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Orion Racer has finally been released! Created by Techlogica, this is a futuristic 3D racing game which is available on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

The game features 10 unique tracks and 4 drivable vehicles. Four different modes of play are available: Tournament, Single Race, Time Trial and Bluetooth Multiplayer!

The vehicles and most of the other graphics were created by me, while Kyle White was in charge of the programming. This is the fastest racing game on the iPhone, so check it out!

Orion Racer on iTunes

Orion Racer Official Site

This is the first of several previews which I will be posting on my blog regarding Techlogica's futuristic 3D racing game for the iPhone. The image to the left shows two of the vehicles I have designed for the game.

As of today, I have completed the design of several vehicles and racetracks, while Kyle White has implemented a fully-functional 3D game engine which runs smooth as silk on the iPhone!

Top lap times will be saved online, so you will be able to compete against others for the best time. The game also has unlockable tracks and cars, so it should keep you busy for a while :)

I recently came across the TwitVid site, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that they were using my free 48x48 iPhone icon on their homepage. It's quite an old icon, but I do still like it. And heck, it's always cool to see something you made being used on someone's site :)

If you would like to download the free icon set that this icon is from, you can find it on the Techlogica site here: Free Icon collection.

My free iPhone icon.

Here are a few of my favorite icons from this update. I created the Chess pieces (for Chess.com), while Kyle White created the Rx bottle and Wrench icon. Both of us worked on the smaller 16x16 icons. I've made thousands of these little things, and somehow I never get tired of it!

If you'd like to see more please visit our Icon Design Portfolio.

I think it came out very well, especially since I didn't use any kind of neat things like blurs or meshes.

One of the first vector images I ever created was a speaker, and since I was taking a look at some of my older work I felt like making a better one.

This image is now available on iStockPhoto, so if you like it you can get it here:

Download Speaker (.EPS, .PNG, .SVG)

One last note: In the near future I will be releasing a small set of free icons here. They will be targetted at people who are in need of some free and attractive little icons to spice up their websites.

So please stay tuned if you want some free icons!

This icon has been taking flak ever since it appeared, and it has deserved every bit of it. How could a busy little mess like this wind up on the homepage of Google? As an icon designer, the last thing you want to do is make an icon that is hard to recognize, or one that is too busy. Not surprisingly, the reaction most people had when they saw it for the first time was "What the hell is that?". Let's hope Google gets their act together and makes a new, clean version of the capital "G" icon.

This is the sort of thing that you just can't believe unless you see it with your own eyes. Is it really true, is this really live on a popular website? How can you look at that and not see that something is seriously wrong?

Right off the bat you can see that it has been resized quite terribly, and several of the pixels around the edges have been erased, leaving it looking deformed. I do think I can see what they had in mind, though; they wanted to create a round icon with a transparent background. Unfortunately, they didn't realize that alpha-transparency can be used in a favicon, and this undoubtedly resulted in many light-colored opaque pixels around the edges. In an effort to clean it up, they erased too much of the edge, leaving the mess you see here.

This is a perfect example of what not to do. If you want a round icon with a transparent background, your only option is to make a 32bit icon that makes use of alpha-transparency. If they (stupidly) felt this wasn't an option, they should have just left the edges alone and placed the icon on a plain white background. This isn't very good choice, but the end result will be much better than what you see here. I don't know, maybe I can forgive them, because it's obvious they really aren't concerned with how their website looks at all.

Here is just one of the many examples that show how Yahoo is still in the dark ages. What's sad is that they apparently created this ugly little thing intentionally. All you have to do is look at the other icons on their homepage, and you'll see that most of them are just as jagged as this one. The only reason why it has rated higher than the Freshmeat icon is because it seems that Yahoo really does think this is an attractive style. They really just don't know what they're doing.

This one very nearly took the #1 spot on my list. I really do cringe when I see something like this. Now, maybe this icon would have been acceptable in 1994, but times have changed. It's ok to use anti-aliased lines now, Slashdot, I don't think there are too many people around still running Windows 3.1 in 16 color mode. I think the term I'm looking for here is "fail".

Well, it should be no surprise who tops the list: Digg. Not only does their site have the worst favicon ever, it is probably one of the worst icons ever created. This is truly one of the ugliest icons of all time. Why do I hate it so much? The jagged edges, the awful attempt at creating a drop shadow (which doesn't use alpha-transparency), the right leg being bigger than the other. Do I have to go on? All I can say is that I hope this icon was originally created as a joke. This boxy little guy makes me want to cry.

My solution was simple; I combined the two letters together, and I think it worked great. The first version I made used lowercase letters, but it didn't look quite as clean, so I went with uppercase letters instead. As far as color goes, my site uses quite a bit of orange so I thought that would work best in this favicon.