So it’s a new year (doesn’t 2010 feel like the future?!) and it’s a new you. As Pete blogged last week plenty of new year’s resolutions are being set. For many this may involve getting a better or job or getting paid more money. This post is for you. Hopefully by the time you’ve read this post you’ll have some ideas to turbocharge your career.
First, I present you with a brief personal history. There was some interest in reading this on twitter so hopefully it’s useful to you.
How I Became Head of Search at Distilled
I started out a few years ago stuck in a pretty mundane job working as a project manager. Actually, I wasn’t even a project manager I was a project assistant. My alternative job title may as well have been project manager’s tea-boy. It was reasonably well paid but mentally about as stimulating as being punched in the eye.
About this time Will & Duncan were just setting up the company that would eventually become Distilled and obviously Will was raving to me about this thing called the internet. Believing this to be the future, I decided to get a job working for the internet.
Account Executive is a good entry level job for those wanting to get into SEO.
At this time, I didn’t really have any internet skills except hanging out in forums and playing poker online. Thankfully that seemed to be enough for me to get a job as a Digital Account Executive at a digital agency. This role involved doing account management for both web build projects but also SEO and PPC projects. Although I wasn’t actually doing any SEO, speaking to clients every day about their SEO and PPC campaigns quickly got me interested in what SEO was and how one did it. As I’m sure a lot of you can relate to, once bitten by the SEO bug there was no turning back. I started reading SEOmoz and other blogs and, if I’m honest, got a little bit obsessed.
This was a good thing for the company I was working for however as I started actively becoming involved in running the SEO projects for some quite big name clients. This was fun but ultimately I was still doing a fair amount of account management and my aim was to concentrate on doing SEO so I started looking around. By this time Distilled had taken shape, Will and Duncan had hired their first employee and had even got themselves some nice offices so it was (with hindsight) quite a natural time for them to start think about offering SEO. I jumped ship from my old agency and came to work for Distilled. Tally ho!
Now, technically, at this point I became Head of Search for Distilled, but with only 4 employees and a handful of small clients this wasn’t really too much to brag about. Still, I was able to immerse myself in SEO which was what I wanted and I was enjoying myself.
There was still much to learn at this stage – and although my job title hasn’t changed over the years my job role has changed quite dramatically and I feel like I’ve actually had several different jobs at Distilled as my role has evolved.
As Distilled grew up we hired Rob and Lucy to be SEOs alongside myself. Along with a little bit of hands-on work from Will and Duncan we functioned well as a close-knit team and we all managed our own SEO projects within Distilled, working together but as a pretty flat team. At this point, my
Although my job title hasn’t changed my role has changed several times since I’ve been working at Distilled.
role as "Head of SEO" didn’t involve doing anything much different from Rob and Lucy. That said, the whole company was growing and we started to get on board bigger clients and do more consulting rather than just hands-on SEO for small businesses. This naturally involved more formal reporting, delivering client-side training sessions and putting together high-level reports that our clients could take to their board to influence decisions regarding their online strategy. Good times. Around this time I started to attend a few industry conferences and shortly after I started speaking at industry conferences.
So already my role has changed from managing small-time SEO projects to doing consulting for large companies. Recently, my role has changed again within Distilled – we’ve hired some more staff for our SEO team and I’ve started spending more time on managing a team as well as doing hands-on SEO and consulting.
Anyway, that’s my (far too long) personal story. Hopefully it’s helpful to get a glimpse at how to make the progression within this industry. Although I’ve been lucky that Distilled has provided a new role for me at every step of my career I could easily have taken those 3 separate roles within different companies.
10 Tips To Boost Your SEO Career
And now, without further ado, I present my 10 tips for professional development within the SEO industry. Note that I’m assuming you’re already working in SEO at some level. If you’re not, then I suggest you read Danny’s posts on learningSEO.
Although I’m not a huge fan of qualifications generally and certainly in the SEO industry they’re few and far between, but nevertheless – getting either GAIQ or Adwords qualified will look good on a CV and give you some valuable skills. Not to mention they’re pretty easy and cheap so totally learnable in your spare time!
2) Learn Some Secondary Skills
SEO, or more broadly internet marketing, covers such a wide range of topics, skills and industries that it never hurts to have more strings to your bow than just linkbuilding. Try teaching yourself some PHP or CSS. I recently learned a few CSS bits and pieces and they come in handy for styling blog posts (Rob gives a good intro to learning CSS for styling blog posts here).
A side project is a great way of polishing up all your secondary skills, in fact a side project looks great on a CV too as Judith demonstrates here: if your SEO is not moonlighting, fire them.
3) Craft a Kick-Ass CV
When thinking about applying for a job it’s crucial to create an astounding CV, but SEO doesn’t offer too many transferable skills does it? Think again. Instead of putting things like "linkbuilding" on your CV, take a look at Rand’s post on skills that have served him well. All those skills would stand out on a CV.Also worth taking a look at is Rand’s whiteboard friday on how to get an SEO job.
4) Do Some Agency Time
If you’re working in-house then that’s great and I’m in no way trying to suggest that SEOs who work at agencies are better at SEO. But, it has to be said that working agency side you get to work on many more industries than you would otherwise. You can work on news websites, ecommerce websites, lead gen websites and a whole lot more! Getting experience working on a broad range of sites can really help make sure you’re up to speed on all the different niches of SEO – whether it’s local, image search, video search or product search.
On the flip-side, if you’re working agency side then consider working in-house for a bit. You’ll get experience in reporting to a board as well as having to experience first-hand the challenges of getting buy-in from other departments. All useful experience.
5) Immerse Yourself in Excel
I’ve raved about Excel a lot in the past so I won’t do so again here. That said, there are two crucial skills that will help you get a better job and Excel can help both of them. They are reporting and data analysis. Reporting is essential whether you’re working at an agency and need to report to clients or are working in-house and need to report to a board or your boss. Data analysis is essential to ensure that your report is always positive (I’m only half joking here…!).
In summary, if you don’t know how to put graphs and charts into your reports then you won’t get very far, as this chart shows:
6) Present At A Conference
Presenting at conferences is good for so many different reasons. Networking, making friends, having fun, experience in public speaking etc etc. I really love speaking at conferences and you should too. Having it on your CV can really make you look like an expert. And actually speaking is easy – just watch out for the speaker submission forms at SES, SMX, Adtech and all the rest of the conferences and come up with an appealing pitch.
