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Free Design Resource Roundup #1

Resources   December 11, 2009  by Cadence Wu

This holiday season, we’ve decided to give more to our readers by starting a series of free design resource roundups. In these roundups, we’ll compile the fresh free picks of the week, from fonts, brushes, patterns, and textures, to contests, giveaways, and tutorials. Hope you like the roundup for this week, and let us know if you’d like us to include other stuff!

Weekly Design Resource Roundup

Brushes

Broken Heart Brushes – QBrushes

50+ Free Vintage Photoshop Brush Sets – Naldz Graphics

Fonts

30 Useful and Free Dingbats – Web Resources Depot

50 High-Quality Free Fonts – DesignM.ag

30 Excellent Fresh Free Fonts – instantShift

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #27 – Abduzeedo

Giveaways

Win a Typography T-Shirt – Comment to Win – Bittbox

Wix Unlimited Package Giveaway – WebDesignLedger

Icons

The Best Free Web Icons for Different Purposes – WebAppers

35 Beautiful Set of Christmas Icons – Onextrapixel

30 Hand-Drawn Web Design Icons – Tutorial9.net

Free Smashing Christmas Icon Set – Smashing Magazine

Christmas Gadgets: A Premium Free Icon Set – Little Box of Ideas

Patterns

30 Free Adobe Illustrator Pattern Sets – Naldz Graphics

Textures

25 Free and High Quality Grunge Textures – DesignM.ag

Tutorials

35 Dazzling Logo Design Tutorials (Part 1) – Acris Design

40+ Impressive Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials – Graphic Mania

40 Best Ever Photoshop Tutorials of Web Layout Designs – Tutorial Lounge

20 JQuery Introduction Tutorials and Resources for Beginners – Queness

Vectors

Christmas Buttons – DryIcons

 Cadence Wu

Cadence is You The Designer's senior blogger, and the most jack-of-all-trades of the staff. She's always trying out something different every day, some of which fuels her posts here on the blog. Let her know if you want us to post more about your favorite topic - she might know more than a thing or two about it!

  • http://designinformer.com Design Informer

    WOW! Those happy face icons look great!

  • Brian Jones

    Nice round up – thank you for sharing!

  • oscar

    Oh Thanks!!, this is very useful.

  • http://acrisdesign.com Vikas ghodke

    Thanks for adding our post here.. :)

  • http://www.sjlwebdesign.co.uk SJL Web Design

    Thanks for the great round up! I’m definitely a huge fan of the typography t-shirts, may need to put one on my Christmas list.

  • http://www.montpellierinteractive.com Steve – email designer

    Thanks man, that’s a great holiday season gift! Loads of stuff :-)

  • http://www.soula.com/web-design.php katie

    I really like the hand drawn icons, I have seen it done before and have always admired it but last time I think there was something about it that just didn’t work with that design but these are great designs.

  • http://www.designtorontoweb.ca/ Ryan

    I’ve designed one site using icons from WebAppers and I wasn’t disappointed. Thanks for sharing the other resources. This is all essential for a web designer like me.

  • http://www.dzinepress.com/ Dzinepress

    excellent roundup resources.

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  • http://www.webdesign-gm.co.uk Oliver Web Design

    Great roundup of free resources. I could definitely use the fonts and icons for my designs. Thanks for this.

  • http://www.kaplang.com/blog Michelle

    really great list, thanks :)

  • http://www.ca-crew.com Alexandre J.

    Hey grest list, you should add http://www.webdesignerheaven.com in your next round, its a great site to find almost everything!

  • http://denisefanov.ru Brand

    Oho! Nice fonts!