Urgent: I need Icon Designers!

Update: I’ve had such a great response to this! It looks as if I’ve already got the job covered, but please do send in your details and samples. I promise I will look at each one and keep your details for future projects. Thanks!

I need help! Are you icon designer, experienced in creating application and interface icons for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista? Can create icons from 16px up to 512px? Yes? Now, are you free this month?!

I have an large-ish icon project for a software application (can’t say more than that at the moment) on with an urgent deadline of the end of April, and I need your help! If this sounds like you, please drop me an email (see the footer) and let me see your portfolio, either online, or as attached samples. Even if you’re not contracted on this project, I’m always looking for good designers to recommend clients to, and work with.

Tags: icons

Custom webclip icon on the iPhone/iPod Touch

The new 1.1.3 firmware for the iPhone and iPodTouch brings with it the ability to add a ‘webclip’ from Safari to your home screen.

Thanks to this tip you can easily create a custom icon for people visiting your site, that works just like your favicon. Its just a shame you can’t add your own for other sites – I would love a custom Google Reader icon.

Tags: icons, iphone, osx

Pimped Safari Icon

There has been a lot of requests for one of these, so I’ve finally made the PimpMySafari logo into a custom Safari icon!

Download this zip file to get the icon as an .icns file, iContainer and applied to a folder.

Tags: icons, safari

Design in Flight #2: Creating Interface Icons

Issue 2 of the excellent PDF magazine Design in Flight is now out, including my article on creating the interface icons for NetNewsWire 2. This is my first ‘proper’ article, and I found the process rather daunting, especially after reading the first issue, where the quality of the articles was so high.
The question I get asked the most is ‘How do you create icons?’, so hopefully the walk-through will be useful.

Tags: design, icons, magazines

NetNewsWire 2

The public beta of NetNewsWire 2 is finally available. Go and get yourself a copy, and enjoy new features like (amongst many others) the in-built tabbed browser, with rendering powered by the Safari webcore. Version 2 is also a free upgrade if you’re already a registered user.

With this release, NNW’s welog editor becomes a separate application called MarsEdit. While this doesn’t have the large feature set of Ecto, I prefer the way the interface is laid out and find it much more intuitive. In my last month or so of using Movable Type (before switching to Textpattern), I was using this to write to my journal. One important feature of Ecto’s it does have is the ability to assign your own stylesheet to the preview, to get a better idea of how the article will look. Textpattern is going to include MetaWeblog support soon, so I hope to be back using this when that happens.

Tags: design, hicksdesign, icons, rss