These are the first icons I’ve developed specifically for iPhone developers, and I’m giving them away for free for anyone to use commercially under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada license. You may use or modify these icons in any way as long as you credit www.pixelpressicons.com.

If you have any suggestions for how I can make them better, please comment or send me an email — I’m very interested to hear how they work out. Check back here for more free iPhone toolbar icons soon!

For the last year or so my mantra has been “maximum invention, minimum repetition”. I don’t always live up to it, but it’s something to strive for. I’ve been thinking about how I might express this as a wallpaper and came up with the above as my first design. The nixie tube is a 3D render I made, the lettering was added in Photoshop. I can’t take all the credit for this phrase - the person who inspired this mantra lived over 300 years ago.

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There’s lots of archive managers for Mac OS X but there are times where the only one that will do the job I need is UnRarX. I love the app but think the icons needed a little updating. Here’s my shot-from-the-hip make over - color versions of the toolbar icons are in the works.

Everybody’s got some music in their collection that for whatever reason has no artwork. Maybe it’s something you recorded yourself, ripped off an old cassette or (*gasp*) bootlegged. Missing artwork was never a big deal before coverflow appeared in iTunes and apps like CoverSutra put album artwork right on your desktop.

This is a collection of artwork I made to adorn those blank albums in your collection. Even though these are definitely pixel works in appearance I think you’ll find they look good next to the rest of the albums in your library.

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I’m working on something new so please remember to come back in the next 7-10 days to see what I’m up to.

One of my Macs is reserved for technical duties so the dock is full of utilities. Once I got the Terminal, Activity Monitor, ARD Administrator and CoRD side by side the differences in these icons began to really nag at me.

So I made some icons for ARD and CoRD that will look like they belong with the Terminal and Activity Monitor, and thought I’d share them. Nothing special, obvious design. Click the above image to download the icons in ICNS, PNG and folder format, view full size previews after the jump.

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One of my most popular icon sets of all time. Please remember: these icons are for personal desktop use only and cannot be used on a website or in a software program. Don’t even bother asking.

This icon set was my entrance into the Iconfactory’s Pixelpalooza Contest 2002. I won the “People’s Choice Award” for this entry. Also, users of Apple’s iChat may be familiar with these icons because Apple has used some of them for iChat’s built-in buddy pictures.

This is a joke. I set up a lot of Macs and assigning that grumpy bulldog or the soccer ball to user accounts gets a little saccharin after a while. What if the user icons let us express our inner pirate or Sherlock Holmes?