Web browser upstart Firefox fans at Oregon State University recently created this nifty ‘crop circle’ of the Mozilla Firefox logo in a field in the Amity area. The students decided the stunt was the appropriate way to celebrate the 200 million downloads of the open source browser – (a feat, no doubt helped in part due by the massive amounts of bugs and security issues with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer). Their project, conducted with almost ‘military precision’ over a 14 hour period makes for a fun read and is reminiscent or their previous project – painting a huge firefox mural in the middle of the Oregon State University quad. Sporadic Nonsense features more on the on the Firefox crop- circle on their blog. People are now waiting breathlessly to see if the icon shows up on Google Earth.
Speaking of the Firefox logo, it’s interesting to see the evolution of the design over at Acts of Volition. If you take a close look at the logo, it’s acutally a fox (on fire, natch) wrapped around a globe. The design was created by UK based illustrator/designer Jon Hicks based on an original idea by Daniel Burka and resultant sketch by Stephen Desroches. Designers who are interested in working with Mozilla on Firefox design, branding or marketing can always volunteer at the Mozilla Marketing Project.
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