Feb 26 2009

Free Twitter Birds

(62) Comments 
Twitter birds - click to see the whole collection

A few months ago, I was twittering with Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks and he asked if I could make him a little Twitter bird which he could use on his blog to link to his Twitter account (up till this point he’d been borrowing the Twitterrific icon). I said yes, because I thought it would be fun. Next thing I knew, I went a little overboard and designed a whole flock of them. Twenty-four to be exact (click here to see the full collection). There are six different styles, each done in four different colours: Twitter blue, Cardinal Red, Robin Black, and Canary Yellow. Now here they all are, free, for your downloading pleasure. (I’m releasing them under this Creative Commons license.)

The ZIP file below contains four five files:

  • an unflattened vector version
  • a flattened vector version
  • a large PNG version
  • NEW! A flattened EPS file, saved down to Illustrator 8
  • and a “read me” file

Download: Latulippe_Twitter_Birds_archive.zip

You can edit them to your heart’s content, just send a friendly linky-link back to my site to spread the word (preferably to this post’s URL). When redistributing, whether you modify them or not, all I ask is the following:

  • Please do not remove the copyright notice
  • Please do not try to pass them off as your own
  • Please do not sell them, individually or as a set
  • Please do not transfer them onto merchandise or any products which you intend to sell, for example:
    • printing them onto t-shirts you’re selling online: NO
    • printing one onto a t-shirt or sticker for personal use: YES!
    • using them as a logo or as part of a product branding: NO
    • using them on your blog: YES!
    • using them as avatars on services other than Twitter: YES!
    • using them in a book that is about social media: YES!

Essentially, this means they’re for personal use, not commercial use.

Whatever you end up doing with them, please post a link to it below in the comments; I’d really love to see them in action, as well as see what sweet new bird you turned them into.

 

62 Comments

Picture of Melinda Stanley Melinda Stanley
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Hey, those are great! What a great exercise!

Picture of Kyle Kyle
11 months, 2 weeks ago

I don’t speak this Tweet language so I showed these to my coworker who speaks it fluently. She said these were gorgeous and asked if these can be used/adapted for iphones cause she would love to use them.

Just thought I would pass on the love and questions.

Hope you boys are doing well up there in the north.

Kyle

Picture of PhilD PhilD
11 months, 2 weeks ago

I learned about
these from Chris’
facebook status.
I got a net connection
speed not unlike the pace
that of a galloping snail so
thank you (in advance)

Picture of Luc Latulippe Luc Latulippe
11 months, 2 weeks ago

hiya Kyle! How’s life? :)

I don’t have an iPhone myself, so I’m not entirely sure what’s being asked in that regard. If she wants an icon to use for her iPhone’s dashboard, then sure, they can work in this regard too. Actually, I should create some of the birds as iPhone icons and post them here too. If anyone can spare details about them, please drop me a link!

Picture of erickaweb erickaweb
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Just visited your site for the first time from a link on Twitter - wanted to tell you that I <3 the design!

Picture of Arian Xhezairi Arian Xhezairi
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Beautiful. Lovely. Marvelous.

Picture of SteveSculptsCritters SteveSculptsCritters
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Nice birds, now I’ll have to sign up for twitter just so I can use them

Picture of Leo Espinosa Leo Espinosa
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Funny, I had just finished an assignment about Twitter and since I don’t use it I was very confused with the amount of different versions I got when I Googled their logo. Dig all your versions, Luc.
Hope all is well with you, bud.

Picture of Mike Mike
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Great illustrations, I’ll be putting one on my blog soon!

Picture of marilynh marilynh
11 months, 2 weeks ago

This is awesome! I might modify the bottom one so I can cut it out in vinyl and display my company twitter name on my car :-) Thanks so much for being so generous with your vectors. Us vinyl cutters appreciate not having to recreate the wheel.

Picture of Tom Gray Tom Gray
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Love the designs. You don’t want us to sell the designs but is it acceptable to use your designs, with attribution, in an ebook which is for sale?

Picture of Highnam Highnam
11 months, 2 weeks ago

I used one of your designs as my Twitter photo.

I can’t find a way of recording your link with the photo other than by making a Twitter update noting your link and acknowledging your copyright.

Any suggestions.

I think it looks great so I’d prefer not to have to take it down.

