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12 Nov

Web 2.0rigami

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After creating my Twitter bird logo in an origami style a week ago, I wondered what other icons would look good all origamized. Turns out a few of the web 2.0 apps/sites look great, so I decided to create a little collection for everyone to use as they see fit. I suppose you could look at these with the view that web 2.0 companies can be extremely beautiful objects, yet are still very fragile and can be crushed instantly.

You can download the set of 15 below, which includes the origami icons in a variety of sizes in transparent pngs, and the PSD and EPS files.

Let me know what you think of them, and feel free to suggest any other ones to include. I had a bit of fun with IE for all you web designers out there ;)

Web 2.0rigami [All files, PSD, EPS, transparent pngs]

Web 2.0rigami [Transparent Pngs]

Web 2.0rigami [PSD file]

Web 2.0rigami [EPS file]

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Comments (468)

Lee Munroe

12 Nov

Very cool, nice work!

They kind of look real, like you’ve physically made them and took a photo. That’s your next task, to make them all out of origami.
Kyle Boyd

13 Nov

Ahh Super job, these really look the business and very useful too.

Free as well! Arent you nice… its not I am paddy, its ‘We love Paddy’…

Until your next exciting event…
Michael Mallon

13 Nov

Quality, the Firefox one is stunning, there all brilliant lol

I agree with Lee, the physical form is hard to beat lol.
wien

13 Nov

flicker looks questionable but all look great! nice work
David Hughes

13 Nov

Quality.

Definitely agree - Firefox one is top class. Opera one is equally great.

Which was the hardest to create?
Paddy

13 Nov

Cheers everyone!

@Lee Yeah how sweet would it be to have a real life version of the Firefox logo! Gonna have to get a ‘origami for dummies’ book I guess.

@David Actually to be honest I had the most trouble with Delicious. How do you make four squares look like they’re made of paper?! Struggled with that for a while :)
Tammy Hart

13 Nov

I add my vote that these should really be made with paper, it should be a challenge.. no… a contest! What do we win? :P
Mitternacht

13 Nov

These are gorgeous and so original, thanks a lot for your efforts. So different from the usual web 2.0 look.
radiz

13 Nov

pretty love it :D
devolved

13 Nov

Nice work, is good to see people with a different take on the usual fair
B3thy

13 Nov

very cool! great idea :)
Dan

13 Nov

Great looking!!
Leon Poole

13 Nov

wow - these are all really nice! But I also question the Flickr one… reads like F*ckr .. no? The i in Flickr should have that dot with space back.
Pixites

13 Nov

vet!
Tanya Nichols

13 Nov

Truly Beautiful. Inspiring as well. Perhaps a poster? So many lovey ways to lay out those icons. Thanks!
leethal

13 Nov

Perfect interpretation of the Internet Explorer 7 logo!
denisig

13 Nov

I think it’s just awesome. Like it so much))
Steven Verbruggen

13 Nov

Totally LOVE it!
Paddy

13 Nov

Thanks all!

@Tammy Awesome idea! Hmmm, a prize? I dunno, any suggestions? But yeah, Im gonna give it a go. Send me any pics of your own efforts!

@Leon Yeah I see what you mean. Oops. To change or not to change…

@Leethal Thanks, had to sneak that one in for all those late nights struggling with IE
Claudia

13 Nov

Really wonderful! Can I spread the word? :D
Ahmet Burak Bal

13 Nov

Nice work and great idea. Thank you iampaddy.
donotfold

13 Nov

Haha, love what you did with the IE logo ;) Nice work!
rishi

13 Nov

that is sooo cool! Nice job
Violet

13 Nov

Hey! Nice work! :D

Thanx a lot for sharing :).
grin

13 Nov

great great stuff
matt

13 Nov

I also love the IE7 logo!
mezu

14 Nov

Great idea, still..the Firefox one beats them all. IMHO :)
86me

14 Nov

What about two triangles for the Apple logo. Or maybe 4, an X.
ptamaro

14 Nov

Brilliant!
mc

14 Nov

very nice, and good thinking :)
Argelia

15 Nov

Ty for sharing it, i wrote about this note on my blog.
Ty again
Adam

16 Nov

These are awesome! Thanks
Gilad Aharoni

17 Nov

Hi Paddy,

Your post inspired me to come up with a real origami representation of the Gmail logo!
Check it out here:
http://www.giladorigami.com/PD_Gmail.html
with the instructions for folding it.

So, do I get a prize? ;-)
Lizzeh

18 Nov

Hah! wow these are fabulous! Great stuff! :) Your theme is wicked too!
Paddy

18 Nov

Thanks everyone for the kind words, and to everyone who blogged about the icons.

