phillryu.com — As an icon artist, it's always interesting hearing about how other artists work. This one is pretty interesting, about Adam Betts creating the now iconic Adium duck. Plus, he promises new icons soon! Hopefully that won't ruffle too many feathers!
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Closed AccountJul 6, 2006
I hate, HATE the Adium duck. It's an epidemic of OSS projects that they think their cheesy humor is funny or cute. Every time I install Adium on any Mac, the absolute first thing I do is replace that stupid, idiotic duck and its quacking sounds.
glennJul 6, 2006
Yes, it's a profession for some. Take Mike Matas (who is now working for Apple) <a class="user" href="http://www.mikematas.com">http://www.mikematas.com</a>
pyro116Jul 6, 2006
Or the Icon Factory (<a class="user" href="http://www.iconfactory.com/).">http://www.iconfactory.com/).</a> They did the XP icons, etc...
robertcatJul 7, 2006
I don't like that duck. Nothing against the duck personally, I'm just not fond of mascots.
Closed AccountJul 7, 2006
I like the duck, especially the Yoda version of the duck (Leia Duck), he has the ears and a green light-sabre he waves around when you get a message.
goodoldharrisJul 7, 2006
The duck sucks.
szembekJul 7, 2006
speaking of pages that don't fit on 800x600...
benliongJul 7, 2006
Perhaps as a testament for the icon, my co-worker came by to chat with me during work, and saw my icon jumping. She immediately wanted to know how she can get the application installed on her windows machine, before me telling her what the application was. ;)
cosmoviJul 7, 2006
I still think it's ugly.
rayorNov 22, 2006
It's very rare that I see a blog who's design makes me go "Damn, this guy knows what he's doing."Now if only there was some sort of test that people had to pass in order to customize the layout of their MySpace page...
rayorNov 22, 2006
Icons are important when designing any kind of software. They're supposed to be, well, iconic. They are supposed to make your product easily identifiable.
bbardlbraddJun 17, 2007
@mark1372 I couldn't agree more. The application is awesome, but the duck... just a little too childish. So it's a good thing they make it so easy to change. ;)