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Designing iOS 18 App Icons
iOS 18 App Icons adds two new separate icon styles that has to be designed: Dark Mode and Tinted. Here's how to do that.
Michael Flarup
The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design
It’s finally here. A swing of the pendulum. A reemergence of fun in visual design.
Michael Flarup
Social Media Image Templates 2020
Free templates that help you always get the right size for covers, hero images, ads, posts and profile pictures on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Pinterest
Designing a Favicon in 2019
In this article will show you exactly how to design a favicon. We'll start with some top tips for what your favicon should look like, then move on to specific advice.
Designing for iOS 13
Unfolding the most important additions and changes to keep in mind when designing and developing apps for iOS 13.
Social Media Image Templates 2019
Free templates that help you always get the right size for covers, hero images, ads, posts and profile pictures on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Michael Flarup
Meet Apply Pixels 2.0
Today we’re excited to introduce Apply Pixels 2.0 — a new chapter in our efforts to empower creatives through resources.
Michael Flarup
Why Join Apply Pixels?
Apply Pixels is a new design resource platform made just for you! Here’s all the reasons why you should join us.
Michael Flarup
Designing iPhone Screenshots
Easy-to-follow tips on how to design great screenshots for the App Store.
Designing Splash Screens
How to design great splash screens.
Designing Logos
Creating a logo is design distilled. In this article I run through the aspects I think makes a good logo.
Michael Flarup
What Everyone Should Know About The Process of Designing Apps
How do you design apps? Here’s what everyone should know about the process.
Michael Flarup
How To Design Better App Icons
In this article and film I discuss best practises when designing app icons and how to create memorable, apt and unique icons for mobile platforms.
Michael Flarup
Creating Icons for the Apple Watch
An in-depth look at how to make Apple Watch icons and how they differ from their iOS siblings.
Michael Flarup
How do I use the Templates?
The goal of all the templates on this site is to make it easier, faster and more efficient to create icons and other assets for the screen. Here’s how.
Michael Flarup
Designing for Fun
It’s not form follows function after all, it’s form follows fun.
Michael Flarup
Designing Android Product Icons
Android iconography has changed under Google’s material guidelines. It’s a new dawn for icons on Android so obviously we need to build some tools for it!
Michael Flarup
Improving Exports with Bicubic Scaling
Learn how Bicubic scaling might help with those sharp contrast issues that happens when you scale things in Photoshop.
Michael Flarup
The Hunt for the Squircle
Arguably the largest change to the daily workings of icon designers in recent history was the icon corner radius introduced in iOS 7.
Michael Flarup
Icons and Logos are Not the Same
Icons and Logos are two completely separate design disciplines requiring different tools and different mindsets.
Michael Flarup
Let’s Talk Icons
What is an icon? Where are icons used? What makes a good app icon? All this and the secret to becoming an icon designer in this talk.
Michael Flarup
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