Nuno Pinheiro is a Portuguese

graphic design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdiscipli ...

er and

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...

. He specializes in

iconography Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct fro ...

, themes and user interface design. Pinheiro's works include general illustrations, UI design, Web design, corporate design, as well as other works in creative areas. Pinheiro started as a

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing ...

, but after leaving university he started working on icon design. He is known in Linux circles for his work in the

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, two themes for Plasma Workspaces, and a Tr ...

. He worked at

SUSE SUSE ( , ) is a German-based multinational open-source software company that develops and sells Linux products to business customers. Founded in 1992, it was the first company to market Linux for enterprise. It is the developer of SUSE Linux Ent ...

where he started to work on the Oxygen Project; after leaving SUSE he moved on to continue his work on Oxygen. where he is the current coordinator. In an interview with ''Libre Graphics'' magazine, he explained the history of the Oxygen Project and how it developed into a design platform with over 2000 icons,

wallpapers Wallpaper is a material used in interior decoration to decorate the interior walls of domestic and public buildings. It is usually sold in rolls and is applied onto a wall using wallpaper paste. Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" (so ...

, sound effects and window styles. He was responsible for the OpenOffice.org Crystal icon set that can be seen in the open suite. He currently works for Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB (KDAB) as a UI designer. His computer art is used on

KDE KDE is an international Free software movement, free software community that develops free and open-source software. As a central development hub, it provides tools and resources that allow collaborative work on this kind of software. Well-know ...

computer platforms worldwide, and the Web desktop

eyeOS eyeOS is a 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 is a private-cloud application platform with a web-based deskto ...

extensively uses work by Pinheiro.

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External links

* http://www.nuno-icons.com/ * http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Pinheiro, Nuno Living people 1977 births KDE Portuguese industrial designers Portuguese graphic designers Portuguese illustrators 20th-century Portuguese male artists 21st-century Portuguese male artists