I’m honoured to present my third ‘Daily Deviation’ award on the biggest digital art site on the internet, deviantART. My replacement icon for Wireshark has gotten this beauty and I didn’t even notice until I had a gazillion messages and referrals to my website. Thanks for the kind words and downloads, everyone! If you want to download it, go to Icon Designer.

Link to the deviation in question…

I haven’t been very verbal lately and I couldn’t because I have had some life-changing moments that really need some thought. Perhaps I’ll divulge or make a long post about it a bit later on but at the moment, I’m really having some questions with utmost relevance about my future, my life in general, and well, what you are presented with here, my company, my idea, my ambitions. As I have said before, July will turn out an exciting month, but I can assure you it’ll be more of a rollercoaster to me and even more of a complete astonishment to you (or perhaps not, I just hope so). So, more updates soon… there has been huge progress in my work, and in my life. There’s certainly no lazy silence here. Not ever.

Icon Designer, the place for your desktop customisation and icon services, has gotten to version two.

Go check it out, and tell me what you think. There’s still a few minor issues with the overly spacious bottom and the page being really all-image, but that’s what I do best. Sorry, I can’t really make a lot of time free to get this into a ‘real’ website, but I do want to share with you all. New is a Macbook Pro icon, Jon ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch’s MagicHat icon, and the announcement that there will soon be some more cool client work. It will also provide you with details on how to get the upcoming ‘Military’ icon set, celebrating the successful ending of the War on Bad Design.

While I was considering a small sneak preview of Cocoia Main, I think this will do for now. Enjoy, all Macbook Pro users, and all you others; check in for the icon sweetness around the end of this month!

Just a treat. Enjoy this Leopard wallpaper as a gift from Icon Designer ;).

Thanks for the downloads! This image has seen about 6000 downloads since it’s inception two days ago, and I’ll make a version without the ‘mess’ behind it for release soon.

Icon Designer is growing. Actually, it’s surpassing Cocoia with only four days out. It’s daily traffic is astounding. I should make a badge on the next update saying ‘pushing gigabytes of icons’. It’s tantalising to realise that this page might rake in more visits than the blog one day (and trust me, that’s a lot of traffic)It seems everything is exponential lately; the Vienna icon surpassed the Wireshark icon almost instantaneously, and is now catching up to the wildly popular Preview replacement.

A few people have been hurrying to get Timezones before I change the page – not to worry, I have extended it a few days to let the sales cool down a bit and then I’ll start charging the new amount of money for the download. Timezones 1.5 is coming fast, and it’s going to be set at this standard price because of the new functionality. I think all users will be glad to see a free update and the opportunity to buy new themes with each their own functions.

News has really been on a roll lately. With the iPhone ads airing (hey, I might not put it into the blog that much, but man, I’d love to get one of those, I’m a human / geek too you know) and the WWDC a week away, we’re in for a very exciting time. I’ve seen discussion heat up around the topic of a new look for the GUI in OS X 10.5 Leopard. Speculation? Sure, but it’s not like the iPhone has all the normal aqua widgets. We’ve seen a very interesting slider that has a new ‘style’ of metal. Loss of plastic gloss, anyone?

Wow, Apple’s really got sophisticated with this new style they’ve got going on. I mean, we’ve all seen the filter bars of Mail and Transmission fame take over the iPhone UI, but this little detail is surprising. This could hint to new UI features we might see in the next week. Only Steve knows.

On a side note, I did want to bring it all a bit closer to the average Mac user, so here’s a little screenshot of what’s been lying around my disk for a while but didn’t seem to get finished.

It’s a makeover kit for VLC. Not just any makeover kit, a complete interface makeover kit with iPhone widgets. Nice, isn’t it? Perhaps I’ll finish it some day.

There is a pack coming out soon to outline the end of the War on Bad Design. I’d say that with the site up soon and the clients I have got now, I can safely say the ‘war’ was is a grand success and has seen many victims of beautification. The pack will include ‘forces’ of land, sea, and air for your desktop pleasure – free of charge. This is but one icon of the set…

Yeah, I dislike the icon that much. Anyway, all other replacements didn’t really do it either for me – I mean, I got a distinct image of a newspaper in my mind that I want it to be. Also, I got my own badge for a while now and I love it to death, so, to make the move;

I hope you enjoy this little Vienna icon replacement as much as I do. The badges are on the disk image, with instructions to get them working. Follow them closely. More on Icondesigner soon.

edit: fixed…