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Friday Freebies: Font, Icons, Wallpapers and Screensaver
Free stuff always comes in handy. Particularly if it offers a high quality one would usually expect from a quite costly commercial product. The latter holds particularly when it comes to typefaces and icon packs. On the other hand, when you are looking for some excellent desktop wallpapers to spark ...
Read more... | 38 Comments40 Professional Icon Sets For Free Download
When it comes to icons, web designers and graphic artists have an excellent opportunity to showcase their craft, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A sweet, nice icon set is a perfect showcase of designer’s work and a powerful instrument to build up your reputation online. In fact, designers ...
Read more... | 122 CommentsMore (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers
Desktop wallpapers are always nice to look at and to draw inspiration from. They may provide with some fresh perspective and offer you some eye-candy for tedious coffee breaks. We are regularly hunting for free high-quality icons, fonts and wallpapers and present them to you, so you don’t need to ...
Read more... | 125 CommentsDesktop Wallpaper Calendar: May 2008
Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why since April 2008 we supply you with fresh desktop wallpapers. And to make them a little ...
Read more... | 93 CommentsInspirational Hyperreal Vector Artists and Images
Hyperrealism is an art movement,which requires the same level of technical ability as photorealistic illustration. To get an idea what is actually meant by that, you can take a look at some excellent examples in the post The World's Most Photorealistic Vector Art. While Hyperrealism brings a similar level of ...
Read more... | 90 CommentsFree Credit Card Icons For Online-Shops
Credit card icons are an essential part of every online-shop. They are often used to indicate available payment conditions and purchasing options. The clearer they are presented in the online-shop, the easier it is for potential customers to figure out if they actually can pay online in this shop. Therefore ...
Read more... | 74 CommentsFresh Freebies: Typeface, Pirates and Circular Icons
Free stuff always comes in handy. We are regularly hunting for free high-quality icons, fonts, wallpapers, plugins and scripts and present them to you, so you don't need to search for them. As long as we find something beautiful, interesting or useful, we let you know in our posts. And ...
Read more... | 44 CommentsFresh, Free and Gorgeous RSS/Feed Icons
We love high-quality freebies. Over the last years we've featured a number of designers and developers who released their work for free — among other things we presented high-quality free fonts, free Wordpress themes, free wallpapers and, of course, free icons. Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place ...
Read more... | 82 CommentsDesktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2008
Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That's why we've decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over the next 12 months. And to make them ...
Read more... | 74 Comments20 More Free First-Class Wordpress Themes
Free professional WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time. However, to create ...
Read more... | 214 CommentsFavicon Episode 6: Black, Abstract and Hand-Drawing
Every now and again we showcase beautiful favicons — tiny pieces of art you'll usually find only if you are looking for them or search we stumble through your bookmarks. We've written enough about favicons in our recent posts. If you'd like to find out more about them, feel free ...
Read more... | 48 CommentsFriday Freebies: Font, Icons and Wallpapers
Free stuff always comes in handy. Particularly if it offers a high quality one would usually expect from a quite costly commercial product. The latter holds particularly when it comes to typefaces and icon packs. On the other hand, when you are looking for some excellent desktop wallpapers to spark ...
Read more... | 72 Comments- Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets
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The <hr>-Contest Results – Download your fresh <hr>-line now!
Three weeks ago we have encouraged our readers to participate in our <hr>-contest by designing beautiful and creative horizontal lines. It was necessary, since this design-element was slowly disappearing and was often neglected in web design. But it is going to change now. We have received 1290 images and source-files ...
Read more... | 251 CommentsDesktop Wallpaper Calendar: February 2009
The wallpapers calendar series will not be discontinued. Next month is the last month in our desktop wallpaper calendar series. In February, you’ll have one last chance to showcase your work by designing a desktop wallpaper calendar for Smashing Magazine. But don’t worry, we have a number of new contests ...
Read more... | 250 CommentsDesktop Wallpaper Calendars For September 2009
Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them a ...
Read more... | 250 CommentsDesktop Wallpaper Calendar: May 2009
Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them a ...
Read more... | 246 CommentsDesktop Wallpaper Calendar: July 2009
Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them a ...
Read more... | 226 Comments20 More Free First-Class Wordpress Themes
Free professional WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time. However, to create ...
Read more... | 214 CommentsDesktop Wallpaper Calendar: October 2009
Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: October 2009 (via @smashingmag) - Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers ...
Read more... | 208 CommentsDesktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2009
Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them a ...
Read more... | 206 CommentsDesktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2009
Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them a ...
Read more... | 204 Comments35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets
When it comes to icons, web designers and graphic artists have an excellent opportunity to showcase their craft, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A sweet, nice icon set is a perfect showcase of designer’s work and a powerful instrument to build up your reputation online. In fact, designers make ...
Read more... | 191 Comments50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes
by Daved Brosche Having a good collection of Photoshop brushes is essential for any designer. There is certainly no shortage of Photoshop brushes on the Web these days. The problem with Photoshop brushes isn’t in finding brushes, but in finding quality brushes. Below you’ll find a collection of ...
Read more... | 190 CommentsDesktop Wallpaper Calendar: July 2008
Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them a ...
Read more... | 189 CommentsDesktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009
Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them a ...
Read more... | 189 CommentsDesigning Websites In Photoshop Illustrator?
So you have done some initial sketches for the look of your new design. Now it’s time to develop these ideas. So let’s jump into Photoshop. Stop! Wait just a minute. What about Illustrator? That can do web-design stuff too, can’t it?For the “its time to develop these sketches”-stage of ...
Read more... | 180 Comments(Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers
Desktop wallpapers always come in handy. The more inspirational, beautiful and elegant they are, the better they can challenge our imagination and provide some fresh perspective in a rather tedious and monotonous workflow. However, desktop wallpapers sometimes can go far beyond offering colorful eye-candy; sometimes desktop wallpapers include calendars, funny ...
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