MediaLoot is a project of Jon Phillips of Spyre Studios and Mason Hipp of Freelance Folder. Members of MediaLoot are able to download resources like textures, icons, vectors, brushes, templates and more. The goal of MediaLoot is to eliminate the need for pay-per-use sites by offering a subscription-based service where members can download loads of great resources. There are already some quality items available for download, and more will be added on an on-going basis.

I’ve been on the site today and have already download some resources that I hope to put to good use, including textures and icons. Both Jon and Mason have contributed a lot to the design community through their blogs, so I hope you will visit MediaLoot and check out what they have to offer.

The Giveaway Details:

If you would like to enter to win one of the 5 one-year memberships (the normal price is $14 per month), please leave a comment on this post. On Friday, March 12th the five winners will be selected at random. At that time this post will be updated and the winners will be notified by email (so be sure to leave a valid email address).

Also, if you would like to design resources for MediaLoot you can find information about that on their Design for Us page.

UPDATE: The contest is now over. Thanks to everyone who participated, the response was great! Here are the winners:

• Gamel
• Susana
• Linda Page
• Nikola Lazarevic
• Morgan Brown

CSS Templates:

TemplateWire currently has more than 60 CSS templates.

Flash Templates:

They currently have 50 Flash templates.

Logo Templates:

They currently have more than 60 logo templates.

Giveaway Details:

If you would like to enter the contest to win a free template from TemplateWire, please leave a comment on this post (with a valid email address so we can contact you if you win). On Friday, February 26th I will use a random number generator to select the three winners. At that time this post will be updated and the winners will be notified so they can claim their prize.

Please take a moment to visit TemplateWire and see what template you would like to win.

UPDATE: The contest is now over. Thank you to everyone who participated. If you weren’t one of the lucky winners, you can follow TemplateWire on Twitter to watch out for upcoming giveaways. Here are the winners:

• goaxer
• k19s
• shashank

This set includes five icons of typical office items. The icons are free for personal or commercial purposes, and they are available below as PNG files or as Adobe Illustrator files.

Download the icons as PNG files

Download the icons as Adobe Illustrator files

You may also be interested in the other icon sets that IconShock has designed for us:

• Gadget Icon Set
• Portfolio Icon Set
• Business Icon Set

If you’re not familiar with UPrinting, they are a leading online printing company that offers printing for a wide variety of products including brochures, flyers, posters, calendars and much more in addition to business cards. They have templates to help you design your business cards, and they offer custom printing services to meet your specific printing needs.

The Giveaway Details:

UPrinting will be giving away 500 die cut business cards with free shipping in the U.S. to five random winners. If you would like to enter the contest, leave a comment on this post. You can tell us why you would like the business cards, how you would use them, or simply state that you would like to enter. Winners will be selected on Friday, February 12th using a random number generator. This post will be updated to list the winners and the winners will be notified by email. UPrinting will provide the winners with instructions for claiming their prize.

Good luck!

UPDATE: The contest is now over. Thanks to everyone who participated. Here are the winners:

• David
• Tom Dempsey
• Sarah Hicks
• Mary
• Valerie

If you follow Six Revisions you know that Jacob is a very talented designer, developer, and writer. Today he and his brother Isaac have launched their latest project, Design Instruct, which will provide high quality content related to visual arts and communication.

Design Instruct has launched today with a tutorial, How to Make a Vibrant Portfolio Web Design in Photoshop.

If you’re interested in design tutorials and articles I recommend that you subscribe to the Design Instruct RSS feed or follow them on Twitter. I’m sure Isaac and Jacob will turn Design Instruct into an excellent resource for designers. They’re also looking for writers, so if you are interested see their writing guidelines.

if you’re not familiar with Elegant Themes they offer premium WordPress themes on a membership/subscription basis. And the price is a very affordable $19.95 per year. At the moment there are 30 themes to choose from, but new themes are added on a pretty steady basis.

