This site offers some good Illustrator tutorials on how to create a variety of shapes and effects, including how to create a type-based logo from shapes.
Here, you’ll find a site chock full of vector and pixel patterns, seamless background patterns, Twitter backgrounds and more. Best of all, it’s all free!
This site offers free vector graphics for Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw in AI, EPS, PDF, SVG and CDR file formats. All items are classified with tags for easy searching.