Sunday, June 28, 2009

Some Excellent Resources for Graphic Design Freebies

You can find a variety of useful and creative graphic design resources on the web the offer downloadables such as stock photos, textures/patterns, brushes, icons, and fonts that designers have decided to share with others in the community.

In this article, you’ll find some of the best websites to visit for graphic design resources.

Stock Photos

Flickr: Creative Commons



Flickr, the premier site for online photo-sharing and the hangout of many designers and photographers, has a section called "Flickr"

morguefile

morguefile contains user-submitted stock photographs contributed by many artists. morguefile has a terrific organization scheme and thumbnail preview for quicker searches.

stock.xchng

stock.xhchng (also known as SXC) is a very popular photo-sharing and stock photography site with over 380,000 stock photos.

Stockvault.net


Stockvault.net is another excellent photo-sharing site for designers and photographers.

Textures and Patterns

CG Textures

CG Textures is an excellent texture site created by 3D artist Marcel Vijfwinkel. CG Textures is structured to help you quickly find types of textures such as Grunge and Nature textures.

Squidfingers / Patterns

Squidfingers / Patterns is a collection of useful and intricate patterns that you can use as repeating CSS backgrounds or on print work.

TextureKing


TextureKing is a fast-growing, high-resolution texture repository maintained by creative agency, REH3design.

Brushes and Vectors

BrushKing

BrushKing offers a wide array of Adobe Photoshop brushes, all free for download. The site currently archives over 4,000 brushes and over 200 brush sets.

Icons

Iconfinder

Iconfinder is a search engine specifically for icons, developed and maintained by Glassbox. Iconfinder also has a tag cloud page so that you can visually see the most popular keyword tags.

Fonts

dafont.com


dafont.com is a repository of public domain, freeware, shareware, and demo fonts from some of the top font designers and foundries.

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