I forgot to mention it earlier, or link to it, but I also created a handsome desktop wallpaper for Kiwi. Feel free to give it a download and dress up your desktop with our favorite flightless bird. He’s a great companion while you sit and enjoy yourself Tweeting with Kiwi!

Download it here

YourHead Software today is proud to announce the release of Kiwi 1.0, a themeable Twitter client for Mac OS X. Kiwi is a full-featured Twitter client that supports multiple accounts, groups, searches and rules/filters. Kiwi also gives users the power to change the look, or theme, to match their desktop.

I am proud to announce our latest stock set of icons. Unity is a huge collection of images. 225 in total!

The package includes a variety of file formats including: PNG, ICNS and ICO. Something for all platforms including web design, iPhone App development as well as Macintosh and Windows application development. And frankly whatever else you can think of.

Each of the 225 icons comes in 3 different sizes:
• 48 x 48 px
• 32 x 32 px
• 16 x 16 px

We’ve priced this new set of icons at only $24.95 in an effort to make classy, stylish imagery available to all developers. In this same vein I’ve also re-priced our Ideal Icon set.

Check out the Unity set.

We recently finished a project for Bitolithic’s latest iPhone app — Comic Zeal.

Comic Zeal is an app that allows you to download and read comic books on your iPhone. It also lets publishers and independent writers and artists the ability to publish their comics through ComicZeal.

We designed and created the app’s icon, splash screen and many of the interface elements.

Be sure to check it out on the iTunes App Store (App Store link).

Also
We’ve updated our portfolio section. Have a look when you get a chance.

Gary was happy with this direction and we decided to step it up a bit. He requested we add a divider horizontally. In doing so I decided to take a chance and develop the colored blocks into actual objects. The next iteration was a big leap forward:

I wanted to convey to the user the sort of items that could be placed onto the page inside of Partitions. We discussed other items to add to the empty bays and to leave one empty, inviting the user to place their on content. This is the final version of the icon:

Since finishing the icon we’ve also created an alternate version of the icon for Gary:

Included in the project were a few internal icons for navigating the plug-in, representing the body of the content, the header and footer, and the settings:

Another of our icons for Gary recently was for his back-to-basics plug-in, Styled Text Plus:

Slices
Each Stacks page in RapidWeaver is built from slices that are defined by you, the user. Anything from a Styled Text slice to an Image or Columns slice. You can create a complex layout quickly and with ease. Each slice needed a simple, clear icon to represent it to make it easy for users to discern what they were at a glance. Isaiah had a general idea of the sort of icons he was looking for to represent most of these slices. So I took his sketches and turned them into finished icons. Working with Isaiah was a dream as he not only had an idea of what he wanted, but he was also very receptive to my ideas on both the icon and interface design. Here’s a look at his initial sketches and the finished icons for the slices.

Interface
I also worked with Isaiah on developing the user interface for Stacks. Below are a few of the initial ideas I came up with for the Library design and main content interface. Some were more ‘out there’ than others, but I wanted to try some very different approaches as this was not to be your ordinary plug-in. The ideas were roughed out and we finally chose a more traditional, yet standout setup and look.

In the end we settled on the matte black library. We added a non-standard, classy library trigger in the lower right corner of the interface. The final UI design came out rather well, I think, and is easy to use and navigate.

Iconic
We were quite lucky in developing the main Stacks icon. After sketching some ideas out for myself to start from I jumped right into Cinema 4D to mockup some icon ideas. Luckily these early renders were what Isaiah was looking for and the metaphor fit well with the title and functionality of the plug-in. Some of the early ideas can be seen below. We actually never varied too far from these early ideas, for the most part. Seems we hit it on the head from the get go.

Here is the final icon we settled upon to represent Isaiah’s wonderful new plug-in. I just love the bright, contrasting colors!

I am happy to present our latest set of free icons. Our Shutter Bug set was originally designed for our sister site, elixir graphics.

In the development of elixir’s latest RapidWeaver theme we needed a fresh set of icons for RapidWeaver’s photo album page. These icons work great for the RapidWeaver EXIF information.

We thought that others might be able to make use of them, so we’re providing them as a free download. Use them in your web design, RapidWeaver theme, photo blog or application, or for whatever other use you can think up!

You can download them all here. Enjoy.

Be sure to also checkout elixir’s latest theme, Gallery.

We’re very happy to introduce our latest free set of icons.

The Nova family of icons is to be an ever expanding set of 3D icons. As the set grows we will keep you updated on the blog.

Currently the set includes a metal trash can, pencil, top hat and magic top hat, column, beaker and bomb (slightly different from our previous free bomb icon).

Check them out and be sure to let us know what you think.

We've just added a new set of stock icons. Our latest package, titled Petite, consists os 135 miniature icons.

Even though they’re small they pack a lot of punch. The three colored sets (45 icons each) measure 16 x 16 px. They come in PNG (with transparent backgrounds), ICNS, ICO and Macintosh Folder formats.

These small wonders are great for web design, RapidWeaver themes, applications and more

This set of icons come at a small price: $5.95.

Dare to be Creative, the makers of iArchiver and Renamer 4 Mac, released their latest application, Dragoman.

Since we worked with them previously on their iArchiver and Renamer 4 Mac app icons they approached us to make an icon for Dragoman. Their idea of a camel as the icon was based upon the name of the application...

You should definitely drop by their site and grab your trial version. It truly is quite simple to use. And the interface couldn’t be more simple.

*Note: This icon is the property of Dare to be be Creative and cannot be used or duplicated without their permission.

The new plug-in went into public beta testing today. Be sure to go check it out. We also created some of the built-in Collage Styles through our sister site, elixir graphics.

*Note: This icon is the property of YourHead Software and cannot be used or duplicated without their permission.

Up until now I have used PhotoShop and Illustrator in designing all of my graphics for the web and print. Whether the projects be icons or websites or ads I've toiled away in these two apps for over 10 years.

Recently I took an interest in learning and using Cinema 4D to model icons in 3D.

I've already begun to dive into the application and so far I am enjoying it a lot. I find it pretty intuitive so far and see a wealth of potential.

As I learn Cinema 4D I will have some freebies to post — starting today.

Here's my first Cinema 4D designed freebie.

I've included sizes 512 x 512 down through 16 x 16 in PNG, TIFF, ICNS, ICO and Mac Folder.

Click download above and enjoy!

Mudbug Software came to us when they were looking for an icon for their first application — Webify. Their image editing app allows you to prepare your images for the web including the ability to make some minor adjustments and add image effects.

Webify allows you to:
• Increase/decrease Exposure
• Increase/decrease Saturation
• Add contrast
• Increase/decrease Brightness
• Convert to sepia tone or black and white
• Blur images and more.

*Note: This icon is the property of Mudbug Software and cannot be used or duplicated without their permission.

We recently finished up a custom app. icon for the fine folks at Dare to be Creative. The icon is for their application titled Renamer 4 Mac.

Renamer 4 Mac is a great little utility for batch renaming, and more. Here's a quick snippet from their site:

We recently completed an application icon for the folks over at iArchiver. The application handles archived files; both creating and extracting.

iArchiver allows you to pack, extract, and convert archives. They approached us with the idea of a rucksack as a metaphor for archive compression and decompression, or packing and unpacking, and we loved it.

Here's a snippet from their site to give you a little more information about the app: