>As those of us who have attempted to design good icons for our apps know, icon design is a genuine graphic arts specialty. I'm looking for any particularly good libraries of icons (or small JPEGs, bitmaps, etc.) that I can incorporate into my app. I'd also like to find a good graphic artist (preferably in the Washington, D.C. area) who specializes in creating these tiny works of art.
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>Anybody got any good leads...?

Here's a place to start.
http://www.iconbazaar.com/

Do an internet search for "icon" or ".ico". There's tons of sites with with large icon libraries.

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