New OS X Help icons
Written by: hexley on Wednesday March 26th 2008, 7:00 pm
Filed under: Misc
If you have not noticed yet, we have some very nice new icons to lead into each tutorial we post. At first, we were going to create single icons, for each category.
In talking this over with a friend, he suggested the “cube” idea that we are now using. Currently, we have most of the icons we need for future tutorials. We lack a few for broad topics like “hardware” and are in brainstorming mode to figure out how to fill those holes.
If you are interested in icons, or have a need to hire out an excellent icon designer, look no further than md3d.com. Mark Dhand has been at this for a long time, and really came through for us.
One of the more interesting parts of the procedure is how much iteration we had to go through to get where we are now. If you would like to check out the process, head over to Mark’s development area, and take a look at where we started, and where we ended up.
Again, a huge thanks to Mark for helping the site out with these icons. I think they look great.
The icons are so damned nice, we might forget to read your tutorials 
On second thought that would be better as “Tools”. Maybe a characature of an iMac would work for “Hardware”.
Comment by WetcoastBob 03.28.08 @ 8:16 pm@WetcoastBob, yeah, it is a hard set of icons to come up with. Eventually, we will get to system prefs, and that very well may be nice for some of those. We are going to need a bunch, but we will do our best to make them easily identifiable.
Comment by Scott Haneda 03.30.08 @ 12:59 am
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