A while back I told you about some free smoke textures you could download and use in your Photoshop designs. But if those textures didn’t quite fit your needs, perhaps you would be better off creating your own texture backgrounds. 
QBrushes has an awesome set of 21 free smoke brushes for use in Photoshop. Using them on top of color backgrounds and messing with the layer settings can yield some pretty cool results!
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Free grungy wall texture pack
SixRevisions has a really nice set of grungy wall textures you can use in your personal or commercial design work free of charge. You can download each texture image individually from Flickr.
Free Font: Helwoodica 2.0
Felip Darius has released an update to his popular Helwoodica font. Helwoodica 2.0 is based on the appearance of Helvetica engraved on wood blocks. Another great grunge font, available for free.
Free Font: Northwood High
Another great font available for download at DaFont.com. Northwood High contains upper and lowercase letters, numbers and a few necessary punctuation characters.
Free Font: LunaBar
LunaBar is a pretty cool script font, available for free over at DeviantArt. You can never have too many good script fonts, I always say!
Free spiral brushes for Photoshop
CreativeNerds has put together 14 very cool spiral brushes for Photoshop geeks free for download. I’m a big fan of Photoshop brushes, and this set could be extremely useful to add depth to background images and techy artwork.
Free red vinyl textures
ThinkDesign has 15 red vinyl textures in high-resolution available free for download. They make great backgrounds for ads, brochures or multi-media presentations. The single download is approximately 54MB.
Free high-res metal textures
Free metal textures
40 Free icon sets for Web designers
Free icons for Web designers
Free Font: Quicksand!
Quicksand, a free sans-serif typeface from Andrew Paglinawan, is a full typeface set consisting of light, book, bold and dashed versions. Quicksand is available in this thread in the Typophile forums, and is totally free.