Category Archives: Freebies

November 8, 2008
Photoshop Freebie: Watercolor Brush Set

I thought I would write about the newest freebie from Fudge Graphics, a set of cool, watercolor brushes for Photoshop.

Seriously a nice set of brushes here, well worth a look. I’ve added them to my collection, and they await being used. The set is composed of 14 brushes, and are all an average of 2500×2500 [...]

October 20, 2008
Awesome Freebie: Nice Doodle-Style Icons

Just came across a beauty of a freebie from the SpoonGraphics Blog: Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers.

To be quite honest, I’m quite the hoarder when it comes to design resources like these. I store so many different types of elements away in my resources folder, that someday they will have to come [...]

September 25, 2008
MediaSlap - Premium Photoshop Brushes: Free Samples

Go on over to MediaSlap and check out the Photoshop brushes they have on display. Look nice, don’t they? I thought so too, but they do cost a small fee per purchase, so that isn’t as appealing.

They do however have a small selection of delectable samples that you can download! They sent me the following [...]

September 13, 2008
Illustrator Freebie: Vector Splats

Thought I would get around to putting together another set of small freebies, so here it is: six free vector ’splatters’ in the form of an Illustrator file, woohoo!
I’m not completely sure how I would describe these … they certainly aren’t like the usual splatters you would see, I think they’re more like sprays … [...]

September 2, 2008
20 Painted Photoshop Brushes

After making some basic Illustrator brushes I thought I would make some Photoshop brushes. This time using a paint brush as my weapon of choice.

Note: all of the brushes in the set aren’t shown in the above preview.
If you like the look of what you see in the preview, then please feel free to download [...]

August 28, 2008
16 “Sketchy” Illustrator Brushes

My first set of Illustrator brushes! I was excited to get these together, but not knowing much about Illustrator myself I don’t really have any use for them!
Now, just in case anyone is wondering: I made these using a permanent marker on paper and scanned them in at 600dpi (if you want to [...]

August 24, 2008
Sweet Typewriter Fonts for Designers– also posted in Updates

From Woork, who recently brought us a similar article, 10 Handwritten fonts you can’t miss comes 10 Awesome Typewriter Fonts for Web Designers.

Really some nice and unique fonts in this roundup, and it would be nice to see them being used more in current web design trends.
Worth a look if you need some more free [...]

July 5, 2008
Grunge Resources Found on deviantART– also posted in Roundups

Here are some wicked grunge design resources that I found on deviantART after looking for roughly 5 minutes. So, if you’re uninspired and need some more design resources, you know where to look!
Grunge Brushes
A few of the nicest grunge brushes I could find that were made recently. I only selected brushes that are saved at [...]

April 28, 2008
Awesome Download: Free Denim Textures– also posted in Textures

I’ve just stumbled upon an awesome resource for free denim (jeans) textures over at Jayhan. Jayhan is a Japanese blogger, he’s very interested in Japanese culter and beautiful design (particularly game art).

Jayhan has made particular beautiful use of denim texture on his own website, as you can see it in the header and footer, this [...]