Graphic Design
This guide is a collection of resources for your research and work in Graphic Design.
Design Resources
You'll learn all about design in your courses, but you may find the resources collected here helpful.
- Design Resources This link opens in a new windowThis collection of resources (some free!) might be helpful for a variety of projects.
- 99 Designs Design Tutorials This link opens in a new windowTutorial videos on all creative aspects of design.
- www.bittbox.com This link opens in a new windowWebsite loaded with freebies as well as information on Photoshop, Illustrator and more.
- www.brandsoftheworld.com This link opens in a new windowSearch and compare brands from around the globe for examples on effective marketing techniques.
Imagery
- Freepik.comDatabase of free assets, including images, designs and mockups
- Flickr This link opens in a new windowFlickr is a photo management and sharing web site. The "commons" area contains photos distributed with a Creative Commons license.
- UnsplashA collection of freely useable images
- www.morguefile.com This link opens in a new windowFree images for creatives, by creatives-over 400,000 free stock photos for commercial use.
- Getty ImagesGetty Images offers a vast collection of high-quality photos, illustrations, videos, and music, which individuals, businesses, and media organizations can license for various creative projects. Their library includes a wide range of subjects, including nature, people, travel, technology, sports, and many more.
- PexelsPexels aims to provide an extensive library of royalty-free images and videos contributed by photographers and videographers from around the world. The content on Pexels is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, which means you can use, modify, and distribute the media freely, even for commercial purposes, without asking for permission or providing credit to the original creator.
Color
- Color - Method of Action This link opens in a new windowA color matching game.
- Adobe Color Wheel This link opens in a new windowTool to help pick color combinations.
- Colour Lovers This link opens in a new windowInspiration resource for palettes, colors and patterns.
- The Logic and Magic of Color This link opens in a new windowThese four short videos, created by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in 2012, combine audio excerpts from Josef Albers’ lecture “The Logic and Magic of Color” (University of South Florida, 1966) with animated plates adapted from Interaction of Color.
- Colors on the Web This link opens in a new windowInformation about color theory and color's