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January 5th, 2007

Is this the creativity we expect from a merger of the leading creative software developers? With Creative Suite 3, Adobe is making all its application icons look like they belong on a circular periodic table of the elements.

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Martin Says:
January 9th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Those icons just don’t work for me. Its a bit like the Dreamweaver icons: Hey - this is software for creative/artistic work. Shouldn’t the icon really, em, iconize this?

How come that many shareware programmes have better icons that the industrie´s biggos? Go figure…
Bill Says:
January 11th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Adobe and Macromedia respectively, have been very proud of their icon development. They’ve hired artists to do great things - this is not great.

I agree with you Martin. I’ve got some great Open Source and shareware programs that have gorgeous icons. What’s up with Adobe?