I have just been modifying my app icons and eventually worked out a theme which I think works well for the dock and navigating, but it highlighted a lot of confusion in the integrated Apple package - a bit of an identity crisis. Navigating through OSX you have colourful icons on a crisp display, whereas logging into iTunes, Safari, iCal and others via the Aqua icons, the livery changes. Admittedly the displays are crisp but heavy metallic doesnt seem consistent.
Dont get me wrong, in my artistic opinion the metallic look is more than acceptable but only because the layout of the toolbars is so clever and way ahead of Windoze. But the Aqua look knocks the metal into a cocked hat and I would have thought Apple with so much invested in the OSX for the next decade would be more strict with a consistent Aqua interface. Or am I missing the point somewhere?
For what its worth my corporate icon image is bright buttons collected from Glass ball, Triple x Jag apps and similar collections from Xicon.
Dont get me wrong, in my artistic opinion the metallic look is more than acceptable but only because the layout of the toolbars is so clever and way ahead of Windoze. But the Aqua look knocks the metal into a cocked hat and I would have thought Apple with so much invested in the OSX for the next decade would be more strict with a consistent Aqua interface. Or am I missing the point somewhere?
For what its worth my corporate icon image is bright buttons collected from Glass ball, Triple x Jag apps and similar collections from Xicon.
