The Evolution Of Icon Design From 1981-2013 December 4, 2013 • By Joe Howard • In Design With the GUI having now been around for over 40 years, today we are taking a look back in time at the evolution of an integral feature – the icon. Since the early 70’s, when bitmapped screens were first developed with GUI’s, the humble icon has come a long way. The following is a collection of icon design in OS’s through history. This is by no means, a complete list of all the icons in every OS between 1983-2013, however I have hand-picked designs that have the most significance and popularity in icon design. 1981 – Xerox Star Surprisingly, the icons are actually pretty good. 1983 – Apple Lisa Once Apple had seen the Xerox Star, they decided to build their own GUI based system – The Lisa. 1984 Apple Macintosh 1.0 1985 Atari TOS Although mainly considered to be a gaming system, the Atari ST did still have a GUI which shared the desktop metaphor. 1985 Amiga Workbench 1.0 1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0x 1986 GEOS for Commodore 64 and Apple II 19989 Amiga OS
Artist Turns Historic B&W Photos Into Haunting GIFs NYC-based art director, designer and GIF master Kevin Weir takes historic black and white photographs and turns them into dark, scary, but ultimately amusing GIF animations. He took historic portraits and war scene shots from Library of Congress online archive and gave them fantastic behind-the-scenes stories, hidden from us for so many years. If you’re interested in seeing more of Weir’s creations, ranging from the creepy to the delightfully absurd, be sure visit his website. More info: kevinjweir.com | Tumblr (h/t: colossal, demilked) “I grew up reading a lot of fantasy and science fiction and have always been into dark humor and surrealism, so you probably see a lot of that in the GIFs,” Weir told Bored Panda. “I started out making GIFs about three years ago during the downtime of a summer internship, and as a way to sharpen up on Photoshop.” “It’s an awesome collection filled with incredible snapshots of an era that no living human has firsthand knowledge of.”
Fubiz Fan Art: The GTAV Animated GIF Artwork of Julia Scott, Trevor Gets Patriotic & More In this week's roundup of awesome Rockstar Games-inspired fan artwork, we’ve stumbled across a very talented illustrator and colorist turning her vivid GTAV character art into striking and super fun animated GIFs, plus some patriotic and timely summer holiday Trevor art, a few impressive Red Dead homages including a minifigs rendition of Undead Nightmare, and much more.. Seen (or created) any amazing GTA or other Rockstar-related art or photos on the interwebs that you think the community needs to see? You can send them our way to check out via Mouthoff and follow us at instagram.com/rockstargames to catch all our latest official pics and shares. The original animated GIF artwork of illustrator and colorist Julia Scott. Trevor Philips does the Statue of Happiness for Independence Day. Meanwhile, in this piece from skoptsky that we found on digimomz's tumblr, Trevor's Canadian heritage is recognized in tribute to July 1st.
-::[robot:mafia]::- .ılılı. electronic beats ★ visual art .ılılı. A Brief History of Animated GIF Art, Part Three Welcome to part three of this brief journey through the rich history of one of the newest and most popular art forms, the animated GIF. The previous installments are “The Early Years: 1997–2008" and "Group Blogs, Surf Clubs, and the Beginning of Social Networking." Let's face it, after about 2009 GIF production accelerated at such a rate that any attempt to identify key artists would not only be futile, but create a post so long no one would read it. As such, for this section I've decided to focus solely on Tumblr, whose role is significant enough in the development and dissemination of GIF art to earn a post of its own. David Szakaly.Courtesy the artist, via Tumblr. THE RISE OF TUMBLRTumblr's rise has been remarkable from the get-go. So why is the platform so GIF-friendly? The rise of GIFs on Tumblr may simply be attributed to the social networking built into the site. A Tumblr-based art world, generally speaking, is defined a little more broadly than the art world defines itself.
Thaeger The Men's Way of Fashion - Fashion, Menswear, Lifestyle, More Pixelomics - A gif-animated series of pixel art superheroes Late last year, Dusan Cezek created an amazing and hugely popular gif-animated series of pixel art movie moments called Pixelwood. You probably seen them. A few months on, perhaps inspired by the popularity of Pixelwood, he has created a new series of 8-bit characters, but this time he has focused on superheros. The new collection is called Pixelomics, and features popular heroes such as Wolverine, Iron Man, Hellboy, Superman, Wonder Woman, and many more… Strangely, there is no Batman! Pixelomics – Pixel Art Superheroes Wolverine Wonder Woman & Superman Iron Man, Captain America & The Hulk Judge Dredd Abe Sapien & Hellboy View the entire Pixelomics project on Behance →