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Eli is known (especially around Designer News) for being very critical of the flat design trend. See pretty much any of his other recent blog posts for further

• scott_s 11y ago
  Am I correct in interpreting his claim to mean: The art of icon design that I like is steadily being lost?
  • ethanbond 11y ago
    You're correct in interpreting his claim to mean: Declaring that icon design is being lost is sure to stir up some senseless and unproductive controversy and will fit nicely into my series of equally unsubstantiated and sloppy critiques of design/designers/design industry.
  • derefr 11y ago
    Stripping away the politics, the objective claim is that the specific design skill required to make really tiny visually-distinctive skeuomorphs of objects is being left unexercised and untaught (and therefore might slip away) because graphic designers aren't using really tiny visually-distinctive skeuomorphs for much, instead having shifted right now to using more glyph-like or logotype-like stylizations. This claim (that the skill is being left unexercised and untaught) is one I would disagree with: these things are getting created, whether or not they're getting created as "icons." Depicting terrain and objects and inventories in a lot of video games require exactly the same skill, for example.