Comments on: Watch the birdy!

By: Bart

Bart — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:55:12 +0000

Birds are the new flowers…

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:23:43 +0000

spotted one… http://www.songbirdnest.com/

By: Matthew Pennell

Matthew Pennell — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:34:22 +0000

Theory #4: Everyone’s copying Twitter.

By: Jimmy Shelter

Jimmy Shelter — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:34:26 +0000

Could be related to the popularity of Twitter?

By: Ted Goas

Ted Goas — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:05:43 +0000

Yes, I agree with the twitter comments as well. Also seem like simple bird shapes are easy to create in Illustrator (as are flowers, noted by Bart).

By: Tony Chester

Tony Chester — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:39:27 +0000

And let’s not forget one of my favorites at Cult-foo…http://www.cult-f.net/

By: atom

atom — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:31:32 +0000

keep an eye out for leaves as well…..

By: Joe Lencioni

Joe Lencioni — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:46:40 +0000

Nils over at NDNL also has an interesting post about birds: http://nodependenciesnologo.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/the-twitter-logo-or-is-it/

By: ChrisJB

ChrisJB — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:18:10 +0000

spot on with the leaves prediction. flowers > floral > leaves > birds clouds next? Planes? Blue squares? I like these birds though. Opaque animals are so easy to make look nice. And work well through the various mediums.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:28:55 +0000

First place I flew after reading this was here: http://www.tuliqi.com, a calm, bird-themed site. Also, last week a beautiful TV commercial featuring birds won a Rochester Advertising Federation Addy Award: http://www.adhub.com/cgi-bin/webdata_pro.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=roch_addys_08&keyval=roch_addy_08.roch_addy_08_id%3D108. And I saw wandering turkeys and migrating geese this morning on the way to work. Spring is wonderful!

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:59:27 +0000

We went with owls, for no other reason than we have weakness for cute birds: http://www.familyreads.com

By: pwhizle

pwhizle — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:33:56 +0000

It could be that birds are extremely simple, recognizable and often colorful, not to mention bubbly and cute making them a default choice for web 2.0 branding. I have to admit (shamefully) when ever I’m doing a logo or design I don’t really care about and I hit a roadblock, a "little bird’ or something similar usually gets the job done.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:52:29 +0000

When I created the name TULIQI in 2005 for my organic bed and bath retail business (www.tuliqi.com) it was inspired by the migratory shorebirds which fly between my home country of New Zealand and my current home in Alaska. Migratory birds are called tuli in the islands of the South Pacific, after Tuli, the first bird of Polynesian creation mythology. Inupiat eskimo in Alaska call them tulik. I have not yet discovered the linguistic link between two such remote cultures using almost the same word for migratory birds - anyone know the answer? My theory is that whaling ships traveling between the two regions passed the word along from the South Pacific to the North. Are we at TULIQI part of a bird trend? - I sure hope so. I am just inspired by the incredible distances these birds fly, being a passionate traveler with homes in Auckland and Anchorage myself.