Alex Faaborg

Is there any more progress to brief us on yet?.
Yep, coming shortly. I’ve been pushing the boundaries of the “or so” part of 24 hours due to some work on the reviewer’s guide (people are getting on airplanes to talk to journalists so that became a hard deadline and took priority).

Is it possible to [...]

Note: this is a concept icon rendering for Firefox 3.5. New and updated designs in the ongoing sequence of iterations will be posted every 24 hours or so.

The designer Stephen Horlander recently created a concept rendering of an updated Firefox icon. Stephen has been a long time member of the Mozilla community and [...]

Note: this is a draft icon rendering for Firefox 3.5, subsequent iterations will be posted every 24 hours or so.

The icon is being rendered by Anthony Piraino at the Iconfactory. The design is based on a conceptual sketch by Jon Hicks, as well as a few rendered aspects (nose, parts of the planet).
Background Information [...]

Note: this is a draft icon rendering for Firefox 3.5, subsequent iterations will be posted every 24 hours or so.

The icon is being rendered by Anthony Piraino at the Iconfactory. The design is based on a conceptual sketch by Jon Hicks.
Background Information on the Project

-Creative Brief
-Evolving a Product Brand
-Thinking about Refreshing the Firefox Icon

Below is a creative brief that details the early history and planned evolution for the Firefox icon. Background information on the project can be found in previous posts about why we think it’s a good time to update the application icon, and the broader topic of evolving a technology product brand.
The overall direction for [...]

We are now in the process of refreshing the Firefox application icon, so I wanted to address some of the initial questions we are getting, and look at some specific examples in the technology industry of product brand evolution.
Questions
Isn’t a .5 release the wrong time to revise the application icon, shouldn’t we wait for Firefox [...]

Recently there has been some controversy related to IE8, Critical Windows Updates, and multi-step wizard style interfaces vs. leveraging default settings. But most of these debates have centered on things like text size and interactive flows. I personally believe there is also a visual design component to this issue as well.
Standard Dialog Box [...]

As we get closer to releasing Shiretoko (Firefox 3.5) we are considering that this might be a good time to update and evolve the Firefox application icon. We will likely be leveraging some conceptual work created by Jon Hicks during the development of Firefox 3, but otherwise we are just now getting started.
As the [...]