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9 Mar

Today we’re announcing the winners of the UPrinting contest that we held on WDD for the past week.

Many thanks to all of you who participated. The response was great and we’ve got almost 500 comments.

Each of the 10 winners has won a set of 500 free business cards of their choice with free shipping to anywhere in the world.

The winners were selected at random and you can see the results after the jump.

All winners will be contacted via email for details as to how to receive their prizes. Read more

2 Mar

Win 5000 Business Cards from UPrinting

Contests, Freebies, Web Designers

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We all know that as web designers, we should market ourselves both online and offline.

For online purposes, a great portfolio website or blog is a perfect way to spread the word, but for offline purposes, nothing beats the traditional business card.

We’ve partnered with UPrinting to bring an amazing contest to WDD. One week from today, we will be awarding 10 prizes of 500 free business cards each!!!

You can choose from a variety of business card styles, such as the traditional US Standard, square, slim and specialty shapes. Let your creativity flow and design the cards any way that you want. We will ship them to you worldwide absolutely free of charge.

Read on for more details on how to enter this contest… Read more

1 Feb

Winners of “Fluid Web Typography”

Contests, Freebies, Typography

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Last week we run a great contest here on WDD to give away 5 free copies of the book “Fluid Web Typography” …and today we have the results!

Congratulations to all 5 winners: Christopher Barnes (#392), Claudiu (#145), Tutorial City (#403), Austin (#113) and Patricia (#346).

Each of you have won a free copy of this excellent web typography book written by Jason Cranford Teague.

All winners will be contacted via email for details on how to receive their books.

Thanks to the over 400 of you who participated and for leaving links to all those awesome typographic resources.

We’ll be running more contests in the near future, stay tuned! Read more

25 Jan

Win 5 Copies of “Fluid Web Typography”

Contests, Freebies, Typography

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Typography on the Web has remained unchanged for over a decade, but we’re now in the midst of a type revolution.

In a great effort to bring light to typography on the web and how to use it properly, one of our respected authors, Jason Cranford Teague, in association with Peachpit has released the book “Fluid Web Typography”.

Today, we’re bringing this must-have book to the WDD audience.

We’re running a one week contest where we will be awarding 5 free copies of this unmissable book. Read on for all the details and how to participate. Read more

19 Jan

Woven Fabric Social Media Icon Set

Freebies, Icons, Social Media

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We absolutely love icons and today we have another exclusive great set available for you.

This woven fabric set of social media icons was created by Jan Cavan from Dawghouse.

Although not suitable for every type of site, these icons will look wonderful on websites that use texture and have an organic approach to their design.

There are a total of 26 icons available as transparent PNGs and they are completely free for personal and commercial use, however, if you’d like to share them with your friends, please refer them to this page so that they can download them from here.

The download link and a full preview is available after the jump… Enjoy… Read more

7 Jan

35 High Quality Apple Inspired Icons

Apple, Freebies, Icons

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Apple products are well known for their simple and elegant design, and they are favored by many designers.

Their products are often seen in web design, particularly on portfolio websites, and these products are also popular subjects for icon design.

In this post we feature more than 35 sets of high-quality icons inspired by Apple and its products.

You’ll find iPod icons, iPhone icons, iMac and MacBook icons, as well as a variety of others. This post includes dock icons as well as those intended web design or other types of design.

As is always the case whenever dealing with freebies, be sure to check the license and terms of use before using them. Read more

23 Dec

More Exclusive Icons for the Holidays:
“Xmas Festives”

Freebies, Icons

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If you enjoyed our “Xmas Stickers” last week, you’re in luck, as today we’re bringing you another great set of icons for the Holidays.

We call this one “Xmas Festives” and it’s also an exclusive set, just for WDD.

Feel free to use them to decorate your websites and blogs and bring the holiday spirit to the web.

The icons are free for personal and commercial purposes and are released exclusively to all WDD readers.

The set is available in three different sizes: 64×64, 128×128 and 256×256 as well as a vector file for easy resizing. The full preview and download link are located after the jump.

Enjoy the free icons and Happy Holidays from Webdesigner Depot! Read more

22 Dec

Winners of Grafpedia Premium Accounts

Contest, Freebies

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Thanks to all of you who participated in the fantastic contest held by Grafpedia last week.

