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Steve Jobs made out of icons

yeah!
Steve Jobs made out of icons by tsevis.
This image has a long story. I made it to illustrate an article I was about to publish in a greek Mac magazine named "MacLand". The article was a presentation of the book "iCon. Steve Jobs: The greatest second act in the history of business".
As I was very busy when I was writting that article I made an illustration very quickly, using an old script I had already created in Synthetik Studio Artist. The script uses a movie brush made out of many apple related icons. Most of them were older icons, but I couldn't create a new one that period.
As I was just entered Flickr I publish it here before the magazine is printed. The original comment of the image was:
"This is a photomosaic, made to illustrate an article about - who else - Steve Jobs! The article is published in the greek mac magazine "MacLand".
But the magazine had never printed my article and went out of business after some time.
As the image was shown in Flickr there are many people who liked the image. They bloged it in more than 50 blogs (at least I found about that many), they publish it as a illustration for articles about Steve Jobs in the spanish newspaper ABC and the editor of the greek edition of iCon decided to use this image for the cover.
The funny thing is that I had desgned another cover for the book. But after the success of this image Nikos, the editor, and me decided to use this.
So, this image is the most viewed, most commented, most favorited image in my photostream. I don't know why Flickr believes that it's not the most interesting, but I haven't realy understand how interestigness works.
The point is that an image could be extremely popular, even if you never had thought it would ever be. Anyway, after all this time I realy love it, because it gave me a lot of success but also a lot of new friends. If I had to title it today I would call it "Thank you, Steve", as he is the subject and surely more than the 50% of the reason of this image's popularity.
So, thank you, Steve, and thank you all, Flickr people, for your support. 
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keela says:

that's icontastic!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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Billy The Kid says:

iCon!

I read once that the "i" used as a prefix to most Apple products stood for iconic. As in: the "iconcic Mac" or the "iconic book".

I always understood it to be a personal declaration as in: "I don't care if only 3% of the population know what this is, I Mac and I'm proud of it!"
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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Robokat says:

niice
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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PortugePunk  Pro User  says:

neat. i likeit.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

add me. [deleted] says:

This seems like it took forever to make.
NICE!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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tsevis  Pro User  says:

Hi all! Thanks a lot for your kind comments.
@ _Kevin: No. It was a project of less than two hours. Of course, I spent lot of time collecting and preparing the elements (icons) and some years to study the mosaic logic. After that, I have developed some ways to produce this kind of images.
Thanks for the comment once again.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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jaminmcguire says:

haha thats mental , nice work
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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–nathan  Pro User  says:

Welcome Digg users :)

The Scoop
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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13mx says:

Awesome Mosaic! I have a few in my Photo stream. I Saw this on the Digg.com homepage, Dude your famous now(lol)
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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blewtooth says:

Impressive!!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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kms007  Pro User  says:

Very Cool.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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kylecircle says:

Far Out man
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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braddavidrhoads says:

This so totally rocks!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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Daedalus42  Pro User  says:

Haha, great picture.

Jobs is the sum of his company's parts.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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Drum  Pro User  says:

Excellent!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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seananderson123 says:

I think it looks like crap, dunno why it was digged. His mouth looks mashed up like a pizza.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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tsevis  Pro User  says:

Oh God!... So many comments! I am really impressed. I have to say something like that old title of TIME magazine in an article about the iMac design and its influence in the contemporary design "Steve, look what you ve done!"

I have this mosaic passion for quite a decade. I studied and studied and I have used so many techniques and software packages. MacZaic, MojoDojo, MacOSXaic, EmailEffects, Photoshop (YES, you could do mosaics with Photoshop), 2gether1Pro, StudioArtist and many others.

I have also studied the masters, the classics in this area. Dali (YES, he also made mosaics), Escher, John Maeda but also the arabic patterns, the victorian patterns, roman mosaics and as a greek, the geometric period of ancient greek art.

To understand what a mosaic is you can start by the fact that any digital picture is a mosaic. But also any image is a mosaic, because also any line is a total of points etc.

I made so many mosaics. Some are nice, some are not. Some others are made just to learn something. I got some awards for my mosaics and of course I have used it for my professional works.