If that’s too daunting, then consider speaking at a smaller conference. I spoke at the first ThinkVisibility in the UK last year and it was only small but lots of fun. This year I’m speaking again and it’s going to be a fair size bigger! How did I get to speak? Simple, I saw Dom twitter about wanting speakers for his conference and sent him a DM. If you apply yourself it’s that simple.
Once you’ve been accepted to speak you’ll want to take a look at these presentation skills for SEO.
7) Make Friends (aka Networking)
Networking used to be something I hated doing. The idea of making small talk with others in your industry filled me with dread. Then I realised what an awesome bunch of people the SEO industry is and decided that actually it was fun to hang around them, swap emails, twitter etc etc and before I knew it I was networking. So get involved in the local SEO scene wherever you are. In London, that means getting yourself down to LondonSEO. By networking you’ll get to know who’s hiring, and more importantly whether they’re worth working for!
If you want to network slightly more officially then check out LinkedIn – you’ll be able to see upcoming job opportunities as well as raising your personal profile. Which brings me neatly to:
Build A Personal Brand
Building a personal brand is essential to getting a decent job, especially in the SEO industry. This xkcd sums it perfectly. There’s some great blog posts on this topic:
In summary, get twittering and blogging with a username that’s recognisable and consistent.
9) Get Some Management Experience
Here’s where you might want to take your career to the next level. If you’re looking at trying to transition from an SEO consultant to someone who manages a team you’ll need to get some management experience. If there’s no opportunity for managing a team where you are right now then a great way to get a bit of experience is to get an intern. It’s an easy sell to your boss since you don’t need to pay them and it can look great on your CV.
For anyone who’s looking to try and up their game as an SEO manager then these two posts from Rich Baxter are essential reading:
As the internet grows and as the industry evolves we’re all moving towards becoming "online marketers" rather than just "SEO"s. Many of the skills that we know and love from SEO are applicable to other areas that can bring a client ROI. Two classic examples are email marketing and conversion rate optimisation. Get proficient at both of these and you’ll make yourself an all-round expert and hard to turn down for any kind of online marketing position. Here’s a few primers:
In conclusion I just thought I’d mention two things. Firstly, I’m not looking for a job so please hold the recruitment calls – I love working at Distilled and am extremely grateful to Will and Duncan for giving me the opportunity to make it through several iterations of "head of search", here’s to the next iteration! Secondly, everyone’s different but I strongly believe that it’s not all about the money. If you’re applying for a new job then please please try and work for a fun company and make sure that you’ll enjoy it. Your own enjoyment is far more important than just the $$/££ you’ll get paid. Seriously.
So it’s a new year (doesn’t 2010 feel like the future?!) and it’s a new you. As Pete blogged last week plenty of new year’s resolutions are being set. For many this may involve getting a better or job or getting paid more money. This post is for you. Hopefully by the time you’ve read this post you’ll have some ideas to turbocharge your career.
First, I present you with a brief personal history. There was some interest in reading this on twitter so hopefully it’s useful to you.
How I Became Head of Search at Distilled
I started out a few years ago stuck in a pretty mundane job working as a project manager. Actually, I wasn’t even a project manager I was a project assistant. My alternative job title may as well have been project manager’s tea-boy. It was reasonably well paid but mentally about as stimulating as being punched in the eye.
About this time Will & Duncan were just setting up the company that would eventually become Distilled and obviously Will was raving to me about this thing called the internet. Believing this to be the future, I decided to get a job working for the internet.
Account Executive is a good entry level job for those wanting to get into SEO.
At this time, I didn’t really have any internet skills except hanging out in forums and playing poker online. Thankfully that seemed to be enough for me to get a job as a Digital Account Executive at a digital agency. This role involved doing account management for both web build projects but also SEO and PPC projects. Although I wasn’t actually doing any SEO, speaking to clients every day about their SEO and PPC campaigns quickly got me interested in what SEO was and how one did it. As I’m sure a lot of you can relate to, once bitten by the SEO bug there was no turning back. I started reading SEOmoz and other blogs and, if I’m honest, got a little bit obsessed.
This was a good thing for the company I was working for however as I started actively becoming involved in running the SEO projects for some quite big name clients. This was fun but ultimately I was still doing a fair amount of account management and my aim was to concentrate on doing SEO so I started looking around. By this time Distilled had taken shape, Will and Duncan had hired their first employee and had even got themselves some nice offices so it was (with hindsight) quite a natural time for them to start think about offering SEO. I jumped ship from my old agency and came to work for Distilled. Tally ho!
Now, technically, at this point I became Head of Search for Distilled, but with only 4 employees and a handful of small clients this wasn’t really too much to brag about. Still, I was able to immerse myself in SEO which was what I wanted and I was enjoying myself.
There was still much to learn at this stage – and although my job title hasn’t changed over the years my job role has changed quite dramatically and I feel like I’ve actually had several different jobs at Distilled as my role has evolved.
As Distilled grew up we hired Rob and Lucy to be SEOs alongside myself. Along with a little bit of hands-on work from Will and Duncan we functioned well as a close-knit team and we all managed our own SEO projects within Distilled, working together but as a pretty flat team. At this point, my
Although my job title hasn’t changed my role has changed several times since I’ve been working at Distilled.
role as "Head of SEO" didn’t involve doing anything much different from Rob and Lucy. That said, the whole company was growing and we started to get on board bigger clients and do more consulting rather than just hands-on SEO for small businesses. This naturally involved more formal reporting, delivering client-side training sessions and putting together high-level reports that our clients could take to their board to influence decisions regarding their online strategy. Good times. Around this time I started to attend a few industry conferences and shortly after I started speaking at industry conferences.
So already my role has changed from managing small-time SEO projects to doing consulting for large companies. Recently, my role has changed again within Distilled – we’ve hired some more staff for our SEO team and I’ve started spending more time on managing a team as well as doing hands-on SEO and consulting.
Anyway, that’s my (far too long) personal story. Hopefully it’s helpful to get a glimpse at how to make the progression within this industry. Although I’ve been lucky that Distilled has provided a new role for me at every step of my career I could easily have taken those 3 separate roles within different companies.