We have selected the winners at random and the results are here!

With 511 comments, this was another great contest for WDD and a really great giveaway of goodies that will fit perfectly into every designer’s collection.

The 10 winners have each won a premium account with access to ALL of Grafpedia’s content for a period of three months. This includes thousands of Photoshop brushes, vector shapes and patterns, and much much more.

All winners will be contacted via email for details as to how to receive their prizes.

Check out to see if you won and view the winners’ names after the jump. Read more

17 Dec

Exclusive Icons for the Holidays:
“Xmas Stickers”

Freebies, Icons

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Just in time for the holidays, “Xmas Stickers” is an exclusive set of icons for WDD readers.

Feel free to use them to decorate your websites and blogs and bring the holiday spirit to the web.

The icons are free for personal and commercial purposes and are released exclusively to all WDD readers.

The set is available in three different sizes: 64×64, 128×128 and 256×256 as well as a vector file for easy resizing.

The full preview and download link are located after the jump.

Enjoy the free icons and Happy Holidays from Webdesigner Depot! Read more

15 Dec

Win 10 Premium Accounts at Grafpedia

Contests, Freebies

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We love to bring great contests to all our loyal readers and today we have another great one lined up for you.

We’ve partnered with Grafpedia a great provider of Photoshop gradients, brushes and vectors to bring another great giveaway to some lucky WDD readers.

We’re giving away a total of 10 premium accounts with access to ALL of Grafpedia’s content for 3 months. That is thousands of Photoshop brushes, vector shapes and patterns, and much much more.

The contest runs for one week and we will announce the results on December 22nd.

For a chance to win, please follow the participation guidelines after the jump. Read more

1 Dec

Winners of ‘Fancy Form Design’

Books, Contests, Freebies

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The results are in! Today we’re pleased to announce the winners of the SitePoint book giveaway.

All winners will be contacted via email for details as to how to receive their prizes.

Check out to see if you won and view the winners’ names after the jump.

For those that didn’t win this time, you can buy the PDF version for only $14.95 until December 5th via this link OR get $5.00 off the print book, published in full color, shipped to your door anywhere in the world by following this link. Worldwide shipping is free when you add a 2nd book to your order.

Thanks to the almost 1000 of you that participated and thanks to SitePoint for sponsoring this great contest for the WDD community. Read more

24 Nov

Win 5 Free Copies of ‘Fancy Form Design’

Books, Contests, Freebies

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We’re partnering once again with the awesome folks at SitePoint to bring you another great giveaway for one of their latest books.

The book this time is called Fancy Form Design and it guides you through the creation of beautiful forms for your websites.

Forms need not be ugly, they can be beautiful, too, and their coding can now be hassle free.

We will give away a total of 5 copies of the book, and the contest will run for a week, with the results announced on December 1st.

To get a chance to win, please follow the guidelines for participation after the jump. Read more

19 Nov

The wait is over! And the prizes go to…

Contests, Freebies

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Thanks to everyone that participated in our massive first birthday giveaway.

Your response of over 1,200 comments was absolutely unbelievable and made me realize how influential the blog has been to so many people out there.

The comments were great! Funny, artistic, original and charged with positive vibes.

A very heartfelt thank you to all of you for your support, and for the great feedback in your comments.

I’m now truly charged to propel WDD further into its second year! Feel free to always send me your feedback, ideas and suggestions. I read all emails and will definetely take your feedback into consideration.

And now, what you’ve been waiting for since last week… the prizes! And there are 42 very lucky winners… are you one of them? Read more

11 Nov

Webdesigner Depot Turns One Year Old! (surprises included)

Contests, Freebies

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It’s been one year already and today we celebrate WDD’s first birthday!

It’s been an incredible journey so far… and I’ve enjoyed it immensely, and still am.

I started WDD out of my curiosity for blogging and my passion for design. I wanted to put my mark out there by pouring my design vision into the world.

Since WDD began, the blog has been visited by over 10 million people and that number is growing in leaps and bounds month after month.

Today, I’d like to share a few interesting details about myself and WDD, and I also have some very special birthday surprises in store… Read more

26 Oct

200+ Free Exclusive RSS Icons: “Supra”

Freebies, Icons, Vector

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Today we bring you a set of over 200 free and exclusive RSS icons called “Supra”.

