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Teenage Skeuomorphic Desktop Designs

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During my last year of high school, I kept a screenshot record of every time I redesigned my desktop. During my last year of high school, I kept a screenshot record of every time I redesigned my desktop. It was 2009 and we were in the heydey of skeuomorphism and bespoke wallpapers made in bootlegged versions of Photoshop. MacOS Snow Leopard has just been released, featuring a glossy 3D dock stacked with richly detailed icons. Meticulously detailed icons became the thing. The Icon Factory were at the peak of their game making bespoke icon sets. Designers like David Lanham, Anthony Piraino, and Louie Mantia were part of the team who created the official Windows XP icons, as well as plenty of pop-culture icon sets like the Wall·E and Star Trek series. I followed this work obsessively. Every few weeks I would “redesign” my Macbook desktop with a newly found wallpaper, icon set, and layout. And then for posterity, screenshot it. This eventually led to creating my own wallpapers and icons, a

During my last year of high school, I kept a screenshot record of every time I redesigned my desktop. It was 2009 and we were in the heydey of skeuomorphism https://medium.com/design-warp/skeuomorphism-design-we-learned-to-outgrow-8a24895a80d0 and bespoke wallpapers made in bootlegged versions of Photoshop. MacOS Snow Leopard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard has just been released, featuring a glossy 3D dock stacked with richly detailed icons. MacOS Snow Leopard complete with shiny 3D dock Meticulously detailed icons became the thing . The Icon Factory https://design.iconfac

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