Triangle Web Women, creating a custom Twitter background

Over the past few weeks I’ve created a lot of Twitter backgrounds. It all started when I coordinated my portal site with my Twitter page which resulted in a rant about twittering “for profit” (ironically, that article gets lots of hits from people googling “Twitter profit house”). Since then, I’ve been designing one Twitter background after another at work. I wanted to share a very special case with you today.

Rebecca Murphey, founder of the Triangle Web Women’s meetup, approached me about making a custom Twitter user picture for the group’s new Twitter page. She suggested I do something with super heroes, I suppose because of my work in comics. I volunteered to create a background image, too, and create a complete Twitter persona for the group:

The custom twitter background I made for the Triangle Web Women's Twitter page.

The Triangle Web Women's Logo -- powrful!

First off, I brainstormed a logo. I combined the universal “power on” symbol with the traditional and empowering glyph for “woman” and placed the two originally on an upside down equilateral triangle. Later reviews with Rebecca revealed that such a logo could give the impression that the group is a strictly lesbian gathering, so I made the triangle more abstract, as you can see on the twitter page.

For the super heroines, I wanted to depict the variety that our group embraces: Mac, PC, corporate, freelance, artsy, techy, black, white, all of the above. I used lots of stars, which I got from this lovely set of Photoshop brushes–hey, this was a weekend project, and there wasn’t time to make a set from scratch! I was thinking “we’re all rock stars online” with that.

After scanning the artwork, I colored the heroines digitally, choosing a palette of bold, progressive colors. I wanted to be girly and fun without being pink or nauseating. I am very pleased with how the colors came out!