20+ Design Blogs that Release Quality Freebies
By Steven Snell | Published February 14th, 2010 in ResourcesWeb and graphic designers have the privilege of being able to download quality, free resources that can be used in their work. Commonly-found resources include textures, Photoshop brushes, vectors, icons, patterns, and more. In today’s post I’d like to feature 20 design blogs that give back to the community by frequently releasing freebies to their readers. If you’re always on the lookout for quality resources, consider subscribing to these blogs. You may also be interested in our own Freebies category.
Lost and Taken
Caleb Kimbrough releases high quality texture packs through his blog Lost and Taken.
Bittbox
Bittbox is well-known for its high quality brushes and vectors, but most of the recent freebies are high res texture packs from Caleb Kimbrough through the Texture Tuesday series.
Fudge Graphics
Fudge Graphics, the blog of Franz Jeitz, releases brushes, textures, vectors and wallpapers.
Colorburned
Grant Friedman of Colorburned designs high-quality brushes for Photoshop and Illustrator, as well as some vectors and patterns.
Think Design
Think Design gives away sets of textures, brushes, and vectors.
WeGraphics
WeGraphics provides some high quality brushes, textures, and vectors.
Blog.SpoonGraphics
Chris Spooner of SpoonGraphics designs excellent vectors, brushes, and icons.
Six Revisions
Six Revisions releases icons, textures, brushes, and WordPress themes from a variety of designers.
Media Militia
Media Militia releases huge packs of quality textures, brushes, and vectors.
Arbenting
Arbenting provides a variety of freebies including textures, brushes, icons, vectors, wallpapers and more.
Web Treats Etc.
Web Treats releases a large amount of freebies including brushes, patterns, shapes, icons, textures, and more.
Dawghouse Design Studio
Jan Cavan of Dawghouse Design Studio designs brushes, icons, and textures.
Tutorial9
Most of the freebies from Tutorial9 are icon packs, but they do have some other items as well.
Circlebox Blog
Callum Chapman provides some vectors and textures through the Circlebox Blog.
Pattern Head
Pattern Head provides quality patterns for Photoshop and Illustrator.
Room122
Room122 has released some very popular sets of Photoshop brushes, but they also provide vectors, textures and other freebies.
Tuts King
Tuts King releases a lot of vectors and Photoshop brushes.
Texturezine
Texturezine is an excellent source for high-quality free textures.
Desizn Tech
Desizn Tech releases mostly texture packs, but also some icons and other free resources.
PSDFan
PSDFan releases a free texture pack each Thursday through the Texture Thursday series.
Pink Moustache
Pink Moustache releases vectors, icons, and wallpapers.
What Did We Miss?
What are your favorite blogs for free design resources?
























