Turbomilk — Russian graphic design company founded in

Samara Samara ( rus, Сама́ра, p=sɐˈmarə), known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev (; ), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara rivers, with a population ...

on December 1, 2002. Turbomilk is engaged in graphic design and

user interface design User interface (UI) design or user interface engineering is the design of user interfaces for machines and software, such as computers, home appliances, mobile devices, and other electronic devices, with the focus on maximizing usability and ...

. The founders of the company are freelance designers who decided on combining their creative efforts using the co-working model. Originally, the company became well-known as the name behind the blog about icons, user interface design and project management compiled by the employees of the company.Turbomilk Blog
/ref> Since 2008, Turbomilk is the organizer of 404festFestival 404
/ref> — the conference of web developers from

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and CIS countries.

Important events

*In 2004 Yegor Gilyov,Yegor Gilyov blog entries
/ref> a Turbomilk employee became the first Russian to ever win PixelpaloozaThe icon design contest Pixelpalooza
/ref> the annual World competition of

icon design Icon design is the process of designing a graphic symbol that represents some real, fantasy or abstract motive, entity or action. In the context of software applications, an icon often represents a program, a function, data or a collection of data ...

ers organized by

The Iconfactory The Iconfactory is a software and graphic design company that designs commercial icons and user interfaces and publishes desktop applications and mobile apps for macOS and iOS. History The Iconfactory was founded in April 1996 by Corey Marion, T ...

. *The article from our blog “10 mistakes in icon design” about bad practices in icon making gained the World fame and was translated into several languages by graphics enthusiasts. *The studio suggested its own mascot for the Winter Olympics in Sochi of 2014 — the Happy Mittens, which ranked as a solid runner-up after

Zoich Zoich ( Cyrillic: Зойч, ) was a proposed mascot for the XXII Winter Olympics, which took first place in the official online poll to select a mascot for the 2014 Sochi games. Despite being a popular Internet character, the committee chose not ...

in the public voting on the Internet.News on REN-TV (12 november 2010)
/ref> *The official

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of the

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features the userpic of coat of arms of the Russian Federation which was exclusively made by Turbomilk in accordance with the icon design rules (for lines to match the pixels). *In May 2009 Turbomilk launched its own non-profit project Iconza.Iconza web-application
/ref> This web service is a repository of royalty-free icons with functionality to change color and size of selected icons.

Work

Most famous projectsPortfolio
/ref> of Turbomilk include:

GUI design

* 1C:Enterprise platform user interface

Icon design

*Icons and illustrations for

QuestBack Questback is an online survey and feedback software company, headquartered in Oslo, Norway. The company offers online data collection and analysis solutions for Enterprise Feedback Management, including market research, customer satisfaction a ...

website and web app *Icons for Begun context ad system *New icons for

mIRC mIRC is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for Windows, created in 1995. It is a fully functional chat utility and its integrated scripting language makes it extensible and versatile. mIRC has been described as "one of the most popular IRC c ...

Internet Relay Chat client * Harbahabr social network icons *Icons of cars and virtual garages for Avtocadabra social network *Original icons with a special manual for

Intuit Intuit Inc. is an American business software company that specializes in financial software. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and the CEO is Sasan Goodarzi. Intuit's products include the tax preparation application Tu ...

*Icon for

LiveJournal LiveJournal (russian: Живой Журнал), stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian-owned social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal, or diary. American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal on April 15, 1999, ...

mobile app

Logo design

* Kanobu gaming portal logo *

MSDN Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) was the division of Microsoft responsible for managing the firm's relationship with developers and testers, such as hardware developers interested in the operating system (OS), and software developers developing ...

TV channel logo

References

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External links

Official web site
Design companies of Russia Companies based in Samara, Russia