I just installed Firefox 4.0 beta this weekend. More than any new features, I was impressed by the first run artwork that they are using to market the FF 4 beta. All the illustrations are retro-futuristic, highly detailed, scenes of future technology, space colony landscapes and jet packs. Although the actual browser is just a browser, no self-aware robots or jet packs involved I still liked the concept. Here is an example (from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.13/whatsnew/)
After a bit of digging, the artwork is by artist: Steven Olds.
The marketing blog for Mozilla attributes some of the inspiration for this campaign to "20th century futurist" Klaus Bürgle.
This also reminds me of the amazing paintings I used to read about in space books as a kid, often borrowing images from the 1975 "Stanford Torus" NASA Ames/Stanford study on building a colony in space for 10,000 people. One of the artists for that project was Dan Davis and others such as Rick Guidice who contributed artwork to Gerard O'neill's book the High Frontier
Will using Firefox help me live there? Can someone at least make a persona of this stuff?
After a bit of digging, the artwork is by artist: Steven Olds.
The marketing blog for Mozilla attributes some of the inspiration for this campaign to "20th century futurist" Klaus Bürgle.
This also reminds me of the amazing paintings I used to read about in space books as a kid, often borrowing images from the 1975 "Stanford Torus" NASA Ames/Stanford study on building a colony in space for 10,000 people. One of the artists for that project was Dan Davis and others such as Rick Guidice who contributed artwork to Gerard O'neill's book the High Frontier
Will using Firefox help me live there? Can someone at least make a persona of this stuff?
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