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Three Resources for Awesome Freebies

Chad Engle — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:17:40 +0000

Freebies and open source content are some of the best things we can run across as creatives. These help out in a pinch, sometimes are great starts to making a document or design and help save time. Some really great and inspiring things are coming from 365PSD, The League of Movable Type and Iconpaper. These three sites are tremendously different but each is unique and shares some amazing content.

365 PSD

Now, if the name alone “365 PSD” hasn’t got you excited it should… 365PSD makes as you would guess a free PSD everyday for an entire year. The quality of free layered files that are being given away is amazing. There are some pixel perfect icons, navigation buttons and full site layouts as well as full iPhone app layouts. This is a site that is fast becoming a daily stop for many creatives. Whether you use the PSD’s to learn how the pro’s make their files or you just want some extra beef to throw into that new design you should go check out 365psd.com

The League of Moveable Type

The League of Movable Type has banned together to once and for all cut through the crap and make free, good, open source fonts for all. The best part about this is that they are @font-face ready. These fonts are must downloads especially if you are trying to trim some cost of a design or just want some amazing rockin’ fonts. If you think that their awesome (which they are) you can join in the collaboration.

Iconpaper

Iconpaper brings you some amazing icons, wallpapers, dock themes, and everything in between. The guys curating iconpaper are all over the place trying to find the best content and update for you daily. They’ve had some amazing background as well as icons that have adorned my computer several times. So, whether you need some inspiration, an awesome new icon for your computer or just something to mull through, check out Iconpaper you’ll be happy you did.

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Three Resources for Awesome Freebies

The Principles: Wallpapers

Chad Engle — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:27:40 +0000

When we released The Lost Principles of Design we had amazing comments about the artwork that was used. So, we’ve created some backgrounds for a few of them that worked the best. If we didn’t include your favorite let us know and we will add it to the post. These come in various sizes for all your devices & monitors.

File Type: Jpg’s
Number in Set: 9

2560×1440
1920×1200
1680×1050
1440×900
1280×1024
1280×800
1024×768
iPhone (320×480)
iPad(1024×1024)

License Type: Creative Commons 3.0
Author: Chad Engle

File Type: Jpg’s
Number in Set: 9

2560×1440
1920×1200
1680×1050
1440×900
1280×1024
1280×800
1024×768
iPhone (320×480)
iPad(1024×1024)

License Type: Creative Commons 3.0
Author: Chad Engle

File Type: Jpg’s
Number in Set: 9

2560×1440
1920×1200
1680×1050
1440×900
1280×1024
1280×800
1024×768
iPhone (320×480)
iPad(1024×1024)

License Type: Creative Commons 3.0
Author: Chad Engle

File Type: Jpg’s
Number in Set: 9

2560×1440
1920×1200
1680×1050
1440×900
1280×1024
1280×800
1024×768
iPhone (320×480)
iPad(1024×1024)

License Type: Creative Commons 3.0
Author: Chad Engle

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The Principles: Wallpapers

Web Banner Templates: Photoshop & Illustrator

Chad Engle — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:40:01 +0000

We know starting a project can be a real pain no matter how easy the task may be. We’ve put together the IAB standard size ad templates for you in one little packaged up file. They come in two flavors, Photoshop and Illustrator. We’ve also put together some nice resources and other downloads below that you may find helpful in starting a project. If there is anything you’d like to see us give away in the future, let us know in the comments.

Sizes:

88×31

120×60

120×90

120×240

120×600

125×125

160×600

180×150

234×60

240×400

250×250

300×250

336×280

468×80

728×90

The Details

File Type: Psd & Ai
Number in Set: 15
License Type: Creative Commons 3.0
Author: Chad Engle

Ai – Illustrator Download

Compatible with CS1+ and comes with 15 presized Ai’s ready for you to design.

Psd – Photoshop Download

Compatible with CS1+ and comes with 15 presized Psd’s ready for you to design.

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Other Information

Please consult these additional creative guidelines for more information:

IAB Ad Unit Guidelines 2009 Update (PDF Download)

IAB Ad Units

IAB Digital Video Creative Guidelines

IAB Pop-Up Guidelines

IAB Rich Media Guidelines

IAB Universal Ad Package

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Freebie: FYC on your desktop

Chad Engle — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:28:12 +0000

Our own Javier Rivero made a FYC themed background for your viewing pleasure. This will give you a nice fresh background so you can go ahead and get on with creating and stop worrying about what cool background to pick. It’s available in several sizes and would look good at any resolution.

