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Smashy The Alien Icon Set

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We are always looking for creative and talented artists and designers. Once we find them, we ask them to cooperate with us and release something for free. We provide them with the full freedom to showcase their professionalism and express their creativity. And we support them financially and with a broad coverage in our magazine. Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place. In fact, the results are quite often pretty impressive. You can find our previous releases in our section Freebies.

Release in Smashy The Alien Icon Set

Today we are glad to release a free Smashy The Alien icon set. The set contains 8 icons (RSS, news, home, download, contact, calendar, blog and Smashing) with a nice modest alien who is just too shy to show his face completely. You can use the set for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free — without any restrictions whatsoever.

The icons are available in .ico and .png-formats in resolutions 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px. If you love Smashing Magazine just like Smashy does feel free to place him on your blog.

This icon set was designed by Maja Bencic aka Abeja from Croatia especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Download Icon Set For Free!

You can use the icons for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free, without any restrictions whatsoever. However, you are not allowed to sell or redistribute the icons without author’s and Smashing Magazine’s permission.

Preview in Smashy The Alien Icon Set

Motivation behind the design

Maja contacted us through our contact form and asked if we are interested in some kind of cooperation. We were impressed by Maja’s work, so we have comissioned Maja to design a memorable, lively and beautiful icon set for our readers.

Here are some insights about the motivation behind the design from the designer herself:

I prefer clean and simple designs with lively colors and original elements such as icons. Since I love creating characters and try to include them often in my designs, I wanted to use them for a set of trendy and cute icons inspired with cartoons and picture books.

I think these icons could be used to make web-sites more lively and friendly no matter how serious they are supposed to be. At least that’s how I like my web-projects to be. I hope people will find a way for incorporating some or all of these icons into their designs.

I started as a web designer 6 years ago, but recently I do a lot of graphic design and illustrations as well. Some of my work is presented on my website abeja.org.

Maja Benčić

Thank you, Maja!

Want to showcase your work as well?

Please notice again: we are regularly looking for creative designers and artists and we are more than happy to support them financially and with a broad coverage in our magazine. If you think you can design a professional icon set, theme, wallpaper, typeface, screensaver or whatever — feel free to contact us. You may not know it yet, but we might feature you in one of our upcoming posts.

The team here at Smashing Magazine. Mostly Sven & Vitaly.

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  1. 1
    ForTheLose.org
    July 23rd, 2008 3:25 pm

    Wow those are so cool looking. Really nice. Thanks guys!

  2. 2
    Jakc
    July 23rd, 2008 3:37 pm

    The second

    BTW. This icon set looks amazing…Well done

  3. 3
    Seye Kuyinu
    July 23rd, 2008 3:50 pm

    These are really nice…creative. Keep up the good work Maja!…and very smooth website too! Good work!

  4. 4
    Seye Kuyinu
    July 23rd, 2008 3:51 pm

    Nice sets! Nice idea! Nice! …Maja, and nice website!

  5. 5
    Zhu
    July 23rd, 2008 4:40 pm

    Very nice! I noticed this guy before, I remember visiting her website (probably from a showcase?). Love the somewhat “naive’” icons, the bright color and of course his imagination.

  6. 6
    CreamScoop.com
    July 23rd, 2008 4:46 pm

    Wow, nice set and for free! Thank you SM :)

  7. 7
    Fernanda Prevedello
    July 23rd, 2008 4:47 pm

    Very cute!

  8. 8
    acidcloud
    July 23rd, 2008 4:51 pm

    Nice work, as always.

  9. 9
    liam
    July 23rd, 2008 5:07 pm

    Sweet – Nice set guys.

  10. 10
    Mayur
    July 23rd, 2008 5:46 pm

    Awesome icon packs with very cute looks :)

  11. 11
    Marc Dandoy
    July 23rd, 2008 8:17 pm

    Aww, it’s so cute. Thank you for this free pack, I will be sure to use it in future projects.

