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Ultimate Free Vector Downloads Roundup
tutorialblog.org — As a designer its always handy to have a collection of pre-made vector objects available to use in your designs, whether its illustrator files or photoshop shapes - here we have dugg out the very best for you.
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- UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Beauty! Great collection, a little bit of everything!
- TNHitokiri, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Sorry for sounding like a noob or something, but what exactly is the use of a 'vector' in web design? Just curious.
Or is 'vector' just a general term for no border images that are usually black and white? - ThankTheCheese, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@TNhitokiri
vector graphics are graphics created using mathematically defined shapes, as opposed to pixels. You create a vector graphic by connecting a series of nodes together, as well as defining the curve angle between each node:
EG: http://www.webopedia.com/FIG/BEZIER.gif
EG: http://www.euclidraw.com/Eng_fls/EUC_htmls/Bezier_fls/cubcl.gif
Because they are created mathematically, you can scale them to a any size; the computer will just redraw the shape as it needs to, keeping the edges clean and crisp always. You might create a vetor button in illustrator, for example. but you would need to export it as a raster image (jpg, gif etc) in order to place it on a webpage, unless you're using Flash. - ikrit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Vector graphics (also called geometric modeling or object-oriented graphics) is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons, which are all based upon _mathematical equations to represent images_ in computer graphics. It is used by contrast to the term raster graphics, which is the representation of images as a collection of pixels (dots)."
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics
- TNHitokiri, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Sorry for sounding like a noob or something, but what exactly is the use of a 'vector' in web design? Just curious.
- booozeninja, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4Nice collection thanks. Inkscape comes pretty close to this in functionality but its free and open source.
- Deranged, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Inkscape is a link on the page with free banners.
- 0siris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I have both illustrator, and inkscape. I personally prefer inkscape, however i need illustrator, to import the SVG and export as an .AI for whomever I'm making the graphics for.
- texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9wrong reply.. digg down
- Deranged, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Great resource for lots of vector graphics
- greatromance, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Overloaded already
- Rayza, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1http://www.1bt.ru
- rmitchell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I'm already having trouble getting there but It's always nice to have extra vector graphics in my collection. Thanks!
- sanj0hn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Already down ? Someone have a mirror ?
- jamesrdorn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Doesn't appear to be an "Ultimate" web host.
- demea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7http://duggmirror.com/design/Ultimate_Free_Vector_Downloads_Roundup/
- texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Here's another page with a ton of logos, especially foreign (non-US) ones.
http://www.logotypes.ru/
- texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Here's another page with a ton of logos, especially foreign (non-US) ones.
- Langford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12My unending quest for freebies is conflicted by my deep desire to avoid using pre-made artwork. Well, it's still good to know this stuff is here.
- eiknarf05, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1denied.
- amnesiac096, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2nice collection
- DrummerSi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nice site.
I especially love the free "silk" icons :D - jordan314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Those leaves are awesome, but I fully expect them to show up in lots of web 2.0 startup logos now...
Mark my words...Glossy buttons....Brushed Metal....Pixel art....they all were cool, then someone made a tutorial, it got popular, then they showed up everywhere!- texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Leaves in 2.0 logos have been around for a couple years now. They're already out of style.
- ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"we have dugg out the very best for you"
More like dugg off the Internet. - ashura001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Aaaaand...Cue the holier-than-thou designers who say stock is bad.
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Stock itself isn't bad, it is how you use it. If you just use these things outright, that is bad, if you use them in a creative, unique way, then you're just working with materials.
I'm the holiest designer in the universe by the way :P. - roywaits, on 02/02/2008, -9/+2yes, stock is bad.
Here's a common example: A graphic designer buys a stock photo, puts on a headline, a sales message and tweaks the colors a bit. Then suddenly it's "their" ad even though 90% of the ad is the photo.
Same goes with these vectors. They'll become focal points of a design and sold to a client as "their" work... pussies can't make their own vectors but they'll tell the client they did and charge plenty.
PROGRESS: take your own photos and make your own vectors. That's how you become a better designer. Stop biting other people's *****...
Not holy, just not a theif (free or not). - imamessy1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If one were to argue that stock is bad because it's not using personal work, then it can be said that anyone who doesn't create his or her own fonts is stealing work from others as well. Sometimes using stock is the only option because you were given something that had to be done yesterday. Toiling in Illustrator for 5 hours creating what you need can be rewarding, but in the real world there just isn't time. Plus, aesthetics are stolen all the time. What's the difference making a vector of some old English-looking lion or some ornate swoosh or using a stock vector of one? Same product, you just wasted an hour of time (or more) making one.
That said, if you ever want to *gasp* pay for some stock vectors, http://www.youworkforthem.com has some amazing sets that have been expanding lots lately. - Continuum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it must be the programmer part of me that tells the designer in me to reuse and not recreate.
Stock is an excellent resource to have on hand since time can be a factor in A LOT of design cases.
and especially stock vector images since they can be modified much easier.
And don't let jack-of-all-trade designers delude you into thinking stock raster images and stock vector images are the same.Sure, you can take a stock raster image and crop it, greyscale it, whatever, but its still essentially the same image.
On the other hand, stock vectors are easier to edit. You can say "Hey, that's kind of the image i want but i don't want this element and this path can move here" and so forth, making it into a completely different image and only using the stock vector as a starting point.
Then again, what do I know.
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Stock itself isn't bad, it is how you use it. If you just use these things outright, that is bad, if you use them in a creative, unique way, then you're just working with materials.
- PhilMyCrakin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Try this mirror
http://www.bittbox.com/category/freebies/ - lokithefirst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I posted an article that may be of assistance also...
http://digg.com/design/An_Adventure_in_Vector_Extraction - DarrellLong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pretty awsome stuff. I tend to stay away from the pre-made artwork myself but it is nice to have if you are in a jam.
- kudos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd digg it twice if i could. Great list.
- stelt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1vector rules, especially the SVG kind, see the overview on http://svg.startpagina.nl
- adrianbj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a great list and the silk icons are a fantastic set, but I also have to agree with vectorfreak's comment on the page - the IAN symbol libraries are an amazing resource of high quality vector graphics.
http://ian.umces.edu/symbols/ - Denelson83, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4But Wikipedia has many more vector flag images. Just look at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_Flags .
- AbstractEgo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very Nice Finds.. Thanks For Sharing! :)
- animerunt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very helpful! Thanks!
- difegio, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Great Links - Thanks :)
- peterob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Nice site men. Many Thanks!!!!
Another great free resource site
http://designtemplate.blogspot.com
See u around. - Orsolya, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I love this ressource. It's super helpful:)
- netade, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1Another site as well with free vectors...
http://www.stockvectorart.com - Vectorman, on 06/17/2008, -0/+0Another site as well with free vectors..
http://www.uberpiglet.com
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