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Cheers: A Free “Social” Icon Set

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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.

Splash in Cheers: A Free Social Icon Set

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.

Cheers in Cheers: A Free Social Icon Set

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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  1. 1
    Sonali Agrawal
    September 10th, 2008 4:28 pm

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

  2. 2
    KC TAN
    September 10th, 2008 4:45 pm

    Thanks Helen for releasing this set of icon :)

    I like the Yahoo! design!

  3. 3
    Igor J.
    September 10th, 2008 4:45 pm

    Nice!

    Cheers!

  4. 4
    Marie
    September 10th, 2008 5:05 pm

    very nice!

  5. 5
    furley
    September 10th, 2008 5:10 pm

    no digg?

  6. 6
    Jeffrey
    September 10th, 2008 5:11 pm

    Thanks a lot !.
    keep these coming !

  7. 7
    scraby
    September 10th, 2008 6:08 pm

    nice set. thanx.

  8. 8
    mikemike
    September 10th, 2008 7:27 pm

    Fail

  9. 9
    reezluv
    September 10th, 2008 7:28 pm

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

  10. 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. 11
    archknight79
    September 10th, 2008 9:06 pm

    thanks a lot dude!
    keep it coming :)

  12. 12
    shree
    September 10th, 2008 9:32 pm

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

  13. 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 dating site.

  14. 14
    Ruan
    September 10th, 2008 10:41 pm

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

  15. 15
    speedcu
    September 10th, 2008 10:43 pm

    great idea!!! :)

  16. 16
    Giulio
    September 10th, 2008 10:56 pm

    Many thanks, Great work!

  17. 17
    Arun
    September 10th, 2008 11:15 pm

    Wow! These are quite creative!

  18. 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. 19
    Manuel
    September 10th, 2008 11:22 pm

    tasty!

  20. 20
    test
    September 10th, 2008 11:33 pm

    test javascript

  21. 21
    Curt Simon Harlinghausen
    September 10th, 2008 11:47 pm

    cheers!

  22. 22
    derdaniel
    September 11th, 2008 12:14 am

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

  23. 23
    Bleyder
    September 11th, 2008 12:23 am

    Cool!!

  24. 24
    goran
    September 11th, 2008 12:37 am

    I’m thirsty for them :) Cool work!

  25. 25
    chris
    September 11th, 2008 1:27 am

    haha, i like this icon set :)

  26. 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. 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. 28
    yaara
    September 11th, 2008 2:44 am

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

  29. 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. 30
    Cynthia
    September 11th, 2008 3:28 am

    very nice :D
    thanks

  31. 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. 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. 33
    chris
    September 11th, 2008 4:31 am

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

  34. 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. 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. 36
    Ashrith Maudgalya
    September 11th, 2008 6:20 am

    YOU GUYS ROCK!!!! :D

  37. 37
    Cosmi
    September 11th, 2008 7:14 am

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

  38. 38
    Matt J.
    September 11th, 2008 7:34 am

    Very clever. Excellent!

  39. 39
    Yizi
    September 11th, 2008 7:35 am

    Yahoo one is the best

  40. 40
    Jason
    September 11th, 2008 7:51 am

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

  41. 41
    emfajar
    September 11th, 2008 8:01 am

    very nice, thanks

  42. 42
    Tyler @ Building Camelot
    September 11th, 2008 8:14 am

    Bad ass! Thank you

  43. 43
    Tobi
    September 11th, 2008 8:17 am

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

  44. 44
    Julien L
    September 11th, 2008 8:23 am

    Thanks for this stuff ! Like it a lot :)

  45. 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! http://makedesignnotwar.com

  46. 46
    LapinLove404
    September 11th, 2008 1:04 pm

    hehe, reminds me of the RSS sets I made this summers : http://www.l2design.be/drinkrss/

  47. 47
    mutena
    September 13th, 2008 3:46 pm

    wonderful set thanks to Helen Gkizi.

  48. 48
    John
    September 14th, 2008 4:00 pm

    Idea stolen from blog.templates.com ??? Or its better to say your were inspired by this post?

  49. 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 – free siconset for bloggers. The only difference is that the icons from psd2html.com are worse.

  50. 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. 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. 52
    asif salam
    September 15th, 2008 2:17 pm

    sweeeeeeeeeeet!!

    thanks

  53. 53
    drlovecat
    September 16th, 2008 1:04 pm

    thanks for your kindness

  54. 54
    michaelaustinproductions.com
    September 17th, 2008 11:03 am

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

  55. 55
    tommy
    September 20th, 2008 10:15 am

    Thanks. Freebies are always good!

  56. 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. 57
    djbt1988
    September 29th, 2008 1:58 am

    cool! i like some of them,not all

  58. 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. 59
    joseacolon
    October 15th, 2008 5:53 pm

    Exellent icons.

    Joe

  60. 60
    Nirav
    October 18th, 2008 5:38 am

    Awesome guys! :)

  61. 61
    fifianilugito
    October 19th, 2008 3:23 am

    thx a lot…

  62. 62
    shawn
    October 19th, 2008 11:05 am

    thanks for your kindness

  63. 63
    Grace
    November 18th, 2008 5:51 pm

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

  64. 64
    pachoagua
    November 22nd, 2008 6:28 pm

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

    GRACIAS.

  65. 65
    Daniel
    November 27th, 2008 4:13 am

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

  66. 66
    Mark B
    February 7th, 2009 1:51 pm

    Just amazing!! Great work. Thanks.

  67. 67
    pieriecodgirl
    March 7th, 2009 3:37 pm

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    +7 960 200 9209

  68. 68
    Priscilla St Claire
    July 9th, 2009 11:06 am

    Phenominal! I love them and will be using, thanks a bunch!

  69. 69
    Jared
    July 23rd, 2009 7:15 pm

    This are awesome thank you I will use. <

  70. 70
    Muwasalat.com
    August 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.

  71. 71
    jennifer abernethy
    August 20th, 2009 8:07 am

    love the cheers buttons. Is there one for Facebook?

  72. 72
    Brookland
    August 26th, 2009 9:06 am

    These are great, but need a facebook icon ;)

  73. 73
    Rajesh Kanuri
    September 21st, 2009 5:42 am

    They were rocking soon going to use them in my sites . .

  74. 74
    Pablo Gonzalez
    November 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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