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Mike's iPod minis

I created these iPod minis just for fun. Feel free to download them and use them with your new iPod.

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Mike's 12" PowerBooks

I created these just for fun as a hard drive replacement for 12" PowerBook users. Feel free to download them and use them on your 12" PowerBook!

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What I did: Created an application icon.

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What I did: Created an application icon and several interface icons as well as designing some of the user interface.

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Icons for an upcoming version of an Omni Group product. More information coming soon...

What I did: Created several toolbar and interface icons as well as designing much of the user interface.

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Icons for an upcoming version of an Omni Group product. More information coming soon...

What I did: Created several toolbar and interface icons as well as designing much of the user interface.

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OmniGraffle 3.0 is a easy to use professional diagramming tool built for Mac OS X. It is used to create beautiful flowcharts, org charts, network diagrams, family trees, project processes, office layouts, anything your brain can see but other can not.

What I did: Created several toolbar and interface icons as well as designing much of the user interface.

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Model ChemLab is a unique product incorporating both an interactive simulation and a lab notebook workspace with separate areas for theory, procedures and student observations. Commonly used lab equipment and procedures are used to simulate the steps involved in performing an experiment. Users step-through the actual lab procedure while interacting with animated equipment in a way that is similar to the real lab experience.

What I did: Created an application icon.

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SuperDuper is the most advanced, yet easy to use disk copying program available for OS X. It can, of course, make a straight copy, or "clone" — useful when you want to move all your data from one machine to another, or do a simple backup. In moments, you can completely duplicate your boot drive to another drive, partition, or image file.

What I did: Created an application icon.

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PocketMac lets OS X users sync and interact with Windows CE devices such as PocketPCs and cellphones.

What I did: Created several application icons, two menu extra icons and four toolbar icons.

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What I did: Created an application icon and four toolbar icons.

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What I did: Created two application icons and several interface icons.

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Meridian

Meridian is an all-purpose timepiece for Mac OS X. Meridian can display several clocks at once, each in a different time zone, and each with an alarm in it's own time zone. Clocks can be digital or analog, with a choice of three beautifully drawn clock faces.

What I did: Created three application icons and several interface icons.

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EarthDesk

EarthDesk replaces your static desktop picture with ever-changing, beautiful maps of the world with correct sun and moon illumination. It gives you numerous options for configuring the map images placed on your desktop and will automatically conform these maps to the aspect ratio of your screen, for a perfect fit with adjustable zoom control.

What I did: Created the application icon.

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Polywogg

Polywogg is a simple-to-use personal journaling ("blogging") service for the Mac community. It allows users to include, movies, digital photos from your iPhoto library, audio files, PDF documents, rich text documents, HTML pages, HTML pages formatted as PDF and freeform formatted documents in their journals. It also enables users to use their iSight or other video camera to create video journal entries.Polywogg allows users to maintain multiple journals, and for multiuple users to manage individual journals.

What I did: Created two application icons and a logo.

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What I did: Created the application icon and a handful of toolbar icons.

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Ampersandbox

Imprint is a nifty new application that helps you quickly create labels for standard label sheets you can buy. It integrates with Address Book to make it really easy to print mailing labels to stick on a letter to a friend.

What I did: Created the application icon and two toolbar icons.

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Crazy Apple Rumors Site

Crazy Apple Rumors is a hilarious spoof of Apple news and rumor sites such as ThinkSecret and MacNN. This site posts a new story everyday that is sure to give any Apple Geek a good chuckle.

What I do: Create supporting graphics from time to time for various stories.

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Leoville

Leoville is the website for the host of Tech TV Leo Laporte. It features web-cams, a blog and a message board for all his fans.

What I did: Created an icon for his website that I showed off on TechTV.

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Aizai

Aizai is an innovative new application that uses the first technology to allow individuals and groups to view, create and distribute digital photos, movies, music, web pages, documents and folders via virtual television channels.

What I did: Created several application icons for Aizai, assisted in creating an animated dock icon, and put together various user interface graphics as well as the company's logo.

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Move2Mac

Move2Mac is a new application designed to assist a new Mac user's migration to Mac OS X. Just plug in the provided USB cable and quickly and easily have Move2Mac transfer your music, photos, files, folders and settings from your old PC to your new Mac for you.

What I did: Designed their application icon.

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Karelia

Watson is an award winning time-saving "Swiss Army Knife" that packs eighteen time-saving, productivity-enhancing interfaces to your most important web content and services.

What I did: Created their application icon, several toolbar icons, and the background graphic for the Watson disk image.

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MacTech

MacTech Magazine is the only monthly magazine focused on Macintosh technology and development. Programming articles, news, and how-to's are a central element in MacTech's content.

What I did: Designed an icon for an application that tested different kinds of table views, for an article in the September 2002 issue of MacTech. The icon was featured on the cover of the issue.

Brainstorm

The first thing I do when creating any icon is brainstorm on my whiteboard. I draw different concepts for metaphors that I think might work for the icon. Once I find a metaphor that will work, I start drawing out different angles and approaches that will make the icon simple and easy to read.

Mockup

Once I figure out the general idea of an icon I make a mockup. I do this in Adobe Photoshop quickly drawing a rough version of the icon. This helps me get an idea of the colors I want to use as well as the size of the different objects. A design that looks good on my white board can frequently turn out looking awkward in Photoshop, and the mockup stage helps me correct this awkwardness.

Three Dimensional Model

Next, I start the final icon. I use Cinema 4D to model objects in 3D. Using 3D lets me be more flexible when tweaking the icon's angle as well as giving me a great head start on the object's basic shapes and shading.

Render

When I am done with the 3D model I render it into a 2D image file. These renders often look very flat and dull. This is where the final stage comes in.

Touchups

The final thing I do is touch up the rendered image. Renders often look very flat and dull and require a lot of Photoshop touch ups in order to bring them to life. I end up adding lots of small highlights, shadows and small details in order to make sure that the idea behind the icon comes though clearly and with style.