I Am Paddy

4 Nov

Twitterigami

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After reading Lee Munroe’s post about creative Twitter backgrounds I discovered a list of 20+ Twitter Bird designs. It seems to be fastly becoming the latest craze to create your own Twitter bird for your blog. And I’m all about crazes! Here’s what I came up with.

I really wanted something a bit different and obscure than the traditional ‘cartoony style’ bird so I went for an origami one. Any thoughts/opinions on it are welcome. I had a look at some origami birds and then designed my own over the top of the original Twitter logo, using the same colours to make it a bit more recognisable to twitter addicts.

I kinda like the fact that only people who are really familiar with and love Twitter for the right reasons should be able to recognise it. Twitter has crossed a line recently with Britney Spears creating an account. Don’t get me started on that.

Anyway, feel free to use the files below on your blog/site if you like it :) Im a true believer in the open source life so just shoot me an email if you use them. :) Also you can find me on Twitter at paddydonnelly.

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Tags: illustration . illustrator . inspiration . logo design . twitter . twitter bird . twitter bird designs . twitterigami

Comments (28)

Impressive… wonder if I can come up with one? We’ll see…

Kyle

November 4th, 2008
Very creative Mr Donnelly! Very Michael Scofield of you.

Lee Munroe

November 4th, 2008
I like….

so when you going to create the whole origami icon set? That would be pretty cool.

Michael Mallon

November 4th, 2008
Thanks guys,

@Lee Haha, yeah need to get myself some tattoos next.

@Michael They are on the way! :D

paddy

November 4th, 2008
Michelango of origami :) ‘Goe gedaan’ that’s what we would say!

Joke

November 4th, 2008
These are really impressive, I would like to use them in a presentation I am putting together on twitter.

Declan ONeill

November 13th, 2008
Go for it Declan!

Check out the full range of icons also.

Let me know how the presentation goes :)

Paddy

November 13th, 2008
Awesome!!!! How long did it take you to create the first one?

WL

November 13th, 2008
@wl It took a while to illustrate the first time, but after a bit it got easier to envisage how it would look if it were paper.

Paddy

November 13th, 2008
Very cool work! It’s amazing how these birds have taken on a life of their own.

Gabe Diaz

November 23rd, 2008
I love this origami twitter bird! And kudos to you for sharing the files.

Victoria
@artistVictoriaC

January 28th, 2009