As we are always looking for ways to show our appreciation to our readers, and provide you all with exciting and useful web design and development related resources we have a special treat that hits both of those marks. Today we have a brand new exclusive freebie for Noupe and all fans of fresh and sharply designed social media icons. From the creative mind of one of our regular Illustrator experts, Jasmina Stanojevic, comes this handy new set of vector designs. So feast your eyes on this new exclusive freebie that can add some flair and style to your web design...

    Today’s freebie may be the last one for this year, but that doesn’t mean it will be the last of our freebies on Smashing Magazine — no siree! Before this year does come to an end, we are happy to present to you a fresh new Web UI set includig 91 icons created by August Interactive for the holiday season. The set is a collection of widely used UI elements, including volume, zoom, player, view, and download controls. Designed by Tomas...

   Over the years, Adobe Illustrator has become one of the top applications for creating vector illustrations. There is almost nothing you can’t make in Illustrator. It is a powerful tool for creating vectors for all kind of logos, websites, icons, business cards, print materials, etc. One of the best features of the vector format is its ability to scale up or down to any size without any loss in quality (unlike raster illustrations). But let’s not forget that Adobe Illustrator is complex software. Despite all of its advantages, Illustrator demands a lot of...

by SweetCapture Digital Signage Graphics Easily Convert Bitmap Images To Clean Vector Art Some digital signage software solutions prefer vectored rather than bitmapped images because they scale much better on larger screens. Some of the better Flash animations make wide use of vectored images to help create smooth animations. But what if the only image you have is a small bitmapped JPG image? One solution may be Vector Magic. Vector Magic (http://www.vectormagic.com) is an easy online service that will convert your images to EPS, PDF, SVG and PNG with just a few clicks of a button. There is also a...