A hacker has deleted the database with all the icons. I’m working on restoring a backup. Some of you might have already noticed or seen it on my Twitter, but on the morning of 2nd April 2021, the database where all the icons are stored had been ransomed (when a…

$9.99 for access to over 6000+ icons! —

A year ago, I never thought I would see a website I built have and as niche as macOSicons.com getting over 55k monthly visits, and as a designer, app icons had never been something I spent much time working on, probably because I had never launched anything that required one…

And marketing B.S. — To predict the future we must look at the past, so why not do the same with AI? “Because it’s like something never seen before, too revolutionary to anticipate” they might say. It’s true, we can’t imagine the impact that AI could have, but truth be told, it is being…

Taming complexity in technology through design — Take a good look at your phone, it’s an incredibly complex system so advanced that only a few humans know how it actually works. …

Understanding the beauty behind the chaos that Chinese design is — Last July I took my first flight outside of Europe to go to Shenzhen, China, the city where your iPhone and most consumer electronics are manufactured, to attend a three-week entrepreneurship program organised by the Asia Pacific Innovation Academy(APIA) after being awarded a grant from Loughborough University in the UK. …

A comprehensive guide to never-ending typography terminology — The Dunning–Kruger effect applies almost perfectly to anyone learning about typography, at first you feel like you know everything and you think you so why bother learning more, but as your knowledge increase, your confidence level goes down until you finally realise how little you really know. Typography uses a…

Fonts VS Typefaces — It is well known that when Steve Jobs left university to found Apple, the one course he kept going back to was calligraphy, taught by calligraphist, and former monk, Robert Palladino. As Steve once said, it was there that he learned “what makes great typography great”, but, what makes great…

AI’s secret weapon: designers. — This is the first of a short series on AI is going to change the world of design and what role designers play in the “AI Revolution”. We will start by taking a brief look at the history of AI and the importance of deign in budding successful products. The…