Leopard: Customization heaven.

November 24, 2007 on 11:26 am | In Icon Design, Interface Design, News, Software Releases

From the same source as the stack drawers, I found that a new little application had been released that turns Leopard into the premiere point release of OS X when it comes to desktop customization. Susumu Yoshida, a talented icon designer, released his very elaborate set of brightly colored and nicely textured stack drawers, which I tested during the last week and thoroughly enjoyed. See this desktop screenshot;

Desktop

Click for original and fullsize at Flickr.

I found that a software company, CocoaMug, has put together a tool to customize every aspect of your dock. It’s called Palette, and costs a mere $6.90 for a full license. It doesn’t just allow you to choose a color for the background of your 3D dock, but it also allows you to set these beautiful ‘drawer’ icons for individual stacks - making using stack drawers as simple as drag and drop. Click here for an impressive video demo on Susumu’s blog. Thanks for sharing, Susumu!

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  1. Sebastian,

    Thank you for your work as a whole, thank you for the Orion set, an thanks for sharing your enthusiasm for beautiful GUIs.

    Would you please tell me where you came by your background image (wood planks) and if possible share the source?

    Thank you.

    Comment by Esmaeil Khaksari — November 24, 2007 #

  2. Thake your for sharing your creation process and your tips ! Juste continue writing articles about making icons, I’m found of it.

    PS : I’m shure you noticed that two of the dock icons on the video were yours ;-)

    Comment by Karabe — November 25, 2007 #

  3. Same as Esmaeil, big thank you for Orion Set Sebastian, im loving it! also love your dock modification, is it yours? would be great to know if i can get it somewhere, thank you very much! keep up the good work

    Comment by Matt — November 25, 2007 #

  4. Hi,

    any link for the beautiful background ?

    Comment by Regis — November 30, 2007 #

  5. As said in the previous comments, your background is the most impressive thing in the screenshot…

    I’m sure a lot of people would appreciate a little link ; )

    Comment by Macmade — December 7, 2007 #

  6. Wallpaper please… :)

    Comment by Andy — January 27, 2008 #

  7. This is an astonishingly beautiful wallpaper on a computer screen, and once you know it exists, you want to have it!

    Comment by serkan — January 29, 2008 #

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