It used to be that other phones tried to copy Apple’s style, but with the Palm Pre on the horizon, a few iPhone owners have sprouted some jealousy for the as yet unreleased hotness, and have created a theme that will pre-tend to Pre-ify your iPhone with icons and a wallpaper.
[James Meister – Pre-Tend iPhone]
[Via: Gizmodo]
CelebriDucks are rubber ducks that have been modeled after the duck-ized icons of film, music, athletics and history. From celebrities and famous figures to mascots, athletes, heros and more, over 200 different CelebriDucks have been created, and no one is immune to duck-itization.
Each limited edition duck comes in its own container, and can be kept as a collector’s item or floated in the bath for a little extra fun.
Jon Hicks is probably most famous for his designing of the Firefox and Thunderbird icons, but it’s also interesting to take a look into his design process for other icons as well and see how they evolve into a final design.
Recently, he finished a series of icon designs for the Linotype FontExplorer app (aka FEX), including 280 new icons in several different sizes, and he uses his blog to highlight some of the initial concepts sketches for the Pro and Server editions, as well as some hurdles faced along the way.
[Via: Drawn!]
Patrick Moberg’s Governing People animation is a must watch, as it beautifully combines simple icons, bright colors, and audio from Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy to explain why people should not be allowed to govern people.
The Blogosphere got in a tizzy recently after Google decided to change its favicon (the little icon in your address bar that’s unique to each site).
To address those that demanded answers from the big G, Google has written a post about the new favicon, and explained that “the reason is that we wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale better to some new platforms like the iPhone and other mobile devices”.
Personally, I’m not a fan of the little G, and would have preferred that they stick with the big G, but apparently they’ve got some goals in mind, since they “tried in total more than 300 permutations”.
Apparently they wanted something distinctive and noticeable, as well as something that embraced the colorfulness of the logo, yet wouldn’t date itself, and considering the amount of feedback they received from people who noticed the change, I think they succeeded.
Rest assured though, if you can’t stand the new favicon, let them know, because they “really value feedback form users and want to hear your ideas”.