Organic vector graphics are often used to display awareness in the environment and energy saving benefits. When creating green Eco-friendly graphics I like to use a wide range of earth-tone colors and gradient variations. These colors, used with soft graphics with rounded-corners, help create a friendlier and more “organic” look. Labels, badges and logos can be created by using basic shapes with borders and solid backgrounds. The use of brown color to signify earth helps make some of these graphics stand out from other green graphics. Try them on your next designs.

This set of organic graphics include a variety of icons and stamps; from your basic green-leaf graphics to recycle and certified organic badges. The set includes many ecological elements that can be used to create new graphics, including plants, soil, leaves, stars, recycle icons and rain drops. In addition to the icons there are many shapes that can be used to create your own labels, for example circles, rounded rectangles, star bursts and diamond shapes.

While these graphic can be used as is, you probably want to create your own variations, specially when there is a specific purpose for them. Some good uses for these vector graphics include:

• Printed logos and banners for all-natural products
• Packaging material for organic foods, including fruits and vegetables
• Company’s awareness in renewable energy and ecological conservation
• Stickers for fresh green produce, perfect for supermarket foods
• Website badges and rotating banners
• Certified-organic food events, nutrition awareness seminars and healthy products
• Recycle centers and reusable materials

Download this set and create your own fresh graphics. Use some grungy effects to create a more “recycled” look. Add some drop shadows to create icons and some thick rounded borders for your badges.

Download Organic Green Eco Vector Pack
• Illustrator vector file with graphics (.ai)
• EPS vector file (.eps)
• Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG vector)
• Thumbnail preview (.jpg)

If you like these Eco-friendly graphics, you will also like:
Green Eco Icons
Flowers and Swirls

Create a clean interface by incorporating subtle digital elements on your futuristic graphics. Incorporate random graphics as part of the background or on the edges to create that abstract-future-grunge look. Combining sharp objects with rounded edges also helps create a modern and contemporary look. This vector set was created in Adobe Illustrator using simple shapes and basic colors. After a simple graphic was created, it was sliced, repeated, cloned, rotated and flipped in order to create an interesting pattern.

This vector pack includes abstract circle objects, dotted patterns, hexagonal elements, circuit board elements and sharp edges. Other random elements include bar-code patterns, digital objects, loading graphics, equalizer graphics, crop-circle style designs and various repeating patterns. Note the use of a primary color pattern, then abruptly broken by a different color.

This set of creative hi-tech graphics can be used in a variety of applications from digital art to abstract wallpapers. Other uses include:

• Abstract desktop backgrounds
• Futuristic website designs
• Navigation and user interface elements
• Print patterns and high-tech banners
• Digital illustration and concept art

Download this set and create your unique high-tech graphics by easily modifying the elements.

Download High-Tech Graphics – Part 2
• Illustrator vector file (.ai)
• EPS vector file (.eps)
• Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG vector)
• Thumbnail preview (.jpg)

If you like these high-tech vector graphics you will also like:
high-Tech Vector Graphics (Part 1)
Colorful Dingbats
Web Elements

Icons have become very useful for displaying some holiday spirit. Often times websites will have an icon, such as a stocking, a Santa hat, or falling snow to indicate holiday sales and promotions. When creating printed materials, like flyers, banner, invitations or greeting cards, icons can help bring out some color and seasonal emotion.

This icon set contains simple design elements which can be used in a variety of applications. The graphics can easily be modified and scaled to fit your needs. The graphics on this xmas vector pack includes round ornaments, Christmas tree, holiday candles, wrapped gift, candy cane, Santa Claus hat, snowflakes and bells. Along with the icons, some decorative elements are included such as ornaments, stars, snow and glossy spheres.

Use these icons to improve your designs. Some example uses are:

• Holiday and seasonal greeting cards
• Christmas wallpapers and desktop backgrounds
• Xmas party invitations
• Website holiday themes
• Advertisement and Seasonal sales
• Religious engagements
• Winter Parties
• Gift exchange flyers
• Email promotions and Xmas newsletters

The holiday icons were created using simple shapes and gradients. These were designed to give you insight on how graphics are constructed. Modify these graphics and improve them to create your own holiday graphics.

Download Christmas Icons
• Illustrator vector file (.ai)
• EPS vector file (.eps)
• Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG vector)
• Thumbnail preview (.jpg)

Some graphics were borrowed from other vector sets
- Ornaments and swirls (more swirls)
- Glossy circles and colorful bursts
- Snowflakes

This vector set contains different variations of graphs and charts, from bar graphs to data charts. Of course these graphics are not plotted to any data, but instead they are simple representations to use as visual indicators.  The key to creating nice vector graphs and charts is to add little details to the final element, such as shadows, rounded corners, gradients and color variations.

The vector file provided includes pie charts, line graphs, data plots, bar graphs and 3-dimentional graphs. These were all created using the most basic tools in Adobe Illustrator. Many of these graphics can be created much easier to create now with the use of the 3D tool, but for this simple how-to I decided to build the 3d elements from scratch.

