Mozilla Logos
Which was you favourite internet browser, as for me I love Mozilla Firefox. Everyone knows Mozilla and Firefox was one of the award-winning yet powefull web browser, but have you ever know who’s the person behind this Mozilla Firefox logo.
Firefox Logo Creation
Thanks to John Hicks at Hicksdesign.co.uk for creatively creating the Firefox logo until what you’ve seen today. At first, Firefox or the original named was Firebird but later change to Firefox is a cute red panda but it doesn’t really bring up the concept and later Jon came out with Japanese brush painting of fox.
The final chosen design was a concept from Daniel Burka and a rough sketched by Stephen Desroches, where this two person was part of the important role of branding the Firefox logo which then later Hicks rendered using Fireworks MX.
Daniel Burka was one of the partners at Silverorange, a web development company in Price Edward Island, Canada. Currently Daniel stay at San Francisco and he was the creative director at Digg.com. While Stephen Desroches loves photography and his working at the same company, Silverorange.
Jon Hicks do lots of logo designing, branding projects and also icons all for Hicksdesign.co.uk. Hicksdesign was actually is a creative partnership of Jon and Leigh Hicks where they started in 2003. Leigh do lots of print design job as well as design project management, both of them are creative and professionals on design experience.
and the time when Firefox 0.8 was out, this was the official Firefox web browser until now.
Thunderbird Logo Creation
Following on from the branding of Firefox, comes the new logo for Mozilla’s email client, Thunderbird. The time when Stephen Desroches again sketched out the original idea for Firefox back in December, and Thunderbird was sketched out to be like this :
Jon later fleshing theses sketches out, trying various bird types.
But none of the sketched looks as what he find good reflects the idea of Thunderbird. Finally Jon found a reference to a mythical Thunderbird in Native American art, which had a crest. He really loved the idea, and finished it to the final sketch.
Sketch No.6 is a basic vectors sketch using No.5 as a basis and adding the crest + some minor adjustment on the posture makes what it looks until what you’ve seen today.