Sizes:

1024X768

1280×800

1280×1024

1440×900

1600×1200

1680×1050

1920×1200

iPhone

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File Type: PSD
Number in Set: 1
License Type: Creative Commons 3.0
Author: Javier Rivero

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Freebie: FYC on your desktop

Free PSD: Facebook Fanpage Template

Chad Engle — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:04:53 +0000

Lets face it, designers sometimes need to make a mock-up that doesn’t actually exist which sometimes can be time consuming and extremely irritating. Facebook fanpages have been a very hot topic for clients recently. They are wanting to break into the social media scene. FYC is releasing a mock-up Facebook Fanpage with editable text, posting times and anything else you can think of. Our Twitter PSD Freebie generated such a good response that we decided to give this away as well. Hopefully this will save you some time and help you create and effective facebook mock-up for a potential or current client.

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File Type: PSD
Number in Set: 1
License Type: Creative Commons 3.0
Author: Chad Engle

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Free PSD: Facebook Fanpage Template

Think Wallpaper

Tim Smith — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:29:07 +0000

File Type: JPG
Number in Set: 8
Sizes: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 320×480 (iPhone)
License Type: Creative Commons 3.0
Author: Tim Smith

Tim Smith (or @timothybsmith, if you know him on Twitter) is a creative graphic designer and blogging dynamo who was hand picked to head up the Fuel Your Blogging site as editor. Taking his love of community and graphic design and merging the two together, Tim devised and designed the Think wallpaper for the FYC readers. We know Tim shares our sentiments in hoping that you all enjoy the new background! Thanks again, Tim.

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Go Media’s New Color Radials Vector Pack

Angie Bowen — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:00:04 +0000

Chances are, if you are into the awesomeness that are vectors, then you are already familiar with the Go Media Arsenal. And furthermore, chances are that if you are familiar with Go Media, then you, like us, get excited whenever the Go Media crew releases a new set of vectors into the community. Well, then get excited, friends, because the time is upon us! And the exciting news doesn’t stop there…

The team over at Go Media contacted us, asking if we wanted to give away a couple of the vectors from the new set, and we jumped at the opportunity to share them with you all. Below is a summary of the latest vector set from the Arsenal and a special bonus announcement for the readers of our blog.

There are quite a few (4 of 7) packs featuring brilliant Technicolor in Vector Set 16, but none quite as bold as “Color Radials”. We wanted to follow up our original “Radials” pack with a younger, hipper sibling. Now that we have all the wavelengths of the rainbow with which to work, things get interesting! Inside the full pack you’ll find color wheels, sunbursts, ornate circles, and pigment bombs. I think Adelle chose two of the coolest images in the pack to share with you for free, so thank her for her good taste!

They have also created a product-specific discount coupon for Color Radials.

Code: fuelyourcolor

This code gets our readers 15% off of the Color Radials vector pack.

And Now, The Freebie

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Get Inspired Wallpaper

Angie Bowen — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:00:13 +0000

We here at FYC are all about getting that flame of inspiration burning brightly within each of our readers, and so today we have a very special treat. Today, we have the opportunity to not only see the end result of some of that inspiration at work, but we get to present it to all of the community through the site. Thanks to Matt Mehlhope (@mmehlhope) who was inspired enough, and kind enough, to create and offer a Fuel inspired wallpaper. Matt is a passionate web developer, marketer, gamer and photoshop guru that loves to make ideas come to life.

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Where Am I? Wallpaper

Rob Bowen — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:09:25 +0000

File Type: JPG
Number in Set: 8
Sizes: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1260, 1920×1200
License Type: Creative Commons 3.0
Author: Rob Bowen

Minimalism has always proven somewhat of a problem area for me as a designer. To me, white space was always just more blank canvas that was begging to be covered. But I have been trying to step up, not only my ability to create in this arena, but to develop more of an appreciation for it. Having come a long way on both sides of the coin, I put together my first minimalist wallpaper for free download, and wanted to offer it here to our Fuel readers. Using a typography focus, I came up with a freebie that was up to snuff. Through Angie’s appreciation of minimalism, I have been able to grow my own, and in turn, grow as a designer. So I owe this wallpaper to her…but I am giving it to you, so if you see her around the web, do us a favor, and keep this ‘Where Am I?’ wallpaper on the D.L., will ya? Wait, I didn’t think that through…damn.

