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It’s an exciting day for our visual design community!

First, we launched the next phase of our partnership with Infectious: a design challenge based around the theme of technology making people’s lives better. Or, as they put it, “People and Robots: Best Friends Forever“. Past Infectious challenges have produced some great work, so I can’t wait to see what comes as a result of this one.

Stay tuned for more updates on the challenge, and definitely submit your own stuff if you’re feeling inspired (the grand prize is $1000 + other goodies). If the challenge submissions make me half as happy as this promo graphic it’ll definitely be a big success:

(Site note: any resemblance the above graphic and this cereal box is more than coincidental.)

Also, we also took a big step towards launching the Mozilla Creative Collective by unveiling the new creative.mozilla.org site. It mostly just features placeholder content for now, but this is where the MCC will live and it’s a nice hint at what the final site will look like.

Speaking of the Creative Collective, our fearless Web Dev leader Mike Morgan is on the case, and we’re moving full speed ahead towards a beta launch in early August, with more features coming soon after that. In addition to the contributions from Mike and his team, Tara Shahian and Jeff Zeller are currently plowing through the endless list of details that accompany a site release, and it’s exciting to see the progress being made.

One of our big pre-launch tasks involves bringing in as much of the existing Firefox-inspired community art (like these wallpapers) that we can, so if you have anything you’d like to be included in the beta launch please contact me directly.

So, to sum up, there’s lots of good stuff happening in the world of Mozilla design (and I haven’t even mentioned all the activity happening with Personas). More coming soon!