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Tango Fridays, results
Thanks to an initiative of Jakub “Jimmac” Steiner (who now works in Novell) famous Tango icon suite is currently being improved within a Tango Fridays project: The goal is clear: make icons look...
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Bookmarks: icon design
Even in case you’re not a professional icon designer having a sence of beauty and knowing some background of icon design would doubtly be useless. Therefore here’re a few links youmay find useful:...
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Resample not resize
It’s a shame, that even today people still use nearest neighbor resizing in GUI designs, especially in places then it’s not suitable. Taking into account that Lanczos resampling usually offers far...
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Microsoft Vista icon design tutorial published
Microsoft has just published a draft version of their new Vista icon design tutorial. Definitely a must-know for everyone involved in the process of software design. Even now the tutorial is quite...
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OS X makeup
In fact I have a very low interest in system customization nowadays. Probably because I’m tired of this kind of stuff (years of creating skins and icons and work in Gladiators Software could not come...
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Vista icons: could they be better?
No vector icons. OK, bitmaps are usually large enough. But are they worth looking? Iconfactory, the creators of original XP icon theme has made a lot in order to give Vista a brand new look. However,...
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Icon search engine
One more offspring of Web 2.0 era: Iconfinder icon search engine. It lets developers and designers find free icons with certain metaphors. Pretty useful stuff if you don’t mind an idiotic logo. I’m not...
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Toolbar icons: think, then draw
What I always loved is when software developers used random icons in order to fill toolbar icons’ space.The latest and one of the obvious samples of such behavior is TranslateIt!: OS X dictionary...
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