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- Waffledog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+100You think that's bad, wait til you see the new CS3 toolbar...
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/2789/cs3toolbarop4.gif - skoles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51And to think, some designer made a ***** of money for thinking that up.
- jmulder, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46Absolutely horrible. I can't believe a company where design matters so much can come up with such a solution. One shouldn't need to read icons -- just look at them. The only thing that will separate those icons at 16x16 is colour and looking at the colour wheel, the different shades are very minor as well.
What is wrong with the CS2 icon suit is beyond me. Those are beautiful at all sizes and have a clear connection to the product's loading screen. If they decide to follow through with that, I assume the loading screen as seen in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta is more final than any designer was hoping for. Uninspiring. Utter crap. - Nobi-Wan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30Uh, I'll keep the old icons, thank you.
- dpcamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22I envy the whoever got paid to make these icons..
- dpcamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20new to earth huh?
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Wow, I'm a graphic designer and I can respect a lot of unorthodox ideas... but this is just dumb. Sure, it has a theme, but the icons just *suck*.
Hopefully Adobe will go back to the drawing board and make something a little better. - Ronnos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21I don't get it. Why didn't they group the applications on color? Like marking the applications for working with audio with a green color tone, the applications for images with red, etc. That would have made more sense than using color like they are doing now.
- rossbrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19More like "Web 2.0 meets lazy artist"
- DelSolMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Adobe announces the Adobe Periodic Table launcher! Replace your out of date Start Menu or OSX Dock with a periodic table made up of Adobe applications. Because with adobe, you don't need any other apps!
- flashboy131, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I could make those in like 1 minute. Should show more creativity IMO I mean they are supposed to be the industry leader in creative apps. I think the guys behind Transmission spent more time on their logo than this.... and CS costs what? blah...
- LoveIsRegret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15haha, that's totally awesome.
I hope Adobe never sinks THAT low. - cadavreexquis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12LOL. I had a big laugh about this then I realized what a design nerd that makes me. Then I laughed some more.
- neave, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Designers care about design.
- canadianguy33, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13I couldn't agree more. Adobe really ***** the bed this time.
Whoever sold them on this idea must have been a snake oil salesman in a former life. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Adobe! Please wake up! These icons need to see the cutting room floor. Surely, you have a talented designer somewhere under your roof?
- neave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I prefer this version: http://www.flickr.com/photos/codepo8/329003007/
"Adobe Peshwari - like Photoshop, but filled with nuts and raisins." - soogy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/328983805_97608441b3_o.jpg
Please, identify these for me. I can't figure it out!
Tell me, with the current CS2 icons, if the products DIDN'T come labeled as Illustrator or Photoshop, how could you possibly know that the flower is Illustrator? Your argument makes no sense. You'll learn these icons just like you learned the CS2 icons. - merdiesel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Why are people complaining in here... Its not like anyone in here will actually pay for it.
- markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11That's a joke, right? Looks like a frikkin' Scrabble board.
- cdharrison, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I'm trying to identify them all right now... http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdharrison/328467657/
- Snowcone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Horribly ugly. I was done with Chemistry in high school, now we have the Periodic Table of Adobe.
- iTorrey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Yes, you do need to learn them.
Let's say you have on your dock Ps, Co, and Gl. These are all a blue hue. Quick, click on PS, ah, you have to read the letters. People need icons to be able to pick things out at a glance. For a quick exercise, take a screenshot of your dock (assuming you're using os x of course) and load it up in Ps...erm Photoshop and apply a 3.5 gaussian blur to it. You should still be able to identify what icons are what. This is how browsing works, we don't read things, we glance at them and make our decisions. Having 3 or 4 blue icons with letters on them makes browsing for what we want much more time consuming because we have to either remember their position or read the letters.
In fact, go read Apple's HIG about Application icons, this totally goes against that.
