Fonts in use is a blog that features, well… fonts in use! It’s fairly self explanatory. It’s a treasure trove of typographic examples. Every post spotlight one or more fonts being put to use in real world examples and includes details about the font’s name and origins – which I appreciate. If you an aficionado of typography like myself you may want to take a peek 
This is a really nice resource I found for free icons. They have over 200 thousand icons that you can use. Not all have commercial licenses, but a lot do. They’ve got just about every kind of icon you might need, for social networking, e-mail, user interfaces. So next time I need some icons I think I’ll stop on by
I’m currently using this set for my social media icons: http://findicons.com/pack/2052/social_network
Free stock photography can great great for low-budget or…no-budget projects. In a lot of cases you get what you pay for, but there’s some really nice shots hidden in there too. Two resources that I like to use are:
http://sxc.hu/
http://www.dreamstime.com/
http://www.freestockphotos.biz/
http://www.rgbstock.com/
I contribute to stock exchange myself. Also, if you’re looking for textures you’ll have a much easier time finding some free resources. There’s a lot of different texture websites out there, but my favorite so far is:
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to go through the arduous task of making a seamless pattern! Well, I actually like making them, but it can be time consuming. I found this website online that will make seamless patterns online for free.
http://www.studioludens.com/repper/
It comes out a little odd if you were to put a picture of a person in there, but for making seamless patterns of textures this rocks!
There are also online sites for making diagonal stripe, and tartan backgrounds that I have used in the past:
These are a few anime wallpapers I made back in 2005~ for anime wallpaper community called Mini Tokyo. The images are either scans or scans traced in Illustrator.
