Weekly design resources and inspiration – #1

Welcome to weekend! This week I am going to start up a new category called weekly design resources and inspiration from around the design community. I am going to feature some very best graphic design resources, inspiration and articles from some of the popular design blogs. I hope the resources featured hereunder will be very useful to you. Let me know what you think of this idea. Have a great weekend!

“Buddycons” – Vector Social Media Icons

The icon set is called “Buddycons” and includes 126 vector social media icons. Included in the set are PNG versions of all 126 icons in both circular and rounded variations as well as a vector source file for easy resizing. The icons are free to use for personal and commercial usage, however, redistribution is not allowed, so if you’d like to share these icons with your friends, please direct them to this page so that they can download their own copy from here.

17 Very Useful Free Online Typography Tools

Since typography is one of the most challenging and important aspects of web design, it’s important to have useful tools that can make things easier. Here’s a list of tools that will be a big help in making your typography beautiful, and you won’t even have to leave your browser.

7 Tips for Giving Effective Design Project Quotes

These seven tips can help you give an effective, accurate, and clear project quote that’s neither a sales killer nor a risk to your freelance longevity.

Collection of Abstract & Retro Futuristic Designs

Futurism is an artistic movement formed in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age. While the style has changed some since its beginning, it still focuses on using futuristic styles for its time. In this post I will share with you a collection of 31 abstract & retro futuristic designs.

30 Creative and Inspiring Golf Logos

Sport logos are fantastic to work with – some of the world’s greatest brands are sport-related (think Nike, Adidas, ESPN and Everlast). Golf is a popular sport with wealthy and successful people – as such, golf businesses (such as golf clubs, golf courses and golf websites) can be extremely lucrative. With such a savvy client base, the marketing, branding and (of course) logos of these businesses needs to be sophisticated (as well as sporty).

46 Captivating Examples of Extremely Colorful Web Designs

The importance of colors can be described by only one sentence – “Color to life is like salt to food”. Colors can change your mood, determine your attitude, whenever you see color you can feel its pleasing effect within your soul. In other words, in life colors express a lot of meanings without saying anything.

40 Free Amiable Sunrise Wallpapers

There may be nothing more relaxing than to watch the rays of the sunrise burst out on the great horizon. To some, it somehow helps them to start their day filled with energy and inspiration. For others, it may give them new hope to start up their day with. Whatever it is, it’s just really nice to see a beautiful scene of sunrise each time we wake up. To those people who can’t see the actual sunrise for some reason, then there is still another way. Why not make it your wallpaper?

With this you can see a glimpse of a beautiful sunrise every time we look to our desktop while at the same time lightening our moods up a bit. Today, our next post will be showcasing 40 Free Amiable Sunrise Wallpapers. This includes some of the beautiful sunrise wallpapers that were collected for you to choose from your next sunrise wallpaper on your desktop. Feel free to scan the list, who knows your next wallpaper may be included here. They are all for free so come and check it out. Take a peek and choose your pick.