Cadence Wu and Mark Geno Arguelles offer news, design trends and tutorials. Freebies include icons, brushes, textures, vectors and wallpapers. Articles cover the many facets of logo design: why less is better, reasons to avoid using stock art, the choice of raster or vector graphics, and decisions about color and shape in logos.
Teach Parents Technology was built by a few folks at Google to help support parents (as well as students, teachers, and beginning users) with basic computer use. It is technical support via video tutorials.
This site has the best collection of brushes. I have so many of these installed that the students love to use to create their designs with. Most of my tutorials have an option for them to choose and use different preset brushes. The more options they have, the more detailed their planning. I also have them create their own brushes.
"This site provides sample course content and tutorials for Computer Science (CS) students and educators on current computing technologies and paradigms."
Our learning curriculum offers free, educator-created and classroom tested technology tutorials for teachers and students. These short videos (about 4 minutes each) offer a quick way to successfully get up to speed in specific technology concepts. The videos:
provide the basic "getting started" steps
include concrete examples
work for individual learning or in a classroom setting
are always available to return to for review
This Design Inspiration Lab, maintained by Projekt19, shares links to freebies like stock photos, brushes and other resources. Get advice on picking the best logo for a personal brand, or check out photo filter apps for iPhones and iPads. Tutorials include skin retouching and icon design, while video discussions range from James Bond to typography.
In 2005, a group of young designers and self-proclaimed vagabonds founded this international showcase of creative work. Imagery covers many aspects of graphic design, plus art, product design, architecture, advertising and multimedia. Creative types can find interviews as well as links to resources and tutorials.
Phlearn is a fantastic, free online resource offering lots of high quality photography and Photoshop instructions. Owner and creative director Aaron Nace also aims to make the training interesting and dynamic, keeping the viewers attention by throwing in the occasional joke or singing and dancing on screen. Informative and entertaining: what more could you want?