A compilation post with the best posts of 2008 was inevitable. Below you’ll find more than 2008 tips, tricks, icons, tutorials, inspirations and more design stuff. For beginners and advanced designers. Also make sure you check out the other posts on these great blogs.

So for your and my own reference here are the best posts for designers this year I’ve came across and which are worth (re)reading.

Tutorials (562)

30+ Exceptional GIMP Tutorials and Resources
25 Ways to Spice Up Blog Post Photos
50 Great Photoshop Tutorials for Clever Beginners
31 Practical (Web) Interface Design Tutorials
22 + 50+ Great Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials, Part II
41 + 30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials, Part II
40 Cool Abstract and Background Photoshop Tutorials
100+ best sites to find tutorials!
80 of the Best Vector and Illustrator Free Resources

Icons (150)

110+ Free RSS Icons To Show Off Your RSS Feed
40+ Hand-picked Photoshop Icon Designs [Photoshop Tutorials]

Inspiration (638)

32 Invaluable Sites for Web Design Inspiration
40+ Beautiful Hand-Drawn Websites
Typographic Madness: 30 Brilliant Piece of Work
40 Creative + 50 Excellent + 100 funny and unusual + 36 cool + 49 Nice And Creative Error 404 Pages
33 New Design Blogs with Great Content & Resources
37 Ways to Design the Comments Form
30 Must See + 30 More Must See Comment Designs for Blog Designers
31 Creative Examples Of Mascots To Grab Your Attention
70 beautiful websites with a large background
30 creative custom wordpress logins

Resources (720)

20 Creative and Inspiring Free Design Magazines
20 Free & Open Source Image Galleries for Web Designers
30 Free Stock Photo Sites: Ultimate Collection
208 Retro Photoshop Patterns
52 Vector Landscapes, 53 Vector Characters
27 + 36 + 36 Beautiful Business Card designs
25+ Sites that Use Typography As The Only Design Element
Promote Your Blog Posts: 12 Nice Designs and Techniques
Top 25 Web Design Blogs
100 Nice and Beautiful Blog Design
40 most beautiful and inspirational website designs of 2008
11 Sites To Create Cartoon Characters of Yourself
25 Website Designs To Draw Inspiration From

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