10 Awesome Freebies for Designers

As a designer, sometimes it’s difficult to get started on a new project. Maybe You will need to scour the web for inspiration, or doodle on a notepad to hopefully get some ideas. That’s when you need to look through collections of freebies.

Fortunately, enhancing your web design doesn’t have to cost a small fortune or take a lot of time. Here are 10 Awesome Freebies for Designers that can help enhance your web presence today.

1. Flat SEO icons

This set of 12 flat SEO icons is perfect for adding a light-hearted and playful tone to sites. The flat aesthetic is set off beautifully by the modern color palette and the addition of the long shadow technique is a sophisticated touch. Playful and approachable, the icons are useful for a number of different industries.

2. Colorful Grunge Textures

The pack contains 25 .jpg textures at 5000 by 5000px saved at 300ppi. The textures are compatible with all photo editors that support layers (Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, GIMP, Pixelmator etc.), both PC and Mac.

3. Modus Versus PSD Template

Modus Versus is a free multi-purpose PSD template, designed on the 1170 grid system. Excellent for use with responsive frameworks like the popular Twitter Bootstrap, it could form the basis of a good corporate site.

4. Flat UI Kit

To help you take the leap into flat design we’ve put together this great freebie: A free flat UI kit is more of a rejection of 3D artifice than it is a style — fits so perfectly into the contemporary landscape that it’s already hard to envisage a time when it wasn’t de rigueur.

5. Media Black UI Kit

Media Black UI Kit contains graphic elements suitable for any sort of media elements, such as video and audio players, along typical navigational items.It’s provided as a layered PSD file. The file is free for personal and commercial use.

6. Retro Business Card PSD

It’s a very attractive business card template with a retro style. It has the perfect balance between elegance and creativity with a modern twist. The files are provided as two separate PSD files and can be used for both personal and commercial uses.

7. Infographic Vector Kit

It’s an infographic vector kit, with the most used elements that you may need for your infographic designs. Included in this set is a world map, gender elements, as well as multiple pie and bar charts. You can easily combine and modify all the elements to create a distinctive infographic.

8. Apple Icon Devices

This set of icons features some of Apple’s top selling products, from the iPad to the brand new iPhone 4S.
The set includes a total of 10 exclusive icons designed with exquisite detail and provided to you as both PNG and Illustrator files.

9. A Free Social Icon Set

This is a cool set of 24 social icons called “Simplito”. The icons are provided as JPGs, PNGs and a master PSD file for easy editing. You are free to use the icons for personal and commercial projects as per the licensing terms attached in the file.

10. Flowing Borders & Ribbons

This charming set of 46 hand-drawn frame and ribbon vectors are scribbled onto a page and then digitized, the liberated borders look like they were drawn in the heyday of UPA cartoons. Add a light watercolor wash and combine them with a heavily scrolling script typeface and they’d make a lovely, and personal feeling, addition to any wedding stationery.