10 Tips To Boost Your SEO Career
And now, without further ado, I present my 10 tips for professional development within the SEO industry. Note that I’m assuming you’re already working in SEO at some level. If you’re not, then I suggest you read Danny’s posts on learningSEO.
Although I’m not a huge fan of qualifications generally and certainly in the SEO industry they’re few and far between, but nevertheless – getting either GAIQ or Adwords qualified will look good on a CV and give you some valuable skills. Not to mention they’re pretty easy and cheap so totally learnable in your spare time!
2) Learn Some Secondary Skills
SEO, or more broadly internet marketing, covers such a wide range of topics, skills and industries that it never hurts to have more strings to your bow than just linkbuilding. Try teaching yourself some PHP or CSS. I recently learned a few CSS bits and pieces and they come in handy for styling blog posts (Rob gives a good intro to learning CSS for styling blog posts here).
A side project is a great way of polishing up all your secondary skills, in fact a side project looks great on a CV too as Judith demonstrates here: if your SEO is not moonlighting, fire them.
3) Craft a Kick-Ass CV
When thinking about applying for a job it’s crucial to create an astounding CV, but SEO doesn’t offer too many transferable skills does it? Think again. Instead of putting things like "linkbuilding" on your CV, take a look at Rand’s post on skills that have served him well. All those skills would stand out on a CV.Also worth taking a look at is Rand’s whiteboard friday on how to get an SEO job.
4) Do Some Agency Time
If you’re working in-house then that’s great and I’m in no way trying to suggest that SEOs who work at agencies are better at SEO. But, it has to be said that working agency side you get to work on many more industries than you would otherwise. You can work on news websites, ecommerce websites, lead gen websites and a whole lot more! Getting experience working on a broad range of sites can really help make sure you’re up to speed on all the different niches of SEO – whether it’s local, image search, video search or product search.
On the flip-side, if you’re working agency side then consider working in-house for a bit. You’ll get experience in reporting to a board as well as having to experience first-hand the challenges of getting buy-in from other departments. All useful experience.
5) Immerse Yourself in Excel
I’ve raved about Excel a lot in the past so I won’t do so again here. That said, there are two crucial skills that will help you get a better job and Excel can help both of them. They are reporting and data analysis. Reporting is essential whether you’re working at an agency and need to report to clients or are working in-house and need to report to a board or your boss. Data analysis is essential to ensure that your report is always positive (I’m only half joking here…!).
In summary, if you don’t know how to put graphs and charts into your reports then you won’t get very far, as this chart shows:
6) Present At A Conference
Presenting at conferences is good for so many different reasons. Networking, making friends, having fun, experience in public speaking etc etc. I really love speaking at conferences and you should too. Having it on your CV can really make you look like an expert. And actually speaking is easy – just watch out for the speaker submission forms at SES, SMX, Adtech and all the rest of the conferences and come up with an appealing pitch.
If that’s too daunting, then consider speaking at a smaller conference. I spoke at the first ThinkVisibility in the UK last year and it was only small but lots of fun. This year I’m speaking again and it’s going to be a fair size bigger! How did I get to speak? Simple, I saw Dom twitter about wanting speakers for his conference and sent him a DM. If you apply yourself it’s that simple.
Once you’ve been accepted to speak you’ll want to take a look at these presentation skills for SEO.
7) Make Friends (aka Networking)
Networking used to be something I hated doing. The idea of making small talk with others in your industry filled me with dread. Then I realised what an awesome bunch of people the SEO industry is and decided that actually it was fun to hang around them, swap emails, twitter etc etc and before I knew it I was networking. So get involved in the local SEO scene wherever you are. In London, that means getting yourself down to LondonSEO. By networking you’ll get to know who’s hiring, and more importantly whether they’re worth working for!
If you want to network slightly more officially then check out LinkedIn – you’ll be able to see upcoming job opportunities as well as raising your personal profile. Which brings me neatly to:
Build A Personal Brand
Building a personal brand is essential to getting a decent job, especially in the SEO industry. This xkcd sums it perfectly. There’s some great blog posts on this topic:
In summary, get twittering and blogging with a username that’s recognisable and consistent.
9) Get Some Management Experience
Here’s where you might want to take your career to the next level. If you’re looking at trying to transition from an SEO consultant to someone who manages a team you’ll need to get some management experience. If there’s no opportunity for managing a team where you are right now then a great way to get a bit of experience is to get an intern. It’s an easy sell to your boss since you don’t need to pay them and it can look great on your CV.
For anyone who’s looking to try and up their game as an SEO manager then these two posts from Rich Baxter are essential reading:
As the internet grows and as the industry evolves we’re all moving towards becoming "online marketers" rather than just "SEO"s. Many of the skills that we know and love from SEO are applicable to other areas that can bring a client ROI. Two classic examples are email marketing and conversion rate optimisation. Get proficient at both of these and you’ll make yourself an all-round expert and hard to turn down for any kind of online marketing position. Here’s a few primers:
In conclusion I just thought I’d mention two things. Firstly, I’m not looking for a job so please hold the recruitment calls – I love working at Distilled and am extremely grateful to Will and Duncan for giving me the opportunity to make it through several iterations of "head of search", here’s to the next iteration! Secondly, everyone’s different but I strongly believe that it’s not all about the money. If you’re applying for a new job then please please try and work for a fun company and make sure that you’ll enjoy it. Your own enjoyment is far more important than just the $$/££ you’ll get paid. Seriously.
On January 4, 2010, In SEO, by Search Engine Watch
Want greater search marketing success this year? Try looking at search engine marketing as a whole, rather than two independent efforts, and have an open line between development and search engine optimization. …
Want greater search marketing success this year? Try looking at search engine marketing as a whole, rather than two independent efforts, and have an open line between development and search engine optimization. …
It’s that time of year again; the one where we look back on everything we ate during the last two weeks and promise not to do it again in the new year. It’s also the time that many of us set new and ambitious goals for our businesses. Unfortunately, while goals are important and ambition can be admirable, we make the same mistake with our professional resolutions that we do with our personal resolutions. Take the classic weight-loss resolution. The problem with saying that you’re going to lose 20 lbs. in 2010 is simple – it’s just not actionable. At the end of the year, you’ll either have lost 20 lbs. or not, but that outcome is affected by dozens of things beyond your control. What exactly are you going to do to make it happen? If the answer is wait around and wish for the pounds to melt away, best of luck.
