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Free wallpaper: 300+ Firefox wallpapers mega pack

kmdesign — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:06:35 +0000

More than 100 cool wallpapers in each of this mega pack for all the Firefox fans out there. The resolutions of these wallpapers are 1024×768 and 1600×1200.

Download: 192 1024×768 Firefox wallpapers pack | 132 1600×1200 Firefox wallpapers pack

Branding: Firefox slightly refreshes their logo

kmdesign — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:18:37 +0000

The slightly refreshed identity was designed by Anthony Piraino from the Iconfactory, directed by the logo’s original designer along with the team at Mozilla. As described in the extensive creative brief, the goal was to modernize the overall look of the logo.

You have to look close, but the most notable differences include finer hair detail and depth shading on the fox, flames that wrap around the globe, and a few heavy coats of gloss on the globe itself. I don’t know if it really looks more modern, but it is definitely more detailed. Which is not necessarily a good thing for an identity—a lot of the charm of the original logo was in its iconic stylization. But truth be told, it looks pretty much the same.

The original Firefox logo was designed by Jon Hicks in 2004, based on a concept from Daniel Burka and sketched by Stephen Desroches (discussed here). Daniel Burka’s concept was partially inspired by a piece of artwork found in his childhood bible (pictured above), before going though its many iterations:

Source from: http://www.idsgn.org/

Could Firefox 3.5 Spark a Web Design Boom?

kmdesign — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:22:03 +0000

One feature of Firefox’s new version allows the browser to display any font. Here’s how good-looking the results can be.

Mozilla recently released version 3.5 of its browser, Firefox, and it contained one tiny feature that could be a huge boon for web design: The ability to display any font, thanks to “@font-face,” which allows designers to store fonts on their own servers, and reference them on their web pages. Designers Ian Lynam and Craig Mod have just posted a primer on the new feature, which shows just how much is possible. (A screencap of the primer is pictured above.)

If you have Firefox 3.0 but not 3.5, update now to see how dramatic the page looks, before and after. Previously, web designers who couldn’t bear the thought of compromising on their type have relied on Flash or Javascript–which are, of course, clunky and annoying. @font-face is miles more elegant.

Safari has offered @font-face linking ever since version 3.1; Opera, meanwhile, has announced that the protocol will be supported in its next version. Internet Explorer, of course, is waaaaaay behind.

If you’re interested in a longer, more detailed discussion of @font-face, check out this post on Mozilla Hacks.

Information from: FastCompany