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[portfolio] Cropix
2007-06-28 10:53:00 Product logo and a set of icons for Crop ix, corporate information management software system. With this system and our icons the life of a lawyer will turn into a fairytale and the work will do itself.Important notice: the pictures are for evaluation of TurboMilk work’s quality only. All rights reserved. More About: Portfolio
Identity: Chef for TravelMenu
2007-06-25 15:03:00 Funny globe character Read more… More About: Chef , Identity
Identity: Fork for TravelMenu
2007-06-25 13:13:00 Scullion Fork with unhealthy complexion Read more… More About: Identity
Identity: TravelMenu
2007-06-25 13:12:00 Online travel agency identity Read more… More About: Identity
Designing an iconic language
2007-06-21 20:20:00 Last fall I made a brief report at a conference organized by RusCHI and 1C in the context of celebrating the World Usability Day. I was talking about designing a user interface icon language. Following the “better later than never” principle, I hereby bring the same report to your attention in the form of text with illustrations. More About: Designing , Language , Signing
Cookbook: Designing an iconic language
2007-06-21 20:20:00 Last fall I made a brief report at a conference organized by RusCHI and 1C in the context of celebrating the World Usability Day. I was talking about designing a user interface icon language. Following the “better later than never” principle, I hereby bring the same report to your attention in the form of text with illustrations. Read more… More About: Designing , Language , Cookbook , Signing
Cookbook: Showing your cards, or why Windows is not MacOS
2007-06-01 10:38:00 For many Mac OS X users Expose is the most favorite interface feature. And deservedly so, since it is very efficient and convenient for toggling between windows. No wonder that Expose is often presented as a key advantage of Mac OS interface over Windows . “Ha-ha, looks as though Redmond tried to copy Expose but tripped over the limited capacity of its graphical engine,” some may quip. “They must be afraid of being accused of direct plagiarism,” others say. Is that so? Let’s try to investigate. Read more… More About: Usability , Cards , Cookbook
Showing your cards, or why Windows is not MacOS
2007-06-01 10:38:00 For many Mac OS X users Expose is the most favorite interface feature. And deservedly so, since it is very efficient and convenient for toggling between windows. No wonder that Expose is often presented as a key advantage of Mac OS interface over Window s . “Ha-ha, looks as though Redmond tried to copy Expose but tripped over the limited capacity of its graphical engine,” some may quip. “They must be afraid of being accused of direct plagiarism,” others say. Is that so? Let’s try to investigate. More About: Usability , Indo , Cards
Journal: Bestiary
2007-05-24 13:57:00 Sometimes our designers get tired of traditional interface art and get lured by something off-beat. Do not go for any second thought, everything it quite straight. Read more… More About: Journal
Bestiary
2007-05-24 13:57:00 Sometimes our designers get tired of traditional interface art and get lured by something off-beat. Do not go for any second thought, everything it quite straight. More About: Desktop , Bestia
Icons: Metrics
2007-05-17 13:23:00 Icons for computer games developers Read more… More About: Icons , Metrics
Icons: Storebrand
2007-04-26 13:01:00 Large and beautiful icon-illustrations Read more… More About: Icons
Who pecked all the crumbs, or why MacOS is not Windows
2007-04-24 10:14:00 Finder serves as a file manager in MacOS X. Its main problem is that it does not give the user the sense of location. More About: Windows , Usability , Indo , Window , Crumbs
Cone Gradient in Adobe Illustrator. Episode Three: Happy End
2007-03-28 14:40:00 You still can produce a normal cone gradient in our beloved Illustrator . This process was uncovered in konischer-verlauf.zip file with a description in German, and, I believe, many of you have already downloaded and thoroughly studied it. In general my note repeats all of what’s contained in this file, however, in English and with a few extra comments to clear up on things. More About: Adobe , Episode , Happy , Adobe Illustrator
?Circumcision?, a children?s holiday
2007-03-15 13:32:00 Let’s recall the operating systems of the last century — the range of MS Windows up to 2000, Mac OS up to version 9. All of them supported only icons with one-bit transparency. Fortunately, the industry is moving ahead and the modern operating systems nowadays use the eight-bit transparency. However, for the sake of back compatibility Microsoft has recommended to include resources with one-bit transparency into icons made for Windows XP. With time the tinkering with turning the modern eight-bit transparency into one-bit was romantically coined “cutting edges” among icon designers. Today, I am going to talk about this “tinkering”… More About: Children , Holiday , Sion , Circumcision
First impressions of MacOS, or von Neumann remains von Neumann even in Afri
2007-01-31 09:38:00 As it happens the New Year found me working on a new computer running MacOS, the operating system previously unfamiliar to me. I can already hear the taunts of my dear colleagues: “What, only now? Where have you been?”. “Why the hell you need it? Are you mad?” — others say. Alas, I have to disappoint you. A story about the reasons for not adopting Mac back in ’95, ’98, 200 2 and 2006 along with explanations of why I finally did it will be left outside of this note. Right now my task is to share the first “hot off the press” impressions of working on the new platform. The things that impressed me and those that surprised. Please do not take these notes too seriously. So… More About: First Impressions , Sion , Uman , Impressions , Impress
Web 2.0-styled design
2006-10-26 13:44:00 I will start with stating that I am not a fan of web 2.0. I consider this term to be rather ambiguous. No, I am not against social networks, I would vote for AJAX with both hands, and I am writing this article straight to our blog. It makes no sense to me why one would need web 2.0 if not just for fooling venture capitalists. However, regardless whether we like it or not, this term enters our life and our clients start asking us about “web 2.0-styled” design. And what is “web 2.0-styled” design? Letters pictured with reflections? Rounded corners? Let’s drop these cliche’s for being infinitesimal and consider some examples. I took some liberty to compile a short list of the most vibrant, as I see them, representatives of the new wave in web design. More About: Design , Web 2.0
Gamma Correction: We Wanted the Best, You Know the Rest
2006-08-22 13:30:00 It may seem that the peaceful coexistence of two different platforms, Macintosh and PC, within one office has long ceased to cause problems. No one could imagine that it is in our age of going global and of open barriers that we’d find yet another catch in a thing as easy as preparation of pictures to show intermediate results to the client. Sit back and get all eyes on this teaching story. More About: Rest , Wanted , Rect
The Birth of Venus
2006-07-25 12:14:00 It is a must for every designer to know what Google Image Search is for. It has a secure place in my top ten of the most frequently visited web sites, alongside with LiveJournal and our Basecamp. All the time you have to be looking for metaphors for your icons. Or to be looking how the next secateur looks like. Sometimes you feel the need to give your eyes a feast of looking at a masterpiece of the world art! More About: Birth , Venus
Tools: Chapter 2, the raster-based one
More articles from this author:2006-07-06 09:25:00 You are probably beginning to boil over — it’s been three weeks since Dmitry revealed the mysteries of the vector stage of icon creation, so where is that continuation? Let me tell you why we made no haste. The thing here is that we always try to cut down on this raster stage as much as possible. We take pains to dally that moment when we minimize Illustrator and launch Photoshop. I wish I’d never see that Photoshop! Where do I get that hatred to all designers’ holy cow? It’s nothing personal, I assure you. There is nothing bad I can say about Adobe Photoshop as a specimen of the class of raster editors, let alone the fact that it is crafted with more quality that our beloved vector-based Illustrator. My dislike lies not for the specific product but for all methods to edit an ... More About: Tools , Chapter , Chapter 2 , Base , Aster 1, 2, 3 |
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