Creative Collective Design Challenge: Firefox Goes Mobile
*This is crossposted from the Mozilla Blog. I’d also like to give a huge thanks to Mike Morgan, Ryan Snyder and Craig Cook from WebDev; Krupa, Stephen, Raymond, Vishal, Milos and TMZ from QA; and Tara Shahian and Jeff Zeller from Marketing. They all did amazing work in putting this together really smoothly and efficiently.*
We just launched a big new feature on the Mozilla Creative Collective: design challenges. The idea is to give our creative community the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to Mozilla by focusing everyone’s efforts on a particular topic. We’ll be hosting these design challenges roughly once a month, and we’re kicking things off with Firefox Goes Mobile.
The goal of the Firefox Goes Mobile challenge is to create the official promotional emblem of the mobile version of Firefox (which is getting closer and closer to release). The winning image will be used on everything from websites like mozilla.com and addons.mozilla.org to schwag like t-shirts and stickers, so if you’re a designer it’s a great way to get involved and make a big impact on a really important project.
To sum up, we’re asking you to abstractly represent mobile-themed concepts like convenience, connectivity and innovation in a simple, yet easily understandable graphic…basically telling the mobile story with a single image. Not an easy task, but of course that’s why it’s called a challenge! There are more details about what we’re looking for on the Firefox Goes Mobile page, so if you’re thinking about getting involved definitely read through those first.
The submission period lasts until September 30th (with voting extended through October 7th)…we can’t wait to see what the Mozilla community comes up with!
September 3rd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
This is great on so many levels.
Challenges like this will really show what the Mozilla Creative Collective is all about and what it was created for aside from being a cool site to view eye candy (which I love).
It’s a tough challenge indeed.
I understand that a challenge is a challenge, but there should be some sort of visual brand association portrayed in the graphic shouldn’t there? Or is the emblem more of a backdrop to the logo (whatever that will be).
Even the winning Firefox 3 t-shirt design (referenced to on the challenge page) uses the Firefox wordmark. Without it, it would just be a fox surrounded by some figures of people.
Mozillians would get it, but that’s not the point.
Will the Firefox logo be used for Mozilla’s mobile browser?
Perhaps making it clear that the Fennec logo shouldn’t be used would be a good idea even though there is no mention of Fennec.
I had jokingly offered bribes on IRC (during Fennec testday) to anyone who would/could tell me what the actual product name will be. No takers though.
By the way, White Freightliner Blues is a cool jam.
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:30 pm
W00t! Excited to see see what our amazing community comes up with.
September 21st, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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October 12th, 2009 at 5:02 am
Hi friends…..
I want ur feedbacks for my designs…???
Thank you….
regards shiva….