  12. 12
    anjhero
    July 23rd, 2008 8:27 pm

    Cute .. very cute…

  13. 13
    Mithun Sreedharan
    July 23rd, 2008 8:30 pm

    Thanks, thanks alot

  14. 14
    starwar
    July 23rd, 2008 8:54 pm

    so cute ^.^

  15. 15
    N S Sugur
    July 23rd, 2008 9:00 pm

    Very naice icons…Thanks

  16. 16
    Davor Peić
    July 23rd, 2008 9:43 pm

    wow!!! Another awesome work from Maja!!
    I knew that you’re cooking something!! See you next week!!

  17. 17
    Jasper Kennis
    July 23rd, 2008 10:08 pm

    Nice

  18. 18
    balaganesh
    July 23rd, 2008 10:13 pm

    Very Nice looking

  19. 19
    Jasi
    July 23rd, 2008 10:21 pm

    I like it ;)

  20. 20
    Joshua
    July 23rd, 2008 10:23 pm

    Cool! Well done.

  21. 21
    vaske
    July 23rd, 2008 10:39 pm

    Very nice, I’m impressed with your work Maja.

    Samo napred Majo ! ! !

  22. 22
    Jose
    July 23rd, 2008 11:23 pm

    Nice Iconset.. Congratulations from a boy of mallorca (spain) for this pretty online magazine… Regards,

    Jose

  23. 23
    Zaher
    July 23rd, 2008 11:27 pm

    Every day i got something new from your site , no matter what is it , an article , an icon set or anything useful

    thank you so much ..

  24. 24
    3kolone
    July 23rd, 2008 11:38 pm

    go maja go ;-) … nice collection

  25. 25
    Igor
    July 23rd, 2008 11:53 pm

    She did an extraordinary work with this icon set again… She’s simply fantastic :D

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    Akos
    July 24th, 2008 12:20 am

    Maja!

    Nagyon szep!

    :-)

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    Sandra
    July 24th, 2008 12:22 am

    Bravo Maja! Super su, šarene, vesele:)

  28. 28
    K.K.Shankar
    July 24th, 2008 12:31 am

    Cool and amazing. waiting for more….

  29. 29
    David Hellmann
    July 24th, 2008 12:33 am

    good icons! nice!

  30. 30
    dix-huit
    July 24th, 2008 1:18 am

    This is lame.

    Smashing Mag rocks but this is just lame.

  31. 31
    brett
    July 24th, 2008 1:31 am

    Love Em!

  32. 32
    maja bencic
    July 24th, 2008 3:36 am

    thank you all and specially to the SM :)

  33. 33
    Sinisa Dukaric
    July 24th, 2008 3:38 am

    Clap clap Maja, excellent work, I’m actually not surprised by this since I enjoy almost every piece of art you make :)

    Cheers!

  34. 34
    flasheadito
    July 24th, 2008 5:14 am

    Very nice work!
    Thanks SM !

  35. 35
    Gurjot
    July 24th, 2008 5:17 am

    These are great! The best part is they’re truly FREE.

  36. 36
    Cosmi
    July 24th, 2008 5:41 am

    Wonderful work Maja. Keep going. BTW, cool site :-)

  37. 37
    Adam
    July 24th, 2008 6:33 am

    wow, really hot work!

  38. 38
    Tom Mayers
    July 24th, 2008 8:50 am

    I’d like to balance your usual set of sycophantic comments by mentioning that these are extremely childish, and I can’t imagine how a single person could utilise them.

  39. 39
    Stephanie
    July 24th, 2008 9:35 am

    I agree with Tom Mayers. I don’t think I’ll ever use these, but I do appreciate your clean work, Maja!

  40. 40
    Juan Angel
    July 24th, 2008 11:27 am

    Thanks!. These are really good. Excelent job.

  41. 41
    Illi.Pro
    July 24th, 2008 12:11 pm

    Pretty icons :)! Thanks!

  42. 42
    L
    July 24th, 2008 1:12 pm

    smashy is creepy.

  43. 43
    Jason
    July 24th, 2008 3:46 pm

    Excellent work Maja! You are very talented :)

    SM – Keep it up!

  44. 44
    alain
    July 24th, 2008 4:39 pm

    This is a very good work. I’m totally agree with Tom Mayers too, it’s useless for me (until now) but i must recognize the clean work.

