Here’s a brief a look at the new Icon Resource – and its new brother, iPhone Resource. There’s something new for previous and new members in the works, but I’m not ready to release it yet. This only means that there’ll be that much more content for you if you’re a member: two entirely new courses on Mac / Windows icon design, including intermediate and advanced techniques.

iPhone Resource, a separate and new set of courses, focuses on making amazing iPhone icons and interfaces. It’s shorter and more concise than its big brother, but from what I’ve seen in the App Store, it’s certainly sorely needed.

You will also get a brand new member area, where you can watch course videos, review lessons and download files. An iPhone application is also in the works, but I can’t tell much about that yet. It’ll be released a bit later than the actual upgrade.

Much design love went into this new version, and all pages have been redesigned from the ground up. The new login page went through over a hundred iterations. Click on the image to view it at full size on Flickr.

I expect to roll out the entire new Icon Resource upgrade in late February or March. As an existing member, you will be notified by email (and only this time! I hate newsletter spam) when the new content arrives. The price will remain unchanged.

For the next week, Icon Resource will be a full 30 euro cheaper – over 35% off – in anticipation of the announcement of Icon Resource 2.0. The second version of Icon Resource will be a sizable update with a slew of new ‘courses’, which are all free for existing members.

Keep an eye on the blog for the big announcement and preview of all the new content, resources, and features. I can’t wait to show off some of the great stuff that’s cooking!

A note to all folks that are purchasing the membership this week: I will be unavailable this weekend, so support email and other inquiries will be unanswered until Monday.

I genuinely feel like I learned a lot about what was previously something of a black art to me, and I couldn’t help but come away feeling enthusiastic about the prospect of creating some of my own icons for future software projects – or just for fun.

Check it out here if you’re interested!

The day has come, and Icon Resource, the biggest project I’ve spearheaded since the start of my own company has gone live. You can now go to the Icon Resource website to watch a sample video, read more about the contents, or acquire your access to the polished Icon Resource member area.

Icon Resource contains 15 high-definition videos, separated into a theory and a technique section, explaining you everything you need to know to make your own icons with Photoshop. No prior knowledge of Photoshop is required.

If you purchase Icon Resource, you are granted access to a special member area featuring all videos in HD and iPhone formats, with the project files and documentation. The experience has been tuned to be as seamless as possible, as Icon Resource is now running on a separated, dedicated server, with an extra available high-bandwidth server for the large video files.

I want to thank everyone who’s helped out in this great endeavor; making such a beautiful and browser-friendly website was a unique experience, and working with the talented people who helped me turn a design into a great website was great fun. Of course, working on the videos provided to be a much larger task! I’ve spent about 6 weeks of fine-tuning my speech, minimizing my accent, and recording screencasts and audio.

Icon Resource wouldn’t be as beautiful and made with love if it weren’t for ScreenFlow, the best screen recording utility made since the dawn of man. Simon Clarke, one of the ScreenFlow developers, also helped me out with a minor issue I had during the composing of several recordings.

For now, sound off your thoughts and enjoy this great new jump into instructional videos!

Feel free to digg it if you want to see more of these kind of videos!

Due to problems with setting up the payment processing system, IconResource has been delayed by a week. I found this most disheartening and extremely annoying, but there’s very little I can do about this; it’s all in the hands of my payment institutions at this moment, so all I can do is wait patiently. Again, my apologies; I look forward to seeing you all when we do launch, in a week on April 2nd.

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