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FYC Ultra Grunge Wallpaper

Rob Bowen — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:26:20 +0000

File Type: JPG
Number in Set: 9
Sizes: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1260, 1920×1200, 320×480 (iPhone)
License Type: Creative Commons 3.0
Author: Rob Bowen

In the spirit of community and giving, the freebies continue here on Fuel Your Creativity. After Angie put together the last brilliant wallpaper to give away, the Explosive Typography wallpaper, I wanted to take a turn at not only showing my appreciation, but also paying homage to the new positions we have here as editors of FYC. So I put together the FYC Ultra Grunge Wallpaper for free download from the blog. It was inspired by a combination of designs by Adelle Charles, actually. The FYC Wallpaper she created for the blog here, and the new Twitter pages she designed for the FUEL team. This new grunge ridden wallpaper is free for all to use, and we hope you are going to enjoy it as much as we enjoyed putting this together for you.

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FYC Ultra Grunge Wallpaper

Explosive Typography Wallpaper

Angie Bowen — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:49:56 +0000

File Type: JPG
Number in Set: 54 (6 colors)
Sizes: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1260, 1920×1200, 230×480 (iPhone)
License Type: Creative Commons 3.0
Author: Angie Bowen

As we continue on our creative journey here at Fuel Your Creativity, we wanted to keep the tradition alive of giving back to the online creative community that has fed us both spiritually and inspirationally during our time within its comforting waters. Since FUEL shares in that same desire and mission, we felt there was no better way to kick off our first week as editors of the site than with a big bang, freebie-style! With that in mind, we have a new freebie for the community at large! Angie has created a fantastic typography based wallpaper in various sizes and colors. This new grunge ridden wallpaper is free for all to use, and we hope you are going to enjoy it as much as we enjoyed putting this together for you.

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Free PSD Twitter Background Template

Chad Engle — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:49:06 +0000

Well I have had tons of people ask how I design my twitter backgrounds and get everything to look right. So, instead of telling everyone- I took 5 minutes and made a twitter template. Inside of the template I made guides that match up with different resolutions.

Note:

Twitter aligns all backgrounds to the left.

Make note of this when designing your background. Also, you can put elements to the far right but be aware that some users will not see them depending on what monitor/resolution they are running. I included the “twitter container” (logo and space where your tweets are housed) it is actual size. So you can move it into different resolutions to keep in mind what other users will see.

File Type: PSD
Number in Set: 1
License Type: Creative Commons 3.0
Author: Chad Engle

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Free wanderingspace.net ipod/iphone Wallpapers

Adelle Charles — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:00:08 +0000

File Type: JPG
Number in Set: 19
Size: 320×480
License Type: Noncommercial
Provided by: Thomas Romer, Chop Shop Store | wanderingspace.net

Details

The Chop Shop has some side projects as well. Here is a little something from wanderingspace.net for your iPhone. 19 of the major bodies of the solar system to swap out that tired of image of Earth that came with the phone when you bought it. You will see familiar bodies like Earth, Mars, Jupiter… but also included are such exotic places as Io, Europa and Triton. If you are unfamiliar with the major moons of our celestial neighborhood, be sure to check these out. You may be surprised.

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Hand Drawn Wings (Vectors)

Adelle Charles — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:35:52 +0000

For Vector Pack 14, Hand Drawn Wings became a stand out example of why the folks over at Go Media love to create art. Graphite, ink & moleskine fibers went flying & soon Go Media artists Adam Law, Jeff Finely & Bill Beachy had created a truly impressive collection of wings.

The cool kids over at Go Media gave me a sneak peak of the full vector pack 14. Of course it left me wanting more and I hear the rest of the collection will be coming out soon so be watching out for it!

Check out the details of the latest release, they are so beautifully hand drawn.

If you’d like to grab a free vector from the pack head over to Go Media and download it!

Better yet, if you can afford to buy the pack, do it….it’s totally worth it! (Come on it’s only $9.99)!

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Free Chop Shop Icons: ipod/iphone Wallpapers

Thomas Romer — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:29:16 +0000

Details: 90 icons of rock, pop, punk and even a few funk to skin your iPod/iphone. The 90 silhouettes are featured on 3 generational tee designs spanning the history of rock music from 1964-1989.

“rockStar” features 28 icons of classic rock from 1964-76
“rebelRock” features 31 icons of rock, punk and a few funk from 1972-82
Like the previous two designs, the newest tee “videoRock” features 31 icons of pop, rock and alternative from 1980-89 but also features a bonus 16 video references from the vintage years of mtv as a bonus.

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