Better still, download the 0.8 release and try it out. If you’ve not seen this yet, Kevin Gerich has posted screenshots of all the different screens so that you have proof of all its lickability. I still have some work to do on this and other Mozilla branding, so the project continues.Ġ.8 is also the first milestone release to have the gorgeous new OS X aqua theme. Starting with the 128x128 version in all its detail, I scaled this down to the various sizes, and began removing excess and simplifying the shapes.Īs you can see, once you get down to 16x16, which is used in areas like the windows taskbar and OS X list views, its nearly impossible. OS X icons start at 128x128 pixels, Windows XP uses 48x48 whereas 95-2000 only has a maximum size of 32x32. The updated gradient tools in MX make this possible too.Īs with all icons, the smaller the resolution, the harder it is to create a legible icon. This new main logo doesn’t really stand out from the crowd and looks like the Opera logo compared to the Firefox or Mozilla logo. The new logo, which removed the fox, was an example of oversimplification going too far, some argued. for the new, especially when users are familiar with a logo and visual identity. (SharpComparisons / ) When Firefox unveiled a new logo a couple weeks ago, many users were enraged. Firefox Browser is a Mozilla locomotive product trusted by hundreds of. I’ve been using Fireworks over Illustrator or Photoshop for icon design as I love the way I can work in vectors and see the result in pixels, rather than smooth vectors. Firefox’s new logo spawned a wave of memes mocking the trend of oversimplification. The final chosen design was a concept from Daniel Burka and sketched by Stephen Desroches, which I then rendered using Fireworks MX. The only concept I had done that I felt happy with was this, inspired by seeing a Japanese brush painting of a fox: A firefox is actually a cute red panda, but it didn’t really conjure up the right imagery. The timescales were tight (the design would chosen 2nd January), and the concept difficult to illustrate. Over Christmas (thanks Steven!) ideas and concepts were put forward. I jumped at the chance, and today Firefox 0.8 is finally released, and the work is no longer confidential. The branding team came into being after Steven wrote an article recommending changes to Mozilla’s existing branding. The blue globe was made in gradient shades and featured a stylized orange Fox, curving along its bottom, snuggling the globe. He asked if I would like to join a recently created Mozilla branding team, with the immediate aim of producing a new logo identity for the Firebird browser, soon to be renamed firefox (Ben Goodger has written up the reasons and process for the name change). The new logo was created after the browser was renamed to Firefox in 2004. Shortly before Christmas, I had an email from a chap called Steven Garrity, who works for Silverorange, and runs a blog called ‘Acts of Volition’, in which he publishes a radio show on regular basis.
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