Freebie: Festive Christmas Icon Pack (20 .EPS Icons)
The year is slowly coming to an end and we’re glad to present to you a festive icon set to inspire you in your designs. In this post we present a minimalist collection of 20 free festive vector (.EPS) icons created by offset media. The pack includes color and grayscale versions. The pack includes mostly Christmas related icons, such us the gingerbread man, nutcracker, snowman and the very well-known fir tree.
Feel free to also have a look at some of our previous Smashing Christimas icon sets: Free Smashing Christmas Icon Set by Icon Eden (2009) and Free Smashing Christmas Icon Set by SoftFacade (2008).
Download the Icon Set for Free!
The pack is completely free to use in personal and commercial projects without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word.
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- download the free icon set (.zip, 665 Kb)
Behind the Design
As always, here are some insights from the designer:
“Like any design studio, here at offset media, we prefer to create our own festive greeting cards to give to clients. This year I had a very clear vision of the overall look I wanted, a single white festive character on a solid red background.
Knowing the look, but unsure of what character to use, I ended up creating a bunch of icons to choose from. Once we were happy with the card design (choosing the snowman), we had all these unused icons lying about, and being someone who does not likes things going to waste, I decided to share them with others who could possible make use of them!”
— George Neocleous (aka GeoNeo) is a full-time designer and illustrator, who works at London-based design studio offset media and blogs (sporadically) at Geoneo’s Blog.
Thank you, George. We appreciate your work and your good intentions!
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Gabriel Ardiles
December 5th, 2011 5:43 amFantastic! Will use right away! :)
Zeeshan Rasool
December 5th, 2011 5:52 amThank you for the very nice collection!
Jorge Quan
December 5th, 2011 6:18 amThank you so much Smashing Magazine!!!!
Jestep
December 5th, 2011 6:56 amNice and simple. Much appreciated.
Will
December 5th, 2011 7:03 amThe word is “wreath” – not “reef.”
Dan Freeman
December 5th, 2011 8:04 amHahahah “reef”
mindxstudio
December 5th, 2011 8:00 amGreat collection of Christmas icon, Love it.
Chuks
December 5th, 2011 8:32 amNice and simple. Thank you!
Dave
December 5th, 2011 8:32 amWould love to use this, but I can’t seem to open the .eps up in Illustrator CS4. Is it just me?
Iris Lj.
December 6th, 2011 1:03 amThe files have been updated. Sorry for the inconvenience everyone! :)
— Smashing Editorial
Fuchsy
December 5th, 2011 9:02 am@dave: same problem here. fortunately i’ll get soon a upgrade for my cs4-suite. but the incompatibility of adobe-files is a pain in the ass.
deborah
December 5th, 2011 9:31 amThese are really lovely. Thank you !!
Susan D
December 5th, 2011 10:44 amfabulous! Thanks for the great gifts!!
happy holidays to you.
Adam Lapczynski
December 5th, 2011 12:09 pmGreat! Thanks for the freebies :)
K.
December 5th, 2011 2:45 pmYes, too bad they didn’t offer this with the compatibility to be opened in CS4, so us poor designers could open it!
DISCOVERY: if you go to Offset Media (provider of the art) linked int he beginning of the article you can open their provided download! Sweetness.
Rajesh
December 5th, 2011 8:07 pmHi Smashing…Thanks a lot for this…But i have CS4 version, so not able to open it…Can u pls help me out…
Thanks in advance…
Sam
December 5th, 2011 8:35 pmI’m running CS2 and (obviously) they don’t work for me either. They just appear to be vectors with flat colour. it would be lovely to have a file that was backwards compatible.
Abinash Mohanty
December 6th, 2011 1:00 amwow! nice set. Thanks for sharing.
George
December 6th, 2011 2:10 amHi, thanks for the great comments. As Iris has mentioned the files have now been updated, so you should be able to open them in any Adobe CS version now.
Ketan
December 6th, 2011 9:04 pmThanks for sharing this icons :)
Susan
December 6th, 2011 10:05 pmThanks so much! I really like the icons.
Marlou
December 7th, 2011 1:28 amVery cute, thanks!
psddude
December 7th, 2011 7:38 amAmazing set of icons, simple yet so beautiful!
Anne Hale
December 7th, 2011 5:44 pmThank you so much for the icons! They are wonderful.
Yuxu
December 8th, 2011 9:58 pmcute :)
Ramnath A.S
December 9th, 2011 9:04 pmNice icons. It’s timely requirement for me. Thanks for sharing :)