Alex Faaborg

Here is how iteration 10 of the new Firefox icon appears in context on the XP, OS X and Vista desktops and file systems.
The icon is being rendered by Anthony Piraino at the Iconfactory. The design has been influenced by a conceptual sketch by Jon Hicks, and a conceptual render by Stephen Horlander.
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…and lots of other things, especially if you are a Web developer interested in really cool integration and access (demo requires 3.5). But if you are a user, you might be thinking “spare my the ideology, what’s so great about open video aside from its level of openy openness.” Well, now video is [...]

Note: this is a draft icon rendering for Firefox 3.5, subsequent iterations will be posted every 24 hours or so.
This tail is essentially a blending of iterations 8 and 9. The top of the tail features the dimensionality and highlight lines of i9’s design, and the bottom the tail softly transitions into the fox’s [...]

Note: this is a draft icon rendering for Firefox 3.5, subsequent iterations will be posted every 24 hours or so.
Today we have a double header, with iterations 8 and 9 exploring various ways to paint and light the Firefox’s tail.

The icon is being rendered by Anthony Piraino at the Iconfactory. The design has been [...]

We are now in the process of landing a few refreshed icons for the Firefox 3.5 themes. Across all 4 platforms roughly 25 of the icons are either being tweaked or are entirely new (there were some last minute feature additions, like geolocation). Here are a few highlights of things that either just [...]

Note: this is a draft icon rendering for Firefox 3.5, the next iteration will be posted on Tuesday (Monday is a holiday in the states).
This iteration features a colored and textured version of the tail, with a few modifications to the shape relative to iteration 6.

The icon is being rendered by Anthony Piraino at the [...]

Note: this is a draft icon rendering for Firefox 3.5, subsequent iterations will be posted every 24 hours or so. Also note that while these drafts appear with numbers and in a chronological order, each draft experiments with a variety of different ideas as we try things out to see what they look like. [...]

Here are some answers to a particular question that came in about how refreshing a brand can be fraught with peril.
So what are people supposed to say if they actually prefer the previous one for aesthetic reasons? Newer is not automatically better. If you are going to dismiss all “I still prefer the original” as [...]

Note: this is a draft icon rendering for Firefox 3.5, subsequent iterations will be posted every 24 hours or so. Also note that while these drafts appear with numbers and in a chronological order, each draft experiments with a variety of different ideas as we try things out to see what they look like. [...]

Note: this is a draft icon rendering for Firefox 3.5, subsequent iterations will be posted every 24 hours or so. Also note that while these drafts appear with numbers and in a chronological order, each draft experiments with a variety of different ideas as we try things out to see what they look like. [...]