dave shea talks about the newly released adobe photoshop cs3 icons. and i have to agree that the icons are terrible! you can see the simple design in the image below (click to enlarge).
i spent about 9 months in art school while i was trying to figure out what the hell i wanted out of college. during my time there, i designed a few icons, and i did very poorly at it. that being said, i have to say that if i had come in with icons looking like that, i would’ve gotten worse remarks than i did on the designs i did come up with (i always got “you need to push the envelope” lol).
listen, adobe – when i went to art school, i was surrounded with talented people who were able to create some of the most creative and fantastic work (icons, etc.). couldn’t you hire one of them?
Somebody was feeling reaaaallly slooow and lazy when they designed these icons~! Don’t they have a QC environment and a user that would take a look and say : “all right, you obviously passed 2nd grade art class, so now show me what you got!”. How disappointing. It’s a design tool for God’s sake, use some design on IT!
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