I love design. I’m not good at it but I try. My old Twitter page had an image of me flying like Superman with Luria like Lois Lane in my arms. I’m no Superman and Luria is way cooler than Lois Lane so I had to change it. This image is what I made and looking at it makes me happy. Click the image to see it full-sized.

A desktop is kind of like a living room. In living room design, I like clean, modern, peaceful design with one thing that’s old and rugged to add contrast and texture. The same holds true for my desktop, except that I had one element: darkness. It’s soothing to contrast the brightness of the work screens with a dark desktop.

My Sunday afternoon project was to re-design the appearance of my desktop and I made three changes:

1. Created a new Wallpaper.
2. Changed icons.
3. Increased the size of the icons on the desktop.

This is the result (click to see a full-sized screen capture):

I like the end-result so I’m sharing the wallpaper. The icons are from Apple’s download page. I used some from two sets because I wanted to distinguish between folders on the Mac network and folders on the HP MediaSmart Server. The feed reader at the top is an Adobe Air app called Snackr. Here are the links:

Darkhand Wallpaper by Neal
Glass Folder Icons 1.0
Eclipse Icon Set 1.0
Snackr

There are few things in life I love more than elegant design. Today, I found this room with a view which is part of the Sempachersee Golf Club near Lucerne in Switzerland. The building was designed by Smolenicky & Partner Architektur and the view is of a golf course.

Really great design inspires other ideas. Imagine this room with an electronic movie screen that would drop down to black out the window. It would instantly transform a bright room with a beautiful view into a home theater. I want this room!

via the cool hunter