Anyone still have the old Adobe icons?

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rokrok
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
okay, having clicked on the "wrong feather" one too many times in my dock, i now want my photoshop eyeball back. my illustrator boticelli venus. my well, indesign butterly (but at least it was flying over a book). feathers and shells and starfish... well, it's getting stupid now.



does anyone still have these icons they can copy/paste onto some folders and post for download? i am really looking for all of the adobe icons pre-CS (so the photoshop 7 era icons). i'm looking for the following:



- photoshop

- illustrator

- indesign

- imageready

- golive (for consistency)

- acrobat and distiller



extra points for anyone who can unearth mac os x icons for macromedia apps before they went all klingon-lettering on us.



thanks!

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    the cool gutthe cool gut Posts: 1,714member
    And while your at it, I'm looking for the first OSX icon for Transmit - when they were called "Transit" - it was a shiny toy truck. Thanks a bunch!
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  • Reply 2 of 4
    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    I got Photoshop, ImageReady, and a OS 9 version of Macromedia Flash.



    Limited, but I hope it helps. I was looking for a specific iPod icon (right before Apple switched to a Generic white one) for ages. It looked nice.



    EDIT: you probably want the link.
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  • Reply 3 of 4
    rokrok Posts: 3,519member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Ebby

    I got Photoshop, ImageReady, and a OS 9 version of Macromedia Flash.



    Limited, but I hope it helps. I was looking for a specific iPod icon (right before Apple switched to a Generic white one) for ages. It looked nice.



    EDIT: you probably want the link.



    thanks for those, especially the photoshop one. i forgot all about that imageready icon -- perhaps my favorite icon AND splash screen of an app that i never used.



    i thought xicons.com (now interfacelift.com) would have some, but their search engine is so bad, it doesn't help at all. icons.cx has their spiffy apps, but they're all just a tad too os x.1-esque, if you know what i mean, and they're also stylized and based on the photoshop 6 era stuff. not bad, per se, but i like photoshop 7's icon, golive, what, 6?, and illustrator 10's as the perfect icons for their respective apps.



    here's a quote from Andrei Herasimchuk, former big design-dude at adobe themselves...



    Quote:

    But let me be fair, and openly critique the icons of my previous employer. Something I can now do since they can't fire me.



    I was at Adobe during the whole rebranding effort for the Creative Suite. When I saw the new boxes, I loved them. I absolutely dug the whole approach and was ecstatic to see the company finally leap three decades into the modern world of packaging design. The new look for the boxes were hip and cool, aesthetically pleasing and stood out on the shelves at Fry's. It was always ironic that Adobe of all companies had really ugly packaging through the late 90s since the audience were creative types.



    But branding can go too far, especially when it's misused. The icons for Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS and InDesign CS are perfect examples of that.

    Rather than find creative ways to make the new brand work as icons, Meta and the branding folks at Adobe pushed the packaging design onto the icons. I should add this was done against the judgement of many folks on the interface design, engineering and product management teams, who were rightly aghast at the move.



    The result is obvious, the new icons for the Creative Suite are about as hard to scan, recognize, discern and distinguish as any icons designed in the history of software.



    They are, in a few words, horribly inappropriate.



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  • Reply 4 of 4
    dr vannostrandr vannostran Posts: 110member
    I agree the new Adobe icons really suck. I am always clicking on the wrong freaking icon. What does feathers or birds have to do with photos or images? Now a camera lens filter and an eye, I can see the relationship.



    The old icons were nice looking and looked like professionally designed well thought out icons that are a good graphic representation of the programs. They were little works of art. The new icons don't represent the programs in anyway and are harder to tell apart. Plus they are just so plain looking. Maybe they were going for that minimalist look.
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