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?
Nice stuff
Thanks for share, We hope someday our blog can be a reference for the others.
Keep working hard and working smart too
Excellent list, thanks for sharing!
I thought I had a pretty good base of freebie resources but you have just added about another 10 to my RSS reader. Thanks for sharing!
good design blogs
Nice list.
The best “freebies” givers out there
Some great resources here, thanks.
Some good resources (especially PS brushes) can be found on DeviantArt sometimes (it’s not a blog but it’s useful). We also have a freebies page, take a look!
nice collection….
Thanks for the useful roundup. Some of these resources are new to me.
Great list of resources. I’ve used a few of these site before and always been able to find what I wanted. I will have to check out the rest of them and see what I can find. Thanks for sharing.
Some quality choices – everyone seems to react positively to a good freebie. Hopefully my design blog will be up there when we launch. Fingers crossed. Great article, Steven.
Great resource and big thanks for including Dawghouse Design Studio to this list!
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Im not sure how useful these brushes will be day to day, but im sure the day will come where they put the finishing touches to a design ill be very proud of. Ill just be book marking these ones for now.
Thanks a lot for including Circlebox Blog in the list, Steven
Great post!
nice collection of freebies resource . Most i’ve seen a few new ones that I must check out.
Great post. Thanks so much for including Pink Moustache in this list!
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Airopia.org isn’t that bad =)
You should check out http://idesignnetwork.com they offer daily freebies as well.
Thanks for the include. It’s an honor to be mentioned among such great sites.
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Nice collection….well done!
Always on the look out for base elements, thanks.
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http://grungetime.com is a cool new site with quality freebies also
Great list. Thanks for shared
great list to keep tabs on for freebies!
Very nice list, just submitted to a sbs. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing this list! I think you named all of my favorite design blogs with freebies: Blogspoon, Lost+Taken, Bittbox. I’m excited to add the others
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really good web desain
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It’s always good to give something back to the community.
Great list! I also release high-quality freebies on my new blog http://thedigitalyardsale.com
Constantly adding new content including Textures, Tutorials, Brushes, Vectors and Icons.
Nice, but do you recommend any blogs that have great web news type content? I follow Boadworld (down for a few months) and CSS Tricks.
It’s very cool! Thinks #DesignMag. We like a good few templates http://www.tumblr.com/theme/2807
Thanks for sharing this list! I think you named all of my favorite design blogs with freebies: Blogspoon, Lost+Taken, Bittbox. I’m excited to add the others
oh nice! I have only heard of a few of these, definitely going to check them out!