I really thought this was just the "beta" icon, and they were going to reveal the real Photoshop icon along with the rest when CS3 was announced. *sigh* - etandrib, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I thought the PS square for the beta was just the beta icon - not the real thing! Adobe is becoming the next Sony! Ahhh!!
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Maybe they got muddled up and thought it was 'Keep it Stupidly Simple'
- dzarkw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I like the idea behind this, but the way they implemented it sucks. They need to go a little farther and put some sort of graphical element into each one (at least the important ones).
- crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6http://www.adobe.com/
There's a friendly little icon on the main page that wants to tell you something. - timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That is highlarious
- neave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I understand why Adobe have done this. Macromedia's icons were all letter-based, which kinda worked, and Adobe are trying to follow suit. But when you've got this many icons, it's an Aladdin's Cave.
- rcran, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Those are gonna look like CRAP on the dock!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7http://www.artofadambetts.com/weblog/?p=169
Very nice replacement - alantocheri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think someone took K.I.S.S. a little too far..
- DaveMN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2006/12/20/icont/
- sibhod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4no thanks. leave it to the pros. 99% of contest/user-made submissions are garbage.
- inferno320, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4WHAT THE F**** IS THAT ?!?!?! DID ADOBE PAY POT-HEADS TO DESIGN THE ICONS? CHANGE THEM ... NOW!!!
- neave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3More info: http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/the_new_adobe_icons_and_branding
- jamesarice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't like them, but that wouldn't stop me from using the apps...
- Sunsneezer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I used to like the photoshop eye (and never understood how Venus was linked to Illustrator) but it still worked.
The CS feather-flower-etc theme confused me, and I think those new ones are better. Once you know what they stand for, I believe two letter codes will work very well. And it will stand out amongst the glass coated eye candy rubbish everybody else uses as icons. - jordan314, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Every time I see the photoshop logo now I think Priory of Scion.
Of course, I think that with the Public Storage logo too. - wayniethep00p, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I think they are pretty cool. I like the minimalistic approach that Adobe took to design these icons so they are like the elements of the periodic table. They really reflect the work process of designers that use their products.
- jflint, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I agree Ronnos, that would have made more sense. This appears to just be a random color selection with no logic behind it.
- churchers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3guess you haven't tried going to http://www.macromedia.com recently?
- AceTracer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Funny, I kind of like it. The old icons post 7.0 seemed pretty arbitrary.
And now we can play Scrabble on our Dock! - Darthmalt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Lots of people are saying how much they hate these icons but personally I'm glad I'll be able to easily tell the difference between After effects 7 and Premiere pro 2 when I have them in the quick launch bar they look almost exactly the same.
- markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Nope.
Seriously, I must have been ill the day they announced that merger.
Called Adobe Flash now is it? - blckleprd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3But since these icons took 10 minutes to make, the "designer" decided to make some more icons, just for fun. All he had to do was change the background color and type some text.
- Koyder, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7I could write a book about how much I loathe these icons, about how ugly and uninspired they are. But I’m lazy, so I’ll sum it up in one sentence:
If these are the actual CS3 icons, then Creative Suite should be renamed Suite. - Tapewormz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Creative icons, for a Creative Suite. "NOT"
- whiteyMcBrown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I suppose the reason why they don't have all audio apps green, image apps blue, etc... is because most professionals focus on one type of career. For instance, I'm a designer. If all image apps were blue, then I'd have a bunch of blue icons that I'd have to read. Since that's not the case, I can remember that Illustrator is yellow and that photoshop is blue. That's not so bad. Actually, the more I look at the icons, the more they grow on me. Give it a chance... really. Photoshop CS2's icon is alright.. Illustrator CS2's icon isn't that great. And if anyone stop using the industry standard apps because of the icons, you're an idiot.
- LoadStar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@KSUDesigner: "Put out to pasture" means discontinued. The OP was saying (accurately) that Freehand was discontinued in 2004.
And he has a point - "PageMaker" is also on that list of "elements," despite being end-of-lifed in 2001. Odd. -
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