And how about a cabinet resembling a Mac Pro? I did mockups of a thin-edge ‘full black’ cabinet and a pure aluminium one. ![]() I won’t bore you too much with the process of all the icons, but some of the concepts of the application icon are interesting to see. Interarchy is a powerful and feature-rich application, and making the icons beautiful, but also appealing to the target user base is a great bonus. This makes the icons appear very modern and advanced, very much in line with what we wanted to represent with the Interarchy icons. It’s also the set of colors and materials we consider typical of Apple’s latest generation of hardware. I think this could be a great theme: not too outspoken like icons that are bright blue and black, but a subtle kind of consistency that gives the icons an extra quality when used together. While I am not a huge fan of outspoken themes in icons for an application, the stylistic direction Matthew envisioned of aluminium / silver, black, and perhaps subtle desaturated colors summoned beautiful visions of icons in my head. ![]() Changing the icon now would mean neglecting its long history and evolution. Matthew also expressed his desire to maintain the filing cabinet metaphor in the application icon, and I agreed. ![]() Like several other FTP clients, Interarchy has always been known and discerned by its icon. This was no small release, so it had to be worth it. Matthew contacted me with a request for new icons for the big upcoming version 10. Interarchy is a Mac app that’s almost as old as I am: it was first created in 1993 as one of the first FTP clients for the Mac, and in 2007 it was sold to its current owner and long-time developer of Interarchy, Matthew Drayton of Nolobe.
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