Best Design Resources of August 2008

As you may already be accustomed to we’ve picked the best design finds of August 2008. The topics included are : HTML, CSS, Photography , Typography and General Design.

For more cool resources you might also want to check out our previous issues of the “Best Design Resources” :

• Best Design Resources of June 2008
• Best Design Resources of July 2008

Ultimate resources for grunge design a massive collection

This post covers where you can find grunge resources such as brushes, textures, tutorials, wordpress themes, fonts and interesting reading articles.

Random Text Generator for Wesite Layouts

Tired of using Lorem Ipsum for dummy text in your latest masterpiece?

34 Places to Get Design Inspiration - Online and Off

Everyone who hasn’t encountered designer’s block, raise your hand. Just as I thought. Well then, chances are you could use some places to get inspiration for those days when the pixels aren’t aligned and your mouse finger isn’t clicking like it should. We’ve compiled a list, online and off to serve up everything from logos to icons to art to fashion to just inventive ideas to get your mind ticking.

How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings

Tutorial on how to create vectorial wings for your designs.

30 Impressive Colour Spectrum and Rainbow Wallpapers

If your desktop wallpaper is looking a bit dull, perhaps it’s time to add a little spice, make it something more cheerful. Here’s some really Impressive Colour Spectrum and Rainbow Wallpapers we’ve found. We find it not only inspires, also brighten up the desktop. Full list after jump.

20 Famous Logo Designs

If there is one thing that we can learn from famous logos like Nike’s “Swoosh” or FedEx logo, it is that the logo does not have to be complicated to be effective.

10 Futuristic User Interfaces

A comprehensive look at good interface designs.

20 Stunningly Colorful Commercial Designers

Often when we think of commercial design work, we imagine 3 color logos and simple illustrations… but not all commercial work is so plain. Here are 20 commercial designers who create stunningly colorful work.

14 of the Most Useful Web Design Blogs

Here are some of the most useful web design blogs out there.

11 Sites to download Free Vector Logos

Here are the list of 11 websites where you can download vectorized logos of different brands for free.

Create a Textured Journal Icon

Tutorial on how to create a vectorial, realistic journal icon / graphic.

30 Free High Quality Wordpress Themes

30 professional-looking, free and new Wordpress themes

Milky Part 8 | Free Icons

This icon set of Milky is designed in EPS 8 vector format, including 48×48 and 64×64 PNG image and SVG files.

50+ High-impact Illustrated Vector Posters

This collection of 50+ high-impact illustrated vector poster designs created by talented illustrators and designers from across the globe are perfect examples, ranging from intricate and detailed patterns to bright and colourful shapes.

Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes

WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.

How to use WordPress as a Truly Customized CMS

All you need to know to use Worpdress to its maximal potential.

30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Fireworks

A collection of 30 Firefox tutorials both for beginners and advanced users.

Cloning in Gimp - advanced photo manipulation

Really cool photo manipulation techniques in GIMP

Design Trendz

Concepts and trends from Dezinerfolio

Web Design Resources List

Resources every good web designer needs

Attach Icons to Links Automatically

Let your readers know before they click a link and it opens up some large application like Acrobat, Word, Excel, or Quicktime.

HTML/XHTML Character Entities

CSS entity for every character.

Top 10 Javascript slideshows, carousels and sliders

Selection of 10 cross-platform, absolutely stunning slideshows, carousels and sliders, based on Mootools, JQuery, Yahoo! User Interface, and Script.aculo.us.

9 Top CSS Essential Skills That Every Web designer Should Learn

This post is dedicated to elementary & intermediate CSS learners

Top 10 CSS Table Designs

This article will show you ten most easily implemented CSS table designs so you can style your tables in a zap!

Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques

More than 40 tutorials and demos to showcase the capabilities and robustness of CSS and Javascript regarding forms development.

90+ Free CSS Layouts

90+ free CSS layouts that might be handy for creating websites faster.

10 Great Free Fonts You Might Have Missed

A list of 10 cool fonts.

Advanced Typography techniques using CSS

This article is an example of what you can do by combining and tweaking type using css.

30 inspiring Flickr groups on typography

Inspiring typographical Flickr collections, for designers and type nuts. The following groups contain more than 50,000 images showcasing typography.

Stunning illustrated typography on dark backgrounds

Great examples of typography on dark backgrounds

30 New (Free) Grunge Fonts

Collection of 30 free grunge fonts

25 Great Photography Tutorials and Links From Around the Web

Collection of cool phtography-related links.

45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos

Superb long-exposure (motion blur effect) photos.

Images That Changed The World

A collection of mostly old-photos that had a profound impact of the world. Caution : some people may find some of these photos offending.

42 Essential Flickr Abandonments Groups Dedicated to Abandoned Places, Properties and Buildings

Really nice photos of abandoned places / buildings.