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Creative folks have been using personalized avatars on Twitter for a while now. But artist Adam Koford, who goes by the pseudonym “Ape Lad,” has created a whole flotilla of new designs in the style of Twitter’s highly recognizable bird icon. Primarily featuring cartoon characters or sci-fi heroes from yesteryear, Ape Lad’s avatars are all uniformly designed — in the same comma or teardrop shape as the bird — but each has its own quirky uniqueness. (It’s weird to see just how docile a Wolverine-styled avatar can be when cast in a Twitter bird mold.)
You can find the full slate of 11 avatars here, running the gamut from Buzz Lightyear to ‘Where the Wild Things Are.’ (We’d probably go for Chewbacca, on cuddliness alone.) It’s a clever motif, and one that could easily be expounded with greater extremes, and in different contexts; isn’t Obama’s caricature kind of tailor-made for this shape, anyway? [From: Ape Lad on Flickr and Neatorama]
Artist Creates Twitter Avatars From Pop Culture Figures originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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