Almost sad to see this Icarus design go. Highly stylized, yet still quite simple treatment of a central character in Greek Mythology, this Icarus icon could be utilized in a wide range of applications (though the theme is more or less laid out). While most of you are probably familiar with the legend of Icarus, some of it bears repeating, courtesy of Wiki, and tells the story of Icarus and his father escaping from a hellish prison…
Daedalus fashioned a pair of wings for himself and his son, made of feathers and wax. Before they took off from the prison, Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, as the wax would melt, nor too close to the sea, as the wax would dampen. Overcome by the sublime feeling that flying gave him, Icarus soared through the sky joyfully, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted his wings. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms. And so, Icarus fell into the sea in the area which bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos.
A little more detailed than our knowledge. Good to know.
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