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  • Aaron Kantrowitz 3:57 pm on April 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: News   

    We need YOU. Join Pro Design Blog Social Network Today! 

    Mission

    There are a million blogs out there about Web Design, Graphics & Development that are all unique and offer great content. What makes Pro Design Blog Social Network different is that we are a community based on YOU. You provide the content, the resources and the innovation that makes up what Pro Design Blog Social Network is and will be. Think of it as your Open Source Web Design portal, the Wikipedia of Web Design & Development.

    A lot of other sites offer great resources, content and inspiration to fellow web designers but they often lack the one thing in which we are trying to accomplish. That is engaging the Web Design community and allowing an Open Forum for people to share and connect. What makes Pro Design Blog Social Network different is that YOU are different. The idea that we will not conform to one way, one channel, one source because as Web Designers, Developers, Graphic Artists we are all unique and different. We all have something Different to offer.

    Create A FREE Account

    Creating an account with Pro Design Blog Social Network is entirely FREE and easy. It literally takes less than one minute; go ahead… prove us wrong, I dare you! We have a strict Privacy Policy which means we never give out or sell any of your personal information.

    Creating a blog is also just as quick and easy. You’ll have a WordPress powered blog up and running within a few minutes.  In addition, we never put advertising on YOUR website, which would just be wrong wouldn’t it!

    Go to -> Create Your Account Now

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  • Aaron Kantrowitz 10:42 pm on April 3, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Zoom-eyed Creatures 1 & 2 Free Icon Set 

    Spotted @ Turbomilk, a Free Icon Set “Zoom-eyed Creatures”.

    When a man works on a computer he looks into the monitor and sees various applications. We thought: “What if the applications could look back at the man with their large clear eyes?!” This idea lead to the creation of a free set of goggled Zoomeyes 2 icons meant to replace the default application icons.

    Zoom-eyes

    Zoom-eyes Free Icon Set

    When a man works on a computer he looks into the monitor and sees various applications. We thought: “What if the applications could look back at the man with their large clear eyes?!” This idea lead to the creation of a free set of goggled Zoomeyes 2 icons meant to replace the default application icons.

    Zoom-eyes Free Icon Set

    Zoom-eyes Free Icon Set

    If you ever get a feeling of being followed, this is quite normal. Do not worry, it’s not paranoia. You are being followed by a team of picked zoom-eyed creatures. They have popped their eyes and are full of attention.

    Turbodesigner Olesia Kozlova have drawn a set of icons with the nicest goggle-eyed creatures — champions of staring contests. You are free to do whatever you want with them but be careful not to let them subdue your mind. Take this hypnotoad to start with.

    Copyright & stuff

    All graphics in Download section are free to use for personal non-commercial purposes. Please give credits to turbomilk.com in case of public use. We sincerely hope that those grafics will make you happy and nobody get hurt.

    If you need icons for a commercial project, please check out our Design Services.

    Download Link

    You may download these here for Mac OSX or Windows and PNG format as well.

     

  • Aaron Kantrowitz 10:35 pm on March 29, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Vector   

    1985 – A Free Vector Pack of Your Favourite 80s Icons 

    We spotted this sweet vector pack today created by Chris Spooner @ http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk.

    Big hair, mix tapes, boom boxes, BMX, roller skates and skateboards were all icons of the 1980s. This vector pack contains them all, plus more retro goodness! The pack contains 11 scalable vector graphics, for use as icons or as resources for your illustrations or design projects.

    Previews:

    1985 Vector Pack

    1985 Vector Pack

    Rollerskate

    Rollerskate

    Skateboard

    Skateboard

    Mixtape

    Mixtape

    Boombox

    Boombox

    You may download the here! Enjoy!

     

  • Aaron Kantrowitz 8:44 pm on January 3, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Design Cartons Free Icon Set For Designers 

    These are free high quality icons available for personal or commercial use. They were originally designed for a client who needed packaged style boxes on their websites.

    Design Cartons

    Design Cartons

    Details:

    These icons are free for personal and commercial use. They come in 2 sizes each 512px and 256px and are in PNG format. Don’t sell them! Go Nuts! If you use them anywhere, I’d love to see how you used them, not necessary, but it would be fun.

    Spotted @ LBOI, you may Download them here!

     

  • Aaron Kantrowitz 8:29 pm on January 3, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Colour Codes,   

    Unique Graphic Colour Codes 

    How can graphic design offer a solution to those who are color blind? Graphic Colour Codes developed by Color Add has come out with a solution for this after lots of research. Although you may not have a need for this now, you never know if it will come in handy some day!

