Archive for June, 2008

iPhone webclip icon for The Brand Union

June 18th, 2008 by mcadwallader

You can now add thebrandunion.com to your iPhone or iPod Touch homepage should you desire. You should get a nice shiny webclip icon and not just a screengrab of the home page.

Google favicon revamp

June 9th, 2008 by hobart65


Google favicon revamp

Originally uploaded by hobart65

If you are of the typographic nature, you might have noticed the google favicon went lower case sometime in June. Here’s the backstory from the Google blog about the revamp . Google badly need some form of graphic device or framework to unite its ballooning set of services. Interesting that they start with the favicon, something most branding companies would do last.

” You may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list. Some people have wondered why we changed our favicon — after all, we hadn’t in 8.5 years(!)”

Link: one-fish-two-fish-red-fish-blue-fish