We did a survey a while back about how we could make Outlaw Design Blog better. One of the questions on the survey was asking if t you liked the daily inspiration post. For those of you who dont know what this was, it was merely an inspiring piece of graphic design, photography, illustration, etc.

About 50% of you liked the posts and 50% didnt. That said, we decided to create a separate blog just for inspiring work. If you were one of the readers who like the Daily Inspiration posts, check out our new sub-domain at Outlaw Design Inspiration. It has a separate RSS feed so be sure add it to your readers. There is also a preferment button right above the “tags” in the side bar.

Free icons, they’re like trading cards for designers. I personally have a folder with hundreds of awesome icons in it. Most of them I will probably never use, but they’re pretty look at. The art of the icon is something I definitely don’t have, maybe thats why I find them so amazing. This post is a collection of my favorite spots to browse for icons, both for projects and as a way to waste time. Many of the free icon website on this list you may know, but there are a few that are fairly new so I suggest checking them out

Free Icons Web

IconFinder

Icon Designs

Deviant Art

Iconaholic

Stemplate

Icon Archive

Vista Icons

FamFamFam

Sphere Icons

Brand Spanking New

FeedIcons.com

Intermash

Pixel Press Icons

Bullet madness – a list of 200 bullets, arrows and icons uploaded by users.

Markos Place – Use these sets of grey, blue, green and red gif/png images in your web sites for admin buttons or whatever

Cute and Clear – 200+ Cute and clear icons to use in your nifty web application.

Markup – 60+ mini icons for web apps.

Tiny Little Icons – 20+ 16×16 icons

Drunkey Love – 100 16×16 icons for all sorts of uses.

Utombox – 12 web 2.0 style icons

BittBox 100+ Vector based icons

• January 28, 2008
• by Danny Outlaw
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Looking for some new filters or plugins for Photoshop to help make your work pop? This list is a collection of various websites that offer all the photoshop resources you need. Find plugins to help you make your own photoshop filters, get free brushes, or photoshop actions to make your life a little bit easier.

Many of these photoshop resource website are constantly growing, so check back to them often. You never know when you’ll come across that perfect filter or plugin.

1. Grunge Style – A ever growing list of grunge style rsources for photoshop and other design programs.
2. Deviant Art – Huge collection of PSD files, actions, stock photos, and more.
3. Good-Presets – Huge collection of growing Photoshop files, presets, and tutorials.
4. Mehdi – Lots of Photoshop Plugins and FX
5. Filter Meister – A plugin for photoshop that lets you create plugins for photoshop
6. Richard Rosenman – Free and paid filters and plugins for Photoshop
7. Plugins World – Website featuring plugins and filters from photoshop users.
8. Xero Graphics – A collection of good plugins for Photoshop.
9. Twisting Pixels – One of the most popular makers of photoshop plugins.
10. Brushes.net.tc – 400 + brushes for photoshop.
11. Brush Find – Website with thousands of photoshop brushes from all over the web.
12. The Imaging Factory – Commercial use photoshop plugins.
13. Brusheezy - A sheezy site, a new and growing site full of trendy photoshop brushes.
14. Redfield Plugins – Backgrounds, tutorials, and plugins for photoshop.
15. Filter Forge – Tons of filters made by users of this free plugin that lets you create filters.
16. BrushFed – 1000’s of photoshop brushes.
17. SiteGrinder – Paid plugin that terns PSD files into website ready images.
18. GrafNet - Preview and download tons of great photoshop filters and plugins.
19. PhotoshopBrushes.com – A collection of photoshop brushes that are free to use for personal or commercial use.
20. Void Brushes – Over 800 free photoshop brushes.
21. AV Bros. – Paid filters and plugins for photoshop.
22. Action Central – Exchange and download photoshop actions with other users.
23. PS Brushes – More free photoshop brushes.
24. Filter Factory – Use filter factory to create your own filters or download other users home made filters.
25. Wetzel & Company – Collection of backgrounds, textures, and images.
26. The Plugin Site – Good collection of plugins, edges, and filters for photoshop.
27. Action Addiction – Good amount of photoshop actions for download.

Just asking our regular readers for some help on raising our status on the For Web Designers website. If you don’t know about the For Web Designers website, you’re missing out. Its a really cool, ever growing list of quality resources for web designers. I suggest checking it out.

Please vote for Outlaw Design Blog here.

Find out where to work in the USA if you want to earn the most money and have the most benefits – that’s if you can get the job!

From IStock Photo

Last month I wrote an article on how much does a graphic designer earn however I didn’t mention the places that earned the most money, hence this article.

According to the design salaries survey carried out by AIGA in 2007 to 11,000 graphic design firms over the USA, these are the places to work if you want to earn the most cash and have the best benefits.

Top 10 Places (in order)

1. New York
2. San Fransisco
3. Los Angeles
4. Charlotte
5. Providence
6. Boston
7. Atlanta
8. Seattle
9. Chicago
10. Houston

The Benefits

Not only can you earn the most in these places you also get other awesome benefits such as:

• Longer Time off
• Better Medical and dental insurance
• General Insurance
• A Retirement Fund
• More Pay (woohoo)
• Financial benefits and family care
• Personal development and health
• Transportation and mobility
• Need I say more?

Job Openings

However in saying all this, these places are generally a lot harder to get a job. If you need a bit of a hand, you may want to check out how to get your first job or get some outlaw design inspiration.

The Rest of the Survey
For the full survey and a break down of the numbers and locations I highly recommend you to view the pdf salary survey results of 2007. Sorry to the other countries out there, I haven’t come across a survey for any other countries. Thanks to Danny for the opportunity to write a guest article on Outlaw Design Blog.

All comments are welcome