The Lips

In 1971, a then virtually unknown musician approached John Pasche, a student at London's Royal College of Art, with a request to design a logo. The man in question, Stones frontman Mick Jagger, was hugely disappointed with the various designs so far presented to him by record label Decca. Mike had gone to see Pasche's exhibition and was obviously impressed with what he saw.

Pasche's design was first used on the Stones' Sticky Fingers album, and soon became one of musics most iconic brand images. It is said that the logo represents Jagger's famous lips and the band's rebellious edge.

At the time Pasche was paid a princely sum of €50, with a bonus of €200 two years later, as the band and label were so happy with the work. Last week, however, the original artwork was bought by London's Victoria and Albert Museum for $92,500 (£51,375). Half the cost was met by charity The Art Fund, which called the work "one of the most visually dynamic logos ever".

"The Rolling Stones were one of the first bands who really took logos and made branding a serious part of their business," said deputy director of The Art Fund, Andrew Macdonald. "It marks, therefore, the transition from this kind of rebelliousness of the 60s into the corporate machines that we see today."

Google launches web browser

In competition to Internet Explorer and Firefox, Google has announced it will be launching an open source web browser. The beta version of Google Chrome for Windows is available today (2 September).

Sundar Pichai, Google vice-president for product management, says Chrome is designed to be lightweight, fast and able to cope with web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia.

He says: "We believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web. Chrome is not just a browser but also a modern platform for web pages and applications."

Crawling Spider

This is a very slick bit of flash animation...

Ubiquity for Firefox

Mozilla Labs announced today that it has released a new experimental solution called Ubiquity. Ubiquity is a method for non-developers to create mashups out of the pages and content they are already surfing.

This is dramatically different that what is already out there. Solutions like Yahoo Pipes! requires you to set up 'plumbing' before you can get output. Ubiquity let's developers make little snippets of code that users easily access data. Think of it like creating very human readable APIs.

Faster then a bolt?

A month ago there's a good chance the name Usain Bolt meant nothing to you. Now?

Well if you don't know the name now, I hope you enjoyed your time spend under the rock. The fastest man on the planet appears in his own online game. Developed by Puma the game captures the sprinters Olympic success and provides a very engaging, and somewhat addictive experience.

By the look of it, this is not a quick turnaround of an off-the-shelf game, as it’s fully video-ised with Bolt, who’s a Puma-sponsored athlete of course. Check it out!