36 Must Have Backgrounds and Patterns Resources for all Designers

January 5, 2009 58 Comments

Topics]Graphic Design / Patterns / PhotoshopAuthor]Paul Andrew

Searching for that perfect background for your design can be pretty difficult, from these resources you can browse through 1000s upon 1000s of backgrounds and patterns. Hopefully this will make your search that little bit easier, mind you with this number of resources it may make it harder. Happy browseing!!!

Huge Magazine – Desktop Patterns and Tiles

AppendixSquared

Barracuda Backgrounds

HYBRID GENESIS

DinPattern

milleseicentopercento

PixelDécor!

Tiles and Patterns

pattern-BOMB

Alice Grafixx – Patterns

Squidfingers / Patterns

Kaliber10000 { The Pixel Patterns Collection }

Shizoo

Portfelia Patterns

URBAN STROKES

Fractured Sanity[Dot]Org

Pattern4u | Kollermedia.at

ava7 Patterns

everyday icons – Patterns

Citrus Moon Patterns

Absolute Background Textures

Backgrounds by Tickie

Texture Heaven

Onepattern.com

PatternCooler

Patterns of Change

Texture Bank

Hip and Twendy Background Patterns

Background and Pattern Generators

Tiled Backgrounds Designer

Stripe Generator

Striped Backgrounds

Background maker – Tiled Background Generator

Stripemania – Striped Background Generator

Tartan Designer – Tartan Background pattern generator

Dotted Background Generator

Background Images – Generator

We are always looking for more resources…

If we have missed any resources from the above post, leave a comment below with your link.

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http://www.cscartskins.com CS Cart Templates
AWESOME resource. I’ve been looking for a decent list of bgs and you’ve nailed it. Good work!
http://www.onlinedruckereien.info onlinedruckereien.info
nice collection. i like stripes. :)
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http://www.COLOURlovers.com Darius A Monsef
We have around 100 pattern styles in thousands of colored variations… and you can customize the colors as you wish: http://www.COLOURlovers.com. Cheers.
http://myows.com myows
this is great —- thank you so much !
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http://www.sosmedia.org SOS Media Web Design
Thanks for the list. Though, backgrounds should come with some words of warning: be sparing… remember white space… less is more…
Holly-Bee
Another good site: http://www.filterforge.com/filters
Really awesome texture generator with a ton of free ones to use for anything you want. I use them all the time in SecondLife
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http://www.hipandtwendy.com/ Reggie
Thanks for including my site in this All-Star Line-up of background artists!
Reggie from hipandtwendy.com
http://www.goodworksmedia.com Goodworks Media
Really SWEEEE…EEET list. Thanks!
http://www.benoitvilliere.com Ben
That is what I call a reference list! Nice job collecting all those sources. I predict to come back very often on this page as well as share it to many colleagues. Congrats!
http://projectautomatika.blogspot.com projectautomatika
Just what I was looking for. Thanks for the collection.
http://www.patternhead.com Patternhead
We’ve just started to release a selection of free vector patterns at patternhead.com http://www.patternhead.com/blogs/patternhead_news
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http://www.compassblog.cn/ Dosou
very useful for me. Thanks!
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http://withja.com/blog michi
Great resources.
Thanks for the post.
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http://patterrific.com Sabine
Great list, thank you for sharing!
I recently started a site at http://patterrific.com where I offer free seamless patterns. Just have a look, perhaps you find something interesting for you!
Best wishes
Sabine
http://www.tmrw.co.uk Richh
Some good stuff! Bookomarking this to look back at a later date when I need some thing like this
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http://www.rethinkseo.com Sean Hurley
Great resource for website designers/graphic designers. Thanks for the continued support.
mouse
Either Stripe Generator or bgmaker is pinging my Avast Antivirus program. Coule be false positive as both loaded fine after the warning which said it was blocking a third party site.
http://www.hamroawaaz.com Rahul
I like squid fingers. I’m also into clean backgrounds as well as grungy backgrounds as well.
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http://iphotowalker.blogspot.com Terrick
Great post.. I was looking for a long time for these background pattern.. Thanks~!
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excellent. thanks alot.
http://www.kaplang.com Kaplang
wow really great list, thanks for sharing these :)
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http://www.shine-india.com Shine India
Wuaagh! Sweet Collections, Love it Amazing
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Amazing! Thanks for sharing these :)
Alex
Great and useful! Thank you :)
Also free source of photo frames:
http://www.free-photo-frames.com
and textures:
http://www.download-texture.com
http://www.cutebackgroundsfree.com Mike
Love creating seamless backgrounds myself. I am using Gimp to make them.
Thanks for a lot of quality sites you found there.

Candace397
cool

http://www.licofindiapolicy.com LIC Money Back for 20 Years
Great website I’ve found and very inspiring! Great job!!
Have a great day.
Thanks and regards,
http://www.cmonlineservices.co.uk Carl
Fantastic – and still great even over 1 year on!!
Thanks
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I appreciate the post. :)
Thanks a milllion!
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Nice compilation, tanks
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Talaedao
Wow,, thanks
DmitriyTL
Texturelib – free texture library.
Excellent quality. Conveniently categorized. Most of the images are
3264 x 2448. Free for commercial and personal use.
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