A Collection of Free Design Resources
Designers can never get enough resources. Fonts, tutorials, source files, plugins, stock images, icons… you name it we love them. Especially when they are free!
Thankfully within the design community there are no shortage of designers willing to offer free stuff, it just about finding them. That is where we can help.
In today’s news round-up we have collected exactly what you want, some fresh and free design resources.
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A Collection of Free Design Resources | Design Reviver.
200+ Textures, Brushes, and Fonts: Ultimate Grunge Roundup
Grunge style is rough, rugged, torn, worn, and tattered. To most, these adjectives would describe something less than appealing, but in the hands of a talented web designer, elements possessing these qualities can be used to turn a web site into a work of art. So, if you are just getting started in grunge design or if you are already a pro, you should find the grunge freebies in this article to be very useful.
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200+ Textures, Brushes, and Fonts: Ultimate Grunge Roundup | Design Reviver.
50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design
* By Vitaly Friedman
* December 14th, 2009
Round-ups of beautiful and useful icons are almost legendary here, on Smashing Magazine. While some readers complain about the annoying “list”-style of some of our articles, we are confident that useful round-ups of relevant resources are very valuable and useful for designers. This is why over months we collect useful links and then present them in posts in the magazine.
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- Content is King (gilbertpellegrom.co.uk)
50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design
* By Paul Andrew
* June 7th, 2009
Beautiful and free icon sets always come in handy. Used properly and moderately, icons can be helpful to provide users with memorable metaphors and illustrations that would provide a visual support for otherwise unspectacular text blocks. For instance, in web-applications memorable icons can be very helpful as they can make it easier for users to memorize how to perform some specific task or where to find some specific functions.
This large collection of recently released icon sets is supposed to help designers improve their designs on their web-sites and in web-applications. All icon sets are free. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the icons — the license can change from time to time. The icons provided below may turn out to be useful and helpful in corporate designs, portfolios, blogs, magazines and in Web-applications. Please feel free to suggest more icon sets in the comments to this post.
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50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design - Smashing Magazine.
Free Desktop Background Wallpaper from ArtisanontheEdge.com...
I took a break from the Victory Medical website job for a while today and designed this desktop wallpaper. Download it from one of the links below.
Enjoy... Lanstorm
Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets
* By Paul Andrew
* September 16th, 2009
The most important aspect of designing an individual icon is that it has to be instantly recognizable, you have to know its function, and you need to know exactly what it is. If you are designing a set, the actual design becomes a lot harder, the designer has to face two initial challenges: each icon they design has to be individual and distinctive from the other, and, they also have to have similar features to show that they are related, completing the set. Not an easy task.
Perhaps that is why we love those small indispensible graphical images so much, it’s an appreciation of the hard work, creativity and talent of the designer. And to think, all those hours spent in front of a laptop crafting these little marvels, and then, allowing everyone else to download them for free. To all icon designers we say: “thank you”.
In this post we present a round-up of fresh high-quality icons that are available for free download and (sometimes only for personal) use. Please make sure to read license agreements before using icons in your designs – they can change from time to time.
You may be interested in the following related posts:
* 50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design
* 50 Free High-Quality Icon Sets
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