Since December 2006 two of Enhanced Labs’ senior designers, Jonas Rask and Philipp Antoni, have been conducting lab work on one of the biggest projects in Enhanced Labs history.
Hundreds of graphics were created for the long-awaited, latest version of the hugely popular application, including every imaginable icon size as well as myriads of miscellaneous UI elements.
In very close collaboration with Han-yi Shaw, User Experience Lead Program Manager at MacBU, Enhanced Labs provided hundreds of cutting edge interface graphics that reflected the creative direction and visual language of the newest Office 2008 product. The challenges of creating this new version of Microsoft Office for Mac were as broad as they were multiple. Since Office 2004 was released there had been a huge progression in the quality of OS X interface graphics. While keeping a distinct individual feel throughout the entire load of graphics needed for Office 2008, we constantly tried to one-up the expectations for great graphics on the Macintosh platform. The result of our collaborative efforts is the most attractive, intuitive, and innovative version of Office for Mac to date.
Now let’s all go out and buy Office ‘08 because it’s super-awesome and has our artwork!
7 Comments
Johnny
January 15 2008
at 9:17 PM
You all already know what I think!
Fantastic work EL, you guys really made some outstanding icons.
Eugen Buzuk
January 16 2008
at 12:48 PM
Congratulation guys!! Really good work and perfect icons.
Jon Burow
January 16 2008
at 12:50 PM
Awesome work guys. You never cease to amaze! Keep up the good work and keep it coming!
Justin Prine
January 16 2008
at 1:09 PM
Lovely work as always gentlemen. As I told you earlier, I wish I had known earlier that it was your work that I’d been drooling over every time they showed it off over at the MacBU blog. A lot of people are going to appreciate the work you’ve done to make Office for Mac just that much nicer.
Wil1113
January 18 2008
at 6:30 PM
holy crap… These are beautiful. This is sooooooo much better then what ffice 04 had, I might have to buy it for its beauty…
Shannern
January 19 2008
at 9:31 PM
Now I want to buy office… just for the icons.
kudos, man
Arnie
January 21 2008
at 9:32 AM
When i first saw office folder i was like WOW O_o awesome job people.
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