Icon Art

A selection of icons for various uses.



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Context

With the advent of Windows XP and Mac OS X, a new standard for icon design dawned for desktop developers. Old 16-color icons looked terribly out-of-date when running on these modern operating systems.

Solution

Many of these images are "nothing new": they've been borrowed from other sources and modified to fit a need. I think one of the most important skills in icon design is to know when to borrow and how to leverage existing concepts.

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