All love free stuff

November 20, 2007 3:06 AM

Free Stuff for Lazy Designers. Dezignus surf the web to give you the best design source links! Icons, brushes and shapes, tutorials and books, vectors and other stuff.
posted by psmealey (17 comments total)

ps. sorry for grammar mistakes, unfortunately my interpreter too drunk right now ;)

We can all relate to that.
posted by psmealey at 3:12 AM on November 20, 2007

Do the shapes only work with CS3?
posted by chillmost at 3:17 AM on November 20, 2007

Aretha and dancing boys? Metafilter= Crack Heaven. Thanks!
posted by wafaa at 3:35 AM on November 20, 2007

Flapjax and I work as a team.
posted by psmealey at 3:45 AM on November 20, 2007

I love some of the icon sets, thanks for this.
posted by gummi at 5:12 AM on November 20, 2007

Very nice resource. I hope he keeps updating regularly!
posted by Meagan at 5:58 AM on November 20, 2007

Are these CC licensed or what? I'm not seeing licensing information anywhere.
posted by delmoi at 6:26 AM on November 20, 2007

Um.. ThIs is great stuff, but the guy doesn't seem to ever link to the people who made it. And most links go to rapidshare..

Smells like pirate bay for designers, which is sort of a bad idea if your doing work that's to be used commercially.
posted by cheerleaders_to_your_funeral at 6:28 AM on November 20, 2007

Aha.

Links may contain original and commercial source files. I advise you not to use files in commercial purposes!

Important point.
posted by cheerleaders_to_your_funeral at 6:30 AM on November 20, 2007

Hm it's not necessarily free stuff then, is it? Will change tags.
posted by psmealey at 6:37 AM on November 20, 2007

"My name is Stanly, I am web-surfer with more than 10 years experience."

Man, good for you. I'm glad he's fully qualified when he's out "repurposing" people's shit and giving vague, half-hidden warnings about how it "may contain original and commercial source files."

Still, there's way more to be upset about this morning that this small-time dirtbag, I guess. I just loved the qualifictions quote, is all.
posted by Imperfect at 7:29 AM on November 20, 2007

Sweet, the foliage shapes alone made my day!

Too bad the source is so murky.
posted by mayfly wake at 7:33 AM on November 20, 2007

Man, good for you. I'm glad he's fully qualified when he's out "repurposing" people's shit and giving vague, half-hidden warnings about how it "may contain original and commercial source files."

Hey, it's called "sampling". What are you, the RIAA?
posted by Pastabagel at 8:38 AM on November 20, 2007

Vecteezy and Brusheezy do the same thing, but with clearer licensing terms.
posted by Hildago at 12:41 PM on November 20, 2007 [4 favorites]

Pretty neat little resource - I liked some of the files, but two things are concerning me :

1. I rarely do non-commercial work. I'd hate to use some of these files in a commercial project and get a "hey! that's my ______ resource! It's not for commercial usage!" e-mail/complaint.

2. Most of the downloads are done through Rapidshare, which apparently thinks bandwidth costs what it did in '96 and only lets you download one free file a day.

But I'm open to other suggestions (such as Adobe's exchange site, which has a terribly broken search engine) from anyone lurkin' the thread.
posted by revmitcz at 3:16 PM on November 20, 2007

Wow, good stuff. Thanks for posting.
posted by theora55 at 4:59 PM on November 20, 2007

Oh boy! Now more people can do that clumpy flowery swirly silhouette thing! That will never grow old, ever!
posted by bink at 10:48 AM on November 21, 2007