@Gilad your real life gmail origami is amazing! It needed a post of its very own

If anyone else has a go at making real origami icons then email me your pics and I’ll post them on the blog.
Guy

18 Nov

Really nice work! Very creative
s4ndeep

18 Nov

nice! the Gmail is superb!
ReniX

18 Nov

Thanks for these nice icons!
Merijn

18 Nov

Keep it coming, these are great!
Brian

18 Nov

The Flickr one looks like it might be saying something else ;)
Everything else is superb though!
Jaypee

20 Nov

Excellent stuff! Very creative and inspiring. My favorite has got to be the Firefox origami. Thanks for sharing! :D
diseño web malaga

25 Nov

Very creative and not only for the icons, I also think your site is very creative
Paddy

25 Nov

Thanks everyone for all the comments. I really appreciate it!
Mike

5 Dec

Nice Folding !!

Very Cool…..
Carlos

5 Dec

Muchas gracias por compartir los iconos, muy bellos
NetOperator Wibby

6 Dec

This is pretty amazing man! I’m glad I found your site.
Paddy

6 Dec

Thanks everyone!

More illustrations will be coming in the near future :)
CRAIG

10 Dec

The fickr one looks like it says a bad word…
Alberto

10 Dec

Hi Paddy,

Any chance we could see either a Tux logo or an Ubuntu one? :)

I’m dying to paste it in the back of my notebook!

Excellent work!
Thanks!
Antilogic

10 Dec

Superb, there isn’t really much more I can say!

Great work!
Caleb

10 Dec

Thank you sir, you just made my week. Your icons are all fun, but your IE implemenation made me hit the floor. Thanks for dragging a laugh out of the bane of my existence.
Paddy

10 Dec

@Alberto I’ll see what I can do, no promises though :)

@Caleb Glad I made you hit the floor :D
AixiA

10 Dec

Very Nice! Thanks.
Jon

10 Dec

Flickr….kinda looks like Fuc- erm never mind. very nice
Andrew

10 Dec

I’d love to see one for Google Chrome if you have time =)
Paddy

10 Dec

@Jon Yeah I noticed that afterwards. Thought it was funnier to keep it like that though :D Bear in mind, I do not have anything against Flickr!

@Andrew who knows, some more may be in the pipeline…
Pav

11 Dec

Cool site. Bookmarked.

These are great Paddy! How about designing an icon set and possible characters (which will later be animated) for our startup?

The website linked gives an example of why I think your origami style designs are in the exact line of thinking we need for potential ideas.

We were going to go with mannequins (explain why later), but I love what you have done here! If you are able to get in touch I will show you my sketches for our startup (MIVUI). If not, I will stalk you.
Marie Goodart

12 Dec

I absolutely LOVE your origami icons. Could you say a little bit about your process? I’m catly-curious.
lee starusta

12 Dec

wow… creative!!
Paddy

12 Dec

@Pav emailed you there :)

@Marie Hmm, interesting. Yeah I might do a blog post with some design tips and techniques for logo design, thanks!
dang

14 Dec

Amazing..icons
Thanks…
Maria Paz

16 Dec

Great Job! love origami and your digital work it is fantastic. From Argentina I put you an Exelent and a happy smile. I hope you can make this with original Origami tecnic and take photos of them. Have a nice day and again, great work.
Paddy

16 Dec

@Maria Thanks! Someone has attempted to make them in real life!
Jennkim

19 Dec

These are great and thanks for sharing them. We also have 1 on our website (http://www.sigmagroup.com) and if interested, can send you a template.
Carl

19 Dec

Love the origami. The fortune teller concept inspired us to build a working digital one for the frontspiece of our agency website.

http://www.sigmagroup.com

If anyone wants to design a foirtune teller for our site we will put it up and give you a credit on our blog.

Thanks for sharing this it looks great!
Paddy

23 Dec

Nice looking Origami you have there :)
Бежен

24 Dec

Что то Автор совсем перестал писать темы и даже админить блог? Может чего случилось?
achute

24 Dec

wow! and thanks.
Muhammad

4 Jan

Awesome work, I would like to use these, and is that okay?

I was wondering if I can just put some text in it, something like “follow me on twitter” under/next to the icon. I will credit you for sure and I really like these icons!

:]
Paddy

4 Jan

@Muhammad Yeah go for it, feel free to use them as you like, just give me a link back or something :)
Леонтий

6 Jan

Конечно. Фактов всегда достаточно – не хватает фантазии. Желаю автору ее поболее :)
stephen
Twitter

6 Jan

Can’t believe I missed this post! I was away in Hungary at the time, with no connection to the net. These look ace man.

