You might not now but recently the world's biggest logo marketplace Brandstack.com was acquired by DesignCrowd. It's since been relaunched as BrandCrowd, a marketplace for designers looking to sell any unused logos and for anyone hunting for a logo design.

The marketplace is offering a quality experience for both parties;

• only high-quality designs are accepted so buyers browse through a well-designed set of logos
• designers focus on creativity without being directed by a client brief

The process to sell logo designs is pretty straightforward, upload the designs with a short brief and they are ready to be purchased after the BrandCrowd team places them under the right categories so buyers can find them easily.

The user profile also function as a portfolio of items for sale where your designs are listed and the price you've set is displayed to the user. Sellers can receive offers from buyers who want to make an alternative offer to buy the design and/or request modifications to the existing design.

Listing items is completely free and BrandCrowd only gets a commission when there is a sale. After each sale, the company contacts buyers to verify the purchase, which means logos are protected.

If you want to buy logos, things are all good as well. Browse the logos, filter with keywords (for ex :check the design and creative services logos) and, if found a logo meeting your requirements, just pick the item and it is all yours (won't be resold to anyone). As the buyer gets the vector files, it is possible to easily apply updates on it.

Re-selling/Privacy

Interestingly, there is a feature available to buyers (such as web design agencies) to allow them to make a purchased logo hidden or private.

This is useful if you're looking to:

• re-sell that logo (potentially with a margin)
• just wanting to hide the logo for your own business so that people don't know where you got it from.

Conclusion

BrandCrowd (which used to be known as Brandstack) appears to now moving forward with a new name + energy.  Our take: it's a risk-free opportunity for unlocking the value of any used logo designs and a great place to buy a creative logo for yourself (or your clients).

Having useful design resources under our hands always ease the process of creating beautiful websites, banners, posters, etc.

Mega Bundle 2, which is a big collection of design goodies offered for a very good price ($29 rather than $545), is providing WRD readers a chance to grow their design libraries by giving away 5 licenses (please check the details on joining it below).

Who created this bundle?

VectorPack.net  is a design studio creating professional vector art and design elements including stock vector art, Photoshop brushes, backgrounds, textures, fonts, seamless patterns and WordPress themes. Simply, every design element that we are in need of.

What included with it?

The Mega Bundle 2  is a set of 650+ design elements that VectorPack.net is offering for a price of $29 instead of $545.

It is available until the 13th of October (8 days from now on). This great Mega Bundle 2 contains the following items:

• 319 vector elements
• 278 PS brushes
• 66 abstract backgrounds
• 58 seamless patterns
• 30 textures
• 1 WordPress theme

Considering VectorPack.net presents such useful Mega Bundles at a discounted price regularly, subscribing to their newsletters would make sure you know about them in advance.

How to join the giveaway?

You can choose one of the methods below to join the giveaway:

• comment to this post
• or retweet this post (click here for an easy re-tweet)
• that's all

Winners will be selected randomly on 12 October 2011 (1 week later) and good luck!

Whether it is web or print, 3D eCovers are popular design objects for illustrating products with boxes, books/magazines, cds, brochures, etc.

3D Covers Pro is a professional set of Adobe Photoshop action scripts and smart objects for creating such 3D outputs in no time.

And, they are giving away 3 licenses ($37/each) to WebResourcesDepot readers (details can be found below).

The bundle includes Photoshop action scripts (PS CS2+) and smart templates (PS CS4+) that are Win and Mac OS X compatible.

Using them is pretty easy and straightforward. Whether you use the smart templates or the action scripts, just placing our designs and waiting for them to get a nice 3D look is almost enough.

3D Covers Pro works for creating the following items with each having several different designs:

• binders (3 designs)
• magazines (10 designs)
• DVDs (7 designs)
• brochures (3 designs)
• books (13 designs)
• spirals (6 designs)
• boxes (15 designs)
• CDs (11 designs)
• business cards (4 designs)

How to join the giveaway?

Just comment to this post and the winners will be selected with the query below on 14 September 2011 (1 week later):

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2451 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3

Good luck to all!

Design Cocktail, a regularly updated kit of creative design resources (which was featured previously at WRD) is giving away 5 bundles to WebResourcesDepot readers.

The 6th version of the bundle includes $946 worth of items and can be purchased for only $39.

What is in the bundle?

Design Cocktail 6 has design resources from vector elements to Photoshop brushes, websites templates and much more. Here is the full list:

• Giga vector pack 1
• Vector summer mega pack
• 20 Photoshop brushes
• Simplio business HTML template
• Famous cities mega pack
• Vectorious 3 months subscription
• Wp optimizer plugin
• Design TNT  1 month subscription
• 20 t-shirt designs
• Web sliders PSD kit
• WP logger plugin
• Doctor vector set
• Photoshop reflection action
• Ratings PSD kit

The kit is licensed as "royalty free extended", meaning that you can use the assets to build sites for your clients without your clients having to purchase their own subscription.

How to win one of the bundles?

There are 5 bundles being given away. Just comment to this post and the winners will be selected randomly with the query below on 6 September 2011 (1 week later).

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2435 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5

Good luck!

Simple Desktops, a website curated by Tom Watson, is sharing a huge collection of beautiful wallpapers.

Wallpapers can sometimes be distracting, however, the ones presented are all plain with some small and nice touches.

There are more than 250 items where new ones are being added regularly (you can submit new ones too).

Simple Desktops is not only a place to find nice wallpapers but also a good resource to spend time for inspiration.

WordPressThemeShock has recently released a design bundle which includes many freebies.

It is totally free to download and not offered for a limited time.

The bundle consists of:

10 WordPress themes

The themes have many custom options like 3 different image sliders, dropdown-menus, image gallery, contact form with captcha, etc.

750 high-quality icons

The icons include the most important items to be used in web apps like actions, files, media and much more. They come in 5 different size and in .PNG + .PSD formats.

Many design elements

And, there are many other design freebies like site templates, buttons or vector elements.

PunchCut, a user interface design company, is sharing a set of resources named Pixel Proliferation which present visual concepts and facilitate the conversations that get the design moving.

It includes:

• a collection of Photoshop® CS5 marquee-tool presets for common screen resolutions. These cover both fixed-screen resolution sizes and ratios for less common resolutions that fall within standard ratios.
• a set of layered Photoshop CS5 PSDs each providing common devices (iPhone4, Google Nexus, Motorola XOOM and more.) for comping and design presentations. These devices cover the standard ratios and device types (televisions, tablets, smartphones). The screen sizes are to scale to help put designs in accurate and realistic context.
• a reference chart for resolutions and device landscape.

Coşkun Deniz, a web and interface designer, is sharing a free set of 41 Android Icons.

The set is in the format of Photoshop custom shapes (.csh) so it can be resized perfectly.

Icons include most of the popular items and they are completely free to use.

WordPressThemeShock is a fresh website that shares high-quality-yet-free design resources and WP themes created by their talented team.

The freebies include items like ribbons, credit card icons, navigation examples and more with PSD source files.

Besides these design items, it is possible to find creative HTML-CSS resources like "pure CSS3 frameboxes" or templates.

Modular Grid Pattern is a website which enables you to create customizable grids in several ways.

The first one is a free Adobe Photoshop extension (CS5 compatible) provided which makes creating the grid directly inside the application possible.

Also, there is an online generator where you can mention baseline, gutter, module width/height, number of modules and the width of the layout where the application creates:

• PNG pattern (for GIMP)
• Photoshop pattern
• transparency mask (for Adobe Fireworks)

accordingly.