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Icons: mIRC
2007-12-13 15:25:00 New icons for old good IRC-client Read more… More About: Icons , Mirc
Journal: The 5th Anniversary
2007-12-10 13:40:00 We are happy to announce that December 1 marks the 5th anniversary of TurboMilk! By the way, do you notice anything new? Look around you. Yes! We got ourselves a new site! See how pretty it looks! It now hosts a nice little portfolio and the blog features a journal with snappy updates. All in all, life is great! More About: Journal , Anniversary
[portfolio] Belkin Control Center
2007-11-06 12:38:00 Californian SoftAssociates tasked us to make pretty icons in Windows Vista style for a company bearing a family name of Belkin. The icons feature easily recognizable peripherals and a black rectangular thing with an utterly mysterious appeal.Important notice: the pictures are for evaluation of TurboMilk work’s quality only. All rights reserved. More About: Portfolio , Center , Control
[portfolio] mIRC
2007-11-02 13:27:00 Long ago in 1995 the mIRC was created — the best IRC-client for Windows. Since that time millions of people around the world use it. Khaled Mardam-Bey, the creator of mIRC, entrusted a very important task to us — to draw new icons and to renew the logo. We tried to save the “classical” style of the program, but made it a little bit more fresh. So that’s how we joined the legend.Important notice: the pictures are for evaluation of TurboMilk work’s quality only. All rights reserved. More About: Portfolio , Mirc
[portfolio] EMA
2007-10-31 16:00:00 Far away in Siberia EMA work group has developed the DDCS2 — the complex of program resources for building the Distributed Dispatcher Control System which covers the production, transmission, distribution and the consumption of electrical energy. And we have designed the beautiful set of metal icons and some other elements of interface for it.Important notice: the pictures are for evaluation of TurboMilk work’s quality only. All rights reserved. More About: Portfolio
Cookbook: All you wanted to know about TurboMilk but were too shy to ask
2007-10-30 10:48:00 Our zealous readers must remember how we hosted our dear guests from Dominion this July. And prior to that we had paid a visit to that wonderful studio ourselves where we were treated with some tea and a Q&A session. So, what kind of questions can site builders have to interface designers? Luckily we got all the moves on paper and nothing will prevent us from sharing it. Read more… More About: Milk , Turbo , Wanted , Cookbook
All you wanted to know about TurboMilk but were too shy to ask
2007-10-30 10:48:00 Our zealous readers must remember how we hosted our dear guests from Dominion this July. And prior to that we had paid a visit to that wonderful studio ourselves where we were treated with some tea and a Q&A session. So, what kind of questions can site builders have to interface designers? Luckily we got all the moves on paper and nothing will prevent us from sharing it.Read more… More About: Wanted , Were
Pixel Office
2007-09-20 08:56:00 We have an awesome office and we’re proud of it. Location for example is the best possible — the centre of the city, the beautiful bank of Volga river. A way to work is just winsome. And the inside is good too — glassed walls, high ceiling, a giant window with sailing ships and Jiguly mountains behind it.Read more… More About: Office , Pixel
Journal: Pixel Office
2007-09-20 08:56:00 We have an awesome office and we’re proud of it. Location for example is the best possible — the centre of the city, the beautiful bank of Volga river. A way to work is just winsome. And the inside is good too — glassed walls, high ceiling, a giant window with sailing ships and Jiguly mountains behind it. Read more… More About: Office , Journal , Pixel
[portfolio] Two Sides Design Studio
2007-09-18 14:21:00 The icon set for interface design studio Two Sides . These icons are used on their web-site and are illustrating every step of an effective interface creation. Now not only a usability professional, but every single man can easily see the difference between “Low Fidelity Mockup” and “High Fidelity Design ”.Important notice: the pictures are for evaluation of TurboMilk work’s quality only. All rights reserved. More About: Portfolio , Studio
[portfolio] Eats It
2007-09-12 16:36:00 Let’s suppose you find yourself in sunny California, somewhere in lovely city of San Diego. You have a walk through the city, have visited some sights and certanly get hungry. What to do? SanDiego Eats It web-site will help you to choose a first-class restaurant. And the icons for that site — that's our work, made by a request of Arseni Group and under their art-direction.Important notice: the pictures are for evaluation of TurboMilk work’s quality only. All rights reserved. More About: Portfolio
Cookbook: How to change icons: guidelines for inducing coziness
