Webdesign Trend: Hand Drawn

"Hand drawn" is the most discussed web design trends these days. This article sums up the links and resources that could make your understand the trend and equally inspire your creativity.
"Hand-Drawn" trend pattern: This article from smashingmagazine gives the detailed analysis of what’s new about hand drawn trend, how the fonts, are handled, common usability issues, Logos, header, input fields, pre-loaders and more.

Tutorial: webdesignwall really created the momentum to this design trend with his awesome blog design. Adding to it he provided tips and tutorials in his own site for creating hand drawn web designs.

Showcase:

• smashingmagazine
• Inspiredology

Resource: Collect all your free brushes, vector, shapes, textures and fonts from the article listed below:

• designreviver
• bittbox

Tutorial9 Rocks with 99 Free Canvas, Paper, Paint, and Metal Textures

Tutorial9 has come out impressive free resource. The latest article "99 Free Free Canvas, Paper, Paint, and Metal Textures" proves to be a great collection of photoshop textures, canvas, paper etc. Most from the list are high res textures which are awsome and great resource for any designers. Chk out this link

Ultimate Grunge Roundup from Designreviver

The recent Grunge roundup from design reviver covers the whole aspects of grunge design. The article provides 200 plus quality downloads for grunge design, it includes:
1. Textures
2. Brushes
3. Fonts
Link: Ultimate Grunge Roundup

Yahoo Stencil Kit

Yahoo has released its "Stencil Kit" as a part of Design Pattern Library. This seems to be a great idea and very useful resource to the designers. Though this may lead to yahoo biased design ideas, the standard approach to components can be a welcome idea. The stencil kit has following topics:
• Ad Units
• Calendars
• Carousels
• Charts and Tables
• UI Controls
• Form Elements
• Grids
• Menus and Buttons
• Mobile - General
• Mobile - iPhone
• Navigation and Pagination
• OS Elements
• Placeholder Text
• Screen Resolutions
• Tabs
• Windows and Containers

These are available for download in various formats (OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), PDF, PNG, SVG)
Link: Yahoo Stencil Kit

List of 35 professional looking corporate websites

A good collection of corporate websites are listed at Rubiqube. The collections are analyzed and are carefully handpicked websites which looks professional in all aspects of design and development and also exhibit current trends and pattern involving design of corporate websites.

Find the list here: 35 professional looking corporate websites

web2.0 Button Collections

Nice collection of web2.0 style buttons are available in dragnet. There more than 50 buttons showcased here along with some links to additional resource. Enjoy!

Link: button_collection