Lacie | Starck Desktop Hard Drive Icon
Sunday, January 31, 2010 Over the holidays, I decided to treat myself to a new external hard drive. I wanted something I could use on my desk for backups, and even some general storage. My current drive at the time was just about to top off and I didn’t want to risk losing any backups. So I did my normal research online, looking for something both reliable and visually appealing.
I discovered these hard drives by LaCie that look amazing. The drives are actually in collaboration with designer Philippe Starck, a world-renowned designer. I actually new about Starck from the watches he designed for Fossil, so I was really excited to find these drives he designed as well. Also, LaCie is a very trusted hardware company, with a great track record in creating good hard drives, so I new they were reliable.
I‘ve had the desktop hard drive for about a month now, and it has worked wonderfully. It also makes my desk look that much nicer. The only thing I could say that bugged me a little was the default drive icon the popped up on my Mac when I plugged it in, (kidding). Nevertheless, I decided to create an icon for it, so that it would look as nice on my desktop as it does on my desk.
LaCie | Starck Hard Drive Icon (click image to download)
Reader Comments (4)
Hi, I have myself on of this LaCie Starck External Hard Drives, and I have a big dissapointment when finally connected to my Mac, and see the awful LaCie Icon appearing on my Desktop, so, I Started Looking for icons and I found Yours, I have to say it, it's amazing, unfortunaly, i got a problem when I change my icon it doesn't appear the actual icon, instead appears an PreView App archive icon, and I don`t know why, can you help?
I use a program call Candybar that allows me to change any icon on my computer, including folders and different drives. You can download it at:
http://panic.com/candybar/
It's free to try for about a month, but if you decide that you don't want to buy, it doesn't change back any icons that you've changed. Hope that helps.
Hi Leonel!
your work is pretty amazing! as your blog...
The work on the starck HD icon is great, have you consider to create the icon for the smaller starch HD ? ;)
(http://www.lacie.com/fr/products/product.htm?pid=11378)
it could be a great idea to design the range of icons.
Let me know if you will.
M.
Can anyone tell me why I'm getting HD icons showing up within my LaCie external HD? When I click on them there's nothing in them, or so it appears. One of them has the name "net" attached to it. They don't always show up though, so far it's been an intermittent thing.