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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:
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:
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.
Hey, those are great! What a great exercise!
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
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)
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!
Just visited your site for the first time from a link on Twitter - wanted to tell you that I <3 the design!
Beautiful. Lovely. Marvelous.
Nice birds, now I’ll have to sign up for twitter just so I can use them
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.
Great illustrations, I’ll be putting one on my blog soon!
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.
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?
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.
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!
@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.
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****************
Thanks so much, they’re fabulous. Couldn’t open the EPS files as I have Illustrator 10. ;(
@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!
Thank you posting these images. I’ve been looking for a unique set of Twitter Images for projects.
Thanks again.
thanks very much. I will use one of them in my twitter-icon :-) @rust
Sweet! And useful, thanks!
Thanks for the birds. I think they look great. I re-sized one and put it on my blog.
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!!
Awesome stuff Luc
great idea!
Thanks Luc
You can see the one I selected at http://www.pageflakes.com/highnam/
Just personalised it a bit.
Great! Congratulations
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
Thank You so much!!!! :)
Wonderful work, Luc! Wonderful work! It’s people like you that keep the ‘Creative’ in ‘Creative Commons’ alive!
Great! Congratulations
Awesome stuff
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
Just featured on our site:
http://designdosage.com/free-twitter-birds
Awesome!!
@dejan: Yes! Please send me a link when you’re done too! Thanks!
Thanks for the link back Maya and Design Dosage! :)
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.
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)
Thanx.. Nice Collection!
thank you very much developer
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.
I am going to let my twitter group on sprnch know about this. Thanks!
Thank you posting these images.
Nice Collection!
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
I’m using them here
http://twitter.com/Tweetsus
I’m using one of your birds as the Twitter category icon on my new tumblr-style blog. Thanks!
Would you be interested in doing a background of
birds for me sometime?
deebird
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
Thanks so much for making these. I just got into Twitter and love your icons.
Thanks so much for this icons! So great :)
Can I use this images embedded in other graphics and use them in my twitter page?
Thanks
these are great! thanks - used one here:
http://accidentallykle.blogspot.com/2009/08/chirp-tweet.html
Thanks for the great work. I’ve been looking for something different all over the net.
Thanks
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.
thanks for these gorgeous birds :)
I have added one to my blog and a link back to you :)
Thanks for the twitter birds… very useful.
Great birds. Thanks for share.
:-) very nice, thanks a lot - especially for the PNG version…
hey wats i really like them
hey i really like them
I’ve used one of the illustrations in a blog post:
http://makeaworldfilm.com/film-news/twitter-traction
Thanks for making these available
Cool Bird :D
Thank you for sharing…
here is my bird link:
http://www.bijusubhash.com/blog/download-your-free-twitter-bird
cool…!! thanks..
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!
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!
These are GREAT!! I love the variations in style…I’ll be sure to plug your work on my blog using one of these.
Thank you for these nice birds! One of them is sitting in my new blog design. ;)
These are just great! Thanks!
This is perfect just what I am looking for, I added your bird to my blog http://www.belleandboo.blogspot.com I will add a link to your site when I update my blog in a few days. If you need me to remove it for any reason please let me know. Thank you mandy
aww they’re very cute! thanks for sharing :)
They are so adorable, thanks for creating and sharing them with us!
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