There is, I believe, a total of 47* iTunes controller apps. Their rise and fall usually follows the formula n-y3, where n represents initial excitement at some cool quirky design element; y represents the eventually realization that they aren’t worth the memory they consume; and 3 represents me failing basic algebra. And the small handful of included visual styles helps them get old fast.

So understandably, when I saw the release of Bowtie, I couldn’t help but think, “Really, another one?” Today, after a few weeks of great designers taking full advantage of the CSS and JavaScript core of the app, I’ve instead been thinking, “Really! Another one!!” So I sat down at Chateau Marmont* with coder Matt Patenaude and designer Laurent Baumann to ask them some questions on their iTunes controller addition.

* A gross exaggeration. I actually did the entire thing via email but tried very hard to picture the Chateau Marmont in my head the whole time.

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This is going to be a post packed with beautiful productions, so make sure you check out all the links and don’t miss a single one, they’re all stunning. Picking images was extremely hard this time round, so you might find something you like even more in one of the links without an image.

AldanH has released his version of Sony’s Microvault drives, in an assortment of rich and enticing colours. An icon that would look great sitting alongside .Parth’s new MacBook Pro which is as detailed as you could possibly expect and beautifully toned.

Shelves are apparently the new hot ticket on macthemes and Deluxive has released a hole plethora of Shelves in photoshop format for you all to have a play with. Penultimately in our big count down of the latest releases here on macthemes is Spargett’s Torrent icon. An unusual, but effective icon for all those that use bittorent software. Last, but no certainly not least is cj1224’s cute but usable MailPlane icon, fun, friendly and perfectly formed to sit in your dock.

Lets do this!

The first release I’m going to cover is a little unusual. For some reason the idea of finder backgrounds has never really taken off in the mac community, but I have a feeling that after SpiralStairs’ latest release of shelves backgrounds, that’s all going to change.

Matthewrex has released a few batman related icons in the last week, this has to be my favourite. The level of detail on Harvey’s Lucky coin is fantastic. I’ll wrap things up with aneeshparekh’s TV Show icons. Clean, sophisticated and sharp, this set will aid any tv fans collection.