On Today's Point-Counterpoint: Adobe's New CS3 Icons

Big batch of conversation late last week when Adobe released the look of the new CS3 icons, in their “wheel o’ icons” image. But in case you missed it, the best two bits of writing about it, which you’ll see cross posted back and forth nearly everywhere about the topic, were Jason Santa Maria’s scathing review of them, saying:

When making icons, you usually try to design something simple and recognizable to identify things. At the expense of creating a family of icons, you’ve watered them down so much as to be unrecognizable at a glance.

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