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Google’s little green android is now a well-known tech icon. But these pictures—the original concept drawings for the Android mascot—show what could have been if Google hadn’t used a talented designer to realise its ideas.
Posted on Google+ by Google’s Dan Morrill, these are the first mascot designs ever produced for Android. Produced in Inkscape over “a couple hours”, they were destined for an internal presentation which introduced Android APIs to Google’s developers.
The general ideas seemed to go down well—but were ultimately re-imagined by professional designer Irina Blok. Thank goodness: the originals were terrifying. [Google+ via Verge]
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Very cheerful
They look more like they’d turn on your and murder you in your sleep rather than bend to your every whim.
Not to dissimilar to Rosie from The Jetsons then
Ha, so true
man, that’s a blast from the past.
Now of course, instead of this, were Rosie to have been drawn more a manner perhaps better associated with Jessica Rabbit, say thusly, then I think we’d care less about the ‘murderisation’.
Someones been watching the Robot Chicken mash-up of The jetsons and i-Robot:
Rosie: I did not MOIDER HIM!