Well then, I do believe it’s friday, the greatest day of any week, unless you happen to have found a new partner, got a new job and drank a heck of a lot on another day, in which case you could claim that that particular week a day other than friday was best. Clearly the icon design world agrees as it’s a triple bill of icon perfection on the cards.

I always start out big, the largest, most detailed and biggest release of the day gets to go first. Once again Jonas Rask has released a set of stunning icons in the form of an iTunes replacement set. Packaged in three colour variations and two disc types, well worth an icon connoisseurs perusal.

Batting for the iconfactory with more consistent releases than we have ever seen from them, is Louie Mantia, following up his Wall-E drive set featured earlier this week with another icon based on the film. Microbe-Obliterator continues the film theme nicely and looks perfect in any dock. The last icon is by an unknown outsider to our little design village, Fayceless has released a great Apple hardware inspired icon for the new Cinema Displays, something new MacBook owners will surely be happy to see.

I’m going to keep todays roundup fairly short as it’s a triple bill, the less idle nattering the better.

Kicking things off with the biggest release of the day. Louie Mantia of iconfactory fame has released a series of hard-drive icons based on the smash hit from pixar, Wall-E. The set contains all the usual drive variations in two styles based on the main characters, Wall-E and Eve. Accompanied by a dock and wallpaper.

The next two releases are individual icons. The first being another drive icon, this time by Janik, designed to be as close to the drive we all have in our machines as possible. Check it out here. The final release is something a little more unusual for the mac platform. Leo6247 has released a new firefox icon in cool blue and black, allowing the famous fox to sit a little more comfortably in the OSX environment.

By now you should all know how this works, I write some witty remarks here that entertain you long enough to make you think “boy I need some new UI goodness” and then, bam! I hit you up with the latest goodies so you can show of to all your friends about how in touch with modern digital design you are and take all the credit for my expert selection process. Well today is no different!

Wallpapers are notoriously easy to create and almost as impossible to perfect. There’s something very daunting and yet ultimately freeing about having such a large space to work in that few designers manage to use the space well, but Kon is a pro. His wallpapers are effortlessly sleek. Comfortably flowing through the screen as if they should move like a babbling brook someone has dropped beautifully coloured inks into. Check out his latest release called Paranoid which comes in six stunning variation.

I really should have posted this release as soon as it came out, not for the first time however, I was a little lazy. VLC media player is almost certainly the most commonly used video player on Apple’s platform with the only exception no doubt being quicktime which is bundled in. Fantomasss has released a wonderful UI mod that changes this rather aged looking player into something apple would be proud to put their name on. Check out his Delicious mod.