50+ Great Resources for Finding Design Freebies

No matter what kind of task you have or problem you need to solve, it is often a bad strategy to start from scratch. In the design space, it is a common approach to look for ideas and inspiration and to collect a sizeable toolbox of design elements to kick start a project and test ideas in a snap.

Many creative websites offer design freebies and this has been a growing trends over the last couple of years. The availability and quality is amazing, and I am confident you will be able to find useful building blocks for nearly any type of project. All you need is a good idea of what you need and then where to look.

Design freebies come in many different types and shapes. Most commonly, we see icons, fonts, PSDs, vectors, web elements, infographic elements and so on.

I have collected more than 50 great websites that provide good quality free design resources. The collection may not include all great collections out there, so please let me know if I missed one you like.

 

Subtle Patterns – MORE INFO

Subtle-Patterns

This is one of my favorite website for looking up backgrounds for my web design projects. I like that it is possible to apply the patterns to the page and this way get a quick nad realistic preview.

Premium Pixels – MORE INFO

Premium-Pixels

This site offers great quality freebies on a daily schedule. There are many useful PSDs in this collection. The tag index page makes it easy to lookup relevant designs.

Designmoo – MORE INFO

Designmoo

On Designmoo you will find about 1400 freebie designs ranging from icons, PSDs, fints and more.

365psd – MORE INFO

365psd

365PSD is a website that share a PSD freebie every day. The freebies have tags applied for quick access to relevant material.

Design Kindle – MORE INFO

Design-Kindle

Design Kindle is a massive collection of design freebies provided by contributors. The resources are categorized and you will easily locate e.g. vectors or icons.

Dribble – MORE INFO

Dribble

Dripple is one of the most popular design communities and it is a true design treasure. Not everything here is available as freebies though so you need to look look through the terms provided by the designer.

Pixeden – MORE INFO

Pixeden

Pixden is a premium design element provider, but there are tons of freebies available as well to get you started.

You The Designer – MORE INFO

You-The-Designer

Creative Overflow – MORE INFO

Creative-Overflow

Pixelentify – MORE INFO

Pixelentify

Web Designer Depot – MORE INFO

Web-Designer-Depot

Brusheezy – MORE INFO

Brusheezy

Bittbox – MORE INFO

Bittbox

Freebies Booth – MORE INFO

Freebies-Booth

Icon Finder – MORE INFO

Icon-Finder

Font Squirrel – MORE INFO

Font-Squirrel

Instant Shift – MORE INFO

Instant-Shift

KBS Portfolio – MORE INFO

KBS-Portfolio

Guuhuu – MORE INFO

Guuhuu

Graphic Hive – MORE INFO

Graphic-Hive

Flyer Heroes – MORE INFO

Flyer-Heroes

Design Deck – MORE INFO

Design-Deck

Freebbble – MORE INFO

Freebbble

Psddd – MORE INFO

Psddd

Pixel – MORE INFO

Pixel

Icon Deposit – MORE INFO

Icon-Deposit

Breezy Prague – MORE INFO

Breezy-Prague

Designmodo – MORE INFO

Designmodo

Sallee Design – MORE INFO

Sallee-Design

Purty Pixels – MORE INFO

Purty-Pixels

Brush Lovers – MORE INFO

Brush-Lovers

FBrushes – MORE INFO

Fbrushes

My Photoshop Brushes – MORE INFO

My-Photoshop-Brushes

Iconspedia – MORE INFO

Iconspedia

Icon Archive – MORE INFO

Icon-Archive

Pixelbin – MORE INFO

Pixelbin

Blazrobar – MORE INFO

Blazrobar

Sick PSD – MORE INFO

Sick-PSD

Lost and Taken – MORE INFO

Lost-and-Taken

CG Textures – MORE INFO

CG-Textures

Texture King – MORE INFO

Texture-King

Arbent – MORE INFO

Arbent

AnimHunt – MORE INFO

AnimHut

Net Tuts – MORE INFO

Net-Tuts

Web Design Ledger – MORE INFO

Web-Design-Ledger

Spoon Graphics – MORE INFO

Spoon-Graphics

OSWD – MORE INFO

OSWD

Open Web Design – MORE INFO

Oen-Web-Design

Free CSS Templates – MORE INFO

Free-CSS-Templates

Evan Eckard – MORE INFO

Evan-Eckard