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When Veerle Pieters recently created the beautiful f0101 theme for us, she also designed a custom social media icon set which is used in our Social Profiles widget. We however decided that these awesome, little icons shouldn’t be limited only to WooThemes or f0101 users… So here’s the public release of those…

The Simple & Bold icon set includes 15 separate icons (sized at 16 x 16 pixels) for the most popular social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Tumblr etc.). The icons are custom shape illustrations (in Photoshop) to allow you to change the one-tone colour to absolutely anything. The download package includes the 15 icons in 6 default colour schemes (in PNG format), as well as the Photoshop file to allow you to change the colours easily & quickly.

Here’s a preview:

Download the icon set here! (Both the PNG’s & PSD files are included)

Here’s another awesome freebie that deserves to be shared with the world… This funky Twitter Birdie icon was designed by the amazing Veerle Pieters (originally used in our f0101 theme) and it’s a must-download for all serious web designers. And yes – we know there’s a plethora of Twitter icons out there, but we figured the world can do with another one…

The download package includes 5 PNG icons (sized 32×32, 64×64, 128×128 & 256×256), as well as Veerle’s original .ai (Adobe Illustrator) file to allow for some easy customization.

Download the Twitter Birdie Icon (Both the PNG’s & AI files are included)

The new theme teasers are coming thick and fast these days; and a WooWeek just wouldn’t be a WooWeek without us posting new teasers, would it? Today’s teaser however has a little more significance…

When we first decided that we wanted to support International Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we approached Veerle Pieters (who we had previously worked with on Abstract) to design a theme that would not only celebrate women, but also support our own awareness campaign during October. And so F01.01 has been born…

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We know that we’ve been bombarding you with a lot of new theme concepts of late; and that amidst us not even releasing some themes that we’ve showed you quite a while back. Well there’s method in our madness…

First up, we’ve tried to create a new space for you to keep track of all the different teasers / previews that we’ve posted on the blog. This “Themes in Progress” page is also accessible from the navigation menu’s in our footer and you should check there regularly if you want to drool…

Secondly, we’re getting through us much work as possible in the next 2 months, so that we can have a bit of a rest in December & early January. So whilst we’ll be blogging, releasing new themes and providing support during that time, we won’t be working overly hard on new stuff. Everybody needs a break ya’know…

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I recently wrote a post over at WooCamp titled “5 Reasons to collaborate”, which suggests that collaborating with the absolute best-of-the-best designers has contributed massively to what we do here. Many of our themes (in fact, exactly 18 out of the current 36) were designed by others; so when we talk about collaborating, we’re pretty serious about it!

Now, collaboration aside, we wanted to publish a post, where we could give ourselves a few warm fuzzies, along with a little (innocent) ego-stroking. We contacted some of the designers that we’ve worked with in the past and asked them one simple question: What do they think about their collaboration with WooThemes?

Here’s what they said…

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Today not only see’s the launch of our Christmas 4 for 1 special, but also the launch of one of our exciting themes that we collaborated with the wonderful Veerle Pieters on – Abstract.

A good few months ago we commissioned Veerle to design us a theme with a typical Veerle flair to it. We requested the theme have a business feel to it, keeping it simple and fun though. That was our only guidelines giving Veerle almost complete creative freedom on this project.

The end product that Veerle supplied us with was a pixel perfect Illustrator mashup of shapes and curvy lines in a harmonious colour palette, laid out neatly in a spacious grid structure. It was professional enough to be used as a business theme, and also fun enough to be used as a personal theme making it quite multi-functional.

Over the last month, we’ve sliced and diced her beautiful photoshop/illustrator design into neat html/css and Adii and Magnus have applied some wordpress wizardry.

I was the lucky one to be selected to create some alternate styles for the theme, not a particularly easy task when working with an industry leading designer’s designs. No pressure. I do hope you enjoy the 4 alternate styles though and will find one that suites your personality.

Without further ado here is the demo for Abstract for you to marvel at, and below you will find links to purchase it. Remember if you buy this theme in the next week you will be entitled to download 3 other WooThemes. Bargain!

We know that this might come as a complete surprise to you, but we currently have about 10 themes that are in various states of development. Along with the 9 theme concepts that we have purchased from our WooContest winners, we have a few more collaborations that we’re working on. So, as we’re gearing up to release Matt Brett’s theme early next week, we thought it’d be cool to get your mouth watering over some of the other themes that are in the works…

Abstract by Veerle Pieters

Yup – you read it right! WooThemes is indeed collaborating with the super-designer, uber-illustrator and industry-leading designer, Veerle Pieters. We approached Veerle about a month ago to get cracking on a new design for us and she has created something truly unique and 100% within her signature style. This is a major coup for us in our attempts to get the best web designers involved with WooThemes in collaborative projects. Any here’s some enticing teasers:

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