 When it comes to being a designer, you’ll always need to stock up on graphics, stock photography and fonts as well as rely on other helpful tools to successfully get your work done.
The list might seem daunting and endless, but it doesn’t have to cost you the earth. From choosing the perfect typography and finding the right visual assets to selecting the best colour palette, there is a wealth of free resources out there to make your work shine – and they won’t cost you a penny. Free Graphic Resources How would we survive without having access to those crucial visual assets that help to add polish to our designs? The following resources bring you everything from web icons and templates to vectors and textures – and even better, they’re free. So you can save money while meeting that deadline. 1. Pixeden Looking for lots of free graphics and web resources all in one place? Pixeden has a little bit of everything. With plenty of graphic design and web design templates, icons and vectors – you’ll be spoilt for choice. You can join for free but if you want a little extra, you can upgrade to one of their premium plans too. www.pixeden.com 2. Design Instruct Design Instruct offers lots of free resources including icons, vectors, fonts, stock images and textures – everything you might need for your projects. Simply head to their Freebies section where you can take your pick and download for free. www.designinstruct.com 3. Creative Market On Creative Market, check out their Get Free Goods section for a line-up of the best free goodies from the past week. To mix things up the website offers a variety of graphics, including vectors, Photoshop packs, fonts and textures. www.creativemarket.com 4. Pixel Buddha Pixel Buddha offers an endless catalogue of freebies, including icons, templates and vectors, along with some high quality fonts. From time to time the website also hosts limited special offers, giving you access to premium goods for nothing. www.pixelbuddha.net 5. Dribbble You know Dribbble for being a great source of design inspiration, but did you know it also offers loads of high quality freebies? We’re talking icons, fonts, vector illustrations, patterns and textures. Get yourself an account to start taking advantage of Dribbble’s treasure trove of free goodies. www.dribbble.com 6. Endless Icons Doing exactly what it says on the tin, Endless Icons brings you a wealth of free icons to suit your design projects. From the usual suspects of web, corporate and social to more unusual themes such as beauty, food and fun icons – this is the place to find what you need. www.endlessicons.com 7. Noun Project Millions use Noun Project to access new icons added daily by its creative community. A free membership is available, giving you access to over 100,000 icons of various themes. There’s also an option to upgrade and get unlimited access to the directory. www.thenounproject.com 8. Graphics FuelRafi is the graphic designer behind GraphicsFuel – an online resource where he provides high quality Photoshop freebies with the original source files in .PSD format. He spends a lot of his time creating quality graphics just to give them away for free – so make sure you check out his design collections. www.graphicsfuel.com 9. FreePik Need some free vector designs? FreePik is the place for you. Claiming to be the leading search engine for such graphics, there are over a million free vectors and photographs at your fingertips. www.freepik.com 10. FlatIcon Over 130,000 vector icons grouped together in 1,849 packs – that’s the promise from FlatIcon that brings you a ton of free icons to download and keep. www.flaticon.com
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