Top 36 Cool Backgrounds and Patterns Resources for all Designers

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.

39 Comments so far

1. CS Cart Templates on January 5, 2009 5:02 am

   AWESOME resource. I’ve been looking for a decent list of bgs and you’ve nailed it. Good work!

2. onlinedruckereien.info on January 5, 2009 6:26 am

   nice collection. i like stripes. :)

3. Darius A Monsef on January 5, 2009 8:56 am

   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.

4. myows on January 5, 2009 2:28 pm

   this is great —- thank you so much !

5. SOS Media Web Design on January 5, 2009 4:23 pm

   Thanks for the list. Though, backgrounds should come with some words of warning: be sparing… remember white space… less is more…

6. Holly-Bee on January 5, 2009 5:42 pm

   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

7. Reggie on January 5, 2009 8:15 pm

   Thanks for including my site in this All-Star Line-up of background artists!

   Reggie from hipandtwendy.com

8. Goodworks Media on January 5, 2009 9:15 pm

   Really SWEEEE…EEET list. Thanks!

9. Ben on January 6, 2009 3:04 am

   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!

10. projectautomatika on January 6, 2009 3:32 am

    Just what I was looking for. Thanks for the collection.

11. Patternhead on January 6, 2009 4:46 am

    We’ve just started to release a selection of free vector patterns at patternhead.com http://www.patternhead.com/blogs/patternhead_news

12. Dosou on January 6, 2009 7:02 am

    very useful for me. Thanks!

13. michi on January 8, 2009 2:23 pm

    Great resources.
    Thanks for the post.

14. Sabine on January 17, 2009 5:27 am

    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

15. Richh on January 21, 2009 2:15 am

    Some good stuff! Bookomarking this to look back at a later date when I need some thing like this

16. Sean Hurley on January 27, 2009 6:18 am

    Great resource for website designers/graphic designers. Thanks for the continued support.

17. mouse on February 21, 2009 12:47 pm

    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.

18. Rahul on March 11, 2009 9:48 am

    I like squid fingers. I’m also into clean backgrounds as well as grungy backgrounds as well.

19. Terrick on May 12, 2009 7:53 am

    Great post.. I was looking for a long time for these background pattern.. Thanks~!

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