  45. 45
    Lucijan
    July 24th, 2008 5:22 pm

    Good work Maja! Nice to see more Croatian designers on smashing :)

  46. 46
    NaldzGraphics
    July 24th, 2008 5:33 pm

    Cool icon Freebies!!!!Very Nice!!:)

  47. 47
    NeoSheet
    July 24th, 2008 11:25 pm

    yeah.. cool, very sweet. dont know how to say it.. its awesome

  48. 48
    Lahure dai
    July 25th, 2008 7:50 am

    this is a very cool set of icons. thanks for this set.

  49. 49
    Himangshu Das
    July 25th, 2008 8:34 pm

    Cool Icon!!!
    I like it!!!

  50. 50
    atif
    July 27th, 2008 2:04 am

    Its nice to see some professional class material here!

  51. 51
    olja
    July 27th, 2008 12:17 pm

    uaoooo…super…bravisssssima!!!!!

  52. 52
    rajaraman
    July 27th, 2008 8:44 pm

    fine colors ………..

  53. 53
    V1
    July 28th, 2008 12:05 am

    @TOM / comment #38

    I so agree, i would expect more QUALITY from sm.. If this was a site to help 7 year old design websites it would be the greatest post ever….

    But its not.. UNLESS im wrong of course..

  54. 54
    Reginald
    July 29th, 2008 2:24 pm

    The icons are crisp, clean, and cute. They are an adorable set.

  55. 55
    Fabio
    July 31st, 2008 3:34 am

    super cool..thanks!!

  56. 56
    nicolina
    August 5th, 2008 4:33 am

    wow very very nice,thanks

  57. 57
    Pedro
    August 11th, 2008 5:31 am

    Fantastic, congratulations!!!

  58. 58
    Panthea
    August 13th, 2008 10:06 pm

    so cute and adorable … Thanks :-)

  59. 59
    Gurumaster
    August 14th, 2008 6:33 am

    thanks!!

  60. 60
    Odipo Brian Sospeter
    August 15th, 2008 1:55 am

    Nice wallpapers to view

  61. 61
    tanya25m
    August 31st, 2008 10:03 am

    Great icons! Thanks!!

  62. 62
    Praveen Nair
    September 2nd, 2008 8:16 pm

    helloz,

    Thank you very much for the awesome looking icon-set. Excellent colors sober looking.

  63. 63
    Andy Talbot
    September 3rd, 2008 3:55 am

    Wow love them, theanks guys!

    @ndy

  64. 64
    shaghayegh
    October 24th, 2008 9:23 am

    The icons are very very … very nice. thank you.

  65. 65
    jan
    October 27th, 2008 5:19 am

    what makes this soo much nicer is the people behind these icons who created them with their sweat and gives it for free!

    Salute!

  66. 66
    Shashi
    October 27th, 2008 7:05 pm

    Thank you Maja,
    Lovely work
    Id like to use them for all my works :)

  67. 67
    Kims
    November 20th, 2008 6:51 pm

    Thanks for free~

  68. 68
    Gremlin
    November 29th, 2008 3:26 am

    So good icon set. Thx so much from Poland

  69. 69
    paras
    December 8th, 2008 11:30 pm

    nice icons….thnx

  70. 70
    Thomas Weise
    January 8th, 2009 2:00 am

    Great icons! Thanks!!

  71. 71
    Kate Phizackerley
    March 6th, 2009 7:09 am

    Great to see a set with attitude and character. So many sets are functional but bland.

  72. 72
    Marilyn
    March 10th, 2009 9:39 am

    Very Goooooooooooooooooooood !!!!!!!!

  73. 73
    allan
    June 1st, 2009 6:24 am

    Thanks ill grab one for my blog. really nice

  74. 74
    Parich
    June 27th, 2009 10:46 pm

    Thanks it’s very nice..

  75. 75
    Alexander Davis
    July 4th, 2009 11:02 pm

    Beautiful Icon Set I have featured your Icons on the front page of my site
    I look forward to seeing more of your incredible Icons so I can add them into my listing and get people to download them ;-)

  76. 76
    Iconers
    August 3rd, 2009 8:43 am

    Thanx a Lot !

  77. 77
    Raja
    August 12th, 2009 2:58 pm

    hi…

    Nice Icons…
    going to use in my blog…

  78. 78
    Kathy Q
    October 2nd, 2009 8:26 am

    Fantastic …many thanks!

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