Freebie: Academic Icon Set (10 Icons + PSD Source)
Today, it is our pleasure to present to you a free set of icons related to education and academia—commissioned by PixelsDaily exclusively for Smashing Magazine and the design community. The icons are available as transparent PNGs as well as Photoshop PSDs in a size of 128×128 pixels. The icons are released under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
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This icon set is completely free to use for commercial and personal projects, without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word.
- large preview (.jpg)
- download the set for free (.zip, 8.83 Mb).
Description
This beautiful icon set consists of 10 images related to education and academia. They are provided both as 128-pixel PNGs and in the original PSD format. The icons included are:
- Backpack
- Blackboard
- Books
- Calculator
- Math equipment
- Dictionary
- Globe
- Mortarboard and hat
- Artist’s palette
- Science equipment
All of our free resources are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. This lets you distribute, remix, tweak and build on your work, even commercially, as long as you credit the original designer (in this case, PixelsDaily).
Behind the Design
As always, here are some insights from the designers:
PixelsDaily is a collection of free and commercial resources for designers. We publish pixel-perfect freebies that are perfect for building up your design collection. We wanted to do something special for Smashing Magazine readers, so we commissioned an incredibly talented icon designer — Artem Borysenko — to craft this special icon set. You can subscribe to receive our daily freebies on Facebook, Twitter, email and RSS.
Thanks, Artem and PixelsDaily! We sincerely appreciate your time and goodwill.
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Liam McCabe
June 18th, 2012 12:29 pmOoo nice, thanks PixelsDaily :)
David Appleyard
June 18th, 2012 12:40 pmYou’re welcome, Liam! :-)
Imran Ladak
July 6th, 2012 5:05 pmThanks PixelsDaily – I’ll be using these very shortly :D
Navin Kulkarni
June 18th, 2012 2:21 pmThis comes at a very right time!
We have just finished Deferential aptitude test application as a project.
Can use some of these it there to help Children relate to it :)
niki
June 18th, 2012 2:26 pmBeautiful job, thank you for sharing!!
saurabh
June 18th, 2012 3:04 pmVery beautiful!
Maicon Sobczak
June 18th, 2012 3:39 pmVery beautiful and well done. The lights and shadows are perfect. Thank you.
Alexis
June 18th, 2012 4:04 pmperfect! These are just what I needed. Fantastic icons.
AboutaDirk
June 19th, 2012 1:19 amHeh, funny. I used the same iStockphoto background image for a site just the other day. The blackboard that is.
Recognize the slightly darker spot. I edited the spot out though… too recognizable ;)
Fair set of icons, would’ve liked it to have a few more different icons though :)
#firstWorldProblems
Monica
June 19th, 2012 6:38 amVery cool icons. I downloaded them on to my Mac, now what? I am very new to photoshop 10 and have no clue what to do and how to start using them. So sorry, can you please help.
Thank you,
Amateur photographer
Fardeem Munir
June 19th, 2012 3:57 pmGreaaaaat icons!!! Love them! But I have to say, it would have been nice if it was given at a size of 32 x 32 pixels. Still awesome though.
Ankit SIngh
June 20th, 2012 4:23 pmAmazing.. Cool stuff.. :)
Cj
June 26th, 2012 11:08 amBeautifull home made icons, nicely done!
Su Hall
June 28th, 2012 11:10 pmThese are very cool! Thank you!
Su
Chase McNabb
July 1st, 2012 5:49 amThis is an incredible website! I’m currently studying Graphic Design and i have no idea how i have never heard of this site before! My mind is blown! Great work keep it up! Oh and thanks for the freebies!
Alexia Liberty
July 10th, 2012 2:40 pmPixelsDaily – thank you again.