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Cheers: A Free “Social” Icon Set

By Smashing Editorial, September 10th, 2008 in Freebies | 167 Comments | Forum

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).

Published in Freebies, September 10th, 2008
Tags: downloads, Freebies, icons, social

1.

Sonali Agrawal (September 10th, 2008, 4:28 pm)

This Rocks!! I just love them..Thanks Again SM….
2.

KC TAN (September 10th, 2008, 4:45 pm)

Thanks Helen for releasing this set of icon :)

I like the Yahoo! design!
3.

Igor J. (September 10th, 2008, 4:45 pm)

Nice!

Cheers!
4.

Marie (September 10th, 2008, 5:05 pm)

very nice!
5.

furley (September 10th, 2008, 5:10 pm)

no digg?
6.

Jeffrey (September 10th, 2008, 5:11 pm)

Thanks a lot !.
keep these coming !
7.

scraby (September 10th, 2008, 6:08 pm)

nice set. thanx.
8.

mikemike (September 10th, 2008, 7:27 pm)

Fail
9.

reezluv (September 10th, 2008, 7:28 pm)

thanks for the download.That’s really nice icon.Cheers too..:)
10.

spongepuppy (September 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!
11.

archknight79 (September 10th, 2008, 9:06 pm)

thanks a lot dude!
keep it coming :)
12.

shree (September 10th, 2008, 9:32 pm)

Great work… Thanks to SM. long back i was searching some thing different icon
13.

jamie (September 10th, 2008, 10:00 pm)

Awesome. I wonder if they are available for Joomla. I’d like to put them on my Link [www.cupidincorporated.com] site.
14.

Ruan (September 10th, 2008, 10:41 pm)

I like socializing :) but not these icons….sorry
15.

speedcu (September 10th, 2008, 10:43 pm)

great idea!!! :)
16.

Giulio (September 10th, 2008, 10:56 pm)

Many thanks, Great work!
17.

Arun (September 10th, 2008, 11:15 pm)

Wow! These are quite creative!
18.

Shine (September 10th, 2008, 11:18 pm)

More of designtips of “social” icons please! And good examples how to display them on sites.
19.

Manuel (September 10th, 2008, 11:22 pm)

tasty!
20.

test (September 10th, 2008, 11:33 pm)

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21.

Curt Simon Harlinghausen (September 10th, 2008, 11:47 pm)

cheers!
22.

derdaniel (September 11th, 2008, 12:14 am)

good work, but i don’t know where i should use them. nice inspiration anyway
23.

Bleyder (September 11th, 2008, 12:23 am)

Cool!!
24.

goran (September 11th, 2008, 12:37 am)

I’m thirsty for them :) Cool work!
25.

chris (September 11th, 2008, 1:27 am)

haha, i like this icon set :)
26.

Eli (September 11th, 2008, 1:31 am)

Kind of surprised to see Design Float in there among the bigger names. Very nice and unique set though.
27.

Arnar (September 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?
28.

yaara (September 11th, 2008, 2:44 am)

Great idea but it’s really difficult to see the specific icon.
29.

Thorsten (September 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…
30.

Cynthia (September 11th, 2008, 3:28 am)

very nice :D
thanks
31.

Sgarro (September 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
32.

Jon Hartmann (September 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.
33.

chris (September 11th, 2008, 4:31 am)

They are cute, but who really uses these things? Anyone? Bueller?
34.

oskard (September 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.
35.

Nikki (September 11th, 2008, 6:17 am)

It’s amazing how many people complain about free icons they are not obligated to use….
36.

Ashrith Maudgalya (September 11th, 2008, 6:20 am)

YOU GUYS ROCK!!!! :D
37.

Cosmi (September 11th, 2008, 7:14 am)

The rss icon is so cute! Thanks Helen & SM!
38.

Matt J. (September 11th, 2008, 7:34 am)

Very clever. Excellent!
39.

Yizi (September 11th, 2008, 7:35 am)

Yahoo one is the best
40.

Jason (September 11th, 2008, 7:51 am)

When I use it, will everyone know my name???? :)
41.

emfajar (September 11th, 2008, 8:01 am)

very nice, thanks
42.

Tyler @ Building Camelot (September 11th, 2008, 8:14 am)

Bad ass! Thank you
43.

Tobi (September 11th, 2008, 8:17 am)

I love your free stuff. This iconset is just awesome !!!
44.

Julien L (September 11th, 2008, 8:23 am)

Thanks for this stuff ! Like it a lot :)
45.

Make Design, Not War (September 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! Link [makedesignnotwar.com]
46.

LapinLove404 (September 11th, 2008, 1:04 pm)

hehe, reminds me of the RSS sets I made this summers : Link [www.l2design.be]
47.

mutena (September 13th, 2008, 3:46 pm)

wonderful set thanks to Helen Gkizi.
48.

John (September 14th, 2008, 4:00 pm)

Idea stolen from blog.templates.com ??? Or its better to say your were inspired by Link [blog.templates.com]?
49.

johnny (September 15th, 2008, 1:27 am)

I agree with Arnar. They are poorly designed. Besides, this isconset reminds me another one release by templates.com - Link [blog.templates.com]. The only difference is that the icons from psd2html.com are worse.
50.

Savocado (September 15th, 2008, 2:41 am)

the yahoo design is the best, I dont like the twitter one, and the YT one simply sucks.
51.

woodland (September 15th, 2008, 10:46 am)

I’d love to see some of the awesome stuff made by :
mikemike
Arnar
Thorsten
Jon Hartmann
and johnny

now 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
52.

asif salam (September 15th, 2008, 2:17 pm)

sweeeeeeeeeeet!!

thanks
53.

drlovecat (September 16th, 2008, 1:04 pm)

thanks for your kindness
54.

michaelaustinproductions.com (September 17th, 2008, 11:03 am)

I love your freebies!!! I might use this for my blog
55.

tommy (September 20th, 2008, 10:15 am)

Thanks. Freebies are always good!
56.

DesignFloat (September 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.
57.

djbt1988 (September 29th, 2008, 1:58 am)

cool! i like some of them,not all
58.

Jay (October 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!
59.

joseacolon (October 15th, 2008, 5:53 pm)

Exellent icons.

Joe
60.

Nirav (October 18th, 2008, 5:38 am)

Awesome guys! :)
61.

fifianilugito (October 19th, 2008, 3:23 am)

thx a lot…
62.

shawn (October 19th, 2008, 11:05 am)

thanks for your kindness
63.

Grace (November 18th, 2008, 5:51 pm)

Nice work! Thanks for remembering us out here! ;-)
64.

pachoagua (November 22nd, 2008, 6:28 pm)

mil gracias, estoy seguro que mis carpetas seran mas amables,

GRACIAS.
65.

Daniel (November 27th, 2008, 4:13 am)

Hey!!!! Qué bakanos que están estos íconos!! Muchas gracias
66.

Mark B (February 7th, 2009, 1:51 pm)

Just amazing!! Great work. Thanks.
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