Tag Archives: Freebies

Winner of The Dribbble Giveaway on LBOI Announced

November 11, 2010 | Thoughts & Words By | 7 Comments

Winner of The Dribbble Giveaway on LBOI Announced

Just over two days ago, I offered to giveaway a Dribbble invite on the blog and was overwhelmed by 51 fantastic entries. It was hard! I never realized how hard it would be.As I started browsing the links you guys left in the comments, I wished I had more than one dribbble invite, I wished

48 Brilliant Free Fonts For Logo And Web Designers In 2010

September 14, 2010 | Thoughts & Words By | 27 Comments

48 Brilliant Free Fonts For Logo And Web Designers In 2010

There are some amazing new font foundries on the design scene who are doing some brilliant work and making it available to designers and developers everywhere for next to nothing. The release of a new font or font family sees the release of a free weight, a trending practice that garners no complaints from anyone.

Free Moleskine Icon Set For Logo Lovers And Designers

August 11, 2010 | Thoughts & Words By | 21 Comments

Free Moleskine Icon Set For Logo Lovers And Designers

I must admit, I have an unholy obsession with moleskines. Any blank, inviting piece of stationery that draws you to write, sketch and create and one that is absolutely beautiful to look at in its humble simplicity, ought to be obsessed about. I have a few moleskines, not many, just a few. They seem to

2 Fun And Free Vector Scenes For Your Design Projects

July 23, 2010 | Thoughts & Words By | 9 Comments

2 Fun And Free Vector Scenes For Your Design Projects

Everyday when I create new vector graphics, whether they are characters or just simple elements for a poster or website, I always find that there is a real scarcity of vector "scenes". You know the free stuff like brushes and icons that you can download and put together to present your design? I rarely come

25 Fresh And Free Icon Sets For Your Design Stash

May 17, 2010 | Thoughts & Words By | 14 Comments

25 Fresh And Free Icon Sets For Your Design Stash

Oh how time flies! The last icon roundup I did was almost 8 months ago. I love icons. They are detailed little graphics that you can put on any background and make the design pop. I love making them too, whipping them up as and when I need them. You can never have too many

28 Free Quirky Character Wallpapers For your iPhone

April 6, 2010 | Thoughts & Words By | 11 Comments

28 Free Quirky Character Wallpapers For your iPhone

Time is flying and the vector characters keep growing in their strength and numbers. It is time for some roundups and today I am rounding up 28 characters that were designed and developed in the month of February 2010 as part of my ongoing Project 365 Vector Character series. As usual I am offering them

5 Very Useful Free iPad Icon Sets For Designers

January 30, 2010 | Thoughts & Words By | 28 Comments

5 Very Useful Free iPad Icon Sets For Designers

Okay, so we all went a little crazy when Steve Jobs introduced us to the iPad. Despite the mixed responses worldwide, I am actually quite excited about the iPad, but I am going to wait till the next generation devices are released before I buy it. Apart from some of us who snickered about the

Win A BASAS Freelancing Digital Grand Prize Pack

November 27, 2009 | Thoughts & Words By | 26 Comments

Win A BASAS Freelancing Digital Grand Prize Pack

  We have an awesome giveaway for you today. It is the "Being A Starving Artist Sucks" Freelancing Digital Grand Prize. I recently reviewed Jeremy Tuber’s very resourceful books Verbal Kung Fu For Freelancers and Being A Starving Artist Sucks which are part of this wonderful package. The Grand Prize includes, 1. Being A Starving

Premium Vector Freebie – Purple Retro Disco Ball

November 11, 2009 | Thoughts & Words By | 9 Comments

Premium Vector Freebie – Purple Retro Disco Ball

  For the past few days I have been simultaneously working on a project and a tutorial and during the process, I have been required to make a disco ball in Illustrator [Have I mentioned lately how much I enjoy my work!]. So today I am offering all you lovely people a different version of

20 Free Crumpled Paper Textures

September 20, 2009 | Thoughts & Words By | 6 Comments

20 Free Crumpled Paper Textures

We have a gorgeous set of 20 extremely high-resolution crumpled paper textures for you to download today. They are free for personal and commercial use on the web and in print and other media. Today’s freebies have been kindly donated by Callum Chapman of CircleBox Blog

SocioLEGO A Free Social Icon Set

July 18, 2009 | Thoughts & Words By | 62 Comments

SocioLEGO A Free Social Icon Set

I am very excited to release my first set of icons today. It is a very special Social Icon Set I have named "SocioLEGO". Lego fans rejoice!! This social icon set is a colorful collection of lego bricks featuring some famous social icons. I have been searching high and low for some fun "Designbump" and

39 Amazing New Social Media Icon Sets

July 2, 2009 | Thoughts & Words By | 21 Comments

39 Amazing New Social Media Icon Sets

I spent the better part of last week looking for some unique social media and bookmarking icon packs on the internet. The lists that I found on many of the blogs showcased the same icon packs over and over again. I don’t blame them because those icon packs are pretty fantastic. But I wanted something