Uncontrollable SEO Resolutions
Similarly, our SEO goals are too often beyond our control. If you set a goal like "Rank #1 for Keyword X" (a very common SEO resolution, I’m sure), what does that actually mean in terms of action? Are you going to pray to the Google Gods every morning and say 50 Hail Matts to purge your SEO sins (my apologies to our Catholic readers)? If you’re worth your salt as an SEO, you have actions in mind that you plan to take, so why not resolve to take those actions in a measurable way? It’s fine to have ranking (or weekly searches, CTR, CPC, conversion rate, etc.) as an ultimate objective, but wishing won’t make it happen.
Actionable SEO Resolutions
Before this starts to read like a self-improvement seminar, let’s look at some SEO resolutions that are actionable. These are goals that you can directly control – you’re in charge of whether or not you accomplish them. I’ll break them up into two groups: (1) On-page SEO, and (2) Link-building (with some social networking thrown in). Of course, not every idea is appropriate to every situation – these are just ideas for actionable goals (substitute an appropriate number for "X").
(1) On-page SEO Goals
Rewrite X page TITLEs
Write X unique META descriptions
Create an XML site map
Create a custom 404 page
Canonicalize problem URLs
301-redirect X broken URLs
Remove X low-quality internal links
Create a new [cleaner] master CSS
(2) Link-building Goals
Find X promising link prospects
Send X personalized link requests
Dig into analytics and find X hot topics
Create X pieces of new content/month
Write an e-book or comprehensive guide
Spend X minutes/day building up a social profile
Comment [thoughtfully] on X industry blogs/day
Re-tweet X pieces of great content/day
What Are Your Resolutions?
Of course, these are just a few ideas. Let me open it up to the community – what kind of actionable SEO resolutions have you made for 2010? What can you do that will really kick-start your efforts and make you look like a miracle worker to your clients?
Photo licensed from iStockPhoto.com (Created by Chris Lamphear).
It’s that time of year again; the one where we look back on everything we ate during the last two weeks and promise not to do it again in the new year. It’s also the time that many of us set new and ambitious goals for our businesses. Unfortunately, while goals are important and ambition can be admirable, we make the same mistake with our professional resolutions that we do with our personal resolutions. Take the classic weight-loss resolution. The problem with saying that you’re going to lose 20 lbs. in 2010 is simple – it’s just not actionable. At the end of the year, you’ll either have lost 20 lbs. or not, but that outcome is affected by dozens of things beyond your control. What exactly are you going to do to make it happen? If the answer is wait around and wish for the pounds to melt away, best of luck.
Uncontrollable SEO Resolutions
Similarly, our SEO goals are too often beyond our control. If you set a goal like "Rank #1 for Keyword X" (a very common SEO resolution, I’m sure), what does that actually mean in terms of action? Are you going to pray to the Google Gods every morning and say 50 Hail Matts to purge your SEO sins (my apologies to our Catholic readers)? If you’re worth your salt as an SEO, you have actions in mind that you plan to take, so why not resolve to take those actions in a measurable way? It’s fine to have ranking (or weekly searches, CTR, CPC, conversion rate, etc.) as an ultimate objective, but wishing won’t make it happen.
Actionable SEO Resolutions
Before this starts to read like a self-improvement seminar, let’s look at some SEO resolutions that are actionable. These are goals that you can directly control – you’re in charge of whether or not you accomplish them. I’ll break them up into two groups: (1) On-page SEO, and (2) Link-building (with some social networking thrown in). Of course, not every idea is appropriate to every situation – these are just ideas for actionable goals (substitute an appropriate number for "X").
(1) On-page SEO Goals
Rewrite X page TITLEs
Write X unique META descriptions
Create an XML site map
Create a custom 404 page
Canonicalize problem URLs
301-redirect X broken URLs
Remove X low-quality internal links
Create a new [cleaner] master CSS
(2) Link-building Goals
Find X promising link prospects
Send X personalized link requests
Dig into analytics and find X hot topics
Create X pieces of new content/month
Write an e-book or comprehensive guide
Spend X minutes/day building up a social profile
Comment [thoughtfully] on X industry blogs/day
Re-tweet X pieces of great content/day
What Are Your Resolutions?
Of course, these are just a few ideas. Let me open it up to the community – what kind of actionable SEO resolutions have you made for 2010? What can you do that will really kick-start your efforts and make you look like a miracle worker to your clients?
Photo licensed from iStockPhoto.com (Created by Chris Lamphear).
Happy New Year to all of LSG’s readers!
As per my custom around the holiday season I encourage everyone with a web site to give the gift of SEO by linking to their favorite charity’s site with on-the-money anchor text. Here are some of mine:
Clean Water
Green Christmas Gift
Lymphoma
Orphans Charity
Nicaraguan Aid
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Happy New Year to all of LSG’s readers!
As per my custom around the holiday season I encourage everyone with a web site to give the gift of SEO by linking to their favorite charity’s site with on-the-money anchor text. Here are some of mine:
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As always, here are some insights from the designer himself:
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Thank you very much, guys! We really appreciate your efforts.
We wish our readers Merry Christmas with your family and friends and, of course, have a tasty Christmas dinner!
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This round-up covers 50 beautiful and useful icons that may turn out to be life-savers for your next design. We present photorealistic icons, mini icons and pictograms, symbols and signs, free templates as well as Christmas icon sets and desktop replacement icons. Please make sure to read the license agreements before using the icons – they may change from time to time. Did you find this post useful? Would you like to see more similar posts in the future? Let us know in the comments to this post!
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Round-ups of beautiful and useful icons are almost legendary here, on Smashing Magazine. While some readers complain about the annoying “list”-style of some of our articles, we are confident that useful round-ups of relevant resources are very valuable and useful for designers. This is why over months we collect useful links and then present them in posts in the magazine. Like it or hate it, but the feedback that we get from the design community when we publish such posts is mostly positive which is why we keep doing it.
This round-up covers 50 beautiful and useful icons that may turn out to be life-savers for your next design. We present photorealistic icons, mini icons and pictograms, symbols and signs, free templates as well as Christmas icon sets and desktop replacement icons. Please make sure to read the license agreements before using the icons – they may change from time to time. Did you find this post useful? Would you like to see more similar posts in the future? Let us know in the comments to this post!
