Simple Beep

e18 – Icon Mania!


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This episode we cover 30 years of icon design, from black and white pixel art all the way to today's gorgeous, full-screen, retina eye candy. Along the way we encounter some FatBits, creatures that go "Moof!", and deep levels of icon-ception.

Links for this episode:

Followup
  • new iTunes icon!
Icon history
  • Susan Kare
  • MacPaint toolbox
  • System 1 control panel
  • FatBits
  • "Pixel perfect: The golden age of icons was 32x32"
  • Ed's Copland folder variations [download]
  • clip2icns
  • "Hard Drive Icons Through the Ages"
  • Aqua icons
Iconic icons
  • "Picasso" Macintosh logo (actually Matisse!)
  • Clarus the Dogcow
  • Steve Jobs portrait
  • Yosemite app icon design guidelines









The icon design community
  • The Iconfactory
    • history of the factory
    • Pixelpalooza contest
    • Twitterrific app
  • Brian Brasher (Etherbrian and Etherknot)
  • John Marstall (The Iconmaster and Perfect Yosemite)
  • Alamofire collaboration
    • Packrat
    • Gowalla
  • Layne Karkruff (Blue Sky Heart Design)
    • Blue Sky Icon archive
    • Ed's BSI-esque control panel icon [download]
  • Pixelgirl Presents
  • Icontown
Our icons
  • Ed: FoxTrot icon set [download]
    • Cris Phin's tweet on tiling icons/images
  • Brian: 1024 Pixels contest
    • contest entries from 2000 [download]
And finally…
  • Apple Icon Garden
    • the story of the garden's removal
    • Iconfactory's icon set of the Icon Garden
...more
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Simple BeepBy Ed Cormany and Brian Sutorius

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