Thunderbird’s Extreme Mac-over
After the Pinstripe theme landed in Firebird, icon designer Stephen Horlander and I dove in to a companion Thunderbird theme. We started in early November 2003 and finally hit the “let’s stop fiddling with it and get it out there” phase in March of 2004. I’ve gone through the messages that Stephen and I exchanged [...]
Our little ‘bird is all grown up
When I started using Thunderbird, I must admit that I had to force myself. Stephen Horlander and I were creating the Pinstripe theme and I was happily using Apple’s Mail program. A year ago Thunderbird felt unfinished (I can hear you say “duh”), but I needed that dogfood taste to inform the design of Pinstripe. [...]
Thunderbird 0.6! Screenshots inside!
The 0.6 version of Thunderbird, the open source email and news reader from Mozilla.org, was released today. This is the first release to feature the Pinstripe theme and Jon Hicks’ spiffy new icon art. Mac users will also appreciate the new mail notification badge in the dock. Try it out! Keep in mind that this [...]
Thunderbird Logo Update
Jon Hicks, with input from the Mozilla Visual Identity Team, has designed a beautiful new logo and icon for Mozilla Thunderbird. Strong imagery. Great colors.
The new icon hasn’t made its way into the Mac OS X Thunderbird nightly builds yet, but when it is included it will be a great compliment to the new Pinstripe [...]
Pinstripe Thunderbird has landed!
I’m proud to announce that Pinstripe has become the new default theme on the Mac version of Mozilla Thunderbird. The theme is a collaboration between myself and designer Stephen Horlander that attempts to make Thunderbird feel right at home on the Mac desktop.
Here’s a picture of the theme in action. You can try it yourself [...]