Here is a look at a few of the themes that are available (click on any of them to see the theme detail page).

LightSource

Cherry Truffle

OnTheGo

Deviant

The Contest Rules:

To enter the contest all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. You can tell us why you would like to win, what you would do with the themes, or simply state that you would like to enter. The contents of the comment will not influence who wins, the five winners will be selected by a random integer generator. The contest will end on Friday, January 15th. At that time the winners will be determined and notified by email, and this post will be updated to list the winners.

Good luck!

UPDATE: The contest is now over. Thank you to everyone who participated, and of course to Elegant Themes. Here are the winners.

• Andrew Lechlak
• Rahul Joshi
• bjedrona
• Space and Time
• aledesign.it

If you’re interested in posting a job listing for free, please visit the submission page. If your company has a need to hire designers or developers on a regular basis, please contact us as we can arrange significantly discounted pricing for repeat users.

Improvements to the Job Board:

The old job board was using a WordPress plugin that is no longer supported or updated, so we made changes that helped to improve the look and the usability, as well as to be able to offer promo codes. The new job board is also providing greater exposure to listings, which will help those who are looking to hire as well as those who are looking for work.

Here are some of the specific improvements:

More Jobs are Being Shown Across DesignM.ag

Now on DesignM.ag, all pages and posts outside of the job board are displaying links to 15 recent job listings. These links are shown at the top of the left sidebar giving them maximum visibility. Additionally, the number of visitors and pageviews at DesignM.ag have increased significantly in recent months, giving more exposure to job listings.

Recent Job Listings Are Now Being Syndicated on Vandelay Design and Folio Focus

The Vandelay Design blog now includes links to the 15 most recent job listings in the right sidebar to provide even more exposure. Our gallery of portfolios, Folio Focus, is also displaying the 15 most recent listings in the right sidebar.

Better Organization and Categorization

Job categories include design, development, marketing & SEO, and other jobs. Each listing is also designated as full-time, part-time, or freelance, and visitors can easily browse jobs in any category or of any type.

Who Can Post a Job Listing?

The DesignM.ag job board is ideal for:

• Agencies who are looking for employees or freelancers
• Companies looking to hire in-house workers
• Anyone who is looking to hire a freelancer

If you’d like to find a design, developer, or marketer, please visit the job board submission page and enter the promo code “free” to get a free 30 or 60 day listing.

If you are a designer or developer, you can subscribe to the job board’s RSS feed to stay up-to-date with opportunities that are available.

Download the Adobe Illustrator files

Download the PNG files

If you like these icons, you may also be interested in the other sets that IconShock has designed for our readers.

• Portfolio Icon Set
• Business Icon Set

If you haven’t downloaded the trial version, there is still time to try it out for a week before the offer expires. You can get the free trial from Fanurio’s website.

If you didn’t see the post last month and you’re not familiar with Fanurio, you can read why we recommend it to designers (and other freelancers) for their own time tracking and invoicing needs.

For a full list of Fanurio’s features, please see their website.

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Icon Fever will showcase the best icon packs available for designers. At this time it includes 42 excellent sets of icons, and more will be added on a daily basis. You can browse through the archives by tag (such as social media icons, Twitter icons, grunge icons, etc.), or you can view icons that are available for commercial use. Hopefully Icon Fever will prove to be a valuable resource for web designers who are looking to find the right icons for their projects, as well as providing some exposure for icon designers. If you’re interested in following the regular updates you can subscribe to the RSS feed or follow Icon Fever on Twitter.

If you’re an icon designer, feel free to submit your work to be included in the gallery. Free and premium icons can be submitted, although priority will be given to free icons, particularly those that are licensed to be used for commercial projects.

Re-Design of All Gallery Sites

The other five galleries in the Inspiration Fuse network have been given a fresh look.

Folio Focus

CartFrenzy

Minimal Exhibit

Blog Design Heroes

TypeInspire