My First WWDC

Posted June 16th, 2009 by Mike Piontek. Design, Code, Mac OS X, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

Above: Apple’s live App Store wall at WWDC. It showed icons of 20,000 iPhone apps, organized by color. When an app was purchased, its icon rippled. It was also a great illustration of what WWDC is like: it’s a huge… Read more »

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Getting creative with transparent PNGs for Delivery Status

Posted January 19th, 2009 by Mike Piontek. Design, Mac OS X

The old Delivery Status graphics system When I started the Delivery Status widget it didn’t support many services. I wanted each service to be visually distinct, so I created entirely separate graphics for each one. It… Read more »

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Business Cards

Posted October 31st, 2008 by Mike Piontek. Design

My new business cards finally showed up today, and they look awesome. Same as with the site, Holly Tickner drew the illustrations, and I designed the rest. I wanted to use the robot illustration on the front of the… Read more »

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Welcome to Junecloud!

Posted September 12th, 2008 by Mike Piontek. Design

When I first started running my own business full time a few years back, I really wasn’t sure how long it would last. It’s been stressful, it’s been hard work, but it’s also been fun and rewarding. I’ve had the… Read more »

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Delivery Status touch icon

Posted August 14th, 2008 by Mike Piontek. Design, Mac OS X

Above you can see how the Delivery Status icon progressed from sketch to finished design. While working on Delivery Status touch (for iPhone and iPod touch) it was clear I needed a new icon. The old “18 days” icon… Read more »

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