As Lead Visual Designer for Mozilla, Sean works hard at trying to make pretty pictures. Embedded in the Creative wing of the Engagement team, he churns out rasters and vectors for both Mozilla and the greater global Mozilla community.Logomania!
My first month as Visual Designer with Mozilla Labs has been nothing short of funmazing. I’ve basically been working solely on the elements of design that I love the most – logos and interfaces. I’ve posted previously on the UI design I am working on for Personas, so I thought I’d share some of the logos that have been keeping me busy.
Bespin
This was a fun challenge of recreating the softness of clouds using nothing but vector illustration. Thanks to CS4 and the glory of opaque-to-transparent gradient mesh, thing worked out rather well. I’ll be posting a step-by-step tutorial of how this one was created at a later date.
Personas
This was simply a small update to the previous logo I had created for Personas. The fox mask received a new coat of polish and the leather strap received some lovin’ too. The new unified Mozilla Labs wordmark was added as well.
Mozilla Labs Concept Series
Another challenge I was excited to tackle was illustrating glass in vector only. I thought I’d update the Concept Series logo with some new active beakers, bubbling with action. This logo isn’t fully completed as I’m going to be playing around with different colored liquids and adding much more “action” within. Stay tuned!
Mozilla Add-ons
The latest logo in my list is for Mozilla Add-ons. If you recognize the elements, they’re from my previous post showcasing the steampunked Fox with his arsenal of goodies. You can’t beat the classy look of brass and leather together. Classic!
Please let me know what your thoughts are on this set of logos. Some are finalized, but feedback is always welcome as I look to future design challenges.
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First! Sorry, didn’t mean to be such a cock. Great designs as always, and love the cloud effect. I have to say that though that the fox mask makes me feel ooky for some reason. Maybe it’s the leather strap as opposed to the expected elastic that makes me feel funny (like when you climb up a rope in gym class).
Great stuff! Very glad to have you on board.
Very cool to have designers in.
Bespin, personas and concept series look cool.
For add-ons, the “modular” stuff doesn’t ring the bell, imho, though stylish.
My two cents
I think the Personas one looks a little scary with the black eyes? Bespin logo is good. Addons one could do with a few tweaks I think. The pencil seems to be a little off on the perspective/3D side of things? For some reason it doesn’t quite look right like I can’t really tell whether it’s pointing towards or away from the viewer. I think the box (or whatever it is) could do with a bit more definition downwards. It seems too white. I love the Concept Series logo though, my favourite. The colours and look of the liquids is very good.
What does vector only mean?
Awesome work Sean – and echoing John — it’s great to have you on the team.
The fox from Personas is sad
and makes me sad. If you put the leather strap on his head, is gonna be Rambo 
– please draw some eyes.
Mozilla Labs logo – very nice draw – I just don’t like the colors. Maybe put yellow, green (green sounds good – instead of the blood there). The orange is ok. The “Labs” have some bubbles coming out, you could make them come out of the bottles.
The Add-ons logo is just brilliant. Doctor Fox too. Congrats.
I wonder if the reason people are reacting to the persona’s mask is that it is a little too detailed, making it look like a severed 2D fox head?
I really like the concept series logo, the glass on the beakers looks fantastic and the section of the labs logo projected onto the ground is a really nice subtle touch. Perhaps try colder colors instead of the current warm colors? Right now it looks kind of dangerous, although that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
The add-ons logo is striking me as perhaps a little too illustrative, but that’s also just my personal aesthetic bias, favoring more photo realistic objects (like the awesome concept series beakers).
Any chance of updating the prism and weave logos with the same graident on the word mark?
it’s awesome that we have you on board
you the shizznit!
The Concept Series artwork is absolutely perfect as it is.
Awesome work Sean! Thanks for sharing and posting this!