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href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/16/50-fresh-free-hiqh-quality-icon-sets/">Fresh Free High Quailty Icon Sets
href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/07/50-fresh-useful-icon-sets-for-your-next-design/">50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design
href="http://babasse.deviantart.com/art/iMod-for-Dock-102546179">iMod
/>146 freely available PNG-icons in the resolutions 256×256px and 512×512px.
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href="http://seedling-design.deviantart.com/art/Leica-Camera-Icon-141776615">Leica Camera Icon
/>A Leica rangefinder camera icon, available in the resolution 512×512px. Mac- and Win-versions are available.
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href="http://seedling-design.deviantart.com/art/Leica-Camera-Icon-141776615">
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href="http://templay.de/Downloads/45/Geschenk-Box-Icon.html">Gifts boxes (Registration required)
/>9 various gift icons in the resolution 256×256px, .PNG. Free for private use; for commercial use a link to the designers’ site is required.
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href="http://templay.de/Downloads/45/Geschenk-Box-Icon.html">
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href="http://www.templay.de/artikel_details.php?p_id=48&topnav=1">Musicons Icon Set (Registration required)
/>A set of 8 music-related icons. Available in the resolutions 256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16 as png, .ico, .hqx and .icns. Free for private use; for commercial use a link to the designers’ site is required.
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href="http://www.templay.de/artikel_details.php?p_id=48&topnav=1">
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href="http://vezok.deviantart.com/art/Gamble-icons-146409069">
width="500" height="833" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-134 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-134.jpg" />
href="http://mannmitdertarnjacke.deviantart.com/art/PixelShop-Icon-126562500">PixelShop Icon
/>Remake of Pixelmator icon in three different variations for Photoshop (or any other application).
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href="http://mannmitdertarnjacke.deviantart.com/art/PixelShop-Icon-126562500">
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href="http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/site-news/portfolio-icons/">Free Portfolio Icon Set
/>A set of 5 icons with portfolio sites in mind. The set includes PNG files of 512 pixels and 256 pixels, plus the source files (Illustrator). The icons are free for use in both personal and commercial projects.
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href="http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/site-news/portfolio-icons/">
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href="http://macthemes.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16800037">
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href="http://blog.cocoia.com/2009/pre-desktop-goodie/">Pre Desktop Goodie
/>They’re not amazingly detailed or even polished at their maximum size of 512 pixels, but that wasnít my intention, either. Consider that a disclaimer before you start commenting that they donít look nice enough to you at that size ;).
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href="http://nemone.deviantart.com/art/STACKS-70894340">
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href="http://azuresol.deviantart.com/art/Sketchy-Icons-134668163">Sketchy Icons
/>…I’ve been doing this for quite a while. I’ve recently bought a tablet, and it turned out that my hand isn’t listening as it used to. So I’ve been doing this for practice. I designed some of the icons, modified some and just redraw the ones that i found pleasing. These are all the Icons I use at the moment, so if you want some other icons, just let me know.
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href="http://cwilliams.me/downloads.php">Icons by Chris Williams
/>Various icons designed by Chris Williams and available for free download. Among them is this Jack Daniels icon in .ico and .icontainer.
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href="http://www.littleboxofideas.com/blog/freebies/exclusive-free-icon-set-for-designers">Exclusive Free LBOI Icon Set For Designers
/>A little while back Iconshock contacted me and offered to do an exclusive icon set for LBOIís readers. So I set off to browse their website and their work. They do some amazing work in the icon industry. Their website boasts of 803824 unique icons in 232 categories. That is pretty impressive in itself. What I really liked was their active design community and blog where they offered significant number of free high quality icons for downloads every week, featured interesting articles about design and icons and showcased great designer talent. Go check out IconShock ís royalty free icons and custom icon design services.
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href="http://indestudio.deviantart.com/art/Stock-icons-113866631">
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href="http://psd.tutsplus.com/freebies/icons/free-set-of-25-icons-from-turbomilk-courtesy-of-graphicriver/">Graphic River Webset Icons
/>Designed by Turbomilk, this set contains various social media icons that are available for free personal and commercial use. However, you must link back to the release page if using these icons in a commercial project. Available as .png in the resolutions 16×16px – 48×48px.
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href="http://psd.tutsplus.com/freebies/icons/free-set-of-25-icons-from-turbomilk-courtesy-of-graphicriver/">
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href="http://kalmichael.com/icondesign/">Kal Michael’s Icons
/>Various icons in various resolutions, designed by Kal Michael, available for free download and use.
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href="http://kalmichael.com/icondesign/">
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href="http://www.woothemes.com/2009/09/woofunction-178-amazing-web-design-icons/">178 Amazing Web Design Icon
/>The WooFunction Icon Set includes 178 amazing web-related icons in a sophisticated and glossy design style. All 178 icons are available as 32?32 pixel PNG files and we can assure you that they are indeed pixel-perfect. If you have an in-depth look at the individual icons, youíll notice that Liam has spent a lot of time paying attention to the finer details, which means that this is a really classy icon set. Here; have a look for yourself:
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href="http://www.woothemes.com/2009/09/woofunction-178-amazing-web-design-icons/">
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href="http://lazycrazy.deviantart.com/art/Gentle-Romantic-icons-142375324">Gentle Romantic icons
/>This set contains 5 .png-icons in the resolution 512×512px. The icons are tiara on royal pillow, rose, champagne glasses (looks good on black and white background), heart with ribbon, Tiffany key.
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href="http://lazycrazy.deviantart.com/art/Gentle-Romantic-icons-142375324">
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href="http://www.woothemes.com/2009/07/hand-drawn-social-media-icons/">Hand-Drawn Social Media Icon
/>The set comprising of 24 different icons, should cover most of the social networks that you frequent regularly and the default icon size has been set at 64 x 64 pixels.
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href="http://www.woothemes.com/2009/07/hand-drawn-social-media-icons/">
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href="http://www.cutelittlefactory.com/freebies/soda-pop-caps/">Soda Pop Caps Icons
/>Together with the obvious Coca Cola, Fanta, Sprite and Pepsi caps (including Pepsiís horrible redesign), the set features Vita Cola, a Coca Cola knockoff created in Eastern Germany in the mid-Fifties under the Communist regime.
