The icon set was rendered in a fashion that alluded to the visual concept of a harsh spotlight shining in a criminals face while he's being questioned by the police. Hence the three-dimensional/high contrast rendering of each icon. Photographs of four out of the six objects were taken into the photo room and photographed with a spotlight shining on them giving them the high aesthetic I was looking for. It also allowed me to set them with the same general viewpoint, The gritty sepia and gray colors allude to the black and white news papers of the time.
Edge lines were drawn in on each icon to help divide the white inside the icon from the negative space around the icon. Since the two bleed together in the one color set these edge lines were extended from tiny little stubs that suggested the edge to a more complete line that truly defined the edge. In the two color set the two colors work together to establish a better legibility of each icon.
Particularly, a couple of modifications were made to the stack of money and alcohol jug to make them more legible. The jug began as a bottle, then was two bottles, then it was a jug with a glass (and it looked like a thermos), then it was just a jug (but the handle was still messed up), and finally it was rotated and it pulled it off. The money had a few too many indentions in it and had no band around it at first. Knocking out some of those indentions and adding the band to it kept it from looking like a brick and made it look like a stack of cash.
The extended edges of each icon and the same general angle were used to establish a cohesiveness in the icon set. The amount of black to white space also serves as a unifier although on a lesser value.
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