{"id":146,"date":"2010-10-27T08:52:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T15:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2010-10-26T21:01:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T04:01:58","slug":"the-design-of-the-new-officemac-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/27\/the-design-of-the-new-officemac-icons\/","title":{"rendered":"the design of the new Office:Mac icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with all of the other changes, Office:Mac is sporting new icons for all of the applications. \u00a0We worked with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frogdesign.com\/\">Frog Design<\/a> to create these visual elements. \u00a0Frog posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/designmind.frogdesign.com\/blog\/microsoft-office-redesigning-an-icon.html\">redesigning an icon<\/a> to talk about what went into creating the new app icons, and Fast Company Design has a discussion of it too: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1662560\/how-frog-created-the-mac-icons-for-microsoft-office-2011\">How Frog created the Mac icons for Microsoft Office 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>App icons are important. \u00a0They&#8217;re one of the first things that you see when you install an application. \u00a0They live in your Dock, and you see them every day. \u00a0It&#8217;s important to get &#8217;em right, and I think that Frog did an awesome job. \u00a0I&#8217;m terribly biased, but I especially like that lovely goldenrod O that has been a constant companion in my Dock for months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with all of the other changes, Office:Mac is sporting new icons for all of the applications. \u00a0We worked with Frog Design to create these visual elements. \u00a0Frog 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/27\/the-design-of-the-new-officemac-icons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the design of the new Office:Mac icons<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office2011","category-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}