Victory
After the beta 5 release, it felt like we needed one final piece of robot artwork to really wrap up the entire Firefox 3 saga…something suitably epic and triumphant. So, in honor of today’s announcement that we have an official release date, I present to you:
(Click here for a bigger version.)
When I initially pitched the idea to Nobox, my concept was something like a triptych (quadtych?) that showed all the previous beta pages. Fortunately, they had the much better idea of combining the existing art with something new and even more grandiose, in the style of the classic Drew Struzan movie posters. From there, we ran with the movie poster concept, right down to the “Rated O for Open Source” tag at the bottom.
Big thanks to Jay, Hector and everyone at Nobox for all the creativity and expertise they’ve brought to this entire process. Finally, here are a few more random notes about the robot and what happens next:
* If you’re a fan of this art, we’ll soon be adding it to the Mozilla Store as a limited edition 18×24″ poster. More details on that to come…
* For a behind-the-scenes look at the early stages of the poster, check out the initial concept sketch.
* Currently the www.firefoxvictory.com URL points to the main Firefox download page, but I have a few ideas for turning it into a more participatory robot-related site. Stay tuned!
* Lastly, here’s a Flickr set of the entire series of Firefox 3 robot art.
June 11th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I demand this poster in 3′x5′ format! Awesome!
June 11th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Great montage! Really cool poster.
June 11th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Firefox Victory…
After the beta 5 release, it felt like we needed one final piece of robot artwork to really wrap up the entire Firefox 3 saga…something suitably epic and triumphant. So, in honor of today’s announcement that we have an official release date, Jo…
June 11th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
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June 12th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Firefox 3 Release Date Set; Robot Declares Victory | nerdd.net…
\r\nThe Firefox 3 beta robot is back for an encore, this time in celebration of the software\’s impe…
June 12th, 2008 at 2:25 am
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June 12th, 2008 at 2:29 am
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June 12th, 2008 at 3:40 am
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June 12th, 2008 at 5:23 am
Firefox 3: La Victoria del Robot…
Si bajaste alguna beta, habrás visto inusuales páginas de bienvenida, en las que aparecía un robot. "¡Victoria!" -Es lo que proclama el último diseño de la saga. En su página, el diseñador nos cuenta el proceso y permite ver todos los…
June 12th, 2008 at 6:51 am
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June 12th, 2008 at 7:50 am
[...] More information about this poster is available at John Slater’s blog, Into the Fuzz. [...]
June 12th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Beautiful is not the word, too dull ; I’d rather say tremendous. I’d love to have a 1875×2500 resolution!
June 12th, 2008 at 9:30 am
[...] [Photo Credit: John Slater] [...]
June 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlord.
But I guess I already said that.
June 12th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Mozilla releases Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3…
Image via Victory. Hot on the heels of Firefox 3 RC2, Mozilla yesterday (2008-06-11) released Firefox 3 RC3, this release candidate only directly affects Mac OS X users it addresses Bug 436575. Mozilla also announced yesterday that the finished version…
June 12th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
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June 13th, 2008 at 12:32 am
3ds max and photoshop rules ! IMHO …
June 13th, 2008 at 12:36 am
great work for the streets ! i need to print this in big format A1 …
June 13th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
I really wish the image was under Creative Commons license.
June 13th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
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June 15th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
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June 17th, 2008 at 5:39 am
[...] Bonus: Si das click en la imagen de arriba podrás bajar un archivo que podrás imprimir en un poster de 60cm por 90cm. Yo imprimí el mío este fin de semana en Office Max y me salió en MX$125.00 pesos. Cortesía: In to the fuzz [...]
June 17th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
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June 17th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
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June 17th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Very well done artwork
June 17th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Le message caché du robot…
En général, on appelle ça un œuf de Pâques, “Easter egg”. Et il est joliment référencé. C’est plus drôle comme argument pour vous faire passer à Firefox 3 que vous dire qu’il est bien évidemment supérieur aux autres navigateurs……
June 18th, 2008 at 3:55 am
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June 18th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
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June 19th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
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July 1st, 2008 at 6:08 pm
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August 19th, 2008 at 7:22 am
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October 12th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
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October 14th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
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October 24th, 2008 at 5:03 am
[...] looking robot is to make one eye larger than the other (and believe me, we also seriously put a lot of thought into robot design [...]
January 30th, 2009 at 12:22 am
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December 3rd, 2009 at 10:08 am
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