This mosaic is done with StudioArtist mainly. This software goes far beyond any other photomosaic package even if it not a dedicated mosaic tool. StudioArtist is a graphic synthesizer. That means that it gives you the ability to apply all the values and parametres of sound to the image.

It took me something like 2 hours to make it. This time is used to test the result rather than produce the various layers of the image.

But far beyond the software, the technique etc, this image is a piece of art. That means it's an expression. I cannot understand why so many people stay on the surface, and don't want to look a little bit deeper.
It doesn't matter how it is made. What matters is if this image can tell you something. If it does, I am very happy. If it doesn't I am happy as well. Art is a message. You can get it or not.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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13mx says:

seananderson123 is an idiot, he is just one of those flammers who makes fun of peoples work yet has no pictures at all posted. I can not stand those posers.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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jbelkin800 says:

Great job! Just curious - what is the black sofware box that makes up his "sweater?" Didn't recognize that :-)
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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artech says:

Superb and dazzling, as always, my friend!!!

(jbelkin800, it's Remote Desktop 2, I think...)
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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Sigalakos  Pro User  says:

Go macland go! :)
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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Amit (Sydney)  Pro User  says:

nice one indeed!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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jimhaw says:

Great Jobs!
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micklerlop says:

mad props
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blatch  Pro User  says:

Very nice
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iPhil  Pro User  says:

fantastic idea! it reminds me of the book about steve jobs - "iCon Steve Jobs" by young simon ;-)
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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tonidigital says:

Great! But the "i" stands for internet used in the first iMac :-)
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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sandrino  Pro User  says:

Very cool! Great idea!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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annouli says:

G-r-e-a-t!!!!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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changhg says:

WOW~
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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Maccentric318 says:

It is my sincerest hope that only a limited number of you will scornfully dismiss this post as SPAM. :) If you love Apple, and are a fan of Steve, please visit my site at www.thankyousteve.com/.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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tsevis  Pro User  says:

OH!!!! You are the creator of this site? My sincere congrats, Avaci Thoch. I visited your site since the very first day and I also made some "advertising" for it here: vcdc.gr/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1383 It's a greek designers' forum and maybe you will find it difficult to read it. What is written is that somebody has made a great site for the 30th anniversary of Apple.
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Omar G!  Pro User  says:

Great work.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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ping ping says:

Nice work. It's better than original. Apple should put this one in its nationalwide stores.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

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tsevis  Pro User  says:

Thanks a lot, Omar and ping pong.
I would be gratefull if apple used my image.
The greek distributor of Apple has published some work of mine on their webpage. But it would be a great honour if I could publish something on apple.com.
The greek site is this:
www.apple.com.gr/apple/tsevis
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ellaas says:

that's awesome!!!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

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nimboo  Pro User  says:

gr8 work!
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

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freshyill  Pro User  says:

Very cool, but what's with all the Powerpoint and Zip disk icons? Where's Adium X? Where's Camino? Where are the programs that make OS X great?
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

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tsevis  Pro User  says:

Hi freshyill!
Thanks for the comment.
You re totally right. But, as I said before, I did this illustration quickly for the needs of a specific project. I couldn't realize that it would be so popular.
I am promissing to create more mosaic portraits of Steve with the real cool OS X apps.
Thanks again!
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

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Alcyon2k4 says:

The I in iMac and etc. originally stood for internet, as the iMac was designed to be very easy to connect to the 'net. Everything afterwards just followed the theme, so you could use any explanation you want.
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

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│nicolash│ says:

great work! / i love icons
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

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tsevis  Pro User  says:

Thanks, guys!
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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musicamusica says:

brilliant use of icons.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

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scalpod  Pro User  says:

Very clever and well executed! He is an iconic figure after all...
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

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B. Zyrogerg says:

Graphic design at it's best!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

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Barack Obama is my homeboy says:

awesome!
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

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kmujnyhbtgfvfre says:

Not the first time Steve is iconified:
www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Steve,_Ic on.txt
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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tsevis  Pro User  says:

@kmujnyhbtgfvfre:
Totaly right, mate.
Susan Kare was the first!
Regards!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

charles_mills1 [deleted] says:

Again, I am Blown away! You MUST do one of Hillary Clinton!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

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figlioDiOrfeo♥ says:

FANTASTICA!!!!!!! It's my favourite! :D
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