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Cheers: A Free “Social” Icon Set
We love to release freebies. Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place, which is why we support designers and challenge them to release something for free in order to be featured on Smashing Magazine. And the results are quite often pretty impressive.
Today we are happy to release Cheers: a free set of 12 “social” glasses, designed by Helen Gkizi from Webtoolkit4me, especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
Download the Set for Free!
You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. However, it’s forbidden to sell them. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.
- Download the set (.zip, 0.6 Mb)
Motivation Behind the Design
As usual, here are some insights from the designer herself:
“It’s really funny if you think about it as the motivation behind it was a simple and basic question. Helen is a graphic designer specializing in invitation and brochure design. The question was “Can you design icons” and she said “Sure why not, what kind of icons?”
Gerasimos browsed through a few sets and that was it. She had her first one ready in about 30 minutes. We just said “glasses”. Icon in a glass. Gerasimos and Helen run a small design agency in Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a web designer she’s in the print business. But now he thinks they need to expose this talent somehow and here it is. Their “web 2.0 in a glass”. Cheers!”
Last But Not Least
We are constantly looking for creative designers and artists. You may not know it yet, but we may feature you in one of our upcoming posts.
If you would like to release a free high-quality font, a Wordpress theme, Photoshop brushes, a Drupal theme, some wallpapers or an icon set, please contact us. We would like to support you (both financially and with the broad readership of Smashing Magazine).
The team here at Smashing Magazine. Mostly Sven & Vitaly.
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- 2September 10th, 2008 4:45 pm
Thanks Helen for releasing this set of icon :)
I like the Yahoo! design!
- 3September 10th, 2008 4:45 pm
Nice!
Cheers!
- 4September 10th, 2008 5:05 pm
very nice!
- 5September 10th, 2008 5:10 pm
no digg?
- 6September 10th, 2008 5:11 pm
Thanks a lot !.
keep these coming ! - 7September 10th, 2008 6:08 pm
nice set. thanx.
- 8September 10th, 2008 7:27 pm
Fail
- 9September 10th, 2008 7:28 pm
thanks for the download.That’s really nice icon.Cheers too..:)
- 10September 10th, 2008 8:48 pm
Thanks! Now when my clients ask for an RSS logo in the shape of a beer glass, I’ll be sweet.
Thank you Smashing Magazine for taking care of my glassware-shaped social-bookmarking website icon needs!
I’m eagerly awaiting a set of RSS feed icons shaped like olde-worlde woodworking tools. Please also consider doing more articles about how superior Apple computers are, because I really did enjoy the last one you ran… so informative!
- 11September 10th, 2008 9:06 pm
thanks a lot dude!
keep it coming :) - 12September 10th, 2008 9:32 pm
Great work… Thanks to SM. long back i was searching some thing different icon
- 13September 10th, 2008 10:00 pm
Awesome. I wonder if they are available for Joomla. I’d like to put them on my dating site.
- 14September 10th, 2008 10:41 pm
I like socializing :) but not these icons….sorry
- 15September 10th, 2008 10:43 pm
great idea!!! :)
- 16September 10th, 2008 10:56 pm
Many thanks, Great work!
- 17September 10th, 2008 11:15 pm
Wow! These are quite creative!
- 18September 10th, 2008 11:18 pm
More of designtips of “social” icons please! And good examples how to display them on sites.
- 19September 10th, 2008 11:22 pm
tasty!
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- 21September 10th, 2008 11:47 pm
cheers!
- 22September 11th, 2008 12:14 am
good work, but i don’t know where i should use them. nice inspiration anyway
- 23September 11th, 2008 12:23 am
Cool!!
- 24September 11th, 2008 12:37 am
I’m thirsty for them :) Cool work!
- 25September 11th, 2008 1:27 am
haha, i like this icon set :)
- 26September 11th, 2008 1:31 am
Kind of surprised to see Design Float in there among the bigger names. Very nice and unique set though.
- 27September 11th, 2008 1:32 am
I think these icons are poorly designed, most of the service-logos within the icons are pasted awkwardly (see YouTube and Reddit icons), the size of the icon (glass) is way too big in comparison to the logo within-it, they don’t scale well and are completely unsuable.
Honestly, what website do you see using these?
- 28September 11th, 2008 2:44 am
Great idea but it’s really difficult to see the specific icon.
- 29September 11th, 2008 2:51 am
I agree with Arnar. These icons are, well they are free and I don’t have to take them, but honestly, their are not good enough.
Where should one use such a big feed icon? And the shadow looks like a simple effect. Really just a 30 minute work… - 30September 11th, 2008 3:28 am
very nice :D
thanks - 31September 11th, 2008 4:11 am
Great, i really like it…but…why don’t you have do the flickr, facebook, last.fm and maybe anobii too??
Sorry for my english - 32September 11th, 2008 4:21 am
I have to agree with some of the others… they look “spiffy” but who would never need such a thing? These stand a better chance of appealing to MySpace kiddies than to designers.
