Web 2.0rigami
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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Tags: apple . basecamp . digg . download . firefox . free icons . free logos . icon . logos . opera . origami . stumbleupon . twitter . web 2.0 . web2.0rigami
Comments (311)
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.
Lee Munroe
November 12th, 2008
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…
Kyle Boyd
November 13th, 2008
Quality, the Firefox one is stunning, there all brilliant lol
I agree with Lee, the physical form is hard to beat lol.
Michael Mallon
November 13th, 2008
flicker looks questionable but all look great! nice work
wien
November 13th, 2008
Quality.
Definitely agree - Firefox one is top class. Opera one is equally great.
Which was the hardest to create?
David Hughes
November 13th, 2008
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 :)
Paddy
November 13th, 2008
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
Tammy Hart
November 13th, 2008
These are gorgeous and so original, thanks a lot for your efforts. So different from the usual web 2.0 look.
Mitternacht
November 13th, 2008
pretty love it :D
radiz
November 13th, 2008
Nice work, is good to see people with a different take on the usual fair
devolved
November 13th, 2008
very cool! great idea :)
B3thy
November 13th, 2008
Great looking!!
Dan
November 13th, 2008
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.
Leon Poole
November 13th, 2008
vet!
Pixites
November 13th, 2008
Truly Beautiful. Inspiring as well. Perhaps a poster? So many lovey ways to lay out those icons. Thanks!
Tanya Nichols
November 13th, 2008
Perfect interpretation of the Internet Explorer 7 logo!
leethal
November 13th, 2008
I think it’s just awesome. Like it so much))
denisig
November 13th, 2008
Totally LOVE it!
Steven Verbruggen
November 13th, 2008
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
Paddy
November 13th, 2008
Really wonderful! Can I spread the word? :D
Claudia
November 13th, 2008
Nice work and great idea. Thank you iampaddy.
Ahmet Burak Bal
November 13th, 2008
Haha, love what you did with the IE logo ;) Nice work!
donotfold
November 13th, 2008
that is sooo cool! Nice job
rishi
November 13th, 2008
Hey! Nice work! :D
Thanx a lot for sharing :).
Violet
November 13th, 2008
great great stuff
grin
November 13th, 2008
I also love the IE7 logo!
matt
November 13th, 2008
Great idea, still..the Firefox one beats them all. IMHO :)
mezu
November 14th, 2008
What about two triangles for the Apple logo. Or maybe 4, an X.
86me
November 14th, 2008
Brilliant!
ptamaro
November 14th, 2008
very nice, and good thinking :)
mc
November 14th, 2008
Ty for sharing it, i wrote about this note on my blog.
Ty again
Argelia
November 15th, 2008
These are awesome! Thanks
Adam
November 16th, 2008
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? ;-)
Gilad Aharoni
November 17th, 2008
Hah! wow these are fabulous! Great stuff! :) Your theme is wicked too!
Lizzeh
November 18th, 2008
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.
Paddy
November 18th, 2008
Really nice work! Very creative
Guy
November 18th, 2008
nice! the Gmail is superb!
s4ndeep
November 18th, 2008
Thanks for these nice icons!
ReniX
November 18th, 2008
Keep it coming, these are great!
Merijn
November 18th, 2008
The Flickr one looks like it might be saying something else ;)
Everything else is superb though!
Brian
November 18th, 2008
Excellent stuff! Very creative and inspiring. My favorite has got to be the Firefox origami. Thanks for sharing! :D
Jaypee
November 20th, 2008
Very creative and not only for the icons, I also think your site is very creative
diseño web malaga
November 25th, 2008
Thanks everyone for all the comments. I really appreciate it!
Paddy
November 25th, 2008
Nice Folding !!
Very Cool…..
Mike
December 5th, 2008
Muchas gracias por compartir los iconos, muy bellos
Carlos
December 5th, 2008
This is pretty amazing man! I’m glad I found your site.
NetOperator Wibby
December 6th, 2008
Thanks everyone!
More illustrations will be coming in the near future :)
Paddy
December 6th, 2008
The fickr one looks like it says a bad word…
CRAIG
December 10th, 2008
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!
Alberto
December 10th, 2008
Superb, there isn’t really much more I can say!
Great work!
Antilogic
December 10th, 2008
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.
Caleb
December 10th, 2008
@Alberto I’ll see what I can do, no promises though :)
@Caleb Glad I made you hit the floor :D
Paddy
December 10th, 2008
Very Nice! Thanks.
AixiA
December 10th, 2008
Flickr….kinda looks like Fuc- erm never mind. very nice
Jon
December 10th, 2008
I’d love to see one for Google Chrome if you have time =)
Andrew
December 10th, 2008
@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…
Paddy
December 10th, 2008
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.
Pav
December 11th, 2008
I absolutely LOVE your origami icons. Could you say a little bit about your process? I’m catly-curious.