The icons are provided in both raster and vector formats: The transparent PNG versions are 32×32, 64×64 and 128×128, and we have also included source files for Illustrator so that you can resize and create the icons as needed.

The icons are completely free for personal and commercial use and they’re being released exclusively to all our RSS subscribers.

To download your copy, simply subscribe to our RSS feed and you’ll find the current password at the bottom of each post when viewing the RSS feed.

Below you’ll see a full preview of all icons included in this set. The download link appears at the bottom. Enjoy! Read more

25 Aug

Free Photoshop Brushes: “Sparkling Light Effects”

Brushes, Freebies, Photoshop

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Today we bring you another awesome set of exclusive Photoshop brushes which include 24 high resolution “Sparkling Light Effects”.

The set was created by Grant Friedman from Colorburned exclusively for WDD readers.

These brushes are completely free for both personal and commercial use so you can create any type of project with them with no restrictions, with the exception that we do not allow the redistribution of the brushes in any shape or form.

If you’d like to share these brushes with your friends and colleagues, simply refer them to this page so that they can download their copy.

Below is a full preview of all 24 brushes for quick reference. The download link is at the bottom. Enjoy! Read more

30 Jul

200+ Free Exclusive Vector Icons: ‘Primo’

Freebies, Icons, Vector

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Today we bring you a set of over 200 free and exclusive vector icons called “Primo”.

The icons are provided in both raster and vector formats: The transparent PNG versions are 48×48, 64×64 and 128×128, and we have also included Illustrator files so that you can resize the icons as needed.

The icons are completely free for personal and commercial use and they’re being released exclusively to all our readers.

If you’d like to share these icons, please refer your friends to this page so that they can download their copy from here.

Below you’ll find a full preview of all icons included in this set. The download link appears at the bottom. Enjoy! Read more

8 Jul

Win 10 Amazing WordPress Themes from Obox Design

Contest, Freebies, WordPress

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Today, the cool guys over at Obox Design introduced their new line of professional WordPress themes called “The Obox Signature Series”.

Thanks to David and Marc, we will be giving away a total of 10 copies of the “Arcade” and “Left Handed” themes (single user license).

All themes are packaged with OCMX-Live, a powerful add-on to the WordPress backend which allows you to control and customize many of the elements of your theme.

To participate in this great competition, simply follow @oboxthemes and leave a comment below with your Twitter username and anything else you’d like to say about these awesome themes.

[UPDATE] – Congratulations, the winners are: #61, #129, #123, #43, #134, #120, #3, #110, #104, #62. You will be contacted by email to receive your prizes. Thanks to all of you who participated in this giveaway. Read more

1 Jul

50 Free and Exclusive Twitter Icons

Freebies, Icons, Twitter

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Today we bring you a set of 50 free and exclusive Twitter icons that you can use for your websites.

The icons are provided in both raster and vector formats: The transparent PNG versions are 256×256, and we have also included Illustrator files so that you can resize the icons as needed.

The icons are completely free for personal and commercial use and they’re being released exclusively to all our readers.

If you’d like to share these icons, please refer your friends to this page so that they can download their copy from here.

Below you’ll find a full preview of all icons included in this set. The download link appears at the bottom. Enjoy! Read more

16 Jun

30 Photoshop Brushes: ‘Drippy Sprays’

Brushes, Freebies, Photoshop

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Today we bring you a great set of exclusive Photoshop brushes which include 30 high resolution drippy sprays.

The set was created by Grant Friedman from Colorburned exclusively for WDD readers.

These brushes are completely free for both personal and commercial use so you can create any type of project with them with no restrictions, with the exception that we do not allow the redistribution of the brushes in any shape or form.

If you’d like to share these brushes with your friends and colleagues, simply refer them to this page so that they can download their copy.

Below is a full preview of all 30 brushes for quick reference. The download link is at the bottom. Enjoy! Read more

28 May

Massive Giveaway of Designious Goodies

Brushes, Fonts, Freebies

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I don’t know about you, but if you’re anything like me, you probably can never have too many design goodies such as brushes, vector shapes or fonts. I collect these on a weekly basis and I love them!

I’ve partnered with Designious to bring a massive giveaway of Photoshop brushes, vector shapes and fonts to the WDD audience.

