I am normally logged into Gmail so I don't see that page where you login. But today for some reason or other I was logged out and I saw this:

http://sam.davyson.com/quick/misc/googlemail.png

Is this design new? Is it also seen outside the UK?

Just saw it after dinner. ;)
It's new, and I can see it here in the U.S.

Yep!
its new
and its also here in Israel

just noticed it as well.

yeah thats new.. kinda saw it late last nite ..but the bulb never went on , until you pointed it out!! :)-

I have this as well and i had posted about it yesterday.
Finally, we have better options to reag our Gmail using m.gmail.com