Enough new link cursors to make Mickey Mouse cry.

Link Cursors Set 2

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Thanks to Sage for some of his cool link cursor ideas

Note: Self-Critique will be posted every once in several months. The reason why I decided to do this is to encourage myself to step back and take a view at my work in different perspective. That way, I will be able to take a look at my mistakes and try to understand why they did not work. So, I can learn from them and try to improve my future designs. It is not only for me, but it is also an opportunity for you to learn from my mistakes and avoid making them in the future.

In each self-critique post, there will be a list of problems and solutions included with comparison screenshot (old against new). Even though this is a self-critique, you are more than welcome to post your own critiques and feedbacks.

Wood Signs Icon Set – Feb. 2002:
• Over-detailed
• Poorly done 32×32 and 16×16 icons
• Bad Shadows

Way over-detailed

What did I do wrong:

I tried to make the icon as detailed as possible because I thought it would help icon to look more detailed in smaller size but it did not. It made the icon to be messy.
Continue reading…

Is your Dock getting a little too messy and confusing? If so, grab this dock dividers and organize right away!

Dock Dividers – Vertical

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Dock Dividers – Horizontal

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Update & Credit: Thanks to Will Lesieutre for turning the divider into applescript that does nothing when you accidentally click on it. All divider graphics are now updated to use this applescript as a base app.

Come in and fire away your comment/feedback about the new weblog

While we’re at it, do you know any of great graphic arts weblog? My blog bookmark is just dying to know some more.

Application and Toolbar Icon for Freshly Squeezed Software

This is definitely the longest icon project I’ve been in. The long length on designing application icon was mainly my fault because of the difficulty in coming up with a good design for this kind of application without using cliche designs. After submitting several different designs, Erik was finally satisfied with the last design and I think I agree with him. Some of the early designs were either weak or odd. PF Toolbar Icons, on the other hands, took only one week to finish.

If you want to see the process from several drafts to several submitted designs to final design, you can check them at NSLog(); (For those who don’t know, NSLog is a weblog by Erik at Freshly Squeezed Software):

• NSLog: PulpFiction Icons
• NSLog: PulpFiction Icon, Take 2
• NSLog: PulpFiction Icons: Comparison
• NSLog: Another PulpFiction Icon
• NSLog: PulpFiction – Final Icon?
• NSLog: PF Icon: Final

Took the picture during my brother’s filming on a school project titled SPLIT.

You can view his final film here. It will be worth your time and bandwidth. There won’t be any sound/music in the film but if you think you have the talent and can contribute, you can contact him at wbjr@mac.com

Have enough of that outdated and inconsistent mickey mouse white glove cursor you see when hovering over a link in Safari?

Link Cursor

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Application Icon for Freshly Squeezed Software

This design was done in both Cinema 4D and Photoshop. I didn’t like the way glass shininess looked in 3D so I redid them in Photoshop.

The project was done in a very short time. Designed the graphic in a few hours and with a few adjustments, the client approved the design.

“Everybody feels refreshed following a good night’s sleep. But can you wake up smarter? More artistic perhaps?

German scientists say they have demonstrated for the first time that our sleeping brains continue working on problems that baffle us during the day, and the right answer may come more easily after eight hours of rest…”

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Very interesting although I don’t think that is the case for me.

They’re just several experimental high-shutter photos that I took. During the experiments, I learned that high-shutter require lot of lights if you want the result to look clear and sharp.