I recommend a group get together to make giant versions of these, imagine it paddy, you know you want to! lol
Sujoy
Twitter

8 Jan

Great Job. Loved the designs!!!
Dani

8 Jan

Oh shit, damn shit you are so creative man. I pass on your site to others. I doff of my hat to you a hundred times. Keep it up. I am your stalker from now on.
Paddy

8 Jan

Wow,

@Stephen - Sounds like a plan! :)

Thanks Dani! Always good to have nice stalkers :)
EiNS

17 Jan

thank you so much :D
Alessandro

18 Jan

You know?! I think your work is incredible gorgeous! But you should get back to the drawing table and do the following icons:
1. Safari is a must
2. Mail
3. Messenger: Mac
4. iCal
5. Office Suite
6. iPhoto

Yes you are right! That’s currently on my dock!
Cheers for all mac users!
Xray

3 Feb

Свобода слова на блоге - это всегда хорошо! Главное, чтобы общественности было что автору сказать :)
RedEye

5 Feb

Спасибо! Буду теперь заходить на этот блог почаще! :)
Web Hosting

8 Feb

Very nice work.
Andrew R

9 Feb

Haha, I didn’t even recognize the IE logo until I saw others mention it…

You know the Flickr logo is two dots, right? T’would be creative to origami-ize that, imo (more than just two pieces of paper, that is).

Other icons you might try: google chrome (I like their logo, not so much their browser), thunderbird/sunbird, the reddit alien, maybe the gimp.

I could see an icon set like this being used for a themed desktop or as part of a blog’s social networking section… very nice!
Ch4v3z!!

9 Feb

BOF

well, i’ve been a while doing origami and i want to say, if i may, that orgami structures dont necesary are so separated… indeed they are square-like shaped, but they can be like this:
http://ch4v3z.multiply.com/photos/album/199/Origami_Exposition_2.0_-221107-_Hi-Res_photos#75
but, hey! that doesn’t make them not worth of praise! can i suggest the “G” from google?

Ch4v3z!

EOF
Tenki

12 Feb

WOAH! I am taking a lesson named here in my country “Ingeniería en papel” and it´s the architecture with paper Of course X_X! Whatvs, it´s pretty difficult for me, so I´d started looking for information and that stuff, and I found your job! It looks really cool! I am gonna see the files and trying to understand this art in a better way! =D Thank you so much for uploaded this w(_ _)w

=D I definitely wanna see more of your job!
børge
Twitter

12 Feb

Very cool icons! How about making one for Miro (just released 2.0): http://www.getmiro.com/ and identi.ca (Free/Open source microblog (like Twitter, but with more functionality, and it talks with other microblogs via OpenMicroBlogging)): http://identi.ca/
Nirav Thakker
Twitter

1 Mar

Super awesome!!! FTW!!!
sivas

22 Mar

very good, thank you
Daniel Holm

23 Mar

Very nice, indeed. I will definitely use some of them. Can’t you make one out of the Ubuntu logo to?

Thanks.
Geoff
Twitter

26 Mar

Sweet work. I love these icons.
Ray

28 Mar

Wow! Excellently done. They look wonderful.
no

29 Mar

Apple and iTunes are Web 2.0 now?
Susann

1 Apr

Absolutely fantastic!
kuflu

8 Apr

thanks
this origami icons are very pretty :)
Вячеслав Меньшиков

11 Apr

Хм… что-то у меня ссылка не открывается, которую указали. Это у всех так?
Susan
Twitter

14 Apr

Beautiful, clean, sharp, and original. Great Job!
Jeremy
Twitter

18 Apr

Great work! Very creative!
Mazil

20 Apr

Awesome icons :D I found them through googling for a twitter icon, the firefox one especially is gorgeous!

I used a modified version of your twitter icon on my personal website, I hope you don’t mind! It matched my origami theme really well.
Simon
Twitter

24 Apr

Fantastic icons thanks! I have put a link to them on my blog.

http://stwebdesign.co.uk/blog/?p=232
designersiva

6 May

Hi designer

great job, thanks for sharing graphics

with love
arasiyalkalam.com
Arun Shiavaram
Twitter

12 May

Really wonderful icons.. i love ‘em all.
Lena

14 May

It looks great! I started doing origami last year and it is so much fun.
shirley
Twitter

15 May

thats awsome
Emin
Twitter

15 May

Wow, really great. It’s a wonderful idea and a powerful outcome. The method of making these is also easy and allows others to make there own “origicons”. congratz and thx.
Nawyl
Twitter

16 May

very good creation!
el4life

17 May

very much thank’s..

keep sharing, paddy, :)
Банкир

19 May

Спасибо за статью. Навело на ряд идей, щас попробую, отпишусь по результатам.
Christiano

