Patterns can be used in almost any style of graphic and web design. They have many purposes, from being used as backgrounds to being used to touch up vector files that look just a little too clean. For that reason we have rounded-up and compiled a huge collection of over 450 free and premium patterns from various different websites for you to use in your personal and commercial projects.

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Floral and Ornate patterns are very popular in the design world, their vintage yet elegant and modern feel makes them perfect to use for so many different projects.

To make your life easier, we’ve collected over 60 brush sets, in total including over 1,000 single brushes! What are you favorites sets? We’d love to know!

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Winter is here and the days are getting colder and colder. As designers, whether on purpose or not, we all tend to get inspired by what’s going on outside the window. Ice and snow particularly play a big role when inspiring creatives all over the world, and ultimately inspire us to bring winter themed ideas to life.

We have collected some great print and advertisement design work. With it we have compiled this beautiful showcase. Do you get inspired by the wintery weather? Let us know!

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We all love vintage design – it’s a great source of inspiration, and we all enjoy seeing how technology has developed over the decades. I have collected and compiled a huge (62 advertisements in total) showcase of vintage car magazine advertisements and posters.

Many styles and trends have been used throughout the years in car advertisement design, from simple black and white illustrations to beautiful watercolor paintings and great photography to clear, bold typography.

The advertisements are displayed by the car make/brand in alphabetical order. What’s your favorite?

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Icons can come in incredibly handy for both web and print design. They are a great and very simple way to add graphics to text areas, overall making it a much easier and better experience for the user.

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We’re often told to not judge a book by its cover, but in most cases we do. If a book doesn’t have a nice cover, it probably wouldn’t catch our attention in the first place. In this tutorial, I’ll be teaching you how to create a dirty grunge book cover design complete with bleeds!

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