Mozilla rebrands

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@Mister44

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It’s a duck face.

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I like it.

[AnonyMouse]

And as everyone knows, ducks are dinosaurs.

[anon24181555]

When we did the titles to Seven at RGA/LA I never expected people casually writing about it to replace the v with a 7.

[nemomen]

Shepard Fairey did that original logo. It was pretty much perfect to my eyes. I could understand adapting parts to fit things as they expanded into new domains, but the original was a big part of Mozilla’s brand identity for aeons, and was just plain cool. Shame to see that thrown away for this new mediocrity. Also the original logo has some interesting history:

They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo

my favorite part:

@jwz

And then when people complained about that, I explained in detail that Futurism was a popular style of propaganda art on all sides of the early 20th century conflicts; it was not used only by the Soviets and the Chinese, but also by US in their own propaganda, particularly in recruitment posters and just about everything the WPA did, and even by the Red Cross. So if you looked at our branding and it made you think of Communism, well, I’m sorry, but that’s just a deep misunderstanding of Modern Art history: this is merely what poster art looked like in the 1930s, regardless of ideology!

That was complete bullshit, of course. Yes, I absolutely branded Mozilla.org that way for the subtext of “these free software people are all a bunch of commies.” I was driving trollies.

I trolled them so hard.

[Haystack]

This thing drives me crazy:

I mean, maybe if it was at the end of the show, instead of the beginning.