Brazilian graphic designer and illustrator
Everaldo Coelho
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Everaldo Coelho
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Born
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1978-03-25
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March 25, 1978
(age 46)
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Known for
| Graphic design, illustration
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Notable work
| Crystal icons
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Everaldo Coelho
(
Portuguese:
[eve??awdu
ku?e?u]
; born March 25, 1978) is a Brazilian
graphic designer
and illustrator. He specializes in
iconography
,
themes
and
user interface design
. Everaldo's works include general illustrations, comics, children's books, corporate design and many other areas. He is known in
Linux
circles for his "Crystal" icon theme.
Career
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Everaldo worked for
Conectiva
and
LindowsOS
, and later as a freelance artist for
SUSE
,
KDE
,
Mozilla
and many other
Linux
-related projects. He has also worked on various projects for
Mac OS X
and Microsoft
Windows XP
platforms. In 2004, he joined
Lindows.com
as a full-time Lindows.com employee.
[1]
Currently,
[
as of?
]
he is the head of UX at
Movile
[2]
and consultant at Yellowicon Studio.
[3]
[4]
Everaldo started out as an
illustrator
. He has illustrated many children's books, school books, and magazines (including one specialized in Linux). In 1998, when Everaldo purchased his first PC, he saw a Mac in the computers store. Not understanding much about operating systems at the time, he searched the Internet for an OS to install on his new machine, coming across Linux. He installed Linux and WindowMaker, and began making themes.
[5]
In 2000 he made a few icons for Conectiva as a freelancer. Later, he was hired to work at their creation department. He designed Conectiva Linux's interface. His first KDE job was a
splash screen
, done in free time. Helio Castro sent it to
KDE-Look
, introducing Everaldo and KDE community to each other.
[6]
In the beginning, he used
CorelDRAW
9, running in Linux and
GIMP
. Later, he moved to
Adobe Illustrator
.
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Crystal
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Everaldo's signature style is the distinctive "crystal" look, mainly consisting in icons that appear to be made of highly reflective surfaces. The
Crystal Icons
theme that he created for KDE has been used in many different applications and websites. Crystal made a large impact on KDE and also boosted the mindshare of
SVG
icons on the desktop.
[7]
Coelho would later create the
Crystal Clear
icon set, where the icons also appear to have a certain transparent quality.
When Everaldo started to work on
Conectiva Linux
8, his intention was to create customized icons. Conectiva wanted to attract both
Windows XP
and
Mac OS X
users. This inspired him to focus on an intermediate concept of icons, "between realism of Mac OS X and cartoon colored style of XP".
[6]
The result was the Crystal Icon set.
Before 2001, the default icon theme for KDE was Torsten Rahn's HiColor. In 2001,
Frank Karlitschek
came up with the website "
KDE-Look
", which introduced Rahn to Everaldo's Crystal. He discontinued the work on HiColor and joined Everaldo's work on Crystal.
[6]
Crystal SVG became the default icon theme in KDE 3.1.
Crystal Icon examples
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References
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