I care about icons. I really do. Mac third party developers also care about icons. The latter explains why they go as far as designing new icons from scratch for every major update, while the latter explains why I would go as far as writing about it.

While everyone is trying to come up with iTunes replacement icons, I spent some time making this timeline with the various icon iterations since 2001.

Yesterday Steve unveiled a new iTunes with social networking capabilities and a brand new logo. Like many of you, I am not sure whether Apple is going the right direction with this redesign.

I for one, am really excited about the 3DS, or more precisely about all the triple A games currently in development for nintendo’s new flagship handheld. And while I am not a huge fan of the 3DS industrial design, its shiny new look gave me enough inspiration to make a 32 pixels icon set. I might consider a 512px release once I get the real thing in my hands!

It’s getting hot, and there is nothing better than a refreshing folder icon set!!

Steven Zhang (AKA LordKokkei) was kind enough to grant me permission to mod his stellar release Alumin Fortis Remix, one of the best Mac OSX folder icon replacements ever made.