Tracking the ’Fox
If you are a fan of the Firefox web browser you’ve probably spent a minute or two pondering the application’s primary symbol—a little orange fox wrapped around a blue globe. The Firefox and Thunderbird icon sets were designed by a hand-picked Mozilla team including Jon Hicks of Hicksdesign in the U.K. Hicks has a great web site and has worked on some pretty cool stuff, including the web site of conflict resolution and reconciliation organisation The Forgiveness Project. Hicks’ article Branding Firefox discusses his work on everyone’s favourite web critter. This article, and Hicks’ web site, are definitely worth a look.
Dead Reckoning » Archive » Jon Hicks’ New Logo is The Joint
[...] Jon Hicks (of Firefox icon fame) has a new logo, and it’s freaking awesome. Hicks took his inspiration from Kazuya Sakai’s Filles de Kilimanjaro III (pictured), a tribute to Miles Davis that he glimpsed in the Blanton Museum of Art while he was in Austin for SXSW this year. The new Hicksdesign logo is an electrified scalectrix mobius strip psychedelic double-cheeseball and it’s totally fantastic. You’ll have to hit his site if you want to see it but these images should put you in the mood. It has totally got my juices flowing; only very recently I have been thinking about the possibility of developing Zero to One-Eighty with a particular seventies aesthetic that’s stuck with me like glue since childhood—I think of it as the “brown and orange blob retro glass” style. Other than that, it’s kind of hard to describe, and it’s really hard to find anything that looks remotely like what I’m thinking about. These “mondo circles” are the best I can do, but imagine them even blobbier in much warmer browns, reds, yellows and oranges, and with shifting colour densities as you walk past them. (I think this was the pattern on the wall of a place we used to go when I was a kid.) If anyone can help me identify examples of this kind of work, or suggest places where I could go looking for it, I would be very appreciative. [...]
April 14th, 2006 at 11:44 am #