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Louie Mantia, Jr.

@lmnt.me

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I write LMNT, design icons for Parakeet, make playing cards for Junior, and create fonts for Crown.

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Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 17/09/2026

Making Liquid Glass after-hours icons lately, just for fun. Here’s an interpretation of Panic’s Nova app icon. Read more here: lmnt.me/blog/sketchb...

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 17/09/2026

Making Liquid Glass after-hours icons lately, just for fun. Here’s an interpretation of Panic’s Nova app icon. Read more here: lmnt.me/blog/sketchb...

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 16/09/2026

Our app developer clients are so cool. I love that they let us make such fun things. parakeet.co/app-icons/

Parakeet: App Icons

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 16/09/2026

Talk to Google! They just style this in a non-native way.

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Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 15/09/2026

The thing is… even not vibe-coded apps have had bad design for a while now. A lot of people just haven’t been working with designers. This started before AI entered the story. It’s just worse now, because instead of just engineers not working with designers, it’s anyone else.

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Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 14/09/2026

Design Drought lmnt.me/blog/design-...

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Luka Grafera @grafera.zone · 11/09/2026

Making a lot of really nice icons lately. 🔗 parakeet.co

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 07/09/2026

Still immensely proud of the work Luka and I did on Notion’s 876-icon set. From people, clothes, medicine, and science, to nature, animals, household, and food, to vehicles and places, hobbies and holidays, tools and office supplies, and of course, a bunch of arrows. parakeet.co/glyphs/notion/

Parakeet: Notion Icons

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 27/08/2026

We made a pretty cool Pasta icon recently: parakeet.co/app-icons/pa...

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Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 19/08/2026

Buy a new deck of cards, learn about the art, play a new game. www.junior.cards

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 19/08/2026

Junior’s website contains wiki-style articles about cards and games. I spent a lot of time writing game rules for 25 different games to play. And, I made a print-friendly stylesheet for the whole site, making it super-duper easy to print out the rules and play a new game. junior.cards/games/

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Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 19/08/2026

Buy a new deck of cards, learn about the art, play a new game. www.junior.cards

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Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 08/08/2026

👀 New app icon just dropped: parakeet.co/app-icons/op...

Opus Assistant App Icon

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 08/08/2026

👀 New app icon just dropped: parakeet.co/app-icons/op...

Opus Assistant App Icon

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 07/08/2026

I fuckin’ love drawing icons. parakeet.co

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 04/08/2026

One of my fav apps, Coax, just got a new look 😉 parakeet.co/app-icons/co...

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 03/08/2026

Omiyage lmnt.me/blog/omiyage...

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 29/07/2026

Read about our process creating five app icons: parakeet.co/blog/app-ico...

Parakeet Blog: App Icons for ATP

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 28/07/2026

That’s not what this is.

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Parakeet @parakeet.co · 24/07/2026

🎙️ Inspired by the latest episode of @atp.fm 🚨 Squircle Jail Escape 📢 “An unauthorized shape is making a run for it!” 🚨 🏴 (From @lmnt.me & @grafera.zone) ⛓️‍💥 cottonbureau.com/p/AUGBHG/shi...

Three shirts (indigo, military green, gray) featuring an app icon squircle shape with a jail cell door ajar.

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 24/07/2026

People always ask me when I got into Disney. lmnt.me/blog/when-di...

When Did You Get Into Disney?

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 20/07/2026

🤬 Server Migration lmnt.me/blog/server-...

Server Migration

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Parakeet @parakeet.co · 07/07/2026

We designed new Liquid Glass app icons for the hosts of @atp.fm. Read all about it! parakeet.co/blog/app-ico... #design #icondesign #apple

Parakeet Blog: App Icons for ATP

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Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 14/07/2026

“By popular demand!” The Shape of Apps: an essay about app icons, “Squircle Jail,” and where we go from here. parakeet.co/blog/the-sha...

Parakeet Blog: The Shape of Apps

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 14/07/2026

“By popular demand!” The Shape of Apps: an essay about app icons, “Squircle Jail,” and where we go from here. parakeet.co/blog/the-sha...

Parakeet Blog: The Shape of Apps

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 12/07/2026

🃏🎲 Get playing cards and dice designed by yours truly! Just $5 (deck) and $12 (box)! Reposting is very much appreciated. 😌 buyolympia.com/Artist/Junior

Fanned playing cards.

Fanned Japanese playing cards.

Wooden boxes containing playing cards and dice.

Two decks of playing cards.

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 07/07/2026

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Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 06/07/2026

This post didn’t have anything to do about visuals aesthetics or flat design or minimalism or feeling samey.

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Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 06/07/2026

And that’s not all! There’s many more Star Wars wallpapers on my site. Just click on that “Star Wars” tab. ⬇️ lmnt.me/blog/wallpap...

