Smashing Freebies

• By Smashing Editorial
• June 4th, 2008
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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)