Over 50 Free Valentine’s Day Design Resources

Over 50 Free Valentine’s Day Design Resources – A Design Bliss Mega-List

Feb 12th 2008
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Although not containing as many resources as my Halloween or Christmas lists, I think you will enjoy this rundown of free design resources for Valentine’s Day.

VECTORS

DryIcons
Although DryIcons already produces great icons, they also launched this year their “365 Free Graphics Project.” Each and every day, they make one vector EPS graphic available. And these aren’t just elements either; they often are complete pictures in and of themselves. Check the FAQ for Terms of Use. They have released several vectors appropriate for Valentine’s Day. Here are a couple of my favorites.

AiVault
AiVault offers a free vector each Friday. The latest makes for a cute, little valentine. Available as an EPS.

Round Pixel
Round Pixel provides this nice Valentine design and a series of hearts that can be used for commercial or personal use. A link back is requested, and don’t try to claim them as your own.

henocbeseleel (Vecteezy)
AI file. License: Attribution (Creative Commons).

Dr-Depot
AI file. License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.

Turbo Squid
A basic heart in AI format. Requires registration to download.

Scranton Label, Inc.
Scranton Label has a bunch of eps/pdf shapes intended for use as diecut stickers, including a nice dotted line heart shape.

CreateSk8
Available in AI CS and EPS formats.

Aramisdream (DeviantART)
EPS file released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Pixlpusher
Part of a set of vector tags available as an Illustrator 8 EPS file.

game-flea (DeviantART)
Tribal heart SVG file released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Illurama
And if you’re not feeling that great about Valentine’s Day, here’s an alternative. They have several other pieces you might want to check out. Available in EPS. “A resale is forbidden and in the case its is criminally pursued.”

It’s been a while since I offered an exclusive Design Bliss Download for you, but here’s an early Valentine’s Day present for you…a little vector heart design I whipped up. It’s just the one design, but I liked the way it came out.

One of these days, I need to formalize my Terms of Use, but basically, just don’t redistribute the vector file itself. You can use on personal and commercial designs. You can use it in templates so long as you are using an bitmap instead of a vector version. Okay? And if you use it, I’d love to see where.

I’ve saved this one in EPS format since I think that is more universal than AI.

This one is only available this month so join VectorStock to download it. See the Terms of Use.

PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES

Hawksmont Universe
“9 big brushes.” Terms of Use.

ShadyMedusa-stock (DeviantART)
ShadyMedusa has some brushes that I know you are going to love and states: “you can use in dAprints and outside dA.”

Heart

Heart-02

Heart 03

Obsidian Dawn
Licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License. Terms of Use are here, but commercial use is allowed.

AmarieVeanne-Stock (DeviantART)
Released under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

graphics-illustrations.com
Here’s 3 great sets:

Designfruit
Brushes and PNG files are free to download. The original vectors are available for purchase as well. Terms of use.
Designfruit valentine heart brushes

PHOTOSHOP PATTERNS

Here are some heart patterns available on Brusheezy, part of a 5 pattern set. Need help installing them? You can read an informative tutorial by Obsidian Dawn.

ICONS

DryIcons
In addition to great free vector graphics, DryIcons also offers free sets of icons like this georgeous “Valentine Love” set.

IconDrawer
Gorgeous icons. Available in PNG and Mac OS X versions.

Spheres Graphics
Sphers Graphics offers up this set of Web 2.0-looking hearts in PNG format.

Warrior~Poet
Jamie McCanless offers up 3 great sets of icons. They are available for personal desktop use but can also be licensed for commercial use.

CJ Tutorials
Since my post on rss icons is still one the this blog’s most popular ever, I expect you will appreciate these heart-shaped rss icons.

Spiral Pixel
Here are some generic glossy hearts you might could use. PSD file. Click on the graphic to get to the download.

And here are some great sets from Iconfactory.

STOCK PHOTOS AND BACKGROUNDS

Here are just a few of the goodies available at the Stock.XCHNG. Click on the previews to go the individual download pages.

Public Domain Pictures.net
License: This image is public domain. You may use this picture for any purpose, including commercial.

FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Web version is free. Higher resolutions available to purchase. Terms of Use.

morgueFile
Terms of Use.

DigitalDesignsUnlimited is a marketplace for digital artists into fantasy-based designs. They have various items for Photoshop and Poser for sale as well as some freebies. One of the current freebies is 2 large high-rez backgrounds suitable for Valentine’s Day designs. There’s a text message in the download with the Terms of Use, but the short of it is:

“Buyer acquires the copyright to any derivative works created using this work, provided none of the original materials can be extracted from the derivative work by any means.”

I don’t know how long they make their freebies available so get them while you can.