DSIcons: Pimp Your (Virtual) Ride

A bunch of us at Six Apart are incredible nerds video gaming enthusiasts, so we were happy to discover DSicons, a site aimed squarely at fans of Mario Kart DS, Nintendo’s kart racing game. Now, we talk a good game about the big, serious Fortune 500 businesses using Movable Type as a publishing platform, but a lot of the blogs that are closest to our hearts are the ones run by people who are passionate enthusiasts about a hobby. DSIcons is exactly that kind of blog. It’s created by the good folks at Firewheel Design, who also brought you IconBuffet and BlinkSale.

Of course “passionate enthusiast” is really just a nice way of describing geeks. We know; we’re geeks too. That might also be why we can really appreciate what DSIcons does: Each of the graphics featured on the Movable Type-powered blog isn’t designed to be downloaded, it’s a set of instructions for how to create your own icon, one pixel at a time. If you’re looking to decorate your kart, you could hope that your skills with a stylus are good enough to make a design that’s legible, perhaps even attractive. Or you could just check the latest updates on the DSIcons feed, follow the detailed instructions on creating your own works of digital art, and be the envy of every other Mario and Luigi out on the track.

So, got a got a geeky obsession of your own? Get Movable Type and let the rest of the world see just how creative you can be.