Artist Shepard Fairey has recently become widely known for his iconic Obama posters (featured on the cover of Time magazine). It is much less widely known that he created another iconic image from the tech world.
Sometime in 1998, Shepard Fairey created the lizard artwork that became the logo and mascot for the Mozilla project. Even today, this lizard is still used in the logo for the Mozilla Foundation.
Funny, I never knew. Thanks.
and I just thought he was famous for Andre the Giant stickers!
Can’t wait to see the photo he based THAT design off 😉
Wow, never knew that, and I thought I knew most of the name/logo trivia. Cool.
thats pretty awesome! yay for Mozilla!
So I’ve been walking around with his work on my shirt all this time? Cool!
I’ve always appreciated his work for Mozilla; his logos, banners, shirts were really great. That style remembering ’30/40s russian poster art was astonishing and “very geek”. I was disappointed when they disappeared being substituted with the current ones.
Just look at the current mozilla shop shirts, would you buy them? They feel anonymous. I would prefer the “hack” one.
Wow! This is new to me
That’s what I love about your site, I learn something new every time I drop by!!!
He’s quite a talented artist! His artwork is simple yet powerful.
That’s a pretty cool fact. I wonder if he thought the Obama picture would ever become as popular as it has…its everywhere now.
He has a really cool style!!
That is such an iconic picture these days, and even more than a year after his election that picture is still everywhere. Mozilla rocks!
I am a huge fan of Mozilla, but not that big a fan of President Obama. With that said I still get a weird feeling looking at his Obama work. It is something almost magical, and resembles how people initially felt about him. Anyhow, I like the art work.
Obama is a great president and the campaign poster is awesome. Just wish Shep hadn’t used someone else’s photo for it. Fair use, maybe, but I prefer complete originality.
I like Obama and Shep’s campaign poster but wish he hadn’t used someone else’s photo for it. His artwork is awesome, though!