DesignMoo, make ur own site

First off, what I’d like to achieve with this article is to get your
feedback not only these resources, but also your opinion on how you
think these types of sites help or hurt our design community. So keep
that in mind as you read through this and browse the site. Also feel
free to offer other sites you’ve found that provide outstanding
resources such as this one.
DesignMoo, according to their about page, is…


<blockquote>“a community of designers who think it’s best to share
our design resources. That means we love to share fonts, brushes,
textures, icons, illustrations, and more with anyone that might find
them useful.”</blockquote>
And it’s true. It’s all free resources (but they just released a paid
account with extras), contributed by some of the best designers around
the world. It’s co-owned and operated by Chris
Wallace and Rich
Hemsley. Chris is owner of LiftUX, runs Chris-Wallace.com, tweets as @chriswallace
and shoots on Dribbble of
course. Rich
Hemsley is the awesome community manager, tweets as @richhemsley and Dribbbles as
well. The community is currently invite-only but growing very quickly
and making a real wake in our design world. Check out some of the
resources by a few of these amazing designers.


Rich
Hemsley – iPhone 4 Retina GUI


Chris
Wallace – vCard
PSD


Allison
Grayce Nold – Abstract Tileable Patterns


Graham
Smith – Logo Identity Guideline Template


Kyle
Steed – Clumsy


Hillary
Hopper – Invite Stamp Collection
It’s About Quality


So as you can see, we’re not talking about lame resources here. This
isn’t clip art in a glorified form or anything. No, this is real stuff
you can actually use and many times it will actually be better than what
we ourselves can design. I’ve personally used several of these
resources in my client’s work and it not only saves time, but looks
awesome. The important thing to remember if you ever get into this
community is to keep it awesome. Keep the elements you submit to a
spectacular level. Give feedback, utilize what others offer, and
contribute when you can.
What DesignMoo Offers


I recognize that there’s a million free resource sites out there. But
like I mentioned, there’s none that I know of that provide the quality
elements DesignMoo
does. Here’s a breakdown of some elements for you to chew on and make a
better, more informed opinion about this community.
Iconified


Sexy icons are always a must for sites these days. It adds
personality and enhances the look of the site immensely, if used
properly of course. Not everyone can be an icon designer, that’s why I’m
very thankful for those people sharing their mad skills with those of
us less fortunate in this area of design.


Julien Martin – Le Calendrier 2011


Pontus Johansson – iPhone
Icons


Peter
Burdette – Bookshelf Icon


Umar Irshad – 32px
Glyphs


Alfred
Pereira – Social Buttons Vol2
UI Elements


And who could turn down some really sweet UI elements? These things
are few and far between to look this good and take several hours to
create. So I’m game for grabbing some to use that were made by some down
right awesome people. Take a look.


Morgan
Allan Knutson – Chutzpah User Interface Kit


Rich
Hemsley – Transparent Menu


Josh
Hemsley – Dark
Sexy UI Elements
Yummy Textures and Patterns


Ah yes, finally some great textures. I know you can find them lots of
places but these are seriously some of the highest quality ones I’ve
seen…and they’re more web-related than some other sites out there.
Here’s a few pretty sweet ones to chew on.


Hillary
Hopper – Argyle
Textures


Liam
McKay – Function Subtle Grunge Brushes


David
Lopez – Bokeh
Oh Glorious Fonts


We designers love some fonts. Whether we’re great typographers or
not, we still like to have a plethora of them to choose from. And with
the way CSS3 is breaking into the market and things like CuFon and such,
we can utilize more of these fonts on our sites without the old “make
an image” method. Here’s some fonts you may never have seen. Pretty
nice, eh?


Brian
Carroll – Folly by Litchytype


Jed
Bridges - Cerus
Caps


A
Visual Idiot – Novak

great !
thank you discovery