Nuno Pinheiro (artist)
Encyclopedia
Nuno Pinheiro is a Portuguese graphic design
er and illustrator. He specializes in iconography
, themes and user interface design
. Nuno's works include general illustrations, UI design, Web design, corporate design as well as other work's in creative areas. He is known in Linux
circles for his work in Oxygen Project
were he is the current coordinator.
His computer art is world widespread with KDE
on different computer platforms.
eyeos
, The well known cloud desktop extensively uses the Nuno Pinheiro work.
crystal icon set that can be seen in in the open suite.
He worked at Suse where he started to work on Oxygen Project
, after leaving Suse he moved on to continue his work on Oxygen.
He currently works for Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB (KDAB) as a UI designer.
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
er and illustrator. He specializes in iconography
Iconography
Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images. The word iconography literally means "image writing", and comes from the Greek "image" and "to write". A secondary meaning is the painting of icons in the...
, themes and user interface design
User interface design
User interface design or user interface engineering is the design of computers, appliances, machines, mobile communication devices, software applications, and websites with the focus on the user's experience and interaction...
. Nuno's works include general illustrations, UI design, Web design, corporate design as well as other work's in creative areas. He is known in Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
circles for his work in Oxygen Project
Oxygen Project
The Oxygen Project is a project created to give a visual refresh to KDE Plasma Workspaces.It consists of a set of computer icons, a window decoration for KWin, widget toolkit themes for GTK and Qt, and two themes for KDE Plasma Workspaces....
were he is the current coordinator.
His computer art is world widespread with KDE
KDE
KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...
on different computer platforms.
eyeos
EyeOS
eyeOS is an open source web desktop following the cloud computing concept that seeks to enable collaboration and communication among users. It is mainly written in PHP, XML, and JavaScript. It acts as a platform for web applications written using the eyeOS Toolkit. It includes a Desktop environment...
, The well known cloud desktop extensively uses the Nuno Pinheiro work.
Career
Nuno Started as a Civil engineer, but soon after leaving University, started working on icon design. He was responsible for the OpenOffice.orgOpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org, commonly known as OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source application suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software...
crystal icon set that can be seen in in the open suite.
He worked at Suse where he started to work on Oxygen Project
Oxygen Project
The Oxygen Project is a project created to give a visual refresh to KDE Plasma Workspaces.It consists of a set of computer icons, a window decoration for KWin, widget toolkit themes for GTK and Qt, and two themes for KDE Plasma Workspaces....
, after leaving Suse he moved on to continue his work on Oxygen.
He currently works for Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB (KDAB) as a UI designer.
External links
- http://www.nuno-icons.com/
- http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/
- http://www.behindkde.org/node/907