- 33September 11th, 2008 4:31 am
They are cute, but who really uses these things? Anyone? Bueller?
- 34September 11th, 2008 5:46 am
Facebook – It would be one of those giant, novelty, fish-bowl sized glasses with some deep blue liquid inside, filled with the most random assortment of umbrellas, lemons, colorful ice cubes.
Myspace would be the same thing but instead of a glass, a small wooden barrel.
- 35September 11th, 2008 6:17 am
It’s amazing how many people complain about free icons they are not obligated to use….
- 36September 11th, 2008 6:20 am
YOU GUYS ROCK!!!! :D
- 37September 11th, 2008 7:14 am
The rss icon is so cute! Thanks Helen & SM!
- 38September 11th, 2008 7:34 am
Very clever. Excellent!
- 39September 11th, 2008 7:35 am
Yahoo one is the best
- 40September 11th, 2008 7:51 am
When I use it, will everyone know my name???? :)
- 41September 11th, 2008 8:01 am
very nice, thanks
- 42September 11th, 2008 8:14 am
Bad ass! Thank you
- 43September 11th, 2008 8:17 am
I love your free stuff. This iconset is just awesome !!!
- 44September 11th, 2008 8:23 am
Thanks for this stuff ! Like it a lot :)
- 45September 11th, 2008 8:35 am
Ironically, I love it when you release freebies too! Nice little set of fun icons, I’ll look forward to the next ‘bar 2.0′ project where I might be able to use ‘em. Cheers! http://makedesignnotwar.com
- 46September 11th, 2008 1:04 pm
hehe, reminds me of the RSS sets I made this summers : http://www.l2design.be/drinkrss/
- 47September 13th, 2008 3:46 pm
wonderful set thanks to Helen Gkizi.
- 48September 14th, 2008 4:00 pm
Idea stolen from blog.templates.com ??? Or its better to say your were inspired by this post?
- 49September 15th, 2008 1:27 am
I agree with Arnar. They are poorly designed. Besides, this isconset reminds me another one release by templates.com – free siconset for bloggers. The only difference is that the icons from psd2html.com are worse.
- 50September 15th, 2008 2:41 am
the yahoo design is the best, I dont like the twitter one, and the YT one simply sucks.
- 51September 15th, 2008 10:46 am
I’d love to see some of the awesome stuff made by :
mikemike
Arnar
Thorsten
Jon Hartmann
and johnnynow why am I Not expecting any links to or other proof of their wonderful creations….
It’s so easy and cheap to be negative guys
- 52September 15th, 2008 2:17 pm
sweeeeeeeeeeet!!
thanks
- 53September 16th, 2008 1:04 pm
thanks for your kindness
- 54
- 55September 20th, 2008 10:15 am
Thanks. Freebies are always good!
- 56September 23rd, 2008 4:13 am
hey designfloat icon looks a bit odd! don’t you think so? At 1st I even didn’t recognize my icon.
- 57September 29th, 2008 1:58 am
cool! i like some of them,not all
- 58October 5th, 2008 11:49 am
Would be nice to have a google one or perhaps the psd’s so that we can create more… Nice Work!
- 59October 15th, 2008 5:53 pm
Exellent icons.
Joe
- 60October 18th, 2008 5:38 am
Awesome guys! :)
- 61October 19th, 2008 3:23 am
thx a lot…
- 62October 19th, 2008 11:05 am
thanks for your kindness
- 63November 18th, 2008 5:51 pm
Nice work! Thanks for remembering us out here! ;-)
- 64November 22nd, 2008 6:28 pm
mil gracias, estoy seguro que mis carpetas seran mas amables,
GRACIAS.
- 65November 27th, 2008 4:13 am
Hey!!!! Qué bakanos que están estos íconos!! Muchas gracias
- 66February 7th, 2009 1:51 pm
Just amazing!! Great work. Thanks.
- 67March 7th, 2009 3:37 pm
продам Форд-Фокус 2008 года за 200 тр. торг возможет. срочно!!!
+7 960 200 9209 - 68July 9th, 2009 11:06 am
Phenominal! I love them and will be using, thanks a bunch!
- 69July 23rd, 2009 7:15 pm
This are awesome thank you I will use. <
- 70August 5th, 2009 9:40 am
Smashing Magazine continues to amaze. The content, the resources, the links – They’ve developed their own niche IN A EMPHATIC MANNER.
SM rules.
- 71August 20th, 2009 8:07 am
love the cheers buttons. Is there one for Facebook?
- 72August 26th, 2009 9:06 am
These are great, but need a facebook icon ;)
- 73September 21st, 2009 5:42 am
They were rocking soon going to use them in my sites . .
- 74November 1st, 2009 10:16 am
Awesome design on these icons! I think they’re great and will be using them on my blog. Thanks!
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