24 May

Jipagito made in Rondônia very good!
Andrew
Twitter

28 May

Lovely and unique icons… Thank you for these!
Age
Twitter

29 May

Any chance you could make icons for Facebook and LinkedIn?
Laura
Twitter

2 Jun

these are really great, thanks!!
LinkTree
Twitter

7 Jun

Wow - love this work!
Out standing!
Fetching Icons

9 Jun

What a refreshing take on the typical social media icon set.
Ram

19 Jun

icons look cool, nice… can give a idea, how to make shape of a bird like wise using a paper
Mark

23 Jun

Excellence icon…thank for sharing…
ADRIANA

4 Jul

Excellence icon
Ginny Le
Twitter

6 Jul

WoW! These are so cool and very creative. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Akram

11 Jul

50 free twitter icon and button sets here
http://www.rizwanashraf.com/2009/07/11/50-free-twitter-icon-and-button-sets/
Joseph

17 Jul

these are amazing. I hope you dont mind if I use them on my blog?

definitely will credit them to you. awesome work
aneildo

20 Jul

wow
I love these icons
LazAlican

27 Jul

I love these icons
izmir web tasarım

28 Jul

thhankss
Sepehr Lajevardi
Twitter

31 Jul

nice, thanks ;)
Chris
Twitter

7 Aug

Very nice, I love the idea, how you merged a zillion year old paper folding art with all these web icons!
Kaplang
Twitter

7 Aug

hi, thanks for these really cool icons :)
dia

17 Aug

you r creative

I loved your work

very nice
DB-Elements

7 Sep

Very funky and cool! Thanks for posting…
Cricut Cartridges Cathy

10 Sep

Great work! My favorite is the FF icon, though StumbleUpon looks nice too.

Cathy
Bevel and Emboss
Twitter

16 Sep

Truly awsome set! Love it!
Alexander

20 Sep

Amazing Icons, I use them on my site and to be honest they make the entire site look more impressive. You should def make more, more, more… I will link to your blog since I think you do amazing work and will also include your work in an article since obviously having eye popping icons on a site can greatly increase the sites quality.

Good Job
Lilli Green
Twitter

22 Sep

Great and very refreshing work!
SEO Mentor
Twitter

4 Oct

Skype logo looks good to me.
Vivian
Twitter

6 Oct

love them! thank you!
IngArt
Twitter

7 Oct

Opera and Skype - wonderful ))) cool
shawn

10 Oct

Not that you need to hear it again, but you did a great job on these! So creative and what great execution. Clap! Clap! Clap! nice work!!
Bart

26 Oct

awsome! I don’t wanna use them on my site as icons, they would miss their goal. But it still is amazing work. well done!
favorites: firefox and opera
Jim

7 Nov

Your work is not only highly creative, it’s absolutely of the most intricate quality. Bravo to you and your work.
shop

9 Nov

love them! thank you very much
SocialBlogr
Twitter

11 Nov

Very impressive.. But, can you create a complete icon set for all social networks? :P
nick
Twitter

13 Nov

pretty awesome. that was the first set of icon sets I liked from the first sight… well done!!!!
Chelsea
Twitter

18 Nov

Beautiful! Could you make Facebook and Wordpress ones as well?!
Nafa

22 Nov

Good work,
thanks for share
banana

2 Dec

what about facebook?
elliot condon
Twitter

11 Dec

Mate! These are awesome!
I’m playing around with new designs for my website. I’m going to see if they fit, if they do, they’ll be proudly up on my new website!

cheers dude!
izdelava spletnih strani

13 Dec

Hahaha, these origami logos rock! You should atleast get a thankful note from the companies if nothing else. Good work!
Andrew-David
Twitter

20 Dec

Rofl at IE icon!
You sir are made of win.
MRE meals

21 Dec

This is awesome! Simple but elegant. Keep up the great work!
jagoane

31 Dec

Great. and I like it!!
Taimur Khan

2 Jan

Hey nice one … i added this to my grand post .. I have collected icon packs from 60 different websites .. Its a big collection of all social media icon packs at one page .. u r gonna love it .. 60 Original Social Media Icon Packs

http://www.vnoma.com/2009/05/60-original-social-media-icon-packs.html

ENjoy !!
internet strani

10 Jan

I tried to make a chrome origami logo, but i sucka at this, don’t have the touch that paddy does …
Matt

12 Jan

Hot damn, love the concept. How is your work licensed? Creative Commons?
destekblog.net

12 Jan

tks you beatıfulll
Gelizle

13 Jan

Could you make Facebook and Wordpress ones as well?!
moritz
Twitter

16 Jan

Hey, great icons. ever thought about putting them on some bittorrent site for better bandwidth ( and saving your own :-) )?

keep up the great work!
clarity
Twitter

24 Jan

these icons are so amazing & unique I would say that I will definitely use them on my site @ a later date. Thank you.

Paddy Donnelly

Web 2.0rigami

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