At the time of this writing I am 26, living in Costa Rica, and writing this blog post from a hammock. A few of the regular readers have asked that I share a little bit more about myself than what is posted on the about page. As a result, I have created a multi-part series that will give you a behind the scenes look at the life of the man you now know as Danny Outlaw.

The Early Years

Nothing to exciting here, I had a pretty standard childhood. I was born in Orlando, Florida where I was raised by dad (self employed craftsmen) and my mom (elementary school teacher). My sister Vanessa came a few years after me.

I should have known early on that I would end up a graphic designer. I remember when we got our first computer. It had a clip art program and a dot matrix printer. I created a graphic designer business sign, printed it out, colored it in with markers, and taped it upon my bedroom door.

I was always trying to make money creating things on that computer. Any time there was a yard sale in the family, I was on it. Birthday cards, piece of cake.

The only other really interesting story here has to do with a magazine subscription.

Entrepreneur From an Early Age

When I was in late elementary school I had a fund raiser for school selling magazine subscriptions. Rather than my parents buying a magazine subscription for themselves, they let me pick out one for myself.

At that age there aren’t a whole lot of magazines geared to my liking. There was the Disney magazine, Nickelodeon, Ranger Rick, etc. Any of those seemed like a logical choice for a child my age. But, I was different. I had dreams, goals, and aspirations.

So, what magazine did I order? The same magazine any wannabe business owner would get; Entrepreneur Magazine. Yes. I was an elementary going school kid with a subscription to Entrepreneur Magazine. Who would have thought?

And yes, I did have friends.

This weeks discussion is a fun one. I want know….

If you could work from anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

Anyways, here are some of my favorite app website designs.

Tic a Tac Poker

Future Tap

Little Sanpper

Fat Burger

The Invoice Machine

Tap Tapas

Empty Factory

Culture Code

The Resumator

Firetask

Tao Effect

Sifter

PB Wiki

Versions

Mac Rabbit

Two December

Storytlr

Zen Desk

Unblab

June Cloud

Fuel for Art eBook Giveaway

To celebrate the release of this book, the writer has given us a copy of the book to give away.

Don’t feel like waiting to win the book? Pick up a copy of it here for only $37.

How to Enter
To enter, all you have to do is send us your best ideas for articles you would like to see on Outlaw Design Blog via the comment section below. The suggestions should read more like potential titles than just a topic. See the examples below.

Examples of Good Suggestions:

• 30 Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers
• How to Track ROI in Google Analytics
• 20 Free Portfolio Themes

Examples of Bad Suggestions:

• Free Icons
• Photoshop
• Web Tutorials

Are you picking up what I am laying down? Send us your ideas and you could win a free copy of the Fuel for Art eBook!

Maybe it is because I didn’t collect baseball cards as a kid that I find such pleasure in collecting free icon sets. I probably have hundreds of icons on my computer, half of which I have never used for anything. But, they look cool and that is all that really matters. I easily spend a few hours every month just browsing through new icon sets to see what is being created.

Maybe I am so impressed with many of the free icon sets out there today because I don’t have the patience, let alone skills, to create something like that. The amount of time it takes to create one stellar icon is past my comfort zone. I can’t even fathom make a complete set of free icons, even if were stretched out over a period of time.

Free Icon Round Ups

Every once in a while I post a roundup of some of my favorite free icon sets I come across. Below you will find links to all of the free icon round ups on Outlaw Design Blog.

30 Free Icon Sets: More awesome free icons

Free Developer Icon Sets

26 Free Icon Sets We Love

101 Free Icons Sets That Kick Ass

34 Resources for Free Icons

CS3 Replacement Icons

CS3 Replacement Icon Sets

Free Social Bookmarking Icons

Free Icon Sets We Love

While browsing the web, sometimes we find a free icon set that is so amazing, we feel the need to share it with you. These are some of our favorite free icon sets on the web.

Free Icon Set: Bright Add-On 148 Icons
Free Icons: Ravenna
Free Icons: Christmas Ornaments for Social Media
Free Holiday Icons: 3 High Quality Wreaths
Free Web 2.0 Gift Icons by IconsPedia

Outlaw Design Blog Exclusives

We are constantly on the lookout for talented icon designers to help us create some exclusive free icon sets for Outlaw Design Blog readers. At the time of this writing we are working with several of them. We should have a few sets for free icons to release in the weeks to come.

If you yourself are a talented icon designer and would like to create a set of icons for Outlaw Design Blog in exchange for some exposure on the site, we would love to hear from you. Just shoot us an email and we can work out the details.

