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Waritsuki Drive Icons

October 2nd, 2012

You can finally read Panic’s blog in Japanese! I was unsure what to write for the longest time, but since I’m not good at talking like Cabel, I decided to make and show off some icons. Today, I’m revealing a disk icon with a Japanese pattern design.

The pattern is from a book on “Japanese Patterns” I found in the library purely by accident about half a year ago. The book was interesting, so I decided I wanted to make an icon using one of these patterns.

Download iContainer

Waritsuki Drives iContainer.zip (34 MB)

Download .icns

Waritsuki Drives.zip (32 MB)

This collection contains 20 icons with beautiful Retina Display for Mac OS X. I’d be really happy if this icon could spark just a little bit of interest for our culture. Enjoy! :)

Posted at 1:09 pm 31 Comments

Jessica Paoli

10/2/2012 1:18 PM

These are beautiful! My drives will look so much prettier in a few minutes.

Nicholas

10/2/2012 1:27 PM

Amazing icons! How can I change my drive icon with yours? :)

FReigM

10/2/2012 1:31 PM

Nice icons! What Mac 3D App is that in the screenshot?

Chad

10/2/2012 1:37 PM

FReigM: looks like modo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modo_(software)

Jake

10/2/2012 1:42 PM

Could you tell us the name and author of the book please?

Eric Peacock

10/2/2012 2:01 PM

That is Modo. I thought Kenichi used Cinema 4D.

SSteve

10/2/2012 2:23 PM

Nicholas: http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/ss/Personalize-Your-Macs-Desktop-By-Changing-Desktop-Icons_3.htm

Kenichi

10/2/2012 5:15 PM

Eric: Yes, that is Modo! I switched 3D app from C4D to Modo about 5 years ago.

Kenichi

10/2/2012 6:32 PM

Jake: Sure! The book is “Komon Monyou” (ISBN978-4-7661-1826-1) written by Hiroshi Takada.

Paul

10/2/2012 11:48 PM

Superb icons.

Ali

10/3/2012 1:42 AM

Well done; and thank you for awesome icons :)

Chris

10/3/2012 2:18 AM

Domo arigato!

Martin

10/3/2012 3:44 AM

Wonderful icons! How about giving us that wallpaper also to completely japanize my iMac at home?

David Parrott

10/3/2012 4:09 AM

Arigato gozaimasu Kenichi-San :) Kawaii desu!

Abhimat

10/3/2012 9:16 PM

These are beautiful! Arigato!

Hiro

10/4/2012 6:42 AM

Just wanted to tell you how beautiful they are! I am Japanese and really appreciate all of the designs. They remind me of home. :)

Mel

10/4/2012 7:47 PM

Hi all i follow the step in http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/ss/Personalize-Your-Macs-Desktop-By-Changing-Desktop-Icons_3.htm

but can’t seem to works as it cause my HDD icon look to like “Preview” icon

Help any plugin needed?

Brandon

10/5/2012 6:37 AM

These icons are just BEAUTIFUL, and have made my day. A friend had a similar book of traditional Japanese patterns, and it came with a CD. Might be the same? Thank you so much for doing these!

Mark

10/8/2012 2:49 AM

These are awesome! I don’t suppose you have any of the patterns you used on the icons as a tile-able image (or something i could easily make into a tile-able image) :-)

Robert Fauver

10/11/2012 9:21 AM

Nice work! I love these!

Scott

10/24/2012 8:45 PM

Where can I find more of your icons? These are great!

Matthew Sweeney

11/15/2012 9:30 AM

Hi, do you remember the name of the book you found? If you do would be so kind as to send me the info? Nice work!

Matthew Sweeney

11/15/2012 9:32 AM

Never-mind I missed the previous comment. Thanks.

Johan Lagerqvist

11/16/2012 1:04 AM

Very beautiful and well made! Thank you. Can we hope for some desktop patterns as well? :)

PinkGurl

1/3/2013 10:24 AM

Sweet! Thank you! :)

John

1/11/2013 6:29 AM

Thank you. These are beautiful. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to figure out how to use them. Like Mel, I followed the steps in the link but the icon that I see in the get info page for the Seigaiha Drive.icns file is just a “Preview” icon so when I copy and paste the icon my harddrive icon turns into the Preview icon. Can someone please point me in the right direction. Also, what is the iContainer file used for?