Michael Flarup

Let's make a beautiful artbook that celebrates the art and craft of app icon design on the desktop. 🔴 The macOS App Icon Book Kickstarter is LIVE 📓 → kickstarter.com/projects/flaru…

Every designer knows the hardest project is your own portfolio. In 18 years, I’ve only managed to do it six times.

I avoided sketching for too long early in my career because I thought I wasn’t good at drawing. Turns out, drawing skill has very little to do with it. Sketching is about thinking, not art.

Concepts for a remote app

I think AI can be great for exploration and ideation, but in the end, people don’t hire you for outputs. They hire you for taste. For knowing what should go on the canvas or the page, not just how to fill it.

Turning ideas into objects is a kind of magic. Here’s a physical piece of Dinolords we made.

The original liquid glass.

Make it so they can’t tell if you’re working or just having fun.

Some crypto token designs.

One thing that’s come up in testing: our buildings need to be easier to tell apart. We’ve been working on making their utility more obvious through design language. #screenshotsaturday

I made the Icon Composer icon in Icon Composer.

If enough people like this, maybe we can convince @Steam to let me do their macOS app icon 👀 x.com/flarup/status/…

Light vs Darkmode

Heart + Money, for this shared expense tracker app.

Two years of progress in 4 screenshots. #gamedev