good start!! i bet this will look great when completed, keep up the good work

Oooooh, nifty! I'd use it!

I hope that by the time you release this, the rounded sides of the capsules and traffic lights are less jaggy.
It's not a bad idea though.

just to be clear i'm not bashing, but, aren't the Wall-E related wallpapers, icons, etc., etc. gettting a bit old? the theme is nice, but gosh, why drag Wall-E in to it?

Spellhouse wrote:

just to be clear i'm not bashing, but, aren't the Wall-E related wallpapers, icons, etc., etc. gettting a bit old? the theme is nice, but gosh, why drag Wall-E in to it?

eva is awsome, wall-e wouldnt make a good theme, but this one is cool

a couple of thoughts:
even if the striped texture on the blue glyphs clearly refer to Eve eyes design, this also reminds to me the old (10.1-10.3) Apple aqua interface, and that's a bit odd (it's a sort of "dive into the past" of GUI design).
instead of simply overlaying this striped pattern, you may try to "blur" or "move" the glyphs like Eve's eyes are
(oh, and the striped texture makes absolutely no sense on the windows background, 'couse Eve body is shiny plastic white!)

secondly, I agree the bar should be white. imo this way it makes poor sense... I'd better see it shiny white, with Eve mark instead of the apple

finally, the buttons edges are aliased.

keep it up!

Last edited by kiwidesign (Sep 23, 2008 10:57 am)

wow beautifull...

continue..

The Ace Chef: I agree about the buttons, I’ve tried to give them a little more “volume” here. I actually prefer the dark menu bar, but this one looks nice too. I’ll probably do both.

Ielandrb: Agreed.

Spellhouse: Eve and the various B&L products from Wall•E had an interesting style, I think, that could work well as a theme. I could have not mentioned that that was my initial inspiration, but the theme needs a name and there’s no reason not to base that on why I made it. But of course, looking/working well supersedes any notion of “accuracy”, and it’s not going to be “in-your-face” about its insipration (eg: I wouldn’t change the apple logo to  the “eve mark”, sorry kiwidesign ).

Kiwidesign: I actually really liked the pinstripes of OS X of times gone by. You will, however, note that I’ve gone for a shinier, and not pinstriped window this time, and the glyphs have a slightly more complex style (though still very clearly pinstriped) I’m still trying to get a decent look for the glyphs made from 1 px lines — I might draw them differently..

Last edited by dyfolio (Sep 24, 2008 6:29 am)

Looks good right now, I'd add some gloss though, if you really want it to be Eve-ish

glyphs?? iliked the first version a bit more

Second preview is looking much much better! The new buttons are a great step forward