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Smashing Christmas Icon Sets

By Smashing Editorial, December 17th, 2008 in Freebies | 105 Comments | Forum

In December we asked few designers to come up with some creative, beautiful, memorable yet usable icon sets. Some designers had a tight schedule and couldn’t get work done in time, but three designers agreed and delviered their high-quality Christmas icon sets — right in time before the deadline. In this post we are glad to release three beautiful high-quality Christmas icon sets — you can use them for free without any restrictions whatsoever.

You can use all sets for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.

Smashing Christmas Icon Set

The Russian design studio SoftFacade has chosen a quite unusual approach in design of the Christmas icons set. They put a lot of efforts to come up with some really unusual approach. While the icons exhibit designers’ close attention to the smallest details, they are also very colorful and can be used to decorate your weblog according to the Christmas theme.

The set includes 10 icons — RSS, Shopping cart, Portfolio, Comment, Links, User, Calendar, Contacts, Social networks and Print. The icons are available in resolutions 64×64px, 128×128px and as illustrations in formats .png and .ico. The icons were designed exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers as the gift to the design community for Christmas. Download the set (.zip, 1 Mb)

download the set (.zip, 1 Mb)

Here are some insights from the designers:

“We love Smashing Magazine and we read it regularly, which is why we were more than happy to design a Christmas icon set for the readers of Smashing Magazine. Together with the SM team we discussed what types of icons are more likely to be interesting and useful for a wide variety of SM readers, and decided to get creative to make the set literally stand out.

Afterwards we took some time to come up with metaphors that wouldn’t be as common and as boring as most Christmas icons are. We really wanted to design something memorable and outstanding. Once the rought drafts were done, we started to design icons in Photoshop.

In the end, icons have become very colorful, very unusual and with close attention to the smallest details — and, in our opinion, it perfectly fits to the atmosphere of Smashing Magazine. We are confident that these icons will help Smashing readers to get into the festive Christmas mood and make their web-sites even more beautiful.

With love to design from Russia, SoftFacade design studio.”

Dellixmas Christmas Icon Set

Wendell Fernandes, the designer behind the company LogoExpedite.com, created a more traditional Christmas icon set with 8 icons in dimensions 16×16px – 512×512px. The set contains icons Sitemap, Calendar, Search, Shopping cart, User and RSS. The Adobe Illustrator source image is available as well.

download the set (.zip, 2.9 Mb)
download the .ai source (.zip, 3.3 Mb)

Dock The Halls Icons Set

Paddy Donnelly, a designer from Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, has asked himself: why not ‘Christmassy’ up your dock and hang up the Adobe family’s stockings? This idea led to the ‘Dock the Halls’ icons set, a set of 20 icons that may put your dock or your blog in a festive mood. The Adobe Illustrator source file is available for free download as well.

preview (.jpg)
download the set (.zip, 0.7 Mb)
download the .ai source (.zip, 2.6 Mb)

We express sincere gratitude to all designers for their time, their efforts and their good intentions. Thank you.

Published in Freebies, December 17th, 2008
Tags: christmas, Freebies, Graphics, icons

1.

Tagzeo.com (December 17th, 2008, 5:18 am)

Yeaaaayy !! Graet ! First
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PaulRoman (December 17th, 2008, 5:23 am)

Now that’s a wonderful set !
3.

Alen (December 17th, 2008, 5:26 am)

Also check VistaICO Christmas Pack
Link [www.vistaicons.com]
4.

Michael (December 17th, 2008, 5:29 am)

These are probably some of the most beautiful icons I have ever seen!
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Alessandro (December 17th, 2008, 5:32 am)

Great article ;)
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Shuuun (December 17th, 2008, 5:32 am)

i want to use them -.- gieeef me a project!!! ^^
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Sylvia (December 17th, 2008, 5:44 am)

very nice icons - although maybe a little bit late, I will surely use some of them for my website!
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TJ @ Smartblogtips (December 17th, 2008, 5:47 am)

Very Nice icon sets. Especially the first two.

Thanks and Regards
Thinkjayant
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Martin Ringlein (December 17th, 2008, 5:47 am)

Great icons! The RSS in the snow globe is a great concept.

We put together some Holiday Icons as well if you’re looking for a few extra: Link [nclud.com]
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Ben (December 17th, 2008, 5:59 am)

Oh God….. They are delicious !! Very fruity :D
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DKumar M. (December 17th, 2008, 6:25 am)

Thanks for the beautiful set of icons.
12.

Chris (December 17th, 2008, 6:43 am)

This is just in time for next year!

