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Smashing Freebies
This page collects all freebies which have been released by Smashing Magazine or through Smashing Magazine over the last years. We are regularly looking for creative and talented designers, icon designers, graphic artists and developers. If you think you are one of them we can offer you a broad coverage in our magazine and we would pay you as well. You are interested? Contact us!
Free RSS/Feed icon set
The set contains 8 icons which you can use for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free. The icons are available for both Mac and Win-users in resolutions 16×16px, 24×24px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 128×128px, 256×256px and 512×512px. This icon set was designed by Dirceu Veiga from Brazil especially for Smashing Magazine as a gift for its readers.
You can use the icons for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free. However, please take a closer look at the license agreement — e.g. it’s forbidden to sell the icons and in order to use them, the designer asks for a backlink.
- 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: .pdf specimen
Smashing Wordpress-Theme
A professional Wordpress-theme dedicated to Smashing Magazine’s first anniversary. 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 regarding the release of the theme, on DesignDisease.com
- Preview Dilectio Theme (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
Results of our blog headers contest. 38 designers participated and created 45 beautiful blog header designs you can use for free in your private and commercial projects. The designers also have described their themes, intentions and shown us some examples of how header graphics can be used.
Smashing Textures
A variety of interesting, exotic or creative textures from Smashing readers all around the globe. Wood, stone, metal, nature, ice, sand, fabric, paper, glass, fire, food and plastic textures. A large number of daily routine 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, Ashes
- Food
- Plastic
- Misc
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 Startpages (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 has been chosen as the Most Valuable Design Website in the Webinale Awards 2008, the award of an international Web conference Webinale which took place in Karlsruhe, Germany on May 26 - 28. The competition awards most useful and innovative sites related to design and technology.
On May 26-28 Vitaly Friedman, the chief-editor of Smashing Magazine, was in Karlsruhe attending the event. He has also given 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 (.pdf, 10 Mb)
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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!
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