Shades of red

Vodacom in South Africa is giving you the change to win a brand new Mini Cooper convertible!
The cars has decal designed by Opera, and it can be seen in the streets of South Africa now.

Read more about the Vodacom campaign here

It’s that time of year again, and in the spirit of the holiday season, the Opera design team created some happy holiday cards to give different Opera departments their own unique ways to wish their customers and partners a merry holiday season.

Matt Cox and I created a few different illustrations and designs for different departments and regional offices.

The gingerbread man card was created for the PR department. This was a perfect complement to their PR gifts -- homemade gingerbread cookies, which they sent to partners around the world.

The mitten card was created to be a more general Opera holiday card for our regional offices and other Opera departments. The glove in the lower left  corner sports a traditional Norwegian pattern, or parts of it, from the famous Norwegian Selbuvotter knitting pattern.

We wish you all happy holidays and a prosperous new year! :-)

Wallpaper Gingerbread man with white frame (1920x1200 px)
Wallpaper Gingerbread man without white frame (1920x1200 px)
Wallpaper Mitten card with white frame (1920x1200 px)
Wallpaper Mitten card without white frame (1920x1200 px)

Today we launched Opera Mobile 10.1 beta promo page for Android (puh!) and our designer Oleg Melnychuk made some nice graphics. While the beta itself is coming soon, here's a list of stuff you can look into (wallpapers, competition etc.) regarding the launch

• Read more about Opera Mobile for Android, www.opera.com/mobile/next/
• Download wallpapers for you phone
• Join "The great big Android wallpaper contest"! It's a competition where you upload you own Opera Mobile Android wallpaper designs, and the best designs will be awarded!

Seem to have forgotten about this one ... But let's try to pick it up again ... starting tomorrow

Opera 10.60 was launched earlier today. The news is Geolocation, improved support for advanced Web standards such as HTML5 and WebM video, search suggestions and it's of course faster than ever!

The dark speed dial boxes has been replaced with white clean boxes in wide screen format and a default background image has been added. Some nice transitions has been added to switching / dragging tabs, tabs preview, and visual tabs.

On the website, we've updated the campaign graphic but continue with the "small, fast and beautiful" hummingbird theme. We've also made an update to our download button. We decided to go in the direction of a darker and more Opera branded download button, in line with the design of the opera.com top navigation. This way we'll more clearly state that you're about to download an Opera product, than with the previous version.

Regarding the button, is this the way to go? Should download buttons use green or blue color by default, or should it reflect the brand?

Download Opera 10.60, or read more about it here. To test geolocation visit our Live Map and check out if anyone else is using Opera 10.60 in your area : )

Enjoy!