Icons: Tiny elements of good design

If there ever is a reality show about multimedia journalism (Who Wants Be A Multimedia Producer? Project Multimedia?) one of the challenges has to be creating an icon. One of the hardest things to do as a multimedia designer is to create a set of icons for use on a newspaper site. It’s relatively easy to create vast multimedia projects when you’ve got a great canvas to start with but creating something in a 16 pixel wide space, dot by dot, is excruciating.