Nothing Dry about Dryicons.com
I am really diggin' what the folks at dryicons.com are doing. They produce some of the best free icon sets available on the web today, and their daily free vector images aren't too shabby either. Of course they have a "house" style, meaning that most of everything that they produce is kind of the same design language. No matter though - that shit is free, and who can really complain about that?
Of course, those icons are totally free, because they require a license to be purchased if they will be used for commercial projects. Now, I don't know about you, but most of the work that I do is considered commercial because I am being paid by a client. That means that I really don't have a use for those free icon sets, and I'm willing to bet that many others do not as well. But dryicons.com gets a ton of web traffic every day, so there are many designers who are sniping those sets. Are they paying for them? I'm willing to bet no. But that's not the point of this article...
The point is that dryicons.com is a must-have bookmark for any designer to have in their arsenal when the creative doldrums set in. There has been many an occasion where I have spent a few minutes on their site to get some ideas for projects I'm working on, and I think it's pretty damn cool that they are offering so much of their content for free. At the time of this writing, that free content includes: icons, vector images, and web templates. Personally, I think that their templates are kind of weak, and the vector images a bit generic, but their icons are top notch. Check out this example:
