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.
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Andy Baio - March 5, 2009 9:54 PM
Funny, I never knew. Thanks.
Bryan Thatcher - March 5, 2009 10:02 PM
and I just thought he was famous for Andre the Giant stickers!
Andy Fitz - March 5, 2009 10:34 PM
Can't wait to see the photo he based THAT design off ;-)
Robert Accettura - March 5, 2009 11:01 PM
Wow, never knew that, and I thought I knew most of the name/logo trivia. Cool.
DJ - March 5, 2009 11:51 PM
thats pretty awesome! yay for Mozilla!
Gordon P. Hemsley - March 6, 2009 4:14 AM
So I've been walking around with his work on my shirt all this time? Cool!
Carlo Carmagnini - March 6, 2009 3:24 PM
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.
LouCypher - March 6, 2009 6:55 PM
Wow! This is new to me
KeeKee - March 11, 2009 2:07 PM
That's what I love about your site, I learn something new every time I drop by!!!
tom - March 12, 2009 7:41 PM
He's quite a talented artist! His artwork is simple yet powerful.
Bunn - April 24, 2009 5:11 PM
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.
Greinau - September 11, 2009 4:44 PM
He has a really cool style!!
Stephen - February 12, 2010 11:37 AM
That is such an iconic picture these days, and even more than a year after his election that picture is still everywhere. Mozilla rocks!
Brandon - February 23, 2010 10:52 AM
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.
chris - September 2, 2010 1:05 AM
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.