the design of the new Office:Mac icons

Along with all of the other changes, Office:Mac is sporting new icons for all of the applications.  We worked with Frog Design to create these visual elements.  Frog posted about redesigning an icon to talk about what went into creating the new app icons, and Fast Company Design has a discussion of it too: How Frog created the Mac icons for Microsoft Office 2011.

App icons are important.  They’re one of the first things that you see when you install an application.  They live in your Dock, and you see them every day.  It’s important to get ’em right, and I think that Frog did an awesome job.  I’m terribly biased, but I especially like that lovely goldenrod O that has been a constant companion in my Dock for months.

2 thoughts on “the design of the new Office:Mac icons”

  1. Well this is all very nice, but how do I remove Office 2008??

    I’ve installed Office 2011, and I’ve no further use for Office 2008… but what is the easiest way to extricate this from my system?? Is it just simply running the Remove Office application that came with 2008 or is there more??

    Plz advise.

    1. You can either use the Remove Office application in the Office 2008 folder, or you can drag your Office 2008 folder to the trash.

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