Alex Faaborg

Later this week we will be shipping the first Release Candidate build of Firefox 3.5, which is currently in the process of being evaluated by our exceptional QA team and testing community. This also means that we are now ready to finalize the design of the new Firefox icon.
I want to thank everyone who [...]

Lovely screenshots. I don’t see any Linux ones. Is Mozilla ever going to learn? Don’t you remember the whole visual refresh issue that happened on this very blog?
My apologies for the delay, updating the icon on linux was slightly more involved, partly because we were adding support for additional resolutions, and partly because I had [...]

Here is how iteration 14 of the new Firefox icon would appear in context on mozilla.com, XP, OS X and Vista. I’ll try to get some Linux images posted as soon as we have a patch ready.
The icon is being rendered by Anthony Piraino at the Iconfactory. The design has been influenced by [...]

Yesterday and today there was a flurry of quick iterations on the new Firefox icon based on all of the feedback we have been receiving. Tomorrow I’ll likely have some in context shots of iteration 14 posted (similar to the images of iteration 10 in context).
The icon is being rendered by Anthony Piraino [...]

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 [...]