Marie Goodart
December 12th, 2008
wow… creative!!
lee starusta
December 12th, 2008
@Pav emailed you there :)
@Marie Hmm, interesting. Yeah I might do a blog post with some design tips and techniques for logo design, thanks!
Paddy
December 12th, 2008
Amazing..icons
Thanks…
dang
December 14th, 2008
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.
Maria Paz
December 16th, 2008
@Maria Thanks! Someone has attempted to make them in real life!
Paddy
December 16th, 2008
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.
Jennkim
December 19th, 2008
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!
Carl
December 19th, 2008
Nice looking Origami you have there :)
Paddy
December 23rd, 2008
Что то Автор совсем перестал писать темы и даже админить блог? Может чего случилось?
Бежен
December 24th, 2008
wow! and thanks.
achute
December 24th, 2008
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!
:]
Muhammad
January 4th, 2009
@Muhammad Yeah go for it, feel free to use them as you like, just give me a link back or something :)
Paddy
January 4th, 2009
Конечно. Фактов всегда достаточно – не хватает фантазии. Желаю автору ее поболее :)
Леонтий
January 6th, 2009
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
stephen
@curriemonster
January 6th, 2009
Great Job. Loved the designs!!!
Sujoy
@sujoy247
January 8th, 2009
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.
Dani
January 8th, 2009
Wow,
@Stephen - Sounds like a plan! :)
Thanks Dani! Always good to have nice stalkers :)
Paddy
January 8th, 2009
thank you so much :D
EiNS
January 17th, 2009
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!
Alessandro
January 18th, 2009
Свобода слова на блоге - это всегда хорошо! Главное, чтобы общественности было что автору сказать :)
Xray
February 3rd, 2009
Спасибо! Буду теперь заходить на этот блог почаще! :)
RedEye
February 5th, 2009
Very nice work.
Web Hosting
February 8th, 2009
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!
Andrew R
February 9th, 2009
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
Ch4v3z!!
February 9th, 2009
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!
Tenki
February 12th, 2009
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/
børge
@forteller
February 12th, 2009
Super awesome!!! FTW!!!
Nirav Thakker
@normaltusker
March 1st, 2009
very good, thank you
sivas
March 22nd, 2009
Very nice, indeed. I will definitely use some of them. Can’t you make one out of the Ubuntu logo to?
Thanks.
Daniel Holm
March 23rd, 2009
Sweet work. I love these icons.
Geoff
@geoff
March 26th, 2009
Wow! Excellently done. They look wonderful.
Ray
March 28th, 2009
Apple and iTunes are Web 2.0 now?
no
March 29th, 2009
Absolutely fantastic!
Susann
April 1st, 2009
thanks
this origami icons are very pretty :)
kuflu
April 8th, 2009
Хм… что-то у меня ссылка не открывается, которую указали. Это у всех так?
Вячеслав Меньшиков
April 11th, 2009
Beautiful, clean, sharp, and original. Great Job!
Susan
@susanjackman
April 14th, 2009
Great work! Very creative!
Jeremy
@JohnnyRackam
April 18th, 2009
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.
Mazil
April 20th, 2009
Fantastic icons thanks! I have put a link to them on my blog.
http://stwebdesign.co.uk/blog/?p=232
Simon
@STWebDesign
April 24th, 2009
Hi designer
great job, thanks for sharing graphics
with love
arasiyalkalam.com
designersiva
May 6th, 2009
Really wonderful icons.. i love ‘em all.
Arun Shiavaram
@arunsonnet
May 12th, 2009
It looks great! I started doing origami last year and it is so much fun.
Lena
May 14th, 2009
thats awsome
shirley
@xhobo
May 15th, 2009
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.
Emin
@emination
May 15th, 2009
very good creation!
Nawyl
@Nawyl
May 16th, 2009
very much thank’s..
keep sharing, paddy, :)
el4life
May 17th, 2009
Спасибо за статью. Навело на ряд идей, щас попробую, отпишусь по результатам.
Банкир
May 19th, 2009
Jipagito made in Rondônia very good!
Christiano
May 24th, 2009
Lovely and unique icons… Thank you for these!
Andrew
@Chadrew
May 28th, 2009
Any chance you could make icons for Facebook and LinkedIn?
Age
@scgs
May 29th, 2009
these are really great, thanks!!
Laura
@lauramarie222
June 2nd, 2009
Wow - love this work!
Out standing!
LinkTree
@LinkTree
June 7th, 2009
What a refreshing take on the typical social media icon set.
Fetching Icons
June 9th, 2009
icons look cool, nice… can give a idea, how to make shape of a bird like wise using a paper
Ram
June 19th, 2009
Excellence icon…thank for sharing…
Mark
June 23rd, 2009
Excellence icon
ADRIANA
July 4th, 2009
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