Holiday Gift from Adobe: New Icons for their Apps
Bleech.
Perhaps the pumped-up color coding will make them easier to find, but all
square?!?
I hope this isn't a sign of things to come.
Dana
On 12/21/2006, "Dan Saffer" <dan at odannyboy.com> wrote:
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/codepo8/329003007/
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>Ummm. Wow, are these, erm, ugly.
>
>I like the Adobe Rocket Powered Grenade though.
>
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Some thoughts on the design concept:
http://rhjr.net/theblog/2006/12/21/adobe-alphabet-soup/
-r-
On 12/21/06, Dan Saffer <dan at odannyboy.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/codepo8/329003007/
>
> Ummm. Wow, are these, erm, ugly.
>
> I like the Adobe Rocket Powered Grenade though.
>
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Surely this is not as lame as to be the "periodic elements" of adobe...
On Dec 21, 2006, at 5:55 PM, dana at danasmithdesigns.com wrote:
> Bleech.
>
> Perhaps the pumped-up color coding will make them easier to find,
> but all
> square?!?
>
> I hope this isn't a sign of things to come.
>
> Dana
>
> On 12/21/2006, "Dan Saffer" <dan at odannyboy.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/codepo8/329003007/
>>
>> Ummm. Wow, are these, erm, ugly.
>>
>> I like the Adobe Rocket Powered Grenade though.
>>
>>
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They could take a page or two from this one ;)
Visual periodic table
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/PeriodicTablePosters/index.html
On 12/21/2006, "Mark Schraad" <mschraad at mac.com> wrote:
>Surely this is not as lame as to be the "periodic elements" of adobe...
I like the tying to Color Pallette, have generally just seen color
swatches to capture the pallette, but this kind of representation
seems more effective.
Cheers
Alok
http://www.iPrincipia.com
On 12/21/06, Dan Saffer <dan at odannyboy.com> wrote:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/codepo8/329003007/
>
> Ummm. Wow, are these, erm, ugly.
These new designs have gotten a lot of flack. Sadly.
I know we have standards for icon design and these seem to fall short. But
if you think of them more as labels, which is a more accurate way to
describe how they are used on a daily bases, they are brilliant. You already
know what it is, you installed it after all! When these icons are sitting on
the doc they shine. Simple, clean, and easy to find. In my applications
folder they've got a full spelled out name in text (and typically sit in an
Adobe folder anyways).
I for one, love these new designs.
-Leslie
On 12/21/06, Alok Jain <alok.ajain1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I like the tying to Color Pallette, have generally just seen color
> swatches to capture the pallette, but this kind of representation
> seems more effective.
>
> Cheers
> Alok
> http://www.iPrincipia.com
>
> On 12/21/06, Dan Saffer <dan at odannyboy.com> wrote:
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/codepo8/329003007/
> >
> > Ummm. Wow, are these, erm, ugly.
>
>
I have to say that I like them as document icons, much more than
application icons.
Something else to note is that the Macromedia icons were basically
the same but in a circle - I dodn't like them either.
On 22/12/2006, at 4:55 AM, Dan Saffer wrote:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/codepo8/329003007/
>
> Ummm. Wow, are these, erm, ugly.
>
> I like the Adobe Rocket Powered Grenade though.
--
Chris McLay.
Interaction & Visual Designer
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