Smashing Freebies
This page collects all of the freebies that have been released by or through Smashing Magazine over the last few years. We regularly look for creative and talented designers, icon designers, graphic artists and developers. If you think you are one of them, we can offer you the broad coverage of our magazine, and we’ll pay you as well. Are you interested? Contact us!
Free RSS/feed icon set
This set contains eight icons available for both Mac and Windows users, in resolutions of 16×16 pixels, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512. The set was designed by Dirceu Veiga of Brazil especially for Smashing Magazine as a gift to its readers.
You can use the icons freely for private and commercial projects, blogs and websites. However, please take a close look at the license agreement: for example, it’s forbidden to sell the icons; and, in order to use them, you are asked to provide a backlink to the designer.
- PNG files (1.4 MB)
- Windows icons (0.6 MB)
- Mac icons (1.7 MB)
Free Smashing Typeface: Anivers
Release information | Anivers page (with download) | Sample in PDF
Smashing WordPress Theme
A professional WordPress theme created in recognition of Smashing Magazine’s first anniversary, and designed by DesignDisease.
Release post | Test Page | Download Smashing Theme!
Dilectio: A Smashing WordPress Theme
A WordPress theme designed especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
Main content area and horizontal navigation
The comment area
- Blog entry, about the release of the theme, on DesignDisease.com
- Preview Dilectio Theme (on DesignDisease.com)
- Download Dilectio Theme (0.18 MB)
Desktop Wallpaper Calendars
- Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: June
- Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: May
- Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April
- Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March
Smashing Header Graphics
Blog Headers
Here are the results of our blog headers contest. Thirty-eight designers participated and created 45 beautiful blog header designs, which you can use for free in your private and commercial projects. In the original post, the designers also describe their themes, reveal their intentions, and show us some examples of how these header graphics can be used.
Smashing Textures
A variety of interesting, exotic and creative textures from Smashing readers all around the globe. There are textures for wood, stone, metal, nature, ice, sand, fabric, paper, glass, fire, food and plastic; a large number of routine, daily things observed from a completely new perspective.
- Wood, bark
- Stone, walls, brick
- Metal, rust, industrial
- Nature, flowers, plants
- Water, ice, drops, liquids
- Sand, earth
- Fabric
- Paper
- Glass
- Fire, ash
- Food
- Plastic
- Miscellaneous
PDF versions of articles
- What Do We Really Know About Google PageRank (1 MB)
- Copyright Explained: I May Copy It, Right? (0.5 MB)
- 200+ Hotkeys To Boost Your Productivity (0.9 MB)
- Outstanding Start Pages (3.4 MB)
- Golden Rules Of Linkbaiting (0.8 MB)
- 35 Designers x 5 Questions (830 KB, 49 pages)
- 70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding
Webinale 2008 Talk
Smashing Magazine was chosen as the Most Valuable Design Website in the Webinale Awards 2008, an awards competition put on by Webinale, an international Web conference that took place in Karlsruhe, Germany, from May 26th to 28th. The competition awarded the most useful and innovative websites related to design and technology.
Vitaly Friedman, the chief editor of Smashing Magazine, was in Karlsruhe for the event and also gave a talk: “Designtrends 2008: What’s Next?“. You can download the slides of the talk below:
- Designtrends 2008: What’s Next?: covers current trends in Web development and examples of modern Web design (10 MB in PDF)
- 36 Comments
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- 2July 17th, 2008 4:48 am
just wanted to say you guys rock, big time…keep it up
- 3July 23rd, 2008 11:41 am
Try using a web-based newsreader like NewsGator or Bloglines and you can take your RSS feeds with you no matter which computer you’re on!
- 4August 5th, 2008 8:39 pm
I want to make comment on my site, how can i?
- 5August 5th, 2008 8:42 pm
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- 6August 12th, 2008 11:14 pm
very good and useful information for a designer
- 7August 27th, 2008 6:45 pm
I finally found the source for the RSS on park bench guy I have seen all over the place.
- 8September 24th, 2008 12:26 pm
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- 9September 26th, 2008 4:49 am
Thanks for your wonderfull website
- 10October 19th, 2008 6:06 am
Hey you smashers!!
i’ve never seen such a informative site in my life. You deserve an award.
thanx for freebies!!!! - 11October 23rd, 2008 5:06 am
I love the wordpress themes. Unfortunately, I’m a livejournal user, which is a bummer at times like these, beacuse I’ve seen loads of wordpress themes I’ve totally fallen in love with. Maybe some livejournal themes could be uploaded soon too? I’m sure millions of livejournal users will be thrilled!
- 12November 19th, 2008 2:13 am
Beautiful. It was such a pleasure to browse around on this site. Downloaded your dilectio-cannot wait to use on my blogsite. Thank you.
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This is simply amazing. I tried to search other free stuffs and resources you have and now i am seeing a good listing. I want to subscribe here but i cannot with the rss since i change computers/laptop from time to time. How can i subscribe with email? I looked around but could not find one.