The prizes are really amazing and include: 10 Mega Packs, 10 Brush Packs, 10 Vector Packs and 5 fonts! (each of these packs contain multiple graphics).

To participate in this giveaway, simply leave a comment below about what you love about Designious or what you would like to see next in the Designious website.

[UPDATE] The contest has ended, thanks for the massive participation. All winners will be contacted by email shortly, however, if you do not receive this email, please contact us. The winners were selected at random and are the ones with these comment numbers: 228, 43, 441, 404, 5, 101, 31, 301, 179, 379, 314, 199, 388, 340, 382, 425, 219, 218, 251, 401, 82, 227, 447, 391, 444, 335, 416, 448, 232, 236, 297, 220, 250, 155, 191.

24 Free Exclusive Vector Icons: ‘Handy’

Freebies, Icons

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‘Handy’ is a set of 24 free and exclusive vector icons that can be used on websites, logos and more.

The icons have a unique hand drawn feeling and look great in color or black and white. The set also includes most social media websites, such as Delicious, Digg and many more.

These icons are completely free for personal and commercial use and they’re being released exclusively to all our RSS subscribers.

If you’d like to share these icons, please refer your friends to this page so that they can download them from here. Read more

27 Apr

Winners of ‘Sexy Web Design’

Books, Contests, Freebies

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Today we’re happy to announce the winners of the SitePoint book giveaway.

Congratulations to @innervoices, @kmog, @sherri_g, @6bdesign and @TylorSkory. Each of you have won a full copy of the book “Sexy Web Design”.

All winners will be contacted via email for details as to how to receive their prize.

For the ones that didn’t win, don’t despair as SitePoint has generously provided a 25% discount for all of our readers that would like to purchase the book. Note that this discount is only valid until May 1st: Discount link

Thanks to the almost 600 of you who participated and thanks to SitePoint for sponsoring this great contest for the WDD community.

16 Apr

Win 5 Free Copies of ‘Sexy Web Design’

Books, Contests, Freebies

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I’m always reading tons of design blogs as well as buying books and magazines to gain more knowledge on design and bring fresh ideas to WDD.

A little while ago, I ordered Elliot Jay Stocks book “Sexy Web Design” and after reading it, I thought it would be a great idea if I could bring this book to the loyal readers of WDD.

So, I’ve partnered with the publisher SitePoint, one of the leading resources for designers, to bring this great book to the WDD audience.

Starting today, we’ll be running a 10 day contest here on WDD, where you can win one of 5 free copies of the book that we’ll be giving away. Read more

27 Mar

200 Free Exclusive Icons: Siena

Design, Freebies, Icons

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Siena is a brand new set of 200 free icons, developed exclusively for Webdesigner Depot. You can use them for your designs such as logos, websites and much more. They come in 6 different raster sizes and we have also included vector files for all the icons, so you can resize them as needed.

These icons are completely free for both personal and commercial use and they’re being released exclusively to all our RSS subscribers.

To download your copy, simply subscribe to our RSS feed and you’ll find the current password at the bottom of each post (note that this password changes every few days and is only visible in the RSS subscriber feed of this post, which must be viewed through an RSS reader).

If you’d like to share these icons, please refer your friends to this page. Below is a full preview of all 200 icons for quick reference. Enjoy!

92 Free Exclusive Icons: Ravenna

Freebies, Icons

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To celebrate the holidays, we’re releasing a great set of icons developed by Jack Cai especially for WDD.

Ravenna is a set of 92 free raster based icons that you can use for your webpages and projects. The icons come available in 9 different sizes, from 16×16 up to 256×256 pixels and available as transparent PNG files. Icons are free for all your personal projects.

If you’d like to share these icons, please refer your friends to this page.

Here’s a full preview of all 92 icons for quick reference. Download yours below and enjoy! Read more

1 Dec

20 Free Exclusive Vector Icons: Calabria

Freebies, Icons

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Calabria is a set of 20 free and exclusive vector icons that can be used on websites, logos and more.

These icons are absolutely free for both personal and commercial uses and you can go ahead and download yours now.

If you’d like to share these icons, please refer your friends to this page.

Here’s a full preview of all 20 icons for quick reference. Download yours below and enjoy! Read more