Rocking Your Firefox Just a Little Bit More
You’ve very likely already read about Rock Your Firefox, the cool new Facebook app that enhances the Firefox Add-ons experience. What you haven’t read about until now is the previously secret Sesame Street connection.
As we were branding the program, Justin Scott wanted an eye-catching design that would make Rock Your Firefox stand out from all the other Facebook apps out there. We hit upon the idea of using a loud 70s graphic style to get our point across. I then contacted Lee Tom, a designer who did an excellent job of translating all my random thoughts and pop culture references into this:
One of the pop culture references I gave Lee as direction was this extremely groovy vintage Sesame Street clip. I’m probably dating myself here, but it was one of my favorite things as a kid and I was very happy to find it on YouTube several weeks ago (completely unrelated to this project). You’ll see the influence on Rock Your Firefox as you watch:
So that’s the story behind the story. And if you’re into this design, I should mention that Rock Your Firefox desktop wallpaper is available in several sizes here.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
I remember that video very well. Love the story!
August 7th, 2007 at 7:59 am
[...] John Slater Mozilla Creative Director has written about the story behind the cool retro look of the Rock Your Firefox Facebook application. If you want to know what’s the connection between Sesame Street and Firefox, read his post. [...]
August 7th, 2007 at 8:33 am
To this day I can’t count to 12 without singing that song.
August 7th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
rock your fox…
If you’re a Facebook user and a Firefox user, this will probably be of interest to you. And if you can’t get enough of those awesome visual stylin’s you should check this out…….
August 12th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
ROFL, I remember that. There was also a parody of it on Family Guy.
September 10th, 2007 at 11:50 am
[...] Your Firefox. I really like the way it turned out. Lee Tom did a great job putting a new twist on his original Rock Your Firefox art…I’ll definitely be wearing this one a [...]
December 10th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Superb. How about BotP for a theme? Firefox and the Fiery Phoenix would be good friends.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
[...] Tara Shahian and I contacted designer Lee Tom (creator of the Rock Your Firefox artwork and Spread Firefox t-shirt, among other things) and worked with him to create [...]