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Taken from min.frexy.com:

“At Frexy, we really love icon design. In the past few months, me and Vu Tran have worked on an icon set called “Bright!”, and today, we happily release Bright! as a freebie for you.”“Bright! is a crisp, sharp and beautiful set of 148 hand-crafted icons in vector format, ideally for both web and print work. You can use Bright! for personal and commercial projects at free of charge. What I only need in return is your comments and backlinks, if possible.”

Download this beautiful icon set here

Our sister site, Tutorialvault.net has finally gotten a deserved makeover which ties it closer to stockvault. Tutorialvault.net is a tutorial archive which currently lists over 2.200 tutorials for popular programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, 3D studio Max, Flash as well as CSS, PHP and html coding.

The new design is more professional and easier to navigate, plus it resembles stockvault.net more than before.
Click here to check out the new tutorialvault design.

Fonts & Typefaces

63 Must have Grunge Fonts
Personally I love grunge fonts, and a nice list like that makes me all fuzzy inside. Head over to outlawdesignblog.com and download those baby’s.

40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design
A post by smashingmagazine.com

Photoshop Brushes

Grunge Photoshop Brushes
Here is a huge archive of grunge Photoshop brushes from brusheezy.com

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Adobe has launched it’s new video resource which includes original content, as well as segments from training firms and product experts.

The site is divided into for channels; Photographer, Designer, Video Professional and Developer, each featuring programming from Adobe evangelists, trainers, experts, and “luminaries who pull in the crowds at industry events around the world.”

More than 200 videos are available at launch, with the initial titles providing Photoshop tips, podcasts and design tips for Creative Suite, Photoshop Lightroom techniques, Flash Professional instruction for beginners, website creation work flow guidance, and information about video and audio production.

Visit the Adobe TV website

After the success of the last 10 selected texture post, I’ve put together 10 abstract textures and backgrounds from the stockvault gallery that you might find useful.

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I’ve added a new feature to the stock photo gallery. You can now download and install a small search plugin for your browsers and search the gallery straight from your tool bar. The search plugin works for Internet Explorer and Firefox (haven’t tested it on other browsers yet).

To read more about the plugin, and to install it, click here.

Via Photojojo.com

We all knew this day would come sooner or later, but that doesn’t make it any less exciting, does it?

Today, Adobe releases Photoshop Express for the web.

Now before you go berserk, let us exercise some journalistic caution — it’s not everything you can do in Photoshop fit into a web browser. Not nearly.

No layers here, no fancy pants masking. But for 95% of your photos, it offers pretty much all you need to fix ‘em up, and it does it with style.

Whether adjusting exposure, white balance, or hue, touching up blemishes, or distorting your image, Photoshop Express provides an easy slider and thumbnails to give you an instant preview of your image at various settings. Even undo is better than you’d expect.

Being on the web, this Photoshop’s made for sharing. Everyone gets their own URL at photoshop.com, and the slideshows are top-notch — big, beautiful images with classy transitions. Want to load in and edit photos from Picasa, Photobucket, or Facebook? No problemo.

No, it’s not a Photoshop replacement, but it is a remarkably slick and well-designed basic photo-editing and sharing application. Arguably the best so far.

So what does it cost? It’s free, amigo.

Visit Photoshop Express