Sebastien Gabriel

Sebastien Gabriel (nicknamed Kb) is a visual designer for Chrome. He is responsible for designing Lonely T-Rex, as well as the Chrome Repair Bot and other error display images for the Chrome browser. "If you're using Chrome and were unable to connect to the internet you might have already seen this little guy that I made for the error page you get. I wanted to keep the pixel-styled illustration introduced by the "sad tab" illustration that have been in Chrome since the beginning.

This illustration actually comes in two parts. The one on the right is a Chrome OS fatal error during the sign-in process. Very few people ever encountered it so I figured I could put it in the shot as well. This error requires a reboot and a meteor shower seemed like a good metaphor for "something really bad happened"."

- Sebastien Gabriel

"Designing an error icon is fun to do, it’s kind of like designing a 404. You hope the user will never see it but if they do, you try to make it as light as possible so you don’t add up to the frustration."

- Sebastien Gabriel