FreePSDFiles has a great 3D map of the USA. The 300 dpi PSD file is fully editable, with each state having its own layer—allowing you to highlight individual states as well as add a popover (as seen in the screenshot above).
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Free font: Bird feathers
Another image font, this time a collection of bird feathers from Manuel Persa. This collection is stunning in detail. You can download the layered PSD file here.
Each letter of the feather type alphabet is on its own layer, and at 30 x 40 inches at 300 dpi overall, the artwork is perfectly usable for commercial printing
Free vectors: Multicolor font
Though not really a font, Multicolor is a collection of typographical objects in Adobe Illustrator which you can further alter to suit your needs.
200 Free vector food icons
They Make Icons: Nice collection
Free icons from They Make Icons. Not a huge collection, and most can be found elsewhere, but nice nonetheless.
Free brand icon collection
Simple Icons is a collection of 100 brand icons, available in PNG format in eleven different sizes ranging from 16 to 4096 pixels. You can download Simple Icons from Smashing Magazine here.
Free font: Manteka
Manteka is a nice sans-serif headline font with a blocky style. Free for personal and commercial use.
Free dry brush stroke brushes for Photoshop
12 awesome high-res dry brush stroke Photoshop brushes, from Spoon Graphics.
Add a little ambient sound to your day with Relax Melodies
Sometimes I just don’t want to listen to music. I just want some nice ambient sound to wash over me while I’m working. I’ve reviewed Elsewhere for the Mac previously, a free app for OS X which lives in your menubar and provides three ambient sounds, plus rain (with an in-app purchase).
Today I point you to two more great apps, both free, that provide ambient sounds (white noise) to OS X.
Relax Melodies brings 48 individual ambient sounds which you can overlay on top of each other to create the perfect background sounds to suit your style. Relax Melodies Seasons offers 33 sounds, including 8 Christmas-specific sounds like bells, fireplace, and popular Christmas tunes.
Both apps offer to add up to 100 sounds or more with an in-app purchase, but the built-in sounds are pretty darn good on their own. Both apps allow you to combine sounds and adjust the volume of those sounds independently. You can also save your favorite settings in both apps, but I prefer to explore new combinations every time I use the apps. And finally, you can set alarms and timers with both apps.
I love both these apps, though the regular Relax Melodies app is probably more than enough for most users. If I have one complaint about either of these apps, it’s that neither offers a way to hide the interface and the Dock icon and work only as a menubar app the way Elsewhere does. Still, both can help you relax during a busy day designing the next great ad, or writing the great American novel!