2007-09-06 09:22:00 It would not come as a surprise for you that a man always tries to arrange his living within the bounds of his personal idea of beauty: the Amber Room or new IKEA rug, freshly painted cave painting next to the fireplace or a stuffed stuffed sword fish in the conference room — no principal difference here. The motive is always the same. TurboMilk is happy to help the mankind in its aspiration to make the world a better place and to increase the enthropy to a whole new league. Do you remember our outstanding collections of free icons? Some still ask how they can change one icon to another. The answer is easy. The most complex thing about it is to come up with a name for a sleepy walrus and what about that golden altar from the Monsters set. Let's suggest that our test object is the Annual Reports folder. R... More About: Desktop , Icons , Change , Guidelines , Cookbook
Changing icons: guideless for inducing coziness
2007-09-06 09:22:00 It would not come as a surprise for you that a man always tries to arrange his living within the bounds of his personal idea of beauty: the Amber Room or new IKEA rug, freshly painted cave painting next to the fireplace or a stuffed stuffed sword fish in the conference room — no principal difference here. The motive is always the same. Turbomilk is happy to help the mankind in its aspiration to make the world a better place and to increase the enthropy to a whole new league. Do you remember our outstanding collections of free icons? Some still ask how they can change one icon to another. The answer is easy. The most complex thing about it is to come up with a name for a sleepy walrus and what about that golden altar from the Monsters set. Let's suggest that our test object is the Annual Reports folder.Read ... More About: Desktop , Icons , Changing , Chang , Chan
Optimizing Adobe Illustrator: thrusting to the Earth orbital velocity
2007-08-21 16:00:00 I have once expressed my regrets about the quality of Adobe Illustrator as a software package. The speed at which this beauty eats up the system resources is mind boggling! Drawing the first icon you are pleased to learn how fast it happens. But gradually with each new layer (object, raster or vector effect…) Illustrator slows downs and shifts into the idling mode. Since in the very beginning you do not mention it, later you hope that the reboot will “fix the problem”. However things just get worse. Read more… More About: Earth , Adobe Illustrator , Strato
Cookbook: Optimizing Adobe Illustrator: thrusting to the Earth orbital vel
2007-08-21 16:00:00 I have once expressed my regrets about the quality of Adobe Illustrator as a software package. The speed at which this beauty eats up the system resources is mind boggling! Drawing the first icon you are pleased to learn how fast it happens. But gradually with each new layer (object, raster or vector effect…) Illustrator slows downs and shifts into the idling mode. Since in the very beginning you do not mention it, later you hope that the reboot will “fix the problem”. However things just get worse. Read more… More About: Earth , Adobe Illustrator , Cookbook
Journal: Hosting designers from Dominion.ru
2007-08-02 09:10:00 Designers have various dreams and wishes. For instance for so long we have cherished the idea of communicating with the likes to be able to share experience and brag about our new work not over the Web or thru emails but in real life. Read more… More About: Hosting , Journal , Designers , Dominion , Domin
Hosting designers from Dominion.ru
2007-08-02 09:10:00 Designers have various dreams and wishes. For instance for so long we have cherished the idea of communicating with the likes to be able to share experience and brag about our new work not over the Web or thru emails but in real life.Read more… More About: Hosting , Designers , Dominio , Domini , Dominion
Cookbook: Drawing an icon: Creating and destroying the Earth
2007-07-31 13:00:00 Last time we finished off with sending sketches to the Invaders corrected and refined according to their comments. The invaders had a lot of discussions and tentacle waving. While they were killing the time all of their Gigantic Assault Squids contracted the Space Pox and died. Oops! There goes the bio-weaponry. The good old methods proved to be more reliable. So the decision was made to invade planets using flying saucers with powerful blasters like in good old times. While the invaders still have their saucers up and flying, we decided to draw the Earth invasion icon first. Read more… More About: Icon , Drawing , Creating , Cookbook
Drawing an icon: Creating and destroying the Earth
2007-07-31 13:00:00 Last time we finished off with sending sketches to the Invaders corrected and refined according to their comments. The invaders had a lot of discussions and tentacle waving. While they were killing the time all of their Gigantic Assault Squids contracted the Space Pox and died. Oops! There goes the bio-weaponry. The good old methods proved to be more reliable. So the decision was made to invade planets using flying saucers with powerful blasters like in good old times. While the invaders still have their saucers up and flying, we decided to draw the Earth invasion icon first.Read more… More About: Icon , Drawing , Creating , Draw
Physics still matter, even with special effects
