Turbomilk (brief version)

Cookbook: How to draw recolorable icons

Денис Кортунов — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:21:21 +0400

What is a recolorable icon? It is a picture which is capable of changing its color, hence is the world recolorable. There are several ways of getting there. I will tell you about a simple technique that we used while developing Iconza. In essence it's a web application that provides for changing colors of icons followed by generating the required files.

Journal: Iconfinder meets Iconza

Денис Кортунов — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:43:50 +0400

Now Iconza's icons are available in Iconfinder, the icon search engine. But they are not merely lying around there. You can recolor them right on the search engine results page. Originally the Iconza's icons are depicted in Gothic black and a special switch serves for selecting the right color. We also would like to use the opportunity to give our best to the creator of Iconfinder Martin Leblanc.

Icons: Drømmeholdet

Turbomilk — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:55:48 +0400

Icons for sport gaming portal

Cookbook: How we came up with the name for Iconza and later made its logo

Денис Кортунов — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:31:51 +0400

We decided upon making a web application that would serve a collection of customizable icons. Any project needs a cool name and a logo. We started off with naming.

Journal: Iconza

Денис Кортунов — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:40:41 +0400

We have launched a new Turboproject called Iconza with a whiskered carrot for a logo. In essence it is a set of royalty-free icons but it is not as simple as it looks. You can recolor and resize the icons right on your screen!

Journal: Everything should change

Дмитрий Жуков — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:54:19 +0400

We have invented something special here in Turbomilk and even shot a video about it. We won't show it, because it's not ready yet. However, we will show you a short teaser that really does not tell you a thing :)

Cookbook: Five reasons for migrating to the new Illustrator CS4

Дмитрий Жуков — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:10:00 +0400

All new stuff is extremely lucrative: it lures a feeling of novelty and freshness. I sincerely believe that a newer version is always better than the previous one. But there is one software package that undermines my life views. I am talking about Adobe Illustrator. It gained so many useless functions that operational mistakes have become too easy to see. It all lasted for six passed years. Here is an appropriate time for a short sermon.

Journal: Radio Seven Skies

Дмитрий Жуков — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:20:21 +0400

We love music very much. We even have a dedicated music server. Tastes differ however and we failed several times creating a one-type-suits-all music background in our office. Online radio Seven Skies reconciled this problem and we keep tuning in to this wave for three consecutive weeks non-stop. And how does your office sound like?

Journal: ReMIX 09

Денис Кортунов — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:56:40 +0400

A delegation of three brave Turbomilkers will descend at ReMIX’09 web conference to be held in Moscow on April 20, 2009. And we will not only be engaged in hearing the reports. Denis Kortunov will give his answers to the questions of participants of the “Interactive web” worshop at 5:00 pm. By the way, Turbomilk acts as an information partner of ReMIX.

Journal: Designcollector 6

Дмитрий Жуков — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:25:20 +0400

Back in 2004 Arseniy from Designcollector asked for a favicon for their project. Since then we are connected by not just hyperlinks but also by warm friendly relations. This year Designcollector celebrates its sixth anniversary. The guys have setup a little contest with some invited guests. We have also participated in it!Read more

Identity: Iconfinder

Turbomilk — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:14:19 +0400

Logo-icon for search service

Downloads: Free Avatars

Алексей Стеньшин — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:23:35 +0400

Tiny images for the userpics

Journal: MIX 09 Live

Денис Кортунов — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:26:00 +0400

I finally reached Las Vegas and now joined the MIX 09 conference, which has just begun. Expect a number of reports on design and interfaces (lots of designers among participants). The conference features the online video broadcasting from the event. I will be taking pictures and Turboflikring it as it progresses.

Journal: MIX 09, March 18-20, Las Vegas

Денис Кортунов — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:11:44 +0400

So it happens that I will visit MIX 09, the conference that will be held in March 18–20 in Las Vegas. As a rule, the designers get bored at the events organized by Microsoft due to the high level of technicality. But this time we are promised quite the opposite — a lot of reports on the subject of design, social networks and the future of the Web.

Identity: MashLogic

Turbomilk — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:39:11 +0400

Firefox application logo

Journal: remix.ru

Денис Кортунов — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:21:53 +0400

The delegation from Turbomilk had tons of fun at ReMIX last year. Therefore, it was out pleasure (and honor) to make a modest contribution into setting up ReMIX'09: we have drawn remix.ru, which is not really a site but a stub in Windows 7 logon screen style.

Journal: New Apple's Safari is catching up!

Дмитрий Жуков — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:06:02 +0400

We very much like Google Chrome. Apparently Safari was originally meant to be like Chrome from the interface perspective. As it happened recently, Apple released a new version of its browser resembling Chrome in may interface solutions. Now we are wondering, whether Google has finally became the lawmaker in GUI and Apple was made a sad runner-up?

Cookbook: Windows 7: clothes count for first impressions

Егор Гилёв — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:14:57 +0400

Judging by the many online reviews, the brave souls who have downloaded and installed the beta version of Windows 7 are, in general, pleasantly surprised. Your humble servant likewise entered into the ranks of the brave souls. I confirm: it’s actually pleasant to work with No. 7. However, given the many new and different functionalities, and well-written reviews of other authors, allow me to throw in my two cents worth in our particular area of expertise: visual interface design.

Web sites: Homepage.ru

Turbomilk — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:25:44 +0400

Moscowites' homepage

Journal: Turboillustrations

Денис Кортунов — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:54:54 +0400

We have decided to significantly improve our web sites's usability (by 37%) to become even more visitor-oriented (by 59%). For this reason our new designer Evgeniya has come up with a set of rocking illustrations for About Us picturing the hardships of our working days. The verisimilitude of the pictures tops all possible heights. The pictures were drawn on location. Now everyone is clear about what Turbomilk is really up to!