6th Place: iKea
iKea, by Si Buckmaster
Final Rating: 85%
Information: Sleek, affordable Swedish shelf design for your Mac. Made from the finest Scandinavian pine sourced only from sustainable forests. Stainless steel fittings and brackets. Features downlighting and recessed labelling areas to help illuminate your special collection. Includes additional warehouse shelving*. Guaranteed ten years.
*Some assembly required.
Comments
Posted by David Lanham (panel) at November 22, 2004 11:44 PM
Awesome concept! Those lights look extra swanky.
Posted by Daniel Goffin [panel] at November 24, 2004 04:41 PM
Wow. Sleek. It looks so tangible i almost wanted to touch my screen. Top Notch.
Posted by Paul Armstrong at November 25, 2004 01:27 AM
I wanted to use lights in mine, but felt that would detract from the overall style. The lights fit in very well with this one, if only they could alternate one every other open space between the supports.
Posted by Samuel Sidler at November 25, 2004 05:32 AM
This is by far my favorite theme. I love the concept, though the label doesn't quite fit in (translucent tape maybe?). An Ikea person would definitely have some sort of Ikea labels. Excellent work though.
Posted by Parker Bennett at November 25, 2004 06:59 AM
Great concept, very well done. To be picky, the grey background seems a little plain and un-wall-like, and the supports look a bit like spikes coming down.
Posted by Si at November 25, 2004 07:42 AM
Yeah, I wanted to put the lights and shelf supports further apart but it's just not possible.
Posted by mbstuart at November 25, 2004 09:51 AM
I love this one. I toyed with similar lights and had little luck. As for the spacing - I found that you can make the tiff as wide as is needed. This was important to my theme since too much repetition would ruin it.
Posted by Komisar at November 25, 2004 10:05 AM
When siMac first showed me this he had already thought abouyt entering one other theme.... I automatically told him that this would be the right choice! This is an amazing theme and idea... everything falls into place!
Posted by Si at November 25, 2004 10:39 AM
"I found that you can make the tiff as wide as is needed"
Really? D'oh, I wish they'd said that in the instructions!
Posted by Si at November 25, 2004 11:10 AM
In light (no pun intended) of these latest revelations, I have made an alternative shelf.tiff file with double the spacing.
You can download it here:
http://homepage.mac.com/sibuckmaster/macnn/shelf.tiff
Enjoy!
Posted by at November 25, 2004 06:03 PM
This is _so_ Ikea. Excellent work!
(Another "outside the box" possibility... Thanks for the extra shelf.)
Posted by Eric at November 25, 2004 07:17 PM
Nice work. I don't, however, like the shelf supports (they look more like spikes... perhaps because of the lighting), and the label doesn't really fit in.
Posted by Si at November 25, 2004 07:38 PM
The inspiration for the 'spikes' shelf brackets can be seen here:
http://homepage.mac.com/sibuckmaster/macnn/bracket.jpg
Posted by Christopher Forsythe at November 26, 2004 01:30 AM
One of the two themes here that I enjoy besides my own. It feels kinda weird when the view is in magnify mode, but overall nice.
Posted by CreepingDeth at November 28, 2004 12:51 AM
My second favorite theme. :p
I can't believe that you can make the tiffs as big as possible. That would have been nice to know…two weeks ago! >:(
Anyway, great job on the theme. I guess the label is a thing piece of plastic. Lights looks great. 1st or 2nd place material.
A little too minimalist for my tastes, but this one kicks ass.
Posted by Si at November 28, 2004 02:16 PM
Thanks!
The labels are supposed to look like they're sunken areas in the shelf. However, this was difficult to achieve since we had no control over the automatic drop shadows that are applied to them or over the shelf talker text colour (I had to lighten the area to make the text legible).
Posted by Wiley Wiggins at November 29, 2004 02:03 PM
Very nice!
Posted by Glenn Lucas at November 30, 2004 12:41 PM
I like this theme. It is elegant. The lighting effect is nicely spaced. I would like to see a little more texture in the shelf back while keeping the gray appearance.