23 Unforgettable Resources Of 2008 You Couldn’t Live Without

By AN Jay on January 3, 2009

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2008 was the wonderful year for the bloggers like me. This year, we have too much competition to come up with more great contents every day on different blogs. This is because we have lots of quality posts done by various blogs. Today, we are covering few of the exclusive posts that covered top of the collection in 2008 for useful resources like inspirations, freebies, tools, tutorials, etc. This collection is specially for designers but not only for designers and I hope everybody of you will enjoy this.

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50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008

The 10 Prettiest Web Designs of 2008

Blog trends of 2008

33 Exceptional Logo Re branding In 2008 For Your Inspiration

Looking Back On 2008 With Top Web Designers

30 Best Illustrator Tutorials & Articles of 2008

60 Great Abduzeedo Articles from 2008

5 Inspiring Web Design Conference Speeches you Shouldnâ€™t Have Missed in 2008

2008 Design Trends

The Top 30 Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials of 2008 – Which is the Best?Â

Products of 2008

Best & Worst 2008Â

50 Brilliant Design Articles of 2008 in 23 Categories + 40 Reader Submitted Posts

Top 75 Best Design Resources Of 2008

Most beautiful websites of 2008

Awesome Business Card Designs of 2008

25 fantastic design articles from 2008

Smashing Highlights 2008

Top 100 Web Designs in 2008

A Look At Some Of The Best iPhone Apps Of 2008

Top 50 Best Looking Blog Designs of 2008

Backgrounds, Best of the Web, Blogging, Brushes, Buttons, color Schemes, CSS/Style Sheets, Education and Learning, Extras, File and Data Sharing, Icons, Inspiration, Stock Photos, Tips and Tricks, Web Design, Wordpress

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Comments

Comment by Eric Shafer on January 3, 2009 @ 3:58 pm

Thanks for including The 10 Prettiest Web Designs of 2008. This is a really fantastic list!

Comment by Angie Bowen on January 3, 2009 @ 4:56 pm

Great compilation, now I have days worth of reading to get done lol.

Comment by Alex | CrazyLeaf Design Blog on January 3, 2009 @ 5:37 pm

Thanks for including Most Beautiful Websites of 2008 in this great roundup.

Comment by Elle on January 3, 2009 @ 5:42 pm

Amazing post- The designs and tips within these posts really gives something for everyone to aspire towards.

Comment by Lee Munroe on January 3, 2009 @ 6:04 pm

Nice list of resources – I better clear a few hours to get through them all

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Comment by Graphic Design Blog on January 14, 2009 @ 10:15 pm

I must say….the list is awesome. I wish you would have reviwed my Graphic Design Blog as well where I placed some wrap ups for 2008, especially my post titled “25 Exciting Redesigned Logos of 2008″

Anyways, I always enjoy your posts.Do check mine 2, I am sure you will like it

Comment by Borellus on January 16, 2009 @ 2:06 pm

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Comment by Booker on January 19, 2009 @ 9:34 am

Some excellent stuff here! Thanks!

Comment by Jeff on January 20, 2009 @ 2:59 am

This is the powerful of photoshop!

Comment by Angie Bowen on January 21, 2009 @ 10:26 pm

Great list of resources! Thanks so much for including Arbenting!

Comment by Vladimir Yasmenko on January 26, 2009 @ 6:47 pm

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Comment by Graphic Design Calgary on January 27, 2009 @ 1:31 pm

Brilliant. I could be searching through these lists for days! I particularly loved the business cards one.

Comment by Free Stuff on February 1, 2009 @ 4:32 am

I like mostly the resources at 7th and 14th thats really useful, thanks for it

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