Free Designer’s Portfolio Icon Set (12 High Quality Icons)
Today we are glad to release a Designer’s Portfolio Icon Set, a set with 12 original high-quality icons in the resolution 256×256px. This set was designed by MediaLoot and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Both layered PSDs and transparent PNGs are included. The set contains icons related to avatar, portfolio, brushes, mail / envelope, color palette, colored pencils, tablet, laptop computer, moleskine notebook, DSLR camera, easel with canvas and coffee cup.
Download the icon set for free!
You can use the set 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.
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Behind the design
As always, here are some insights from the designer herself:
All of us designers need graphics and icons for our own sites, not just for client’s sites, so we designed this icon set with that in mind. The set contains 12 big icons in 256×256 format. Both layered PSDs and transparent PNGs are included. We like to call it our ‘designer portfolio icon set’. The set includes the following icons:
Avatar Portfolio Brushes Mail / Envelope Color Palette Colored Pencils Tablet Laptop Computer Moleskine Notebook DSLR Camera Easel With Canvas Coffee Cup (who said designers drink too much coffee?)
Thank you very much, Jon & Co.! We appreciate your efforts.
Jarvis
May 24th, 2010 2:08 pmThanks for sharing! Nice icons!
MauxWebmaster
May 24th, 2010 2:24 pmThanks for this!
Great icons!
High Quality!
Andrew
May 24th, 2010 2:26 pmLove the set, but is it just me, or does the guy look like Prince with a suit on? ;-)
Jestep
May 24th, 2010 5:59 pmThat was my first impression.
spencer sy
May 24th, 2010 2:39 pmWow! Cool icons and nice details. Thanks for sharing!
SGD
May 24th, 2010 2:43 pmGreat work. Nice to see Dave Navarro cleaning himself up. ;-)
phil
May 28th, 2010 12:43 amThanks. Very nice style. Love the details.
paul
May 24th, 2010 2:56 pmthey are beautiful!
thanks
JayDee
May 24th, 2010 3:11 pmThe designer formerly known as ‘Prince’ rather…
Erika
May 24th, 2010 4:24 pmI thought the same as you when I saw the avatar….All of them are great icons though :)
TuncTEMEL
May 24th, 2010 3:24 pmNice Work Cool icons Thanks…
Ron Stauffer, Jr
May 24th, 2010 3:25 pmThese are great! Thanks! Love the MacBook Pro.
BSide Graphics
May 24th, 2010 4:48 pmWow :D
Is that i call “Out of this world” Iconset!
Alex
July 20th, 2012 5:19 pmgreat icon set! thanks for share.
AEXT.NET MAGAZINE
May 24th, 2010 5:20 pmGreat icon set! Thanks!
SikDave
May 24th, 2010 5:50 pmTHANKS A MIL!! Loooove the DSLR
Adrian
May 24th, 2010 7:55 pmNice set! Except for the camera.. it’s completely horrible.
Thanks.
Seth Bro
May 24th, 2010 9:41 pmGotta say, these “12 very specific high-quality icons” posts are typically the lamest of Smashing’s generally amazing content.
Douglas Wolfe
May 24th, 2010 10:24 pmThank you for these, i have been looking for some great icons to use in my new layout for my portfolio and while I have found some really good ones, none quit fit the bill. These on the other hand are exactly what designers like us need for our portfolio sites.
adelacreative
May 25th, 2010 12:13 amHmm…why not try designing your own icons then!
Tom Franssen
May 24th, 2010 10:25 pmNice perspective :D
But I won’t use them because I want everything on my portfolio to be made by myself…
Julie
May 24th, 2010 11:21 pmReally clean set but I – kind of- have some difficulties to identify myself to the “Prince in a suit” avatar.
adelacreative
May 25th, 2010 12:10 amAmazing quality icons, except the womanized guy in the suit. Great job though!
Elena
May 25th, 2010 12:23 amThat is one very cool set of icons! And all free to use, thank you so much!
Ritika
May 25th, 2010 12:43 amThanks!
Seb
May 25th, 2010 12:50 amThanks for sharing this. I like it a lot!
By the way: the image on the frontpage is not linked correctly. It gives me an 404 error…
Edward
May 25th, 2010 1:25 amLovely set of icons, but I agree with the other comments ala the Prince avatar!
Sue
May 25th, 2010 1:35 amBeautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Ravikumar V.
May 25th, 2010 2:52 amnice icons
Sweefy
May 25th, 2010 3:45 amThank you for sharing, searched for such icons.
Rolando S. Bouza
May 25th, 2010 3:51 amImage link from home page goes to 404
MediaLoot
May 25th, 2010 4:26 amHey Guys,
Thanks for all of the compliments on the icon set! The designer is certain to be very appreciative of all the positivity.
If you want more of this type of resource and others, check us out at http://medialoot.com and we’ve got tons of other freebies.
Enjoy the icons :-)
— Mason
Brian Jones
May 25th, 2010 4:26 amExcellent icons – thank for sharing with us!
Merlo gambra
May 25th, 2010 5:19 amAbsolutely stunning. especially the camera
Linh Pham
May 25th, 2010 6:02 amVery nice icons
Stephan
May 25th, 2010 6:16 amGreat icons. Thanks for sharing!
jean
May 25th, 2010 7:20 amThanks !
Alberto
May 25th, 2010 7:24 amThank you, very nice!!!!
JD
May 25th, 2010 8:27 amNice stuff! Except for the camera, the perspective of the lens is all wrong, it seems to point down while the camera body is tilted upwards.
cruzmisl
May 25th, 2010 9:05 amGreat icons! One thing–the reflection on the notebook should be going the other way, shouldn’t it? Look into the reflection of your macbook (if you have one with a glossy screen) to see what I mean.
Still, they all look great!
