I was reading over a list from UK tech site Electricpig of their favorite 100 Windows Phone apps (now that there’s a market big enough to have favorites), and lo and behold, I see a familiar icon floating around in the list. Congratulations to FourSpotProject for this, and stay tuned for what I’m hearing will be a nice update to the app soon.
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Feb 26
12:03
M
Feb 06
16:10
Hey, look, it’s Mr. Bernhard Thielen’s excellent NewsSpot app for Google Reader featured there, with my icon work. Mmm. Feels good. Also, still an excellent app. If you’ve made the jump to what I’m convinced is the only mobile platform actually built on solid design theory, why not pick up a copy? It’s worth the coin (and, I don’t get a cut, so, this isn’t some shameless shill just to line my own pockets here, I designed the icon for Bernhard because I think his company was doing good work and wanted to support that.).
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Nov 17
21:15
I don’t often talk about design on here, despite it actually being my primary source of income and the art that I do the most. And this seems like an oversight. So today I have a special post talking about the making of a little design work I had some fun with recently. And, it’s icon design, which is something I don’t think people actually have cause to stop and think about enough, despite it being such a huge part of the modern technological world.
So, I have recently spent some time helping a studio called FourSpotProject with an icon design for their Windows Phone app, NewsSpot. I’ve done this for a lot of reasons. One is, I have been and remain a big proponent of Microsoft’s very slick, very elegant Metro interface, and the platforms that use it. I’m also more than a little bit of a Google Reader junkie, if Google’s stats are to be believed:
That’s a lot of feeds, I think. And, as such, a good, solid Google Reader app is something I put a lot of faith in on a phone. Problem is, with Windows Phone being as young as it is, not a lot of really good Google Reader apps have come out yet. So, when a new one showed up on XDA Developers, I was more than happy to try it out. And, it was really pleasantly speedy, and elegant.
So, one thing lead to another, and ended with me helping out with a new icon design to help reflect the elegance and class of the app itself. Which lead to a rather fun bit of design.