Whilst watching MPEG Streamclip transcode a terabytes worth of footage for my bike film BOIKZMOIND I stared blankly at the Facebook ‘Like’ button. I don’t know why I didn’t twig earlier that ‘Like’ is a lot like ‘Bike’ and then when I thought that the ‘thumbs up’ icon looks a lot like a hand-gripping handlebars, well I had to do something about it, so here it is!

I’m sure a million people have already thought of this but I wanted to make the graphic anyway! I opened Firefox, went to a page with a Like button on it, used Firebug to change the text of ‘Like’ to ‘Bike’ and then screengrabbed the button. I then blew it up to 4800% in Illustrator, making a grid of pixel squares and then colour-matched each one so at the end I had a vector version of the pixelated button.

I turned the thumbs up on its side and started making the drop bars for either end, matching the pixel-edged colours to make it ‘together’, and here we are, a bit of Sunday graphics fun!

** Update: Ahh I knew it wouldn’t be original, the good people of howies already beat me to it! Thanks to Andrew for letting me know! **