I must once again graciously bow and thank Apple for taking mundane work out of my hands. Via Matt Legend;
We’ve all stolen Apple’s icons for things; now we’re officially allowed to. There are lots of new standard images available via NSImage -imageNamed:, including the Safari bookmarks image, all kinds of arrows, the gear icon, the Computer icon, Bluetooth and Bonjour logos, user account icons, the Info icon, and many more. The size of your app could drop significantly, as could your icon-design expenditure.
As could my monthly income! But no, I’ve got more than enough interesting work on my hands. Matt has a fantastic (and that’s a horrible understatement) write-up of some highlights in the Leopard feature lineup of developer tools and API’s. Read his long and bookmark-worthy post here.
Excellent article by Adrian Shaughnessy about designers; empathizers and egotists.
Mike Lee has posted a very insightful blog post at motherfucker (that’s the name of his blog), called The Power of Charity. It’s about, well, charity, and presents some very cool ways that Delicious Monster uses charity to ‘teach’ users to give. It also shows some alternative ideas to make charity more accessible. Very worthwhile read.
As a tangy addition to my services in the time Leopard is being released, I am offering all my current clients and clients, who book(ed) a case with me for OS X icons, between now and November 9th a complimentary HTML stationery template design for the new Mail.app. Some eye-candy (of course I’m an early adopter ;));
One of my favorite Leopard features by far; the new Mail.app.