I made this icon in the spring but just finished it off today. You may detect that this looks a little different from my usual work and the reason would be that it is based on a render of a 3D model that I made. Usually any renders that I use are only for reference and completely re-drawn in Illustrator and Photoshop but most of the pixels in this icon came directly from the render.

Click the image at the top of this post to download the icon. The download contains the icon in PNG, ICNs and Mac Folder format.

If you like this then please check out the desktop pictures I made using the same artwork. Archive contains PNG, ICNs and Mac folders.

If you’d like to see the design it came from check out the screenshot by clicking on the preview below.

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. If you want more of these icons or need vector files please visit my stock iPhone toolbar icons shop.

Update: This collection now includes 60×60 pixel versions of the icons.

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.

Tell me if you like them, maybe I’ll make some more.

I haven’t counted but there’s probably dozens of iTunes controller apps out there that put a remote control and album art right on the desktop. The most popular being Bowtie, CoverSutra, Sizzling Keys and Synergy. I’m surprised that none have a feature to display genre-specific generic album art for albums that have no cover art. I’m just throwing that idea out there for anyone to use.

Two years ago I had an idea to create a few “media” icons for songs in my iTunes library: a cassette, a record, items of that nature and all with transparent backgrounds. You might be curious about why I composed all of my icons to be squares, instead of icons with transparent backgrounds and irregular shapes? Well, when I copied and pasted my artwork into iTunes it initially appeared correctly but when I restarted the transparency was removed and the background was changed to white! I even tried manually pasting the artwork with an alpha channel into the song file but iTunes actually removed it after starting up.

I found some ways (such as locking the file) to stop iTunes from doing this but all the solutions were ugly. Maybe someday Apple will add transparency support to iTunes but for now we’ll have to accept that all album art will have to be square.

I hope you’ve found my icons useful and this post interesting.

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.

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.