Apple Park Logo On seeing the Apple Park Logo and it’s arrangement of concentric rings, I figured it would be based on Apple’s grid system. Jony Ives mentioned the grid system when unveiling iOS 7 and the iOS icon grid.…
I thought I’d share how to build the iOS Icon Grid by way of a simple animation. This is the same method that is described step-by-step in the book ‘Icon Design‘. Phi – Golden Ratio Phi (golden ratio) plays an important…
Icon Grids for iOS, OS X, tvOS and Apple Watch I’m really excited to announce the long-awaited update to Icon Design. With two new geometrically derived icon grids for OSX, a tvOS icon grid and two Apple Watch grids, you…
When it came to writing the book ‘Icon Design – Designing Elegant Icons’, I needed to create an icon mask for presenting my icon designs. The only way I could think of doing this at the time was to take…
The Golden Section and the Square Root of Two The iOS icon grid beautifully expresses two ratios. These ratios are the golden section (1:1.618…) and the square root of two (1:1.4142…). Any grid that expresses the golden section and its…
Unity & Harmony? For many designers, it’s not clear how Apple’s icons are unified. Yes, there is the limited family of bright colours, and there is the icon grid. On trawling the internet for comments about the grid, I have seen…