20 of the Best Design Blogs for Freebies

Web and graphic designers are in the fortunate position of having a lot of quality free resources at their disposal. The huge number of blogs and websites in the industry and the massive audience of designers has led to a number of websites and blogs that distribute valuable resources for free.

Designers can often get things like textures, Photoshop brushes, icons, vectors, and even website templates for free. The difficult part can be finding the freebies and finding the right blogs to follow in order to know when new freebies are released. To save some of your time I have compiled a list of the best blogs to follow if you want to get your hands on these free resources.

Valleys in the Vinyl

One of the best sources for a wide variety of high res textures.

Blog.Spoongraphics

Chris Spooner gives away quality resources like vectors, brushes, and patterns.

Lost and Taken

This is another excellent source for free textures.

Webdesigner Depot

They frequently offer free resources that you can download if you subscribe to their mailing list.

Vandelay Design

Here at this blog you can get free resources like textures, icons, and vectors, as well as a number of free WordPress themes.

Design Modo

I bookmarked this address because they offer a variety of very interesting  freebies, from free software licenses to sets of icons or buttons. Much more, they have something new to offer frequently, so once again visit it in order not to miss some very good opportunities.

InstantShift

It is a top web design blog and has enough quality and quantity of the information provided for the readers, but they also offer very interesting and consistent free resources and giveaways. At the end of the year, Instant Shift used to offer amazing gifts for the readers consisting in buttons, licenses, web hosting, Word Press themes and even a new iPad.

Onextrapixel

It is a well-known blog and one that offers a number of quality freebies.

NaldzGraphics

Naldz Graphics is a wonderful blog and the freebies from here are really satisfying any standards of the users, therefore visit the blog to save some money for your next project.

Graphisutra

Graphisutra is offering quality freebies and surely you should visit the blog and stay updated to the latest news in the field and follow some interesting tutorials.

SloDive

This is a huge blog and of course, here are some amazing freebies ready to be downloaded by you.

Creative Overflow

I appreciate this blog because the freebies offered are respecting the trends,like PSD files useful to create iPhone apps, but also more “traditional” files.

Skyje

Surely, it can’t be missed from your list. Here the free resources are even grouped to save your time: “Free fonts”, “Free icons”, “Free templates”, “Free wallpapers” and “Photoshop freebies”.

The Design Work

The Design Work comes with an original solution, the most important freebies grouped in a monthly post. This doesn’t mean that other freebies aren’t posted.

Other Blogs for Freebies:

Web and Designers

Our Tuts

DesignrFix

Design Your Way

Cruzine

GraphicsBeam

Smashing Hub

I hope to enjoy these and finally, please let me know which one is your favorite.

About the Author:

Daniel Pintilie works for online sales optimization company Invesp and enjoys writing on ecommerce page optimization and landing page testing.

Published August 22nd, 2012 by Daniel Pintilie