webmoz
06-23-2009, 10:20 PM
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen what you are seeing is correct. Talk about a hot theme! I caught up with the designer of this lovely theme and chatted it up a bit.* I got him to give me some insights on how this Real icon theme became real.* Here is what he said:
“I’ve always thought the Blackberry had been a bit neglected when it comes
to the design of its interface. The precision themes are great but I never
liked the typeface and I always thought the icons looked too similar at a
glance.
My girlfriend had an iPhone for a while, and I was always a bit jealous of
how click the interface was, with its clean Helvetica typeface and care
and attention to whitespace, layout and alignment. But I didn’t want to
do just another theme based around someone else’s operating system, like a
windows XP, or Mac OS theme, I wanted to do my own, from scratch.
What I wanted to do was to produce realistic, 3D scenes depicting exactly
what the functions of the particular icons were – so basically ‘real
icons’, with a bit of a sense of humour about them them too (Quill & Inkwell,
Gramophone, Bright red Telephone box etc)
I spent quite a long time producing the 50+ scenes, all the icons have to
be modeled, lit, textured and rendered too so it’s quite time consuming
creating the icons this way – but I think the final result is worth it.”
Yeah buddy worth it, it is. We have it for the Bold and 8900 right now but Storm is on the way.* Here is the link to choose what you want.
Click here ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) for the link.
PS I have seen a preview of his newest theme. It’s just as hot.
More... ([Only registered and activated users can see links])
Yes, ladies and gentlemen what you are seeing is correct. Talk about a hot theme! I caught up with the designer of this lovely theme and chatted it up a bit.* I got him to give me some insights on how this Real icon theme became real.* Here is what he said:
“I’ve always thought the Blackberry had been a bit neglected when it comes
to the design of its interface. The precision themes are great but I never
liked the typeface and I always thought the icons looked too similar at a
glance.
My girlfriend had an iPhone for a while, and I was always a bit jealous of
how click the interface was, with its clean Helvetica typeface and care
and attention to whitespace, layout and alignment. But I didn’t want to
do just another theme based around someone else’s operating system, like a
windows XP, or Mac OS theme, I wanted to do my own, from scratch.
What I wanted to do was to produce realistic, 3D scenes depicting exactly
what the functions of the particular icons were – so basically ‘real
icons’, with a bit of a sense of humour about them them too (Quill & Inkwell,
Gramophone, Bright red Telephone box etc)
I spent quite a long time producing the 50+ scenes, all the icons have to
be modeled, lit, textured and rendered too so it’s quite time consuming
creating the icons this way – but I think the final result is worth it.”
Yeah buddy worth it, it is. We have it for the Bold and 8900 right now but Storm is on the way.* Here is the link to choose what you want.
Click here ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) for the link.
PS I have seen a preview of his newest theme. It’s just as hot.
More... ([Only registered and activated users can see links])