Design Cocktail, a bundle of various professional design resources, is giving away 10 licenses of the bundle ($29/each) to WebResourcesDepot readers.
Details of joining the giveaway can be found at the bottom of this post, but before that:
What is Design Cocktail?
Designious, a website offering creative resources like vectors and Photoshop brushes, has created a bundle named Design Cocktail which includes:
- 40 vector packs (959 vector elements)
- 10 pattern packs
- 20 brush packs
- 15 tees designs
- design tutorials with sources
- a metalique font
- 3 Photoshop + Illustraor add-ons
- 3 un-released/fresh vector packs
- a WordPress theme
all priced for only $29 which would normally cost $724 if purchased one-by-one (it is also possible to get a 10% discount by simply sharing the resource – details can be found on the resource's web page).
How to join the giveaway?
In order to get a chance to win one of the 10 licenses Design Cocktail is giving away, simply comment to this post and/or tweet this article. You can do both to increase the chances.
Winners will be selected randomly on 7 February 2011 (1 week later).
Good luck to everyone.
Previously, a post at WRD was sharing the free vector icons created by Webalys.
Lately, there are 2 great additions to these free resources offered and it almost became a UI design framework.
The new resources are a GUI Library which includes 100s of items and a Styles Library which has 200 styles, both to be used in Illustrator.
The set is simply a must-bookmark for designing wireframes faster and creating better mockups.
Requirements: Adobe Illustrator
Whether it is a web application or an iPhone application, creating the visual output in an image editing software first and creating it in code next is a common development process.
Mercury Intermedia is presenting a huge set of vector iPhone user interface elements to make the design process much easier.
The set consists:
- buttons, grid views
- notification windows
- system menus
- keyboard & more..
P.S. It is created with Adobe Illustrator (.AI).
Mastering frequently used applications increases the productivity significantly.
Controlling these applications via keyboard is a part of this "mastering process" which helps you use an application with 2 hands = much faster.
Also, knowing the tricks of tools inside these products definitely opens new doors for creating.
Specifically for designers, here is a list of cheat sheets for the most popular applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, Gimp, Fireworks & more..
Keyboard shortcuts are very well organized, both by menu & alphabetically.
Also, shortcut presets that add lots of extra shortcuts are provided too.
Keyboard shortcuts for previous Photoshop versions:
There are many different way & settings for converting images to black and white with Photoshop.
This is a Photoshop file presenting different filters/presets. Just update 1 file & see the various outputs.
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Christmas (& New Year) is getting closer & many websites will be creating themes for their designs/logos, designing special newsletters, banners & also, lots of materials will be printed.
So, designers are possibly in need of quality Christmas themed design objects.
This is a giant design pack which includes:
- Photoshop Christmas brushes
- Free Christmas vectors
- Christmas-related Photoshop & Illustrator tutorials
Here they are:
Christmas Vector Images
Gift Packs (EPS)
Vector Santa Claus, Christmas Tree & More
Christmas Frames (EPS & PDF)
Free Cards For Christmas (AI & EPS)
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Halloween is very close and many designers / website owners are probably in need of quality & free Halloween themed brush sets & vector images.
Here is a collection of very nice free design resources which includes pumpkins, witches, creepy trees, bats, skulls & more. To summarize, a complete design set for a Halloween-related event or a web content.
Vectors
Halloween Pumpkins
Halloween Pumpkin (Tutorial With Illustrator – Source Files Included)
Zombie Images
Vector Scary Faces
Halloween Vector Icon Set (added 10.28.2008)
Vector Pumpkin & Witch Hat
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Turqua is a free vector icon set that has 30 isometric vector icons in the package.
Icons are in both editable Illustrator 8 EPS and SVG formats. So they can be used in any size you need.
The set is completely free to edit, change and/or directly use in your site and in any kind of your projects.
Circles, curves, stars, old cars, music cassettes, boomboxes & more. Retro design is always one of the popular trends.
This is a collection of beautiful retro Photoshop brushes & vector images to help you design faster & inspire.
You may also like:
Important: Some resources are not free for commercial use. Make sure you check the licensing before using them.
Retro Photoshop Brushes
Photoshop Retro Shapes Brushes
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Using silhouettes & people illustrations in websites & print is what designers need in many situations.
This is a giant design pack of human-related brush sets & vector images like faces, full illustrations, fingerprints, hairs, beards, skulls & more.
You may also like:
Important: Most of the images are free to use in commercial projects but some are not. So, be sure to check the licensing info before using them.
P.S.: Subscribe to the WebResourcesDepot RSS feed & get the free web resources everyday.
Here they are:
Human Brushes
People Brushes
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DaPino is a blog that presents beautiful free vector images created by Pien.
You can find lots of different vector resources from birthday cards to price tags, badges, human figures & more.
This great design resource is updated regulary and you can find new vectors almost everyday.
Here are few examples from DaPino:
Vector love flowers:
Some vector design elements:
Vector wooden labels:
DaPino is definitely a must bookmark for every designer to find new things everyday for using them and to get inspired.