    The system proposed is based on the pigment color, using as basis the primary colors:
    BLUE (cyan), RED (magenta), YELLOW

    The code is “built” starting from three simple forms to:

    Allow an easy and immediate apprehension of the graphic element;
    Quick integration on the “visual vocabulary”;
    Easy to be applied/produced in small dimensions

    It becomes a mental game which will allow the individual to simply connect the colors and its subsequent division into different colors with
    no memorizing effort, through mixing simple forms combined with the elementary chromatic combinations.

    To each primary code form is associated a color and of the three forms/colors appears and develops the whole code, in as much as the colors are based on the division of these three elements.

    Basic form

    Basic form

    Two additional forms were added representing black and white, in conjunction with the other elements they represent lighter or darker tons of the colors.

    Graphic Elements:

    Each primary color of the code is associated to three forms which represent red, yellow and blue, from these three that the code is developed.
    The secondary colors can be formed using the basic forms as if “mixing” the primary pigments themselves making their perception and subsequently the composition of a color pallet easy.

    Basic formula

    Basic formula

    Lighter and Darker variations:

    By associating the icons representing white and black to define darker and lighter tones to the three basic forms and their additions, a wide palette is constructed.
    Conventional color designations were attributed to the additions and other combinations of colors, especially those used in apparel.

    Lighter and darker hues

    Lighter and darker hues

    Grey Tone:

    Grey, a tone of “color” used frequently in articles of clothing, was divided into two tonalities.

    Special Colors:
    Considering the logic of the code construction, these colors are represented by the combination of the golden-yellow and the element representing shine to define gold; light grey combined with the same element identifies silver.

    Special colors

    Special colors

    Color-Code palette

    Color-Code palette

     

  • Aaron Kantrowitz 6:37 pm on December 18, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Grunge Brushes   

    Subtle Grunge Brush Set 

    Here’s an interesting Subtle Grunge Brush set for those jobs where you only need a hint of light gray brushing. This set includes 5 different styles of brushes that are sure to be useful. This is a free download, however please keep in mind this set may not be available for commercial use. Please read the documentation from the designer in the download package.

    Subtle Grunge Brush Set

    Subtle Grunge Brush Set

    You can download them here.

     

  • Aaron Kantrowitz 9:10 pm on December 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Twitter   

    10 Twitter Icon Sets That Are Guaranteed To Get You More Followers! 

    Take your pick from 10 Twitter icon sets that are guaranteed to get you more followers! Here are the best Twitter icons sets available on the web. The best part, they are all free!

    Free Twitter Graphics

    Free Twitter Graphics

    Free Twitter Graphics

    Twitter Eggs

    Twitter Eggs

    Twitter Eggs

    50 Free Exclusive Twitter Icons

    50 Free Exclusive Twitter Icons

    50 Free Exclusive Twitter Icons

    Twitter Birds

    Twitter Birds

    Twitter Birds

    Cute Twitters Icon Set

    Cute Twitters Icon Set

    Cute Twitters Icon Set

    Free Twitter Caps

    Free Twitter Caps

    Free Twitter Caps

    High Resolution Twitter Icons

    High Resolution Twitter Icons

    High Resolution Twitter Icons

    IconTexto WebDev Social Bookmark Icon

    IconTexto WebDev Social Bookmark Icon

    IconTexto WebDev Social Bookmark Icon

    Birdies: Cute Free Twitter Icons For Your Blog

    Birdies Cute Free Twitter Icons

    Birdies Cute Free Twitter Icons

    Follow Me Twitter Badges

    Follow Me Twitter Badges

    Follow Me Twitter Badges

     

  • Aaron Kantrowitz 8:34 pm on December 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Chrome Social Media Icons 

    On the heels of the Gallery WordPress theme release, which continues to see loads of downloads and numerous showcase sites popping up across the interwebs I am very excited to release a shiny set of 20 social media icons that you can use commercially released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License (see end of post for full details or visit the Licensing page for more info.

    Download Chrome Social Media Icon Set (.zip, 186kb)

    This set includes 19 social networks along with a standard RSS icon in PNG format. If you have any suggestions to add to the set, feel free to suggest in the comments, but I may or may not decide to add to the set. There are two sizes, as shown below, 70×70 and 39×40 (I know, they’re odd sizes, but they’re free so no complaining).

     

  • Aaron Kantrowitz 5:01 pm on December 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Grunge Social Bookmark Icons 

    Tired of the same ol’ social bookmarking icons you see on everyone’s list? Check these out these unique Grunge Social Bookmark icons, download link below.

    You can download them here.

     

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