of the icons designers. I accepted many offers from many marketplaces to sell my icons under their brand, according to their rules. Over time, that damaged my brand, lowered my earnings, and eventually stole my customers. On top of it, the market was getting oversaturated and undervalued, so I decided it‘s high time to get back to my original career track—product design.
Lately, I got a sudden urge to get back to the scene. Creativity has been piling up for too long. I just needed a spark, a sign. And lo and behold, while waiting at the cashier to pay my groceries, an email arrived:
“Hey, Zlatko! Just to let you know that I tattooed your tesla coil icon because I named my daughter Tesla.”
I was dumbstruck, seeing a tattoo of some random guy in the US having my icon permanently inked to his forearm.
At that moment I realised even though I‘ve been helping clients in the UX field for more than 10 years, I haven‘t left such an emotional imprint, as I left with my icons.
“That‘s it”, I cheered. If this was not a sign, I don‘t know what is.
So, I‘m getting back. And while this is not the right time to do it—as my icons are already selling on third-party platforms with discounted prices— to win over them, I‘m offering everything for free as a Black Friday offer! Let‘s see if anyone can beat that.
If I gather enough interest from you, and the tens of thousands like you, I‘ll revive PixelBazaar and will start crafting new top-quality icons. All of them will be sold directly on the website, and nowhere else. So, make sure you subscribe because you won‘t find the same future icons in some weird corner of the universe with a heavily discounted deal.
Maker
Thanks, Maria. My Black Friday marketing was a success. Now it‘s time to start crafting new icon sets.
In marketing, I have always run to the problem of quickly finding appropriate icons to plug into our collaterals. Having them under one umbrella is definitely something that is helpful. Best wishes for the future.
Maker
@ankur_mandal1, that‘s exactly my aim!
From 2022 onwards I want to serve brands that when they think about top-notch icons, to think about Pixel Bazaar. And because of that, I need to raise the bar not only in quality, but in promises. And the key promise I make on the website is whenever icons comes out from my sweatshop, they‘ll be sold only on www.pixelbazaar.com.
With this positioning and a promise I solve a particular problem agencies have: They can‘t always afford custom iconography, but they also want to use unique icons. And by not selling the icons elswhere, they will rarely be seen in random corners of the universe, but will be seen mostly applied on company websites and apps.
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