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Ah, so that’s who we can credit for the awesome illustration. Nice work, Varick. The new jQuery website is much easier to read and navigate, no doubt helped by his creation :)

Nice work. Love it. Hit me up if you’d be interested in illustrating a poster or two for us. (I know that might seem a bit strange as we’re kinda competitors, but whatever!)

Anyway, great stuff as usual.

Looks like the wave of nerd rage has resulted in the illustration being removed from the jQuery homepage. May Varick’s work live on here in all its glory.

As a designer, I thought the illustration was a little way off and corny with the layout design and jQuery’s purpose. I’m not saying the illustration is bad, it’s actually good but not for layout or site mascot. Maybe as a comic strip?

I love it Varick!! Those up-tight people need to be using prototype instead.

What a crazy day that was… All frustrations aside though, Varick was given a direction and he completely and utterly nailed it. It was awesome that he was so eager to contribute his time and standout talent for this, and despite what happened, John and the rest of the team really appreciate everything he did. It became clear throughout the day that the community felt misrepresented by the direction/message that Varick and I were given, and the rants were loud enough that it was going to get in the way of people’s perception of the library and brand. I’m not trying to offload the blame on anyone else though – I thought the message was appropriate for the audience and that people were lighthearted enough to get a chuckle out of it. Perhaps “javascript rockstar” should have been in quotes to emphasize the tongue-in-cheek sorta gag we were going for. Ah well.

Anyway, thanks so much nGen! I know it’s difficult for a studio to provide pro-bono work, and working with you has truly been a pleasure for me. So here’s to future collaboration guys, that was really fun while it lasted :)

p.s. – about those rocker tees…?

Really looks great; the site design is solid as is, but the illustration work really helps bring in some flair.

They pulled it? Wow, seems like they didn’t even give it a chance. I’ve done enough redesigns to be able to say you need more than 24 hours to make a call like that. So much for trying to be different. IMHO they made a mistake there, not a big one, but…

So some people in the community didn’t get it. To me that’s probably a good thing. Great design and great branding isn’t going to please everyone. With the illustration the site had a message that people paid attention to and a point of view. Now, well, it’s just another technology site. Not bad, by any stretch, but nothing nearly as memorable either.

I thought it was clever, and thought the message fun and somewhat appropriate. And the fact that it hurt the “professional image” or whatever? Please, that’s a pretty hollow argument. Anyway, I honestly think that had they let it roll the naysayers would have shut up and it probably would have done very well for them over time.

Oh well, chalk another fun idea knocked down by consensus.

Didn’t expect jQuery-users to be that conservative. Why not be different from other JavaScript Frameworks?!

@varick , I loved the design and the rock star attitude you brought to the site.

Unfortunately, when you give a bunch of people the opportunity to give an opinion about a design, you get it. It might have been better to allow everyone to submit to a quick survey. Unfortunately, when you use a comment section on a blog to provide a response, you get people who piggyback off other people’s rude comments and as those build, it’s hard to find someone willing to provide a counterpoint.

To those who were rude about the logo and couldn’t pick more diplomatic language to voice your concerns, BOOOOOOOOO!

Couldn’t help noticing that illustration on wired.com today (as a link to webmonkey).

Great work.

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