I think I’m gonna have my website be like all those houses in the neighborhood that leave the Christmas lights up all year.
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Vincent Garnier (December 17th, 2008, 8:34 am)

Softfacade’s pack is really awesome :)
Featured on Link [guipulp.com] ;)
14.

Steven (December 17th, 2008, 8:44 am)

404 - Not Found

please
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Declan ONeill (December 17th, 2008, 8:52 am)

Nice work Paddy, I am starting to become a fan of your work. It is great to see an Irish designer on Smashing.
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Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (December 17th, 2008, 9:00 am)

@Steven (#13): we just checked all links. I couldn’t find a 404 error. Where did you find it?
17.

Paddy (December 17th, 2008, 9:27 am)

Thanks SM for featuring my icons! :) You guys rock!

@Declan Cheers, just doing my bit to raise the Irish design profile!
18.

Vygantas (December 17th, 2008, 9:40 am)

I love you :)
19.

Manko10 (December 17th, 2008, 9:49 am)

Great!
I have not need for it but it looks really cool, just watching it amazes me. ;-)
20.

Drew (December 17th, 2008, 10:47 am)

404 on the first Download link for “Smashing Christmas Icon Set”.
21.

maryam (December 17th, 2008, 10:58 am)

They are sooooooooooooo nice…magical
22.

Navdeep (December 17th, 2008, 11:43 am)

Beautifulllll
23.

karl (December 17th, 2008, 2:13 pm)

Full credit to SoftFacade. Their icon set is absolutely beautiful, unique and fun. Alot of work gone into these.
If only I could eat pixels :)
24.

Tony (December 17th, 2008, 6:21 pm)

Link [88.198.60.17]

link above is “404 - Not Found” :)
btw, it’s nice post, i love it. Thanks anyway.
25.

xien (December 17th, 2008, 6:42 pm)

I like these.So perfect!
26.

DeveloperFox (December 17th, 2008, 9:55 pm)

Beautiful icon set.
thanks
27.

Vincent (December 17th, 2008, 10:34 pm)

These are so beautiful! :D I love the Santa mailbox!
28.

shenuna (December 18th, 2008, 4:52 am)

Whoa, so beautiful.
I also saw some beautiful Link [www.applemacvideo.com].

Another, also some Link [www.applemacvideo.com]
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Adrian Lazariuc (December 18th, 2008, 7:37 am)

Here there are also other free icons and there are also wallpapers created based on these icons: Link [csscreme.com].
30.

emilia tokes (December 18th, 2008, 4:29 pm)

This set is soooo cute and high quality !! Amazing job and thank you for sharing them :D
31.

Rhett (December 18th, 2008, 4:40 pm)

My Illustrator CS3 says the dellixmas.ai is not a valid format and cannot be opened.
32.

Bogdan (December 18th, 2008, 11:22 pm)

Wonderful icons.
Thanks!
33.

Liveo (December 19th, 2008, 10:43 am)

Thanks again. This site has provided me with lots of inspiration for my college teaching.

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Liveo (December 19th, 2008, 10:43 am)

Thanks again. This site has provided me with lots of inspiration for my college teaching.

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35.

Harley (December 19th, 2008, 3:36 pm)

For the first icon set, to download use this link:
Link [78.46.108.98]

Its the second link at the end of the post.
36.

Sinka Csaba (December 20th, 2008, 1:48 am)

Thank you! I put it on our site: Link [www.kispestibaptista.hu]
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b00m (December 20th, 2008, 6:54 am)

wow! this is great. Thanks smashingmag!
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dani.var (December 20th, 2008, 8:13 pm)

Great icons. I know it’s a lot of work, thank you all so much for them. Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year. :o)
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Nadun (December 21st, 2008, 8:30 pm)

cool set of icons… thanx in millions !!!
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mr.white (December 23rd, 2008, 4:52 am)

nice collection!

best wishes and happy xmas to all!
41.

mghong (December 23rd, 2008, 8:12 am)

Thank and cool, i really searching alot of those c’mas icon, and this are really great stuff
42.

Angie (December 23rd, 2008, 9:46 am)

The icon files (ico) are corrupt in this zip. :(
43.

Remon (December 26th, 2008, 2:18 am)

nice
44.

SugarPixel (December 26th, 2008, 6:45 am)

Wow, these are so fun. Thanks, SmashingMag!
45.

Menow (December 27th, 2008, 1:11 pm)

Thank you bro… ;)
46.

Aravind (January 29th, 2009, 11:39 pm)

Really great icons…. It helps me a lot :)