I’ve been working on a Mac App Store Replacement icon recently.  I’m trying to make this icon loosely resemble the one on 5th Avenue, so I have to fix a bunch of things.  The Apple logo will be hanging on the inside of the building and I’ll smooth it out a bit.  The walls need to be clear and I need to add the joints that hold them together. On icon design, I tend to start off with 256 px rather than 512 because I feel that 256 is the most “usable” size.  512 px is way to big, and I feel is only used to show off your attention to detail.  256 px is easier to scale down to the smaller sizes and also easier to scale up to twice the size and add all the details that wouldn’t be necessary on the smaller sizes.
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I’ve been working on a Mac App Store Replacement icon recently.  I’m trying to make this icon loosely resemble the one on 5th Avenue, so I have to fix a bunch of things.  The Apple logo will be hanging on the inside of the building and I’ll smooth it out a bit.  The walls need to be clear and I need to add the joints that hold them together.

On icon design, I tend to start off with 256 px rather than 512 because I feel that 256 is the most “usable” size.  512 px is way to big, and I feel is only used to show off your attention to detail.  256 px is easier to scale down to the smaller sizes and also easier to scale up to twice the size and add all the details that wouldn’t be necessary on the smaller sizes.