Faissal
May 26th, 2010 10:17 pmya. reflection is wrong.
Dimi
May 25th, 2010 9:36 amGreat set, thanks!!
Bryan G. C.
May 25th, 2010 5:45 pmThe icon set is really nice, but I think a designer should make your own icon set for a portfiolio.
Kate
May 25th, 2010 6:52 pmThese are beautiful :)
My only qualm is that there is only a male avatar, and the assumption that *all* designers drink coffee (as I drink hot chocolate!) :)
Think I might need to incorporate these into my site/an upcoming design!
Daniel (Créations du Net)
May 25th, 2010 11:42 pmA really nice set ! A high quality work and a very useful ressource.
Thanks so much for sharing!
Vuk Ninić
May 26th, 2010 1:27 amThank you so much :)
Vladimir
May 26th, 2010 7:09 amVery nice icon set :)
Thank You Very Much
- Tintation.com
Berenice Limon
May 26th, 2010 7:32 pmGreat artwork, thank you!
Riarebrand
May 26th, 2010 7:44 pmBravo MediaLoot and SM
nice icon! thank a lot for share.
Lê Minh Phiên
May 27th, 2010 12:37 amThanks a lot ! good jobs
Anderson
May 27th, 2010 10:40 amGreat! Thanks, these bright logos will jazz up my next proposal.
Pajopath
May 27th, 2010 1:50 pmHey guys,
thanks for the nice icons !!
You have a dead link on the image on index:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/23/free-designer-s-portfolio-icon-set-12-high-quality-icons/
correct is:
[...]agazine.com/2010/05/24/free-de[...] ;-)
Christiane Rosenberger
May 28th, 2010 12:49 amFixed! Thank you, Pajopath :-)
Praveen
May 27th, 2010 10:01 pmThanx for sharing these icons.
Domas
May 28th, 2010 2:24 amThe keyboard reflection is disturbing. Well, it’s not a reflection after all :) Such details should not be overlooked.
Soji Adeyanju
May 28th, 2010 3:25 amThanks guys, just what i needed for a project.
Regards
denise
May 28th, 2010 9:04 amthese are so beautiful!! thank you thank you thank you!
Andrés Ayala
May 28th, 2010 8:57 pmWHY A FLOWER IN THE PORTFOLIO BOOK? :S
pls remove the pic and reupload it. Make it neutral. thx!
:P
… a flower…jaja.
Gedy
June 3rd, 2010 8:34 pmDude, it’s free. Just replace the image with your own.
SouthCountryMom
May 29th, 2010 7:21 amYay! Beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing.
Sue Brettell
June 2nd, 2010 7:23 amThese are gorgeous! You’re right, designers need icons too – and they have to be really exceptional.
More similar ones please – and hey, the guy’s very pretty :) but what about a girl designer???
Gedy
June 3rd, 2010 8:33 pmHoly moley! What an awesome icons set. Beautiful work.
It’s funny that some people are complaining about something that is completely free. Especially something that must have taken hours and hours to create.
JaredP
June 4th, 2010 12:22 pmsmashingmagazine should be careful publishing free crap here.
JaredP
June 4th, 2010 12:21 pmterrible. terrible. terrible.
Spencer
June 6th, 2010 6:16 pmShouldn’t designers be designing their own icons instead of trying to make 3rd party free icons work to their vision? Shouldn’t iconography be part of a designers vision for his/her portfolio in the first place?!
Soumya
June 8th, 2010 9:07 amSuperb icons! Thanks so much for sharing! :)
Logesh
June 8th, 2010 5:52 pmthanks for sharing nice icons
Fire pits tables
June 16th, 2010 5:24 pmI like it a lot…There so cute!!!
Love it!!!!!!!!!!
fire pit
Adrian
June 17th, 2010 5:27 amSome beautiful icons here!
I’m thinking of a redesign of my freelance web and Graphic design site and some nice icons like this could come in handy.
Thanks for the smashing resource :)
taka_fumi
June 18th, 2010 6:20 amIt is very good because there is easily no icon that shows the painting.
Pavel Kotlov
June 18th, 2010 7:28 amthanks really HD…
ipad tablet
June 21st, 2010 9:40 pmThe most important aspect of designing an individual icon is that it has to be instantly recognizable, you have to know its function, and you need to know exactly what it is. If you are designing a set, the actual design becomes a lot harder, the designer has to face two initial challenges: each icon they design has to be individual and distinctive from the other, and, they also have to have similar features to show that they are related, completing the set. Not an easy task.
ipad tablet
Annie Anderson
June 22nd, 2010 7:30 pmUmmm, yeah, it’s a very cool set and I *do* like it . . . but . . . what about a girl designer???
Florent
June 24th, 2010 8:05 amThanks ! Beautiful !
Imran
June 28th, 2010 2:12 amThat’s really impressive… good art work
EmmJay
July 1st, 2010 12:14 amThis is what we call Professional Avatar =)
Thanks, this will be another set for my Pro-blogging collections at adsense blog toolbox…
irma
October 28th, 2010 2:53 amThank you very much! Beautiful collections!
irma
October 28th, 2010 2:54 amBeautiful collection! Thanks a lot!
aexupery
January 28th, 2011 2:15 pmMuy buenos. Gracias por compartir.
asik
January 31st, 2011 7:15 amvery nice, thx for sharing!
Sharice Oum
November 25th, 2011 6:40 pmMany thanks for your review! I really liked being here.
Connie
November 27th, 2011 11:39 pmdidn’t see any Avatar for female persons, or is it so that they are all at home and breed the children???????
lisa brady
March 13th, 2013 10:55 pmThank you what a treasure trove what I will do with it I haven’t got a clue
But I know its going to be part of yet another learning experience
So I’m thanking you in advance xxx