http://www.intothefuzz.com Mozilla creative, branding and other random thoughts. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:07:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Like a lot of people at Mozilla, a big reason why I was drawn to this job was the opportunity to be part of an organization where the primary motivation was working towards a worthy cause rather than the financial bottom line. So, I'm particularly excited that we're taking that ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2009/06/16/doing-good-deeds-mozilla-style/ Chris Blizzard and the Mozilla evangelism team recently launched a site called hacks.mozilla.org, devoted to showing off a variety of Firefox 3.5 demos over the next 35 days. Although the demos are undoubtedly extremely cool, my personal favorite thing about the site is the throwback-style design by Mozilla Labs' Sean ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2009/06/09/old-school-design-new-age-technology/ The Browser Wars are old news, and even the Browser T-Shirt War isn't generating the headlines (ok, one blog post) that it once did. These days it's all about the Hot Air Balloon Race. Mozilla.com homepage, June 2008-present: Microsoft's Bing.com homepage, June 2009: In the "quirky illustrated version" category, here's one more for ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2009/06/01/the-hot-air-balloon-race-is-on/ Mike Beltzner caught this hilariously wrong caption during John Lilly's recent interview with Fox Business News. It's funny in so many ways: http://www.intothefuzz.com/2009/05/28/caption-of-the-day/ Just wanted to share a few links (mostly Mozilla design stuff) that have been populating my tabs lately: * Alex Faaborg talks about refreshing the Firefox icon...like all his posts, it's extremely thought-provoking. The comments are interesting, too. * Looking back a bit, Mary Colvig reports that last year's amazing Download Day ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2009/05/08/for-your-clicking-pleasure/ Last week I posted the initial design direction for the Mozilla Creative Collective site for review. I was extremely pleased with Airbag's work, but based on your feedback as well as our own internal thoughts, I asked them to make a few additional tweaks: * fix the type treatment in the ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2009/05/05/mozilla-creative-collective-site-design-round-2/ Last week Mozillians from around the world gathered in Mountain View for our annual all-hands meeting, during which time we wore name badges with the following personal info on the back: 1) what we do at Mozilla, 2) what we did before Mozilla, 3) favorite movie. Seeing people's answers was ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2009/05/04/meet-mozilla-marketing/ Work on the Mozilla Creative Collective has shifted from creating the logo to designing the website, and once again we need your help. The initial mockup from the design wizards at Airbag Industries is below...take a look and let us know what you think via the comments section here, by ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2009/04/27/mozilla-creative-collective-site-design-round-1/ Tara and I haven't blogged about the Community Store much lately, but the inventory there just keeps quietly growing and growing: as of today it offers 114 different Mozilla-themed shirts for sale. That's a pretty impressive number when you think about it! Most of the new shirts (we had around 60 ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2009/04/23/114-mozilla-t-shirts-and-counting/ I recently had the honor of giving an online talk about open source design as part of the Mozilla Labs Design Challenge (which in turn is part of their Concept Series). It covers a lot of the same topics that I've been blogging about lately (how community participation can help ... http://www.intothefuzz.com/2009/04/01/talking-about-open-source-design/