Desktop Pimping

Quick update on the most serious design work I’ve done since summer:

My friend Henry inspired me to pimp my desktop recently. Basically, desktop pimping is as Xzibit describes in, To Pimp Anything: Anytime, Anywhere, “Customizing the desktop of a computer or laptop to look like a hot ass ride.”

I couldn’t afford to get as fancy as some of the ones featured on deviantART but I did as best I could with just copy and paste. The end result features a new wallpaper, new application icons, new folder icons, and a fancy snap-to-grid feature for managing messy desktops.

Safari (blue dashboard), Photoshop, Firefox, iChat, UnRar (Apple Rainbow logo), Preview (Camera), TextEdit, and Downloads (Green arrow digger) all got new icons.

Old desktop:

Huzzah!

I have to admit, moving the dock from the bottom of the screen to the left side hurts the aesthetics of the beautifully designed 3D-dock interface, but it’s just much more convenient. The left-side orientation is just more natural. If only Apple could give the left side it’s own 3D eye-candy…this desktop would be bedazzling.

This blurry orange-to-green wood wallpaper sure looks nice under dimmed lighting.