Original Twitter bird & GitHub mascot designer Simon Oxley passes away at age 56 The designer behind some of the internet’s most familiar symbols has passed away. Simon Oxley, the illustrator who created the original Twitter bird and GitHub’s Octocat, died on April 4 at the age of...

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