[DanBC]

I'd love to see a "Family Tree" style layout from a GUI Historian, showing the development of different icons.

"Here's the eMail icon. This version was designed by Susan Kare".

[yuchi]

That's a work of [philological][1] investigation, and I'd like to see something like that too. Could it be good project?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philology

[johncoltrane]

GUIdebook is old and pretty much abandoned but still interesting: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/