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The Apple Park Logo – How to Build using the Golden Ratio
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.…
How to Build Apple’s 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…
Coming Soon – ICON DESIGN UPDATE – Sneak Peek
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…
iOS Icon Mask – Corner Curve Study
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…
iOS Icon Grid – A Simple Geometrical Analysis
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 ratio and its related proportions will harmonise with this grid. The Golden…
The iOS Weather Icon and the Golden Ratio
On trawling the internet for comments about the iOS icon grid and the golden ratio, I saw some comments about Apple not using its own grid. These comments come from overlaying the iOS icon grid on top of the icons…