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They Live, Shepherd Fairey, and the Trolling of the Mozilla brand

Wonderful story from Jamie Zawinski (one of the founders of Netscape and Mozilla.org) about the movie They Live (creepy as hell in 1988), grafitti artist Shepherd Fairey, and how he (Jamie) got Mozilla to invest in a constructivist/futurist brand identity that called on Soviet imagery to promote Free Software.

They Live

They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo