Twitter icon from Mirkku

Today I was looking for a nice bluebird to decorate my company Twitter with. Next week I’m giving a small training about Social media like Twitter. So I though it would be suited to have a more professional Twitter to show. But I still designed a cute theme, I just can’t help myself.

In my search for a pretty bird, I came across a Finish company called Design Mirkku. Not only does Mirjami offer Twitter Icons, there’s also a set of cute RSS Feed icons available. You can download those for free at Smashing magazine:

• Cute Tweeters Icons Set
• Feed Me Animals RSS Icons

Although the Mirku set is my favourite, I think these icons are also worth mentioning:

• Free Twitter Birds - from Luc Latulippe
• Twitter badges - from Pasquale D’Silva
• Twitter illustration and icon -  from Pasquale D’Silva
• Icons set - from Dryicons
• Twitter bird logo - from iPotion

One last thing that you might enjoy is Twitter Keys. It provides symbols to use in your Tweets.

Cute stamps and frames

I stumbled upon Puricute today, which is probably a bit late since it seems to exist for a while. But I do want to share the site with you.

The concept is pretty simple; you upload your picture and customize it. Just enhance it with a frame and use as much cute stamps as you like. Now hold your horses, it takes a while for the picture to be saved. The result can be posted to many applications like Facebook and Wordpress.

It looks pretty much like a Japanese photo sticker boot, where you can add images to your picture. And that’s exactly what this site does, it makes it possible to order stickers from your creation. One sheet is $ 2.99, excluding (fair) shipping costs. I can imagine the stickers would be nice for decoration or as a gift .

You can receive 2 sheets for free at the Cute and Dangerous event on Friday.

Bright illustration from Bibi

Before I start this story please take notion of a little tutorial I made about how to organize and cutify your Gmail and iGoogle. Oh and on a totally random note; the new iPhone has finally been announced! This is so going to be my new phone everything. It has even got a compass -no idea why I would need that - and can tell you what song is playing. Recognizing songs once was my job, really. I wonder when the iPhone will be able to build websites…

Now on to the site of the Month. This time it’s Bibi’s turn. I’ve been admiring her work for years. She’s not only a great character designer, but also creates the best pixels. Last but not least she’s responsible for my lucky poo -unchikun- facination. Just click on “work” and navigate with the menu on the right to go through her illustrations.

One last thing that I want to point out are her smilies. They’re now available for download .