Free Grunge Style Social Bookmarking Icons

This free icon set comes from the extremely talented icon designer over at Icon Eden. If the style of these icons looks familiar, its because the artist responsible for them is also responsible for the popular free icon set , Milky. This free icon set is awesome and has a ton of great icons for web developers. Check it out. If you like it, visit Icon Eden to see some of his paid icon sets.

Unless otherwise noted in the downloaded files, you can use this set for any of your projects for free and without any restrictions. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.

Contribute a Free Resource

We love seeing what designers come up with. We are always on the look out for creative and quality resources to feature on the site.

If you would like to contribute a free resource such as a font, Wordpress theme, Photoshop brushes, Icon set, etc; please let us know. Aside from being your best friend forever, we will also promote you and your business within the release post of your free resource if you would like.

Who Needs to be a Rockstar Anyways?

I guess it was about a year ago that Freelance Switch launched a similar book called How to Be a Freelance Rockstar. While the book was well put together and easy to read, it was a little too freelancing for dummies. The book lacked concrete information about the world of freelancing. The Unlimited Freelancer on the other hand offer much more real word advice.

To me, The Unlimited Freelancer picks up where The Rockstar Freelancer left off. In The Unlimited Freelancer you get much more specific advice about being a freelancer. The authors go into more detail about day to day routines, tools, resources, and actually running a freelance business. The book teaches you a lot more about building and growing your business, rather than what freelancing is about.

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Some things you learn in the book include:

• How to completely avoid the typical freelance feast or famine cycle
• How to handle more clients, make more money, and work less
• How to grow and expand your business, or stay small and agile
• How to work with others to get more clients and improve your services
• How to build valuable assets that bring in money over the long-term

The Bottom Line

I like to think of the Rockstar Freelancer book as a prerequisite for The Unlimited Freelancer. If you had high hopes for the Rockstar Guide and were left dissapointed, then The Unlimited Freelancer is what you are looking for. Best of all, if you end up being unhappy with the book, Freelance Folder offers a full refund.

Where can you get one?
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All Files in a Single Zip

I will be releasing this set two textures at a time for the duration of the week. If you can’t wait that long to get them all, or want them bundled into a single zip file, you can buy them for $10 via PayPal. Thats less than $1 for each of the 11 high res watercolor texture. Compare that to Go Medias watercolor pack for $35.

BUY NOW $10 PayPal

Download for Free

Part one of the free watercolor textures series.
Part two of the free watercolor textures series. (tues)
Part three of the free watercolor textures series. (wed)
Part four of the free watercolor textures series. (thurs)
Part five of the free watercolor textures series. (fri)

Unless otherwise noted in the downloaded files, you can use this set for any of your projects for free and without any restrictions. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.
Here are the first two free download of this series.

Contribute a Free Resource

We love seeing what designers come up with. We are always on the look out for creative and quality resources to feature on the site.

If you would like to contribute a free resource such as a font, Wordpress theme, Photoshop brushes, Icon set, etc; please let us know. Aside from being your best friend forever, we will also promote you and your business within the release post of your free resource if you would like.

Below you will find two different version of the wallpaper. There is one version that doesn’t sport the Outlaw Design Blog name in a smaller size. There are also several other sizes that do feature the blog name.

• Size: 1152×864
• Size: 1024×768
• Size: 1280×1024

Contribute a Free Resource

We love seeing what designers come up with. We are always on the look out for creative and quality resources to feature on the site.

If you would like to contribute a free resource such as a font, Wordpress theme, Photoshop brushes, Icon set, etc; please let us know. Aside from being your best friend forever, we will also promote you and your business within the release post of your free resource if you would like.

All Files in a Single Zip

I will be releasing this set two textures at a time for the duration of the week. If you can’t wait that long to get them all, or want them bundled into a single zip file, you can buy them for $10 via PayPal. Thats less than $1 for each of the 11 high res watercolor texture. Compare that to Go Medias watercolor pack for $35.

BUY NOW $10 PayPal

Download for Free

Part one of the free watercolor textures series.
Part two of the free watercolor textures series. (tues)
Part three of the free watercolor textures series. (wed)
Part four of the free watercolor textures series. (thurs)
Part five of the free watercolor textures series. (fri)

Unless otherwise noted in the downloaded files, you can use this set for any of your projects for free and without any restrictions. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.
Here are the first two free download of this series.

Contribute a Free Resource

We love seeing what designers come up with. We are always on the look out for creative and quality resources to feature on the site.

If you would like to contribute a free resource such as a font, Wordpress theme, Photoshop brushes, Icon set, etc; please let us know. Aside from being your best friend forever, we will also promote you and your business within the release post of your free resource if you would like.