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Smashy The Alien Icon Set
July 23rd, 2008 in Graphics, Freebies | 98 Comments
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.
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.
- PNG files (0.25 Mb)
- Windows icons (0.23 Mb)
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.
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ForTheLose.org (July 23rd, 2008, 3:25 pm)
Wow those are so cool looking. Really nice. Thanks guys!
Jakc (July 23rd, 2008, 3:37 pm)
The second
BTW. This icon set looks amazing…Well done
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!
Seye Kuyinu (July 23rd, 2008, 3:51 pm)
Nice sets! Nice idea! Nice! …Maja, and nice website!
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.
CreamScoop.com (July 23rd, 2008, 4:46 pm)
Wow, nice set and for free! Thank you SM :)
Fernanda Prevedello (July 23rd, 2008, 4:47 pm)
Very cute!
acidcloud (July 23rd, 2008, 4:51 pm)
Nice work, as always.
liam (July 23rd, 2008, 5:07 pm)
Sweet - Nice set guys.
Mayur (July 23rd, 2008, 5:46 pm)
Awesome icon packs with very cute looks :)
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.
anjhero (July 23rd, 2008, 8:27 pm)
Cute .. very cute…
Mithun Sreedharan (July 23rd, 2008, 8:30 pm)
Thanks, thanks alot
starwar (July 23rd, 2008, 8:54 pm)
so cute ^.^
N S Sugur (July 23rd, 2008, 9:00 pm)
Very naice icons…Thanks
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!!
Jasper Kennis (July 23rd, 2008, 10:08 pm)
Nice
balaganesh (July 23rd, 2008, 10:13 pm)
Very Nice looking
Jasi (July 23rd, 2008, 10:21 pm)
I like it ;)
Joshua (July 23rd, 2008, 10:23 pm)
Cool! Well done.
vaske (July 23rd, 2008, 10:39 pm)
Very nice, I’m impressed with your work Maja.
Samo napred Majo ! ! !
Jose (July 23rd, 2008, 11:23 pm)
Nice Iconset.. Congratulations from a boy of mallorca (spain) for this pretty online magazine… Regards,
Jose
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 ..
3kolone (July 23rd, 2008, 11:38 pm)
go maja go ;-) … nice collection
Igor (July 23rd, 2008, 11:53 pm)
She did an extraordinary work with this icon set again… She’s simply fantastic :D
Akos (July 24th, 2008, 12:20 am)
Maja!
Nagyon szep!
:-)
Sandra (July 24th, 2008, 12:22 am)
Bravo Maja! Super su, šarene, vesele:)
K.K.Shankar (July 24th, 2008, 12:31 am)
Cool and amazing. waiting for more….
David Hellmann (July 24th, 2008, 12:33 am)
good icons! nice!
dix-huit (July 24th, 2008, 1:18 am)
This is lame.
Smashing Mag rocks but this is just lame.
brett (July 24th, 2008, 1:31 am)
Love Em!
maja bencic (July 24th, 2008, 3:36 am)
thank you all and specially to the SM :)
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!
flasheadito (July 24th, 2008, 5:14 am)
Very nice work!
Thanks SM !
Gurjot (July 24th, 2008, 5:17 am)
These are great! The best part is they’re truly FREE.
Cosmi (July 24th, 2008, 5:41 am)
Wonderful work Maja. Keep going. BTW, cool site :-)
Adam (July 24th, 2008, 6:33 am)
wow, really hot work!
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.
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!
Juan Angel (July 24th, 2008, 11:27 am)
Thanks!. These are really good. Excelent job.
Illi.Pro (July 24th, 2008, 12:11 pm)
Pretty icons :)! Thanks!
L (July 24th, 2008, 1:12 pm)
smashy is creepy.
Jason (July 24th, 2008, 3:46 pm)
Excellent work Maja! You are very talented :)
SM - Keep it up!
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.
Lucijan (July 24th, 2008, 5:22 pm)
Good work Maja! Nice to see more Croatian designers on smashing :)
NaldzGraphics (July 24th, 2008, 5:33 pm)
Cool icon Freebies!!!!Very Nice!!:)
NeoSheet (July 24th, 2008, 11:25 pm)
yeah.. cool, very sweet. dont know how to say it.. its awesome
Lahure dai (July 25th, 2008, 7:50 am)
this is a very cool set of icons. thanks for this set.
Himangshu Das (July 25th, 2008, 8:34 pm)
Cool Icon!!!
I like it!!!
atif (July 27th, 2008, 2:04 am)
Its nice to see some professional class material here!
olja (July 27th, 2008, 12:17 pm)
uaoooo…super…bravisssssima!!!!!
rajaraman (July 27th, 2008, 8:44 pm)
fine colors ………..
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..
Reginald (July 29th, 2008, 2:24 pm)
The icons are crisp, clean, and cute. They are an adorable set.
Fabio (July 31st, 2008, 3:34 am)
super cool..thanks!!
nicolina (August 5th, 2008, 4:33 am)
wow very very nice,thanks
Pedro (August 11th, 2008, 5:31 am)
Fantastic, congratulations!!!
Panthea (August 13th, 2008, 10:06 pm)
so cute and adorable … Thanks :-)
Gurumaster (August 14th, 2008, 6:33 am)
thanks!!
Odipo Brian Sospeter (August 15th, 2008, 1:55 am)
Nice wallpapers to view