New Wave 3 icons give Messenger yet another new buddy


Posted by absorbation on Mon 17 Nov 2008 (23:24 GMT) (3205 views)
We tend to identify a program by the icon it uses. Windows and Apple logos are easy to spot from a distance, but things such as your browser, email client and media player probably register in your mind without you even noticing. Throughout their time icons are gradually updated, with the fad now being some form of glossy effect. Sometimes icons take a significant new appearance (who can remember when iTunes was green?).

Over at istartedsomething, Long has got hold of the new set of Windows Live Wave 3 icons. The new Messenger icon basically adds a fancy ribbon and gives the Messenger buddies more of a body shape. Check out the image below:


For any of you that care, I'm still not entirely sure where the Messenger Stuff butterfly came from, but our designer Shrbr integrated it from day one and it hasn't changed since.
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Tags:   Messenger buddy  Wave 3    

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Comment by Ross
Posted on Tue 18 Nov 2008 (16:41 GMT)
Actually that Wave 3 mockup got the logo from us. It was a skin mockup which I noticed when I originally got into skinning, but the skin, which was going to be designed for MSN Messenger 7 never did see the light of day.


Comment by dm
Posted on Tue 18 Nov 2008 (11:57 GMT)
You skipped one generation of Messenger icon, although it wasn't much different from the second one.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/2/21/20081116050844%21Wlm_logo-ic.png

Also, your Messenger Stuff logo (the butterfly) actually comes from the mock-up photo of Windows Live Messenger 8.

http://www.liveside.net/Images/screenshots/Wave%203/Wave%2011%20Messenger.jpg

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