Recent Work: Mahalo

Logo design for Mahalo, the human powered search engine. Hicksdesign also consulted on the site design as well as creating its icons. ‘Mahalo’ is Hawaiian for ‘Thank you’, and various related imagery was explored before settling on the Plumeria flower from a Leis.

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Recent Work: ReallyWorried.com

Logo design for ReallyWorried.com (site design by Stuff & Nonsense). Created using a hand-drawn version of Expletive Script, coupled with Omnes Black.

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Time to redesign the logo methinks

Whether its leaf logos, logos that have similar 3 shape patterns or both, I’m starting to think its time to redesign. I’m not crying ‘copy cats’ here by the way, I’m just starting to feel run of the mill:

I think I’ve taken the leaf theme as far as I can – its time for a rethink. A rethink that I’ll do in all that spare time of course ;o)

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Spot the difference

When I mentioned that ABC News used the ‘older version of the logo’, there were a few people wondering just what was so old about it.

After the initial rush to get the Firefox logo out for v8, it was soon enlarged for use in the situations such as the windows installer graphics, and its many flaws were enlarged too. I recreated the logo in Illustrator, this time paying much more attention to detail. This was going to be a version that would hold up to being printed large (like this!).

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Bare Bones means Comic Sans

Bare Bones have some explaining to do with their new BBEdit icon…

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Thunderbird

Following on from the branding of Firefox, comes the new logo for Mozilla’s email client, Thunderbird. When Stephen Desroches sketched out the orginal idea for Firefox back in December, he had in mind how this affects the other applications, and Thunderbird was sketched out too:

After Firefox 0.8 came out, I started work on fleshing theses sketches out, trying various bird types. Early on we decided to keep the envelope metaphor, and include a globe. At this point I couldn’t find any reference to a real Thunderbird, so I didn’t have a starting point. I tried a few approaches:

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branding firefox

Shortly before Christmas, I had an email from a chap called Steven Garrity, who works for Silverorange, and runs a blog called ‘Acts of Volition’, in which he publishes a radio show on regular basis. (really worth a listen BTW). He asked if I would like to join a recently created Mozilla branding team, with the immediate aim of producing a new logo identity for the Firebird browser, soon to be renamed firefox (Ben Goodger has written up the reasons and process for the name change). The branding team came into being after Steven wrote an article recommending changes to Mozilla’s existing branding. I jumped at the chance, and today Firefox 0.8 is finally released, and the work is no longer confidential.

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