Picture of artmom artmom
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the beautiful birds!!! I’m new to twitter and blogging- it’ll probably take me a little while to figure it all out- but I just couldn’t pass ‘em up! Thanks!

Picture of Luc Latulippe Luc Latulippe
11 months, 2 weeks ago

@marilyn: Awesome! Send a photo when you’re done, I’d love to see it! :)
@Tom Gray: That sounds perfectly fine. What I meant above is about selling a product, like a t-shirt, where the bird illustrations might be the main reason for buying the product. Based on your website, I gather this is a book on social media? Send a link to it when you’ve posted it!
@Highnam: That’s totally fine :) Send a link over when it’s up.

Picture of Sonya Serrano Sonya Serrano
11 months, 2 weeks ago

I do not have tweeter. I like the drawing and blue too. Thank you.
If I get tweeter I wlii use your drawing. I went to draw that good.
All the best****************

Picture of Maggie Maggie
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Thanks so much, they’re fabulous.  Couldn’t open the EPS files as I have Illustrator 10. ;(

Picture of Luc Latulippe Luc Latulippe
11 months, 2 weeks ago

@Maggie: Thanks for pointing that out! I’ve corrected this by uploading a new ZIP file which includes a flattened EPS saved down to version 8 - Enjoy!

Picture of Connor Turner Connor Turner
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Thank you posting these images. I’ve been looking for a unique set of Twitter Images for projects.

Thanks again.

Picture of RuSt RuSt
11 months, 2 weeks ago

thanks very much. I will use one of them in my twitter-icon :-) @rust

Picture of VoteAudrey VoteAudrey
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Sweet! And useful, thanks!

Picture of Becki Becki
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the birds. I think they look great. I re-sized one and put it on my blog.

Picture of b1tzmast3r b1tzmast3r
11 months, 2 weeks ago

These are GREAT!!  I love the variations in style…I’ll be sure to plug your work on my blog using one of these.

Thanks!!

Picture of klim klim
11 months, 1 week ago

Awesome stuff Luc

great idea!

Picture of Highnam Highnam
11 months, 1 week ago

Thanks Luc

You can see the one I selected at http://www.pageflakes.com/highnam/

Just personalised it a bit.

Picture of rafa camargo rafa camargo
11 months, 1 week ago

Great! Congratulations

Picture of Dejan Dejan
11 months, 1 week ago

Thanks for these designs.

A question: is it allowed to use these as a graphic icons (or other) in a free, open source, desktop Tweeter client programmed by a friend of mine (with a reference to this blog, of course)?
I’m trying to make some skin for the application and those designs might come handy for that.


Thanks

Picture of Andrea Canton Andrea Canton
11 months, 1 week ago

Thank You so much!!!! :)

Picture of @francismahon @francismahon
11 months, 1 week ago

Wonderful work, Luc! Wonderful work! It’s people like you that keep the ‘Creative’ in ‘Creative Commons’ alive!

Picture of wildness wildness
11 months, 1 week ago

Great! Congratulations
Awesome stuff

Picture of Maya Maya
11 months, 1 week ago

Thanks for sharing these lovely birds Luc!

Here is a link to a post on “Publishing and Twitter” where we used these adorable illustrations.

http://blog.prathambooks.org/2009/03/publishing-and-twitter.html

Picture of Design Dosage Design Dosage
11 months, 1 week ago

Just featured on our site:
http://designdosage.com/free-twitter-birds

Picture of MK MK
11 months, 1 week ago

Awesome!!

Picture of Luc Latulippe Luc Latulippe
11 months, 1 week ago

@dejan: Yes! Please send me a link when you’re done too! Thanks!

Thanks for the link back Maya and Design Dosage! :)

Picture of dejan dejan
11 months, 1 week ago

Thanks a lot Luc.
You can test the app on the following link:
http://code.google.com/p/qtwitdget/

The info on Google Code is in Macedonian language (for now).
The application is based on QT technology, still in beta (but working) and of course need some facelift.

Thanks again.

Picture of gwendolen gwendolen
11 months, 1 week ago

Hi Luc,

Thank you so much for the free Twitter birds.
I used one of the birds to illustrate a blog post about a Twitter survey that is being held. (Dutch)

http://demersus.net/twitter_survey

Picture of Mahesh Mahesh
11 months ago

Thanx.. Nice Collection!