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 06/07/2026

If you’re in a Star Wars mood like me, these icons and wallpapers will look great on your Mac. ⬇️ Datatapes, Vol. 1: lmnt.me/blog/icons/d... ⬇️ Datatapes, Vol. 2: lmnt.me/blog/icons/d... ⬇️ Star Wars Factions (12 versions!): lmnt.me/blog/wallpap... ⬇️ Death Star (3 versions!): lmnt.me/blog/wallpap...

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Parakeet @parakeet.co · 02/07/2026

An app icon for a Bluesky client. A geometric interpretation of a Cabbage Butterfly makes reference to the platform’s classic symbol, while giving a nod to the app’s Portland roots. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/bu...

Burnside App Icon

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 02/07/2026

A few months ago, Luka and I made a new logo for Hammacher Schlemmer. I did a little interview with them about it, which has some peeks into @parakeet.co's process of making a logo for a company that has nearly 180 years of brand history. gnomenclature.hammacher.com/p/our-new-lo...

gnomenclature.hammacher.com

Our new logo and how it got that way

An interview with designer extraordinaire Louie Mantia about our new wordmark

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Parakeet @parakeet.co · 30/06/2026

An app icon for a weekly photo journal used to organize and share memories. The materials that form the initial evoke the nostalgia of 80s/90s VHS covers. Check out the fun alternates! #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/re...

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Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 16/06/2026

In a blog post from @parakeet.co, Luka and I detail the new features of Icon Composer 2 while making five sample app icons. These files are also downloadable, so you can open them in Icon Composer 2 to learn more. parakeet.co/blog/liquid-...

Parakeet Blog: Liquid Glass App Icons

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 30/06/2026

Would be so cool to work on movies again. That was so fun.

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 30/06/2026

If you prefer an “Instagram Story” version of this post, I guess you can watch this—

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Parakeet @parakeet.co · 29/06/2026

An app icon for a calendar that displays your schedule on a 24-hour clock face. The concept is visualized as a window pane, with each quadrant depicting a corresponding time of day. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/pi...

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 29/06/2026

🥚 Tamago Sando lmnt.me/blog/tamago-...

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 29/06/2026

I love this guy’s argument so much that I had to, well, you’ll see—

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Parakeet @parakeet.co · 26/06/2026

An app icon for a simple word game. The symbol mirrors the game’s pentagonal arrangement of letters, with radial starburst designs for en energetic, retro vibe. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/ne...

Next Letter App Icon

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Parakeet @parakeet.co · 25/06/2026

An app icon for an organizer focused on personal relationships. A pair of woven friendship bracelets and a string of beads forming the app’s initials are painted in warm, dimensional detail. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/fr...

Friendzone App Icon

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Parakeet @parakeet.co · 24/06/2026

An app icon for a book collection organizer, featuring a fleur-de-lis printed in ink on toothy paper. Irregular edges and strong texture give it a tactile feel. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/st...

Storylines App Icon

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Parakeet @parakeet.co · 23/06/2026

An app icon for a traveler’s to-do list, featuring an iconic foil-stamped passport and checklist in a subtly leather-textured sleeve. Purple matches the app’s tint color. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/ba...

Bag Check App Icon

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Parakeet @parakeet.co · 22/06/2026

An app icon for a standalone music player that lives on your Mac’s menu bar. Brushed metal and sharp, glossy reflections embrace nostalgia for Mac OS X Aqua. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/co...

CoverSutra App Icon

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Parakeet @parakeet.co · 19/06/2026

An app icon for a QR code generator, imagined as a friendly, colorful character. Just look at this sweet face! #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/qe...

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Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 26/05/2026

Each frame of my 24-hour dynamic Death Star wallpaper: lmnt.me/blog/wallpap...

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Parakeet @parakeet.co · 18/06/2026

An app icon for a journal that works like a messaging platform. Stacked dynamic chat bubbles, all originating from the right side, represent a conversation with yourself. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/mo...

Monologue App Icon

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Parakeet @parakeet.co · 17/06/2026

An app icon for theatergoers to track their theater trips, using a pair of soft-shaded spotlights to subtly form the app’s initial. Just the right amount of clever! #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/me...

Mezzanine App Icon

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 16/06/2026

In a blog post from @parakeet.co, Luka and I detail the new features of Icon Composer 2 while making five sample app icons. These files are also downloadable, so you can open them in Icon Composer 2 to learn more. parakeet.co/blog/liquid-...

Parakeet Blog: Liquid Glass App Icons

Louie Mantia, Jr. @lmnt.me · 16/06/2026

In the Battle for Attention lmnt.me/blog/in-the-...

In the Battle for Attention

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