Pie charts, data graphs and stackable graphs can be used in a variety of applications. Anytime you need to quickly represent data, a colorful graph can be useful to guide users. Use these type of graphics in:

• Icons for analytics page
• Icons for data grid
• Represent growth or increase on your website or printed material
• Show traffic or data patterns with vector graphics
• Use pie charts for fun facts
• Display current trends in revenue or traffic, or seasonal patterns

Download this set and try to recreate every graphic. There are a total of 5 different types of graphs on this set, but there are infinite variations that can be achieved with a little creativity. Remember to add some final touches to the drawing to make the graphics stand out. Use bright colors and subtle drop shadows, light gradients and complementary colors.

Download Charts and Graphs – How To
• Illustrator vector file with graphics (.ai)
• EPS vector file (.eps)
• Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG vector)
• Thumbnail preview (.jpg)

If you like these pie charts and bar graphs, also check out:
Charts and Graphs in Vector Format
Simple Design Elements – how-to

Easily change the colors of these icons to match your own designs, and either export them as bitmap graphics or use them as scalable vector graphics in your application, such as Flash or Flex. These unique buttons can be easily incorporated and modified to fit your designs perfectly. This set contains your basic buttons including: mute, mute off, rewind, fast forward, skip, play, pause, record, stop, and equalizer.

Music player icons can be used in multiple types of applications such as:

• Music flyers and banners
• Playlist designs and music compilations
• Mp3 player buttons and switches
• Flash websites with audio and soundtracks
• Remote control buttons to navigate video or audio
• Animated equalizer graphics
• Electronic music designs

Download this set, modify it, and turn up the volume.

Download Music Player and Sound Icons
• Illustrator vector file (.ai)
• EPS vector file (.eps)
• Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG vector)
• Thumbnail preview (.jpg)

These unique navigation menus can be a good starting point for your next design. They are constructed in vector so they are easy to edit, change colors, rotate and scale.  Included in this set are both horizontal and vertical menus in different colors and styles. Some menus include rounded elements with soft gradients and glossy  elements.

These free vector menus can be used in

• flash templates
• wordpress themes
• website navigation redesigns
• creative and hi-tech blogs
• javascript and css menus

download this set, edit the elements, export as bitmap (jpeg, gif, png), and incorporate into your next website design. The font used in the preview images is ‘telegrafico’. However, the navigation menu can be adapted to use any font.

Download website navigation elements
• Illustrator vector file with all menu elements (.ai)
• EPS vector file (.eps)
• Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG vector)
• Thumbnail preview (.jpg)

This set of tech banners can be used in various applications, from web banners to large print banners. Easily add your message to the top and see how quickly these vector graphics attract attention. You can easily modify the colors and scale these banners because they are all in vector form. This allows you to manipulate every element and line on each illustration.

These banners contains various tech elements including, repeating patterns, hexagons, waves, circles, sharp lines, stripped lines, checkers, dots, rectangles, transparency, gradients, digital patterns, binary elements, colorful gradation, spheres, vertical and horizontal lines.

These technology graphics can be used in:

• Business Banners
• Creative advertising campaigns
• Website headers
• Rotating ads
• Business cards backgrounds
• Flyer backgrounds
• Software applications
• Tech conference graphics
• Car and automobile print materials
• Large billboard advertisements
• Any print and web design

Download this set of contemporary background graphics and create your own techie banners. Use these illustrations and modify them to create your own vector designs.

Download tech background banners
• Illustrator vector file with all logos (.ai)
• EPS vector file (.eps)
• Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG vector)
• Thumbnail preview (.jpg)

If you like these tech banners, also check out:
Charts and Graphs in Vector Format

Inspired by old retro robots, this colorful vector collection includes a variety of robots from your basic toy retro robot to a more futuristic space-man. While technology has advanced so rapidly, the robots we envisioned during the 1940′s to 1980′s never came to existence as they were portrayed, except as childhood toys or hobbies.

This set of retro robots includes a good building blog to create new robots. Easily replace body parts and change colors to create your own design. Use metal color variations and create your own tin-man, or use bright color combinations and odd angles to create a cute female cyborg.

Retro robots can be used in various applications:

• Comic book designs
• Abstract 3d models
• Ideas for robot sculptures
• Retro movie posters
• Nostalgia and memorabilia designs
• Retro toys
• T-shirt designs
• Cartoon characters for comic strips
• Birthday Invitations and more

Download Retro Robots
• Illustrator vector file with all logos (.ai)
• EPS vector file (.eps)
• Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG vector)
• Thumbnail preview (.jpg)

If you like these robots, also check out:
Colorful dingbats
Hi-Tech Graphics

See Phils Creations for a wonderful example of vector art used in 3d paper sculpture

Open this vector file and see how logos are created. These sun-graphics can be applied in a variety of concepts, from real estate logos to rock-band designs. Sun graphics generate a good mood and soothing atmosphere almost every time. Sun graphics can also invoke the feeling of nature, summer time, heat, motion, sunrise, weather and flowing air.  In addition, sun graphics can be used in a wide variety of  industry sectors, such as:

• Travel Agency
• Music Bands
• Computer Industry
• Hotels and Resorts
• Restaurants
• Vacation Homes
• Retirement Homes
• Conventions
• Summer Camp
• Sports and Fitness
• Construction
• non-profit organizations

Download this set and see how these designs were created. Decompose these vector logos and create your own unique designs. There are variations of styles and designs in this set; use them as ideas to create a design that works best for your brand.

