Playing in 128 x 128
Whew! It has been a whirlwind couple of months. Two sites going live and a third waiting in the wings along with an exciting new Flash-based consumer application (more to come on this) has spelled out many months of late night work for rasterhaus and not much in the way of personal time. Not that I’m complaining mind you. I appreciate every client and thank my good fortune that I have the opportunity to do the work I love.
One special project completed recently that allowed me to flex my illustrator’s muscle (that’s the one that holds the analog medium known as a pencil). The good folks at Eyemagination gave me the opportunity to create icons for a series of quality Mac OS X products from SmileOnMyMac. I have years of experience creating icons for the classic Macintosh operating system (and Windows) and besides a few small illustration projects where the images would have an “iconographic” look to them, I had not really gone through the process of designing for the new Mac OS. What a blast! To work in such a large image space (128 x 128 - not big in any other sense, but when you’re used to creating in 32 x 32, it’s enormous), conceptualizing then executing something where full color and detail is expected rather than frowned upon (keeping in mind that the icon has to hold up when reduced down to 16 x 16, of course). I immersed myself in the mindset by visiting the Iconfactory, reviewing the work of individuals online and studying other products in the same industry.
Now with everything complete and the products actively being promoted, I invite you to visit SmileOnMyMac and take a look at their new site along with those “swanky” new icons for PDFpen, pagesender, and disclabel that I had the pleasure of producing.