Picture of nizam nizam
11 months ago

thank you very much developer

Picture of Bruce Himmelblau Bruce Himmelblau
11 months ago

Your images were perfect to help spice up the last screen of our podcast, Indie Film Nation, where we ask our audience to follow us on Twitter.

Picture of sprnch sprnch
10 months, 3 weeks ago

I am going to let my twitter group on sprnch know about this. Thanks!

Picture of Name Name
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Thank you posting these images.
Nice Collection!

Picture of Heather in Beautiful BC Heather in Beautiful BC
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Hello Luc,

I love your little Twitter Birds and wrote a post about them a few weeks ago and linked:

http://boatinginbeautifulbritishcolumbia.com/?p=2510

My friend and I are writing an ebook and I’d like to know if you will approve of us using one of your birds as a graphic on the cover of the book and on a banner advertising the book?

Of course we will give you full credit in the ebook with a link and text such as this (or of your choosing):

“We are very grateful to Luc LaTulippe for his design skills and generosity in permitting us to use his illustration of the Twitter Bird on the front cover.  To view more of his work please visit http://www.luclatulippe.com.”

Thanks so much for your consideration and your wonderful artistic work! 

Heather
Email heather mary smith at shaw dot com
Twitter @HeatherinBC

Picture of @Tweetsus @Tweetsus
10 months, 2 weeks ago

I’m using them here
http://twitter.com/Tweetsus

Picture of kostia kostia
10 months, 1 week ago

I’m using one of your birds as the Twitter category icon on my new tumblr-style blog. Thanks!

http://www.kostia.net/blog

Picture of Adelia Reid Adelia Reid
10 months, 1 week ago

Would you be interested in doing a background of
birds for me sometime?

deebird

Picture of MarbleHost.com MarbleHost.com
10 months, 1 week ago

Nice stuff, found some of 3D version of this twitter’s bird icons.  But this one kinda cartoon art like and feet my blog desing , I like it !

Great job , thank you.http://www.marblehost.com

Picture of iphone images iphone images
10 months, 1 week ago

Thanks so much for making these. I just got into Twitter and love your icons.

Picture of Virtually Scholastic Virtually Scholastic
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Thanks so much for this icons! So great :)

Picture of Statii Beton Statii Beton
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Can I use this images embedded in other graphics and use them in my twitter page?

Thanks

Picture of kle kle
5 months, 3 weeks ago

these are great! thanks - used one here:
http://accidentallykle.blogspot.com/2009/08/chirp-tweet.html

Picture of Recession Therapy Recession Therapy
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the great work. I’ve been looking for something different all over the net.

Thanks

Picture of Mediaworks Online Mediaworks Online
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Thank you posting the images i like them.If you are on Facebook, LinkedIn or other social networks check your connections and see if they are on Twitter. This is an easy way to get directly to their page and follow them.

Picture of laketrees laketrees
4 months, 3 weeks ago

thanks for these gorgeous birds :)
I have added one to my blog and a link back to you :)

Picture of Roller Banners Roller Banners
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the twitter birds… very useful.

Picture of Bizcard Design Inspiration Bizcard Design Inspiration
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Great birds. Thanks for share.

Picture of Tonda Kala Tonda Kala
3 months, 1 week ago

:-) very nice, thanks a lot - especially for the PNG version…

Picture of mara mara
3 months ago

hey wats i really like them

Picture of maria maria
3 months ago

hey i really like them

Picture of Steve Juras Steve Juras
2 months, 3 weeks ago

I’ve used one of the illustrations in a blog post:

http://makeaworldfilm.com/film-news/twitter-traction

Thanks for making these available

Picture of Biju Subhash Biju Subhash
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Cool Bird :D
Thank you for sharing…
here is my bird link:
http://www.bijusubhash.com/blog/download-your-free-twitter-bird

Picture of Vikas Vikas
1 month, 1 week ago

cool…!! thanks..

Picture of Erin Renee Erin Renee
1 month ago

Your Twitter birds are perfect! I am using one of them on my site’s main page and you are credited back to this post on the “Credits” page. Thank you so much!

Picture of Liz Liz
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Hey - Thanks for the Twitter birds. I’m planning on using them on a blog that I’m writing so please feel free to look for it in a few days.

http://www.lizkingevents.com/blog

Thanks!

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