Download Sun Logos
• Illustrator vector file with all logos (.ai)
• EPS vector file (.eps)
• Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG vector)
• Thumbnail preview (.jpg)

Also check out:
Sunset Wallpaper
Design Elements
Vector Flowers and Swirls

This graphic was created using a simple radial gradient in the background. Then, using Illustrator’s “blend tool”, I created a twisted tube object. I used this tube object as my primary design element and multiplied it using the copy-and-rotate tool. I rotated this object at 30 degrees, giving me a nice sun-looking object. Instead of centering this sun-object I decided to lower it just a bit, creating a different effect. I also modified thickness of the lines until I was happy with a final design.

This background was created using a series of pre-existing designs. I used various pieces and design elements from the swirls graphics set. I separated a few design elements and rotated-and-copy them in order to create various circle patters. Some of these were rotated 4 times (90 degrees), others 8 times (45 degrees), and the large object in background was rotated 120 times (3 degrees). After creating the circle objects, it was just a matter of placing them in different sizes and using different transparencies. The green gradient background creates a nice surreal, vibrant effect.

This vector background was created with the idea of using flying elements. These are not butterflies, or birds, but they look like they could be. The wings were created using a simple leaf/teardrop image and duplicating-and-rotating them several times, while using a transparency effect.  After the first butterfly object was crated, this object was copied multiple times and scaled-and-rotated, to create the flock effect.  The striped background and the snowflakes were borrowed from previous posts on OpenGraphicDesign.com.

The idea behind this vector wallpaper was to create a techie-city-swirl design. Various elements on this set were taken from the hi-tech vector graphics set. The swirls were created using Adobe Illustrator’s “swirl tool”. This effect tool allows you to twirl any vector object freely, creating a very organic and distinct effect. I did a series of swirls, but only three of them made it to this set. Actually only two made it to this set, the white swirl object is just a copy of the larger swirl. The use of the orange and variations of orange was done to simply separate this background from the other sets. This wallpaper could have been any color. I think gray colors with subtle blue-ish tones work great for techie designs. Give it a try on your next design.

I hope you enjoyed these backgrounds and learning a bit behind the concept behind them. Download and open the vector files to see how they were created. Use your own elements, techniques and style to create your own variation. If you’re just starting graphic design, see if you can copy each of these exactly as they were created.

Download high-resolution vector wallpaper
• Illustrator vector file with all wallpapers (.ai)
• Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG vector)
• Large 1920×1440 resolution (.jpg)
• Thumbnail preview (.jpg)

Also check out:
High Resolution Vector Wallpaper (Part 1)
High Resolution Wallpaper
Stripe Backgrounds (Part 2)

This set of t-shirt vector graphics contain a variety of styles and designs. These graphics will be very helpful when creating a mock-up for your client as it is oftennecessary to preview this type of artwork on screen before sending it off to press. Placing your logo, artwork or design on top of a clothing graphic will help you determine the correct size and dimensions before going to print. This can  save you a lot of money in silk-screen printing costs, and will help you choose the right color and style for your article of clothing.

If you’re in the business of designing and selling tshirts for profit, these t-shirt templates will come in handy as you create articles of clothing for styles that expand beyond your basic tshirt. This set includes:

• long-sleeve button / collar dress shirt
• short-sleeve polo shirt
• long-sleve shirt / sweatshirt
• short sleeve v-neck t-shirt
• crew neck t-shirt
• woman’s tshirt / blouse
• athletic sports / basketball jersey / BBD
• spaghetti strap woman’s tang top

Download this set and see how these vector graphics were created. Easily change the color of the t-shirts and the outlines. Reverse the colors when using a dark color for the shirts, and add some dotted lines for as a special effect.

Download Vector T-Shirt Graphics
• Illustrator vector file(.ai)
• Vector EPS (.eps)
• Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG vector)
• Thumbnail preview (.jpg)

Where did the logos come from?
Star logo first appeared on the Propaganda Graphics, Tribal Art was part of Tribal Art 1 and Tribal art 3

Easily create your personalized burst by adding text or graphics to the center of the burst and quickly emphasize your statement.  Bursts are perfect way of adding some accent or an extra touch of color to any design. Simply overlay any star-shape element over your design and see how quickly this burst grabs your viewer’s attention.

Here are a few examples where these vector bursts can come in handy

• ‘For sale’ or ‘Free’ starbursts
• Web 2.0 or beta tags
• A temporary promotion, or discount -”20% off”
• Improved services – “More Power”
• Quick call-to-action
• Money back, or satisfaction guarantee badge
• Seal of approval
• Website badge and  stamps

Download this set and see how these vector bursts were created. Easily change the gradient colors, rotate the graphics and scale without loosing quality. Create your own burst by adding content to the center or the bursts.

Download Free Colorful Bursts
• Illustrator vector file with all templates (.ai)
• Vector EPS (.eps)
• Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG vector)
• Thumbnail preview (.jpg)