Archive for the ‘Freebies’ Category

These vectors were created by taking rubbings of various objects such as walls and wooden panels with a black crayon on to A4 plain paper - once scanned and vectorised they have immediatly become usable assets for your artwork maybe in poster or t-shirt design.

These paper textures were scanned from an old manuscript that I bought - They have been scanned in at a high resolution and would be ideal for any project that requires a vintage look and feel.

You may have seen me tweeting over the past couple of days making these vectors from paint brush to Illustrator, well here they are for free download.

This week I put together some floral ornaments and decorations. I really hope you guys find a good use for these – I know you can create some great looking headers and website graphics with these.

I finally had a chance to create some Fractal Photoshop Brushes and here they are. These are very useful for getting unique space effects and abstract compositions, such as a solar flares.

These textures are all taken with a tripod to ensure accuracy. They are all at a very large 3264 x 2448 so will come in handy on a variety of projects. They are of various shrubs trees and plants from nature in the British Summer.

These were created by soaking A4 pieces of paper in a tray filled with food colouring and then left to dry in the sun.

We had some old picture frames in bags so I took the opportunity to take photos of them and remove the backgrounds and the actual paintings in Photoshop and create some stock .png images

Robert DeVore of GreenStar TV has kindly donated these awesome concrete textures to be released here at design shard.

Free Smoke On The Water digital wallpaper download in various sizes and for iphone.

Ive had these fully stained paper textures scanned in a while now made by soaking them in coffee for a few days, you can see all the little details on them and they look great in my opinion!.

Here’s a free repeating pattern that is ideal to be used as a twitter background, created from Victorian images from some books I’ve arranged them in a way that they will tile perfectly... how convenient!

I saw this old sort of vintage tag on a bed and thought damn that’s awesome, Download it for free

In total there are 15 high resolution Concrete textures, with the extra details such as oil stains, dirt and grime. ideal for adding some fine detail to a piece of work.

So i say these are ink, and they do look like ink but there actually food colouring / dye , they give the same effect pretty much , but i wanted to give them a watered down feel with strong pieces of colour in some places and lighter in others.