2007-07-12 08:39:00 Sharp-sighted Craig Hockenberry from the Iconfactory have spotted the inconsistency between the new 3D Dock and the old good Apple Human Interface Guidelines. Craig draws our attention to the fact that the sidelines of the Dock’s surface are sloping at different angles than the sidelines of the imaginary desk where the application icons are lying in the guidelines: The floor displayed on the Dock does not use the perspective of the desk in front of you, nor does it appear as a shelf. Because there’s a difference between the floor angles and the traditional desktop icon angles, many icons look wrong.Read more… More About: Physics , Special , Matter , Criticism , Effects
Cookbook: Physics still matter, even with special effects
2007-07-12 08:39:00 Sharp-sighted Craig Hockenberry from the Iconfactory have spotted the inconsistency between the new 3D Dock and the old good Apple Human Interface Guidelines. Craig draws our attention to the fact that the sidelines of the Dock’s surface are sloping at different angles than the sidelines of the imaginary desk where the application icons are lying in the guidelines: The floor displayed on the Dock does not use the perspective of the desk in front of you, nor does it appear as a shelf. Because there’s a difference between the floor angles and the traditional desktop icon angles, many icons look wrong. Read more… More About: Physics , Special , Matter , Criticism , Effects
Drawing an Icon: Sketches and Metaphors
2007-07-05 15:27:00 Rejoice, our young fans of digital miniature! The festival has finally come to your town. TurboMilk in my person is starting a series of posts on how we draw icons: from the moment of placing the task and receiving an advance payment to sending the final versions to the customer. Eugene Artsebasov, our illustrator, was so kind to assist me.Read more… More About: Icon , Drawing , Sketches , Sketch , Draw
Cookbook: Drawing an Icon: Sketches and Metaphors
2007-07-05 15:27:00 Rejoice, our young fans of digital miniature! The festival has finally come to your town. TurboMilk in my person is starting a series of posts on how we draw icons: from the moment of placing the task and receiving an advance payment to sending the final versions to the customer. Eugene Artsebasov, our illustrator, was so kind to assist me. Read more… More About: Icon , Drawing , Sketches , Cookbook , Etch
[portfolio] Storebrand
2007-07-04 13:01:00 Stern Norwegians from Storebrand.no expressed their will to decorate their site with small illustrations of heavenly beauty. “No problem!” — said the stoic designers of Turbomilk and produced dozens of illustrations in a unique 3D style. The order was placed by .IXD studio.Important notice: the pictures are for evaluation of TurboMilk work’s quality only. All rights reserved. More About: Portfolio
[portfolio] ArrowModel
2007-06-29 11:53:00 Icons for ArrowModel environment. While working on this project we learned that “scoring” was a decent word. And it is used for describing a process of creating and using models forecasting an important and rare event for a business. And the arrow here is not honoring Robin Hood but rather depicts an event probability chart produced by a logistic regression model. When we were done with the project, we felt ourselves way smarter.Important notice: the pictures are for evaluation of TurboMilk work’s quality only. All rights reserved. More About: Portfolio
[portfolio] Ingeniux
2007-06-29 11:32:00 Large set of icons for CMS by Ingeniux. A part of the set was ordered to come in three sizes: 32x32, 24x24, 16x16 pixels . Each icon for every size was rendered separately and with great care.Important notice: the pictures are for evaluation of TurboMilk work’s quality only. All rights reserved. More About: Portfolio
Totally RSS-fed-up
2007-06-29 10:27:00 In our rapidly moving age of blogs, social networks and hordes of web-two-O projects, RSS-channels come as an important tool of information syndication. They feed news, reviews and other updates travelling to us through the Web like hydrogen-powered launchers. Many of our readers are long-time subscribers to our convenient and contemporary RSS-feed. “Blog is clearly a nice thing to have but what about new projects? Have you all turned into writers out there? Where are the pics?!” an attentive reader would ask. And he would be right; we are a bit lagging behind with the site updates. But things are about to change. As of now not only our new blog posts will find their way to the RSS-feed but also portfolio updates, new free icons and project descriptions. Stay tuned! More About: Ally
Journal: Totally RSS-fed-up
More articles from this author:2007-06-29 10:27:00 In our rapidly moving age of blogs, social networks and hordes of web-two-O projects, RSS-channels come as an important tool of information syndication. They feed news, reviews and other updates travelling to us through the Web like hydrogen-powered launchers. Many of our readers are long-time subscribers to our convenient and contemporary RSS-feed. Read more… More About: Journal 1, 2, 3 |
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