What was it like creating the super small Oslo CMS icons based on the larger, standard Oslo icons?
Brian: If creating Oslo was challenging, the CMS icons were something far and beyond! There was definitely a bit of trial and error with those. Yet the stylistic simplicity of Oslo did keep the set from becoming a bad pixel mistake. Josh: Any advice for would-be icon designers? Brian: Practice, practice, practice. I don’t think anybody, even the Grand Master Icon Crafters, were any great shakes right out of the gate. OK, maybe there are a few Japanese icon artists who sprang full grown from the forehead of Zeus, but you’re probably not one of them! Josh: What application(s) do you use to create your bitmap (pixel) icons now? Brian: Still using ResEdit occasionally, but mostly only when I want to force myself to use a very limited palette. Otherwise it’s Photoshop. I’ve tinkered a bit with Pixen, but that’s been many months ago and I should revisit it. Josh: Alright, a couple for fun. What do you listen to while you’re working away? Brian: A small bit of news on the radio (the box that
