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 theme.
“Mozilla Thunderbird,” “The application that gives email a big hug.” 🙂
Thats a shame, I was trying to go for more of a “P**s off! This is MY letter!” look…
I love it! Any idea when it will show up in the nightlies?
Oh, I /so/ wish that thunderbird would support either importing data from OS X’s address book, or just used OS X’s address book altogether…
Totally beautiful icon. I think it’s very, very cool how the mix of development prowess from the Mozilla programmers is mixing with the aesthetics of the mozilla visual identity team. A great partnership, for sure!
I downloaded the April 25 nightly, and it’s got Jon’s icon. Thunderbirds looking real slick—makes me look forward to having all components of the mozilla suite in stand-alone form.
New Thunderbird Icon Coming
Simply amazing, as usual. John Hicks has an amazing eye for icons, as well as everything else design. I also just found out about the newpinstripe theme for the OSX version of Thunderbird, which looks incredible. I’m so excited that I’m…