Few moons ago I had the chance to work on the UI of an iPhone application as a part of larger project. Unlike many fellow designers who prefer Photoshop to Illustrator for this kind of projects, I decided -after an educated guess- to go 100% vector. Few months later, the extra time I spent trying to get those inner glows to look right on Illustrator has paid off.

With another Friday come new freebies, and this time around it’s a 100% in-house vector buttons for mobile application websites. The set contains 5 buttons, 3 for Apple’s Appstore (with iPhone and iPad variations), one for Android Market and one for Blackberry App World. All the buttons are in vector form.

Chris Robinson from Contempo has released a free iPhone 4 vector graphic, saving me thus the trouble of making my own. I have even used it here!

Disgusted for not being able to get the iPad on day one? I’ve got you covered: a free vector iPad for your design needs!
You are free for to use it for personal or commercial use, modify it, redistribute it and transmit it under the condition of giving proper credit (a link to this website in your work).

After defining what graphic design is, and what is not, let’s tackle one of the most important things to know about graphics: the difference between raster and vector.