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Icon Resource

Max (from Guimkie) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:42:10 +0000

I recently stumbled upon a great icon designer. Sebastiaan’s blog was and still is, very interesting (Hm – two funny sentences).
One of his most interesting things that kept me reading his blog, was a project called “Icon Resource.” It is basically a video teaching (just like my tutorials), that aims how to really get a perfect icon for your application (or basically anything else).

He offers the Icon Resource collection of about 15 HD videos for a price of 95€ (148$). I would have straight away bought this package of videos if it would have been sold for around 50-60€ – but these 100€ do really make me stop to buy this. Well, the not buying is probably only a momentary problem, usually I can’t resist such things and so I will buy them in any case! Check it out yourself!

Even though the price is quite heavy, it seems like Icon Resource is a definite and stunning resource. Good job Sebastiaan! Thanks for your introductory image.

Newly Dressed

Max (from Guimkie) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:12:26 +0000

Now that I am starting to write this post – I am actually wondering if it makes sense to write this. Because … telling you that I have redesigned my site is obvious, isn’t it? So why write a post about it? Lol!

Well, even if you have realized that the site is newly dressed, I would like to “officially” state that I gave it a new dress. It is a Wordpress Theme named “Bubbly” that I plan to officially release when I’m finished with this one. Make sense? I just don’t want my design to be found twice around the world.

Enjoy the new look!

Where is the Design Stuff?

Max (from Guimkie) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:52:56 +0000

If you read the tag-line you read that I make design, stuff and software. Well the stuff is everywhere, my iWeb Tutorials and Templates are probably stuff. Then I have made some apps, which all aren’t there yet – but I am making them and iMap has already been released. I have been quite busy making the software that I completely forgot to manage this blog and do some design? Yeah where is it?

Well I haven’t made any stuff! Sounds stupid but that is how it went. I simply did not have any time to do some icons or show how to make certain things with the graphing apps like Illustrator or Intaglio.

Anyway, I wouldn’t have made this post if there wouldn’t be some point to it, would it? Well, I have made a huge icon set of 50 glossy and aqua style icons for Leopard. Normal? No!!! These icons are at a size of 1000px by 1000px – that is double the size that Leopard wants. Isn’t that just amazing?

I’ll finish them up and then post them up here! An then I’ll make a tutorial on how to edit one pixel after the other.