Surprisingly another month has past. This month we have seen some amazing design inspiration, tutorials, freebies and articles on many websites from all corners of the web. The talent that goes on behind closed doors is extraordinary. If you have any submissions for August’s best of the web, drop in a comment.
Plus, here are the links for our June best of the web (some amazing talent), and our May best of the web (must see resources). Enjoy reading!
There have been some amazing tutorials posted in July. Heres our best pick…
Learn how to create an animal king with tutorial9.

Follow this tutorial and you will have an awesome flowered text effect.

Learn how to create a vector character mascot in adobe illustrator.

Learn how to create more a less the exact same text from Harry Potter.

Tuts Plus yet again has an awesome tutorial featuring so many elements. Could take a few hours to complete this one.

Heres a handful of top notch freebies throughout July.
Download this theme for your blog. It looks immense!

There are many social bookmarking icons on the Internet, but these can come in handy if you have a hand drawn design.

Paper wall is a free WordPress theme that looks like a scrapbook.

Here are 10 grungy spray vectors that are free to download and use.

This is the almighty smoke effect brushes pack. Download and see for yourself.

Yet again, there has been some amazing content floating about. We have tied up our best picks.
This post is a major hit. Its very interesting to read, and there are links to buy / download the fonts that big websites use in their logos!

Here is a quality article from WebDesignerDepot. Read and see.

An awesome compilation of ways to improve your WordPress blog.

Check out you the designer as they list off 5 ways to become a famous graphic designer.

This is designers treasure. An awesome list of many different types of tools.

Last but not least, inspiration. How could we forget it!
SpyreStudios wraps up 40 awesome illustrative web designs.

There is always room for business card inspiration. Some of these look amazing!

Tied up here is some incredible vector art!

All it takes is to look at the first 5 to know this is a top notch post, although i did continue to look at all 100, and download a fair few.

I have never seen any other post like it. The amount of creativity in all 200 of these is remarkable. I started by scanning through them, but they all were too good to miss, so I looked at more a less every one. Amazing!

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j000 (3 years ago)
cool list thanks for sharing
Keith (3 years ago)
As soon as I get Illustrator I’m gonna try that Character Mascot tutorial.
Another great round-up
adobe basics (3 years ago)
i read the surreal scene it is very useful for me thanks a lot of
Rick (3 years ago)
Great. Thanx for sharing.
shareunlimited.net (3 years ago)
Great contents. great job.
A la espera de lo mejor para Agosto.
Greetings,
Callum Chapman (3 years ago)
Great round-up, lovely free theme… I agree with you, it does look immense!
pavel (3 years ago)
Thanks, a nice listing… with some interesting ideas to try….
Mukesh.M (3 years ago)
very very nice………….
caminandosolo (3 years ago)
This is a great list. My favourite link is “30+ cool and unusual business cards designs”
Thanks
Behrouz (3 years ago)
thanks very nice listing …..
ajay (3 years ago)
Very nice !
2expertsDesign (3 years ago)
Really great round up, thanks for share!
Aadil Pitafi (3 years ago)
Great list! Thanks for sharing.
Mujeeb Khumawala (3 years ago)
Superb collection.
Thanks Andy.
Oliver (3 years ago)
Great collection of resources here and some I could use. Will have to look at each one and bookmark them. Thanks for sharing.
Egypt Web design (3 years ago)
thanks so much Great collection
Best of The Web – August 2009 | Web Design Tutorials | Creating a Website | Learn Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Dreamweaver (3 years ago)
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Desktop wallpaper (3 years ago)
thanks very mach
photo effects (3 years ago)
very great collections
Michael Thomas (1 year ago)
Thanks for sharing this list, it is like a design book all in one blog post. I like the typography illustrative web designs.