Skala Preview

A revised version of Bjango's icon for Skala. I had a lot of fun learning the materials and getting the shading right.

X11

A quick brushed-metal replacement for the venerable X11.app [or any other utility of your choice].

Chess

A shiny, retina-ready replacement icon for Apple's enduring Chess.app.

Garageband

A practice with high-detail and realism; a replacement for Apple's free music creation software, and a tribute to George Harrison's famous guitar Lucy.

Quicktime Player

Replacement icons for Apple's Quicktime Player, another quick experiment in simplicity and realism.

Jiji

Made for David Lanham's Ghibli Week on dribbble, a tribute to the adorable cat from Kiki's Delivery Service.

MyPaint

A replacement icon for MyPaint, a free and beautiful app for drawing and painting. Inspired by Benjamin's WIP Photoshop replacement.

Little Snitch

I loved the new concept for Little Snitch's icon and wanted to try my hand at making a more refined, realistic replacement using my style.

System Preferences

I've been meaning to make a System Preferences replacement for quite a while. I was inspired by the awesome new iOS6 preferences icon to create something without the strange gloss or plasticity, with gears that felt heavy and realistic.

Chrome Cookie

A strange idea I had late one night. It was a real challenge to get this one looking tasty enough to eat.

Cassette

A daily practice made for dribbble. I remember watching movies on this as a kid, and actually dug one out for the making of this icon.

Minimal Safari

A replacement icon for Apple's Safari. I disliked the gratuitous gloss, nonsensical reflections, and general datedness of the default icon, and set out to make something minimal and elegant using their great concept.

Strawberry

A practice of realistic lighting and texturing. Based off of an ugly old icon I made when I first started designing.

Iron Giant

A tribute to one of my favorite movies. Comes in two variants, making it a perfect Trash replacement.

Preview

A replacement icon for Apple's Preview. I tried to make something clean and light, like the program, but with some beautiful photorealistic details like the reflection and distortion of the glass.

Etch-A-Sketch

A realism practice based off of a key-chain Etch-A-Sketch I found among some old toys.

TimeCop

A replacement icon for the time-tracking app TimeCop. Practice in gloss and glow.

Warrior

A replacement icon for the fantasy combat game of your choice, made to practice texture integration.

Twitter Birdhouse

A quick practice I did on integrating painting & textures into my workflow to make fine detailing easier.

TextEdit

I've wanted to replace Apple's Textedit icon for a while, and I used it as a chance to try some new techniques for making metal.

Steam

A refreshed icon for the Steam game service, with my usual emphasis on realistic materials and elegant simplicity. Also includes the extra .tga states.

Icon Designer

Photoshop, Sketch, GIMP, whatever you use, this icon represents one half of the iconist's toolkit.

Icon Composer

Part of the iconist's toolkit, a program to compile the sized icons into a single bundle, is represented by this vibrant icon.

Software Update

A replacement icon for the Software Update in Mac OS X. Inspired by the work of renowned icon firm Sofa.

Utilities

A companion for my Applications icon; a realistic and detailed replacement for the Utilities folder.

Applications

Apple's aging icon redone for the age of bright, hi-res displays and smooth graphics.

Color Picker

Looking around the App Store, I found a lot of competing stand-alone color picking apps. I decided to make a single, shiny icon that could be used for any of them.

Star

A companion icon, for my GC emulator.

Mushroom

A quick icon I made for my N64 emulator.

Automator

I felt the Automator app was in desperate need of a simpler, cleaner, softer icon. I love the egg shape and bright display.

Alchemy

An OS X style replacement icon for a cool free concept sketching app.

Angry Birds

A new icon for the mac version of angry birds. I didn't want angry eyes staring out of my Dock all the time so he is happy instead.

Blender

A simple replacement icon for an amazing FOSS 3D program, intended to make it fit in with the default Mac Dock.

Wesnoth

A replacement icon for a really cool turn-based strategy game by the same name, making heavy use of textures and detailing to show the fantasy style.

Frogatto

A replacement icon for a free, beautiful, pixel-art game about a brave green frog.