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href="http://www.cutelittlefactory.com/freebies/soda-pop-caps/">
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href="http://leon-gao.deviantart.com/art/Castle-105114183">Jacal’s Castle (Win)
/>This castle icon is available as .ico and .icontainer. Free for personal use, free for public use with a link to the designer’s site.
href="http://www.jacal-team.com/">Mac-version.
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href="http://leon-gao.deviantart.com/art/Castle-105114183">
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href="http://leon-gao.deviantart.com/art/Jacintosh-119519900">Jacintosh (Win)
/>This castle icon is available as .ico. Free for personal use, free for public use with a link to the designer’s site. Only Win-version is available.
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href="http://leon-gao.deviantart.com/art/Jacintosh-119519900">
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href="http://lazycrazy.deviantart.com/art/Designer-s-tools-icon-WD2-144014050">
width="500" height="500" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-110 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-110.jpg" />
href="http://lazycrazy.deviantart.com/art/Shopping-bag-icon-WD1-143701656">Shopping bag icon – WD1
/>This time it’s only one png icon, but it have 3 colors of ribbon handle and 5 sizes. I decided to do new icon series but this collection is called “weekly delicious”, which means will be new icon every week, so here is №1 – shopping bag, it’s easy in photoshop to change colors of ribbons so shopping bag will fit in your design. Add logo or company style graphic elements on it and it will fit anywhere
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href="http://lazycrazy.deviantart.com/art/Shopping-bag-icon-WD1-143701656">
width="500" height="500" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-112 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-112.jpg" />
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href="http://mickka.deviantart.com/art/Switch-icon-145997284">
width="500" height="244" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-115 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-115.jpg" />
href="http://cargo.hrvoje-bielen.com/">Hrvoje Bielen’s Icons
/>Various icons, designed by Hrvoje Bielen: crankset icon, propeller engine, jet engine turbine, aircraft, Twitter egg, Gibson Les Paul Guitar and othes. Resolutions: 16×16px — 512×512px, .ico, .png, .tif, .icns.
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href="http://cargo.hrvoje-bielen.com/">
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href="http://www.webiconset.com/">Cute Blogging Icon Set
/>This set contains 10 freely available icons. You can use these icons on your blog. Cute Blogging Icon Set inclides Design, Download, Freelance, Part-time, Hire Me, Not Available, About Me, Services, My Blog, Contact.
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href="http://www.webiconset.com/">
width="500" height="513" alt="Cute-icon-sets in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cute-icon-sets.jpg" />
href="http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/sketchy-web-icons-30-hand-drawn-icon-pack/">Sketchy Web Icons: 30 Hand Drawn Icon Pack
/>This Icon Pack includes 30 Hand-Drawn Web Design Icons. This is the perfect set for adding that handmade feel to your own creations online.
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href="http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/sketchy-web-icons-30-hand-drawn-icon-pack/">
width="500" height="672" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-142 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-142.jpg" />
href="http://www.chethstudios.net/2009/01/gorgeous-mini-social-networking-icon.html">Mini Social Networking Icon set
/>This set includes 45 social networking Icons: Blogger / Blogspot, Delicious, Digg, Designmoo, Facebook, Design float, Linkedin, Mixx, Myspace, RSS, Technorati, Twitter, WordPress, Yahoo, Windows, Openid, Orkut, Skype, DeviantArt, FriendFeed and many more. Dimensions: 32×32px and 64×64px; .PNG icons.
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href="http://www.chethstudios.net/2009/01/gorgeous-mini-social-networking-icon.html">
width="271" height="347" alt="Icons-19-icon-sets in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/icons-19-icon-sets.jpg" />
href="http://colaja.deviantart.com/art/Extreme-Grunge-Garments-Icons-137666117">Extreme Grunge Garments Icons
/>This high quality, hand made, icon pack is full with 9 Extreme Grunge Social Media Garments. Each icon is in .png format with transparent backgrounds, sized at 256×256px.
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href="http://colaja.deviantart.com/art/Extreme-Grunge-Garments-Icons-137666117">
width="500" height="710" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-147 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-147.jpg" />
href="http://ncus.deviantart.com/art/Videobox-68626678">Videobox
/>This is the app icon for Videobox, the successor of FLVR.
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href="http://ncus.deviantart.com/art/Videobox-68626678">
width="500" height="432" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-148 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-148.jpg" />
href="http://www.cutelittlefactory.com/freebies/breakfast-icons/">Breakfast Icons
/>Featuring a genuine Moka Express coffee maker, coffee cup, chocolate chip muffin, toast and sugar pot in three versions: open empty, open full and closedóuse it as a trash can replacement!
class="showcase">
href="http://www.cutelittlefactory.com/freebies/breakfast-icons/">
width="500" height="307" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-153 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-153.jpg" />
href="http://iconcubic.deviantart.com/art/Classic-Cameras-PNG-Version-48951715">Classic Cameras (PNG)
/>A set of camera icons in the resolution 128×128px. Versions:
href="http://iconcubic.deviantart.com/art/Classic-Cameras-Win-Version-48952201">Win version (ico),
href="http://iconcubic.deviantart.com/art/Classic-Cameras-Mac-Version-48951222">Mac Version.
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href="http://iconcubic.deviantart.com/art/Classic-Cameras-PNG-Version-48951715">
width="402" height="419" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-155 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-155.jpg" />
class="showcase">
href="http://bigkobe.deviantart.com/art/Moleskine-Helvetica-Icon-B-127178975">
width="500" height="375" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-168 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-168.jpg" />
class="showcase">
href="http://bigkobe.deviantart.com/art/Moleskine-Helvetica-Icon-R-122702258">
width="500" height="375" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-169 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-169.jpg" />
href="http://mazenl77.deviantart.com/art/Generic-Controller-2-146321723">Generic Controller 2
/>Another generic controller icon, based on the PlayStation controller. Also with a folder this time.
class="showcase">
href="http://mazenl77.deviantart.com/art/Generic-Controller-2-146321723">
width="500" height="250" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-172 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-172.jpg" />
href="http://leon-gao.deviantart.com/art/Capsule-145254696">Capsule
/>The inspiration comes from comic book : ” DragonBall ” , capsule is an amazing stuff in this book.
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href="http://leon-gao.deviantart.com/art/Capsule-145254696">
width="483" height="296" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-173 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-173.jpg" />
href="http://blog.cocoia.com/2009/photoshop-replacement-icon/">Photoshop Icon Goodie
/>A quick replacement icon for Photoshop. Free for personal use and customization only.
