Icons

How To Design An Icon Video Course

In Icons on 2 April 2008 with no comments

Sebastiaan de With has created a complete Icon Design video course. Sebastiaan is an top-notch designer and I bet anyone looking to get into Mac icon design (and with the IPhone that need will only increase) should check it out.

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10 Mistakes in Icon Design

In Around The Web, Design, Icons on 14 February 2008 with no comments

TurboMilk: “It is much easier to criticize somebody else’s work than to create something cool yourself. But if you apply a systematic approach to criticizing, make a numbered list and prepare illustrations, it will be regarded as a fully-fledged analysis!”

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Getting Nice Webclip Icons

In Icons, Ipod, iPhone on 16 January 2008 with 1 comment

Matt Mcinery has a great tip on how to setup proxy pages to your favorite websites so you can have a nice webclip icon on your Ipod Touch or Iphone.

The trick puts up a page on your own server with the icon you want and then, after a short delay, forwards your request to the [...]

Cabel Cracks Me Up

In Graphic Design, Icons on 10 September 2007 with 1 comment

Cabel:

We subclassed everything and everything’s mother, and eventually came up with some crazy solutions that mostly worked well, but had two problems: the code was skanky (which, to be honest, didn’t bother me as much, since the user never sees skanky code, but I can empathize with that not-so-fresh feeling) Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Change Mac OS X Icons

In Icons on 8 September 2007 with 8 comments

The icons that ship with your Mac are beautiful. But you want to be different. You want to stand out.

A fun way to do that is to change the icons of your existing Mac apps. In an effort to promote their custom work, many icon designers offer freeware icons. The replacement [...]

Mac Icon Design

In Icons on 2 September 2007 with no comments

This is icon week at kupuk.com.

Your Mac app’s icon is essential. It has to be beautiful, emotive and obvious all at once. No mean feat.

It’s also the one element that you are very likely to outsource to a graphic designer. A good designer will do much more than just deliver you a [...]

TextEdit Icon

In Icons on 28 August 2007 with 1 comment

From NSLog… So that’s what it says on the TextEdit icon….

Added for Leopard now that icons are resolution independent, I guess. Subscribe to my RSS feed!