It has been about a year since I read Chris Noessel's article on one free interaction and was immediately filled with an excited tingle-y feeling. You know the one ... it's usually reserved for when you find an extra $10 bucks or when you're the guy to remember a song title that's eluding everyone else. It's actually the same feeling I got my first time reading William Lidwell's amazing Universal Principles of Design. He was ...

A new icon, just finished today after the DFP lecture. It should be available for purchase from GraphicRiver in a few days. The idea for it was to create something simple and bright, that could be used generally for an application ... from an app launcher to a Biology desk reference or anything in between.

It does feel like there is some sci-fi connection to it ... but that might just be me, considering I just ...

One only has to sit in on my DFP Icon lecture, perused my Flickr uploads tagged osx, or (for you privileged few) use my Mac for a few minutes to realize that I am very particular AND very protective of the way my Finder windows look. I have nice sidebar separators, several essential tool bar application launchers, Windows 7-like window snapping, and a fairly even background image to grid layout ratio ... and that's ...

The lovely geometric type icon I made during the DFP Lecture today. Simple and customizable, but after continually seeing all of the pretty things that James White keeps putting out, I really just wanted to make something colorful. The icon is entirely vector, which was really difficult to achieve with the color blending of the radial shape and the necessary drop shadow ... had to delve into that cumbersome Illustrator Transparency panel masking interface, which ...

Tonight's DFP icon experiment resulted in a pretty 2 for 1 tag special. It is not much of an easter egg, but I thought my name choice on the Christmas tag was a fun one. :) As always, these should be available for purchase soon on GraphicRiver and as always, I'll update this with the link when they are.

Thanks to the built-in screen capturing feature of Snow Leopard's new Quicktime X, I actually managed to ...

It is time again for the monthly DFP discussion on icons. My über example today ended up being this lovely tribute to Kodak's belated Kodachrome plastic slide mounts. It's kinda crazy that these were still being widely used just back in the 1990s.

The icon should be available soon from the nice GraphicRiver folks, in both the hinged and notch variety.

**Update: It is! Buy it here, kiddies.

Another icon I worked up as an advanced example for my DFP students. Like the others, this one should be available from GraphicRiver within a few days.** Update: The icon has been approved and is now available for purchase

It only took like four days for them to approve it ( </sarcasm> ), but the pretty swirly whirly icon I made in class the other night is finally available for purchase. Totally color-customizable, it should be perfect for your next acid-trip enabled application. ;)You can purchase it here.

I was working on an example of something for a student and decided to offer this simple, yet textured Polaroid-ish photo frame icon (512 by 512 pixels) for anyone that might need it.You should be able to pick it up on GraphicRiver really soon:graphicriver.net/user/DraStudioAs a bonus, it includes a font I made of my quick-fast handwriting style … called "Thin Oscar".If for some reason, they don’t like it, I’ll just offer it for free from ...

The BackgroundDuring a recent lecture in my Deployment of Flash Projects class, while discussing Adobe AIR and trying to summarize the essential parts of desktop User Interface design, I found myself lacking in a over-arching term and general category to which I could attach many of the nit-picky and minute ideas that collectively make for superb deployments (or at the very least, improve poor deployments to acceptable).I mean, there was definitely plenty of discussion about ...

Sticker System (uploaded by DRA Studio)If you have been as depressed as I have by the lack of quality themes to make good use of your ShapeShifter license, the wait is over. I just heard about the canum theme over at MacThemes and it is one heck of a solid download! And if you are looking for a great complimentary icon set (besides the excellent one done by Jonas Rask), I would recommend David ...