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href="http://blog.cocoia.com/2009/photoshop-replacement-icon/">
width="508" height="338" alt="Ph-icon-sets in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ph-icon-sets.jpg" />
class="showcase">
href="http://leon-gao.deviantart.com/art/Usercenter-Calendar-74925092">
width="484" height="379" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-177 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-177.jpg" />
href="http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2009/09/17/sixpack-status-icons.aspx">Sixpack status icon pack
/>Sixpack status is a small set of high quality icons which can be used for status messages. It is completely free for personal and commercial use. Icons are available in four sizes, 32×32, 64×64, 128×128 and 256×256px. They are also available in vector (SVG) format, which can be edited using applications such as Inkscape (they are actually made in Inkscape).
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href="http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2009/09/17/sixpack-status-icons.aspx">
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href="http://playground.ebiene.de/2316/free-ecommerce-icons/">Free E-Commerce Icons
/>10 e-Commerce icons, available as the Adobe Illustrator source file (.ai). They may be used in any projects, whether commercial or private nature.
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href="http://playground.ebiene.de/2316/free-ecommerce-icons/">
width="474" height="474" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-196 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-196.jpg" />
href="http://www.vagrantradio.com/2009/04/gaming-icon-set-free-download.html">Gaming Icon Set
/>A set of 21 free gaming icons for you to use in any projects, on your application dock, desktop or whatever you like.
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href="http://www.vagrantradio.com/2009/04/gaming-icon-set-free-download.html">
width="382" height="361" alt="Icons-23-icon-sets in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/icons-23-icon-sets.jpg" />
href="http://juliensagot.com/download.html">Voodoo Folder Icon Set
/>Voodoo system folder icon. Dock and Wallpaper included. Including sizes: 16×16px — 512×512px. Available in .png, .icns, .ico and iContainer.
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href="http://juliensagot.com/download.html">
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href="http://hotiron.deviantart.com/art/folios-142712968">
width="500" height="411" alt="Icons-25-icon-sets in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/icons-25-icon-sets.jpg" />
Pictograms, Symbols and Mini-icons
href="http://www.freshpixel.fr/downloads/">Freshpixel.fr
/>Freely available icons in vector format by French designer Mister Size. Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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href="http://www.freshpixel.fr/downloads/">
width="500" height="500" alt="Vector Icons Pack02-icon-sets in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/vector_icons_pack02-icon-sets.jpg" />
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href="http://www.freshpixel.fr/downloads/">
width="500" height="500" alt="Pack4-icon-sets in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/pack4-icon-sets.jpg" />
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href="http://www.freshpixel.fr/downloads/">
width="500" height="500" alt="Pack6-icon-sets in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/pack6-icon-sets.jpg" />
href="http://www.designworkplan.com/design/symbol-signs.htm">DesignWorkPlan
/>This is a collection of 50 common used signage symbols, professional designed. The symbols signs are free of charge available as an OpenType font format, allowing you to easily add symbols & icons to your sign and wayfinding design. All the symbols have been designed & created by Sander Baumann and set to the proportions of a regular typeface, so you no longer need to copy/paste the symbols into your designs.
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href="http://www.designworkplan.com/design/symbol-signs.htm">
width="500" height="425" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-106 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-106.jpg" />
href="http://www.ecomo.or.jp/barrierfree/pictogram/picto_top.html">125 Public Information Symbols
/>This Japanese website made a collectio of public information symbols available for free download. The available formats are PDF, EPS and GIF. The set contains symbols of public facilities, transport facilities, commercial facilities, tourism, culture, sport facilities, safety, prohibition, warning and mandatory.
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href="http://www.ecomo.or.jp/barrierfree/pictogram/picto_top.html">
width="379" height="179" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-107 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-107.jpg" />
href="http://brsev.deviantart.com/">brsev
/>128 unique icons for apps, folders, settings, and the desktop. Each icon has two color variants, dark and light. Each color variant is available as a 128×128 PNG or a Windows ICO. The ICO combines 16×16, 32×32, and 256×256 resolutions; each icon was carefully tweaked in shape and style for the best display quality at the three resolutions listed.
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href="http://brsev.deviantart.com/">
width="435" height="466" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-108 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-108.jpg" />
href="http://www.androidicons.com/">Android Icons
/>All icons are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. Feel free to use them in any form in you projects or even remix them. No need to link back to this page, but it would be nice.
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href="http://www.androidicons.com/">
width="500" height="205" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-140 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-140.jpg" />
href="http://designyoutrust.com/2009/12/13/149-icons-of-scary-celebrity/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+dyt+(Design+You+Trust.+World%27s+Most+Famous+Social+Inspiration.)">149 Icons of Scary Celebrity
/>149 icons of horror and fantasy gridded up on large sheet and served up on a wall. Chop Shopís The Horror & Fantasy Collection screened print featuring 62 monsters, 35 vampires and 51 various icons of the undead all referenced from various sources of film, television, gaming, music, literature, legend and more. Perfect for taking to work, and killing productivity for an entire day.
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href="http://designyoutrust.com/2009/12/13/149-icons-of-scary-celebrity/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+dyt+(Design+You+Trust.+World%27s+Most+Famous+Social+Inspiration.)">
width="500" height="666" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-149 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-149.jpg" />
href="http://www.cutelittlefactory.com/freebies/cafeteria-icons-freebie/">Cafeteria Vector Icons
/>These are vector pictograms rather than icons but all the more useful for that. You can scale them to any size, change their colors and mess with them any way you want.
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href="http://www.cutelittlefactory.com/freebies/cafeteria-icons-freebie/">
width="500" height="311" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-154 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-154.jpg" />
href="http://code.google.com/p/google-maps-icons/">google-maps-icons
/>Map icons collection is a pack of 600 free icons for your placemarks. You can put them manually in your Google Maps with the “My maps” feature, or automaticly with the Google Maps API.
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href="http://code.google.com/p/google-maps-icons/">
width="501" height="198" alt="Icons-04-icon-sets in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/icons-04-icon-sets.jpg" />
href="http://www.customicondesign.com/free-icon/172-final-flag-icons/">172 Country Flag Icons
/>172 final country flag icons which rendered at 256×256, 128×128, 64×64, 48×48, 32×32, 24×24, 16×16 pixels and formats are png, ico and icns. License: Free for non-commercial use.
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href="http://www.customicondesign.com/free-icon/172-final-flag-icons/">
width="490" height="321" alt="Flags-icon-sets in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/flags-icon-sets.jpg" />
href="http://www.customicondesign.com/free-icon/american-states-icon-set/">United States Flags Icons
/>American states Icon set which rendered at 256×256, 128×128, 64×64, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16 pixels and format are png, ico and icns. License: Free for non-commercial use.
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href="http://www.customicondesign.com/free-icon/american-states-icon-set/">
width="480" height="300" alt="Icons-22-icon-sets in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/icons-22-icon-sets.jpg" />
href="http://adriankenny.deviantart.com/art/Fun-142762083">Fun
/>A set of small 16×16px icons: Wacom tablet, Dresser, iPhone, iMac, Dresser.
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href="http://adriankenny.deviantart.com/art/Fun-142762083">
width="200" height="300" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-206 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-206.jpg" />
href="http://macthemes.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16800332">Mini Icon Set
/>A set of various mini icons: included sizes are 48px, 32px and 16px.
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href="http://macthemes.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16800332">
width="500" height="284" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-207 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-207.jpg" />
Christmas Icons and Vectors
href="http://lazycrazy.deviantart.com/art/Silent-Night-Christmas-icons-146501718">Silent Night Christmas icons
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href="http://lazycrazy.deviantart.com/art/Silent-Night-Christmas-icons-146501718">
width="500" height="374" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-109 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-109.jpg" />
href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/08/free-smashing-christmas-icon-set/">Smashing Christmas Icon Set
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href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/08/free-smashing-christmas-icon-set/">
src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/smashing-christmas-icon-set/release.jpg" alt="Release in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" width="450" height="450" />
href="http://vladstudio.com/de/free_christmas_photoshop_graphics/">Free Christmas Photoshop Pack
/>Need to decorate your website or banner with Christmas elements? Vladstudio Christmas Photoshop Pack will help!
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href="http://vladstudio.com/de/free_christmas_photoshop_graphics/">
width="500" height="106" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-203 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-203.jpg" />
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href="http://fasticon.com/freeware/index.php/santa-claus-icons/">
width="393" height="306" alt="Icons-03-icon-sets in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/icons-03-icon-sets.jpg" />
href="http://enhancedlabs.com/index.php/labnotes/comments/the_real_christmas_05_reloaded/">The Real Christmas ë05 Reloaded
/>As a christmas Gift from Enhanced Labs, We decided to Add 7 Bonus Icons to the package, and Re-Release this icon set on christmas day. This icon set now includes 20 holiday icons.
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href="http://enhancedlabs.com/index.php/labnotes/comments/the_real_christmas_05_reloaded/">
width="500" height="757" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-158 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-158.jpg" />
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href="http://www.iconarchive.com/category/christmas/christmas-icons-by-artdesigner.html">
width="500" height="155" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-144 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-144.jpg" />
href="http://www.iconarchive.com/category/christmas/christmas-icons-by-archigraphs.html">Christmas Icons
/>Archigraphs Christmas icons Icons Set created for free use. For MacOs X, and Windows Vista. PNG files included.
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href="http://www.iconarchive.com/category/christmas/christmas-icons-by-archigraphs.html">
width="500" height="201" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-143 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-143.jpg" />
href="http://zeusboxstudio.com/icon/">Shiny Social Balls
/>Freeware. Social Christmas Icons. Available for Windows and Mac.
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href="http://zeusboxstudio.com/icon/">
width="328" height="318" alt="Icons-18-icon-sets in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/icons-18-icon-sets.jpg" />
href="http://iconka.com/">Xmas 2009 Icon Set
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href="http://iconka.com/">
width="399" height="245" alt="Free-high-quality-icon-sets-137 in 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/free-high-quality-icon-sets/free-high-quality-icon-sets-137.jpg" />
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Christmas is coming and, of course, it’s just the right time to provide you with some nice freebies to fresh up your designs. To celebrate the holidays, our friends from IconEden designed “Smashing Christmas”, a free icon set, dedicated to the design community and released especially for Smashing Magazine’s readers. The set contains 39 beautiful, well-crafted icons with warm and welcoming color scheme.
All icons are designed in 3 different style: realistic 3D style, simple shape style and button style – hence the icons are extremely versatile. This set is available in both vector and pixel format and available for free download and use.
Christmas is coming and, of course, it’s just the right time to provide you with some nice freebies to fresh up your designs. To celebrate the holidays, our friends from
href="http://www.iconeden.com">IconEden designed “Smashing Christmas”, a free icon set, dedicated to the design community and released especially for Smashing Magazine’s readers. The set contains 39 beautiful, well-crafted icons with warm and welcoming color scheme.
All icons are designed in 3 different style: realistic 3D style, simple shape style and button style – hence the icons are extremely versatile. This set is available in both vector and pixel format and available for free download and use.
You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word.
href="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/images/smashing-christmas-icon-set/smashing-christmas-icons.zip">download the icons (.ico, .incs, .png, .tif) (.zip, 7.6 Mb)
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href="http://www.softfacade.com">SoftFacade has chosen a quite unusual approach in design of the Christmas icons set. They put a lot of efforts to come up with some really unusual approach. While the icons exhibit designers’ close attention to the smallest details, they are also very colorful and can be used to decorate your weblog according to the Christmas theme.
The set includes 10 icons — RSS, Shopping cart, Portfolio, Comment, Links, User, Calendar, Contacts, Social networks and Print. The icons are available in resolutions 64×64px, 128×128px and as illustrations in formats .png and .ico.
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It’s that time of year again; the one where we look back on everything we ate during the last two weeks and promise not to do it again in the new year. It’s also the time that many of us set new and ambitious goals for our businesses. Unfortunately, while goals are important and ambition can be admirable, we make the same mistake with our professional resolutions that we do with our personal resolutions. Take the classic weight-loss resolution. The problem with saying that you’re going to lose 20 lbs. in 2010 is simple – it’s just not actionable. At the end of the year, you’ll either have lost 20 lbs. or not, but that outcome is affected by dozens of things beyond your control. What exactly are you going to do to make it happen? If the answer is wait around and wish for the pounds to melt away, best of luck.
