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Vitaly Friedman - Typography Keyboard Layout: Download Now!

The main idea was to provide the web design community with a handy tool that would let designers enter characters that are usually unavailable on a keyboard easier and quicker. If you already tried

Typography , Tools , Freebies , General

Vitaly Friedman - Free Photoshop Brushes: Watercolor, Space, Canvas

Over the last months we focused on releases of icons and themes, so we thought that it may be useful to release Photoshop brushes and vector graphics for a change. Hence, in this post we release a s

Vectors , Photoshop , Graphics , Downloads , Icons , Freebies , Brushes

Vitaly Friedman - 35 Truly Stunning, Beautiful And Unusual Pictures

We love beautiful and unusual pictures. In photos, the beauty isn’t necessarily reflected in an eye-catching combination of colors; perspectives, angle, composition and, most importantly, the idea b

Photography , Graphics

Vitaly Friedman - New Smashing Freebies For Designers and Bloggers

As you may or may not know, we love to smash freebies around. Today we are glad to release the Web Developer icons set, designed by Pedja Rusic, a WP Smashing WordPress theme, designed by Greg Johns

Downloads , Icons , Freebies , Themes

Vitaly Friedman - Smashing Retro Icon Set

Over the last few months, we have extensively covered the influence of retro and vintage style on modern Web design. We have looked at recent vintage Web designs, showcased posters and typography an

Retro , Downloads , Icons , Freebies , Vintage

Vitaly Friedman - Really Cute Twitter Icons: Tweeters & Birdies

These Twitter icons were designed by the talented Mirjami Manninen, an illustrator from Finland who released the beautiful RSS feed set Feed Me Animals on Smashing Magazine last year. This new set c

Twitter , Downloads , Icons , Freebies

Vitaly Friedman - Smashing Magazine Comic Strip: Episode 1

Discussing new formats for SM, we came up with the idea of creating a weekly cartoon that would cover recent developments in web design and in the Web in general. In December we stumbled across Padd

Comics , Events

Vitaly Friedman - 3 Heavenly Christmas Icon Sets [Freebie]

In December we asked few designers to come up with some creative, beautiful, memorable yet usable icon sets. Some designers had a tight schedule and couldn’t get work done in time, but three designe

Christmas , Downloads , Icons , Freebies

Vitaly Friedman - Light Blurs Brushes and Decoration Pack For Photoshop

Over the last few weeks, our readers have complained that we have been releasing “way too many freebies”. Apparently, we have been posting “too many filler articles” containing freebies that can be

Photoshop , Graphics , Downloads , Freebies , Brushes

Vitaly Friedman - 22 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools

We love useful stuff. For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative CSS tools and related resources. We have been contacting developers, encouraging them to improve their too

Tools , coding , Css , Resources

Vitaly Friedman - iPhone PSD Vector Kit

Today, we are glad to release the iPhone Starter Kit, a set that comes with several button elements as well as six different iPhone interface options. This pack may be useful for mobile developers a

Vectors , mobile , Downloads , Freebies , iphone , PSD

Vitaly Friedman - Swirls Vector Illustrations Set

Today we are glad to release Swirls Illustrations Set, a sets of 10 high-quality vector illustrations, created with Adobe Illustrator and available as .eps source files. These illustrations were cre

Vectors , Illustrator , Graphics , Downloads , Freebies

Vitaly Friedman - Smashing Pumpkins: A Free Halloween Vector Icon Set

As the Halloween is approaching, it’s best time to spice up your design with some quick Halloweenish icons. And since we are, apparently, smashing and the Halloween is all about pumpkins, we decided

Downloads , Icons , Freebies , Halloween

Vitaly Friedman - Splatter and Watercolour Brushes For Photoshop

Another day — another fresh freebie. Today we are glad to release Splatter and Watercolour Photoshop Brushes, 3 sets of 21 high-quality brushes, with the average size of 2500px or 2200px. These brus

Photoshop , Graphics , Downloads , Freebies , Brushes

Vitaly Friedman - Retro and Vintage In Modern Web Design

Retro and vintage are becoming a new trend. Once rarely used in this robust, dynamic medium, early, retro and vintage elements are now becoming more and more popular in a variety of design contexts.

Showcases , Retro , Inspiration , Vintage

Vitaly Friedman - Free Fonts Myndraine, Museo Sans

Every now and again we take a look around, select high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time y

Typography , Downloads , Freebies , fonts , Free Fonts , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Practika: A Free Icon Set

Today we are glad to release Practika: a free set of 11 practical and useful high-quality icons, designed by DryIcons, especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The icons are available in re

Downloads , Icons , Freebies

Vitaly Friedman - Tribute To Graffiti Art: 50 Beautiful Street Artworks

Street culture and graffiti art are well-known for being provocative, appealing, bold and uncompromising. Originally used by gangs to mark their territory in some urban area, graffitis have now beco

Photography , Art , Graphics , Inspiration , Graffiti

Vitaly Friedman - Health And Beauty Photoshop Brushes Set

In our previous releases we focused on icons and Wordpress themes; however, there is a variety of further tools that graphic designers need on a regular basis; for instance, Photoshop brushes. Toda

Photoshop , Graphics , Downloads , Freebies , Brushes

Vitaly Friedman - 40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box

Over the last months we have seen a strong trend towards more individual web designs. These designs use realistic motifs from everyday life, such as hand-drawn elements, script fonts, pins, paper cl

Showcases , Inspiration

Vitaly Friedman - 10 Futuristic User Interfaces

Good user interfaces are crucial for good user experience. It doesn’t matter how good a technology is — if we, designers, don’t manage to make user interface as intuitive and attractive as possible,

Videos , Inspiration , User Interaction

Vitaly Friedman - 5 Useful Coding Solutions For Designers and Developers

Often creative and truly remarkable design solutions remain unknown because we, designers, simply overlook them. Being busy with our own projects, we sometimes try to grasp the intuition behind (pro

Techniques , Navigation , coding

Vitaly Friedman - Pop Art Is Alive: Classics and Modern Artworks

As a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s, pop art aims to emphasize the nature of things popular in our daily routine. In pop art, most artists use mechanical means of rendering techni

Art , Showcases , Retro , Inspiration , Vintage , Paintings

Vitaly Friedman - Let There Be Light: Light Paintings and Sculptures

Although light is considered to be rather a practical than an artistic tool, it has some properties that designers can explore in their works. Indeed, light can also be seen as a medium for more pow

Photography , Art , Graphics , Paintings