Brush Set Three: 45 More Subtle Grunge Brushes

Function Subtle Grunge Photoshop Brushes 3

We’re back with a brand new set of soft and subtle grunge brushes. You can use these super soft and subtle brushes to build up your own textures in your designs with incredible ease, it’s also really easy to manipulate them in your own way to build up unique patterns and textures.

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40 Cute Free Twitter Graphics: Badges, Icons & Buttons…

We’ve put together this free set of unique twitter graphics. Simply drag and drop the various graphics, icons, badges and buttons into your work free of charge. There really is no limit to what you can do with this brilliant set, lovingly designed by Pasquale D’Silva

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Stunning Free Character Pack: Free Illustrations for any use

Stunning Free Character Pack | function design blog

This set of free characters is ideal for adding a little personality into your designs. With a variety of actions and poses to chose from you can easily adapt them into your designs anywhere you feel needs it.

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Tutorial: Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress

Function | Create a Custom Write Panel in WordPress Tutorial

Everyone knows that WordPress is one of the most, if not the most, popular blogging systems on the internet today. With its out of the box features, plugins, and great theming community, its no wonder WordPress has been accepted as today’s standard. However, sometimes you just want to add a little more.

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33 New Design Blogs with Great Content & Resources

Everyone loves finding new sites with great content, so I’ve made it a little easier. Here is a collection of new websites and blogs with quality content. I’ve chosen these blogs based on the quality of their posts & resources and not the design. At the bottom there is all of the RSS feeds, so you can keep yourself updated with all of the sites featured.

1. Design Shard

Design Shard | New Design Blogs

From what I can see, this site only went live on July 25th, and it’s already had some popular content. I suggest you check out the 300+ Free Hi-Res Grunge Textures, as it’s my favourite at the moment.

2. My Ink Blog

My Ink Blog | New Design Blogs

A very well organized and well focused blog with some brilliant tutorials, links, resources and articles. So far there has been a lot of great posts, and I don’t see any signs of this changing. I was really impressed with the tutorial on Designing with Swirls & Flourishes, really top notch tutorial.

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Function Brush Set: 33 Subtle Grunge Textures & Effects

Function Subtle Grunge & Textures Brushes

We’ve put together a great set of free Grunge & Textured brushes for you to use. The idea with these brushes is that they are to be used to create subtle grunge effects within your designs. We’ve made them from various dirty textures, surfaces and fabrics from images taken ourselves.

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Free Theme: Outdoorsy Theme Now Available to Download

Outdoorsy Free WordPress Theme

We’re finally ready to present our free wordpress theme to you. The theme is called “outdoorsy” and it’s perfect for the individual who wants something “slightly” different from your usual standard free theme. This theme is very unique, and quite graphics heavy, which we are aware of. But if you are after something unique you sometimes have to expect longer load times.

Update: We’ve reduced the file size dramatically! It’s now 1mb lighter

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Design Resources Pack #1: The Grunge Pack, Brushes, Fonts, Textures etc…

Welcome to the very first edition of our Design Resources Pack, the basic idea behind this is; we collect a load of resources around a certain theme or style and put them together in one place.

Grunge is a style which is often misunderstood. Grunge doesn’t always have to mean really over the top dirty and dark. Today grunge comes in many forms, subtle grunge effects seem to be more common than just completely “grunging” something up. Whether you choose to be subtle, or over-the-top with your Grunge style here are some amazing resources to help you out.

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50 More Wallpapers for Designers

You thought your desktop looked okay? Think again, check these out.

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