203 People Silhouette Pack

This is a huge collection of people in various poses; a great collection that will come in handy for any designer.

Birds Collection

Birds flying, birds perched, birds standing on one leg… you get the gist.

Keep Fit: Exercise Vector Pack

These exercise-related vector silhouettes are great for any fitness-related designs you may be tapped for.

Hit the jump for the rest of the free vector silhouettes!

Man Silhouette Vector Freebie

A collection of male silhouette vectors. That pretty much covers it.

Tree Master Vector Pack

While there aren’t a ton of vectors in this pack, the ones that are in there are of good quality.

Bird Silhouette Vectors & Brushes

More birds! More poses! More uses! And so forth.

Everyday People Silhouette Vector Pack

Didn’t get enough people yet? Here’s some more.

Guns: A Vector Pack

I don’t condone violence, but I do condone free vectors.

Flower Vector Pack

Floral vector elements can be a great & easy way to add a little more visual interest to a design. Download these guys for sure.

People in Action Vector Pack

I know, you’ve probably had enough people by this point. But these ones are in ACTION!

Hope you find these packs useful; I know I sure will. Also, at least one of these packs is zipped as a .RAR file, so Mac users will need the Unarchiver. Enjoy & please share!

With that in mind, we donated some time to create and give away a free, killer one-page HTML template for musicians through Chorus Magazine. We call it the YourBand HTML Template. What is this, exactly? Well, you can download this file for free, get a domain name & hosting for your band or client, change a few lines of HTML and upload this file to your server. Presto! You have a gorgeous one-pager website for your band/client. This is what the template looks like, which can be edited to suit your needs:

Click here to view a live demo of the template.

The template has been designed and coded so that you can easily change the background & fonts if you know a little CSS. Doing this will completely change the look & feel of the template. To get an idea of what we mean, here is another version of this template with just the background, fonts & a few other small CSS changes applied. This shows you how easy it is to make this template your own.

Wondering why only one page? Well, one-page websites are seeing a huge surge in popularity. This is due to a few reasons: a) they’re more cost effective, and b) they provide more concise information. I mean really, how many pages do you actually need for a web presence? The amount of information on the Internet is overwhelming; thus, one page sites are growing in popularity due to their simplicity and ease of use. That being said, any somewhat savvy web guy/gal can easily turn this template into a multi-page site.

Features of the YourBand HTML Template include:

• A lightweight, easy-to-manage music player
• A cool photo gallery
• Standards-compliant, valid XHTML
• Ready-to-edit links & content

This is what’s included in the download:

• Two differently styled versions of the template: “Granite” (shown above) and “Cardboard” (linked above).
• An Editing guide
• Screenshots of each version

So get downloading, and if you have questions about implementation or anything else, leave ‘em in the comments!

The idea here is that you, a graphic designer, can download this template, change the text and brand it to your design company, and use it to present design concepts to your happy clients. This will save you loads of time if you don’t have a template like this in your arsenal, and your concepts will be presented to your clients in a professional, clean and easy-to-understand fashion.

Here’s the quick list of details:

• Brandable to your company
• Populated with fake content you can replace easily
• Space for logo designs and complementing material (business cards etc)
• Color swatches
• Suggested text for describing your design concepts

Here is an example of one page layout; here is an example of another.

This is fully open-source; download it and distribute it, use it for personal and commercial projects, but please don’t pass it off as your own. So that’s it! Hopefully you’ll find this useful; if so, please share & vote this post up on any or all of the social media sites below. Please note: this was created in InDesign CS4. Thus, it can be opened in CS4 & newer programs. There is a .INX file that should be able to be opened by InDesign CS3. Any older than that and you’re out of luck. Sorry, out of my control!

This icon set (click the image to download, or click here) is in .EPS format, and includes the following icons in 128X128, 64X64, and 32X32 pixels in 8 different colors each:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Delicious
• StumbleUpon
• RSS
• LinkedIn
• Digg
• Mail

If you’re counting, that’s 240 icons. Of course, the sizes & colors don’t really matter as you can make them bigger or smaller, and/or change the color, without loss of quality. Just thought it might make it easier for some people to include the common icon sizes.

You are free to use these icons in any of your projects, personal or commercial, and to change them as you see fit. Please do not redistribute as your own; I’d appreciate a link if you’re sharing. Thanks, and enjoy!

Every Friday, we’ll post a new Found Friday article, linking to a variety of design-related articles, items & more that we’ve discovered during the week that we think are awesome. We’re active in the online design community, and there is a ton of new content released every week; our hope is to help spread some of that content to people who might also think it’s great. I hope you, our readers, will find this post both more fun & useful than the weekly wallpapers post.

So let’s get rolling. The inaugural Found Friday post features the following: an ultra minimal start page, a redesigning of Valentine’s Day, a huge & awesome icon pack, a really little content management system, the BBC site redesign process, and 35 new free fonts for designers.

FAV4.ORG

How to use Fav4.org: choose your 4 favorite websites from their list. Set the page as your browser’s home page. Enjoy the ease of minimalist design. (via swiss-miss)

REDESIGNING VALENTINE’S DAY

The gents over at Brand New (a great blog on identity design) were tasked to redesign Valentine’s Day. Read about their process, and see the awesome result, here.

Hit the jump for the rest of the article!

NIXUS ICON PACK

Tutorial 9 has released a free icon pack with 60 very useful, very well-designed icons for you. Enjoy!

PERCH

In their own words: “a really little content management system”. It’s not CushyCMS; it’s not WordPress; it’s in between, and it looks awesome. Buy Perch on a per-website license for a very reasonable price, install on your server, brand it yourself, and let the love from your clients roll in.

BBC SITE REDESIGN

The BBC redesigned their site, and this article details how in-depth the process was. A great article to reference when a client can’t understand why a “simple website” costs $XXXX (not that we all go to this extent).

35 NEW FREE FONTS

InstantShift posted a nice list this week of 35 new free fonts, for those looking to spice up their font collection.

Hopefully you found these links as useful & interesting as I did – if so, perhaps share the love below. Tune back in Monday for a new post!