8 Impressive Vector Drawing Applications on the Mac App Store

The Mac App Store is full of useful little gems for designers, and one area where the marketplace isn’t lacking is in pretty, lightweight alternatives to the Adobe Creative Suite. Of course none of these apps are as powerful as Adobe’s offerings, but they can be a lot friendlier sometimes, and some of them have surprising potential for their rock-bottom prices.

FREE: CSS3 Button Styles

This set contains a collection of elegantly simple web buttons, each designed in Adobe Photoshop and coded using HTML and CSS. They are fully scalable and pure CSS (don’t require any images at all). There are 16 preset buttons included and each one is very easy to modify and tweak to match the theme of your site.

Every button includes Normal, Hover and Active states.

FREE: Candy UI Kit

This week’s free resource is a bright and cheerful user interface kit. These clean, pixel precise elements are ideal for web and app projects. Each element in the pack has been hand-crafted in Photoshop, and is fully scalable with vector shape layers. Enjoy!

5 Essential Time-Saving Tips for Designing iPhone and iPad App Interfaces

This tutorial shares 5 top tips that will help you design interfaces for iPhone and iPad apps more efficiently, in less time, and with much, much less stress! The areas that are covered include preparing your Retina graphics, keeping your artwork fully scalable, saving time designing your app icon. And one interesting tip that might just surprise you.

FREE: Vector Indicator Rings

These vector user interface elements are perfect for use with knobs and dials, loading animations, or simply as decoration in designs. The pack contains 24 vector shapes in various formats including popular vector formats, and also Photoshop custom shapes and brushes.

FREE: Realistic Logo Mock-ups

Show off your logo in style with these realistic sleek logo mockups. The PSD files uses Smart Objects, so that you can replace the example logo with your own artwork quickly and easily. Create a realistic presentation of your logo in just a few seconds.

FREE Clean App Download Buttons

Here is a great resource for application developers. Included in the package are 8 beautiful, clean download buttons for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, Windows Phone, Nokia, and Google Chrome apps, plus one generic download button for if you distribute your apps directly from your own site.

MediaLoot’s Holiday Treasure Hunt Starts Now!

For those of you who know MediaLoot, you know that we love giving away free stuff. Since this is the season for giving, we’re going to repeat one of our most successful giveaways ever—the MediaLoot Treasure Hunt.

Read on to learn how to get started, and don’t give away all of the secrets!

Free Festive Desktop Wallpaper 2011

As a small gift from us this holiday season, we have created a festive desktop wallpaper free for all, so download now and we wish you all a happy christmas!

FREE: Asche Desktop & Web Font

This unique desktop and web font is inspired by vintage industrial logo-types, and makes for a powerful headline font. It includes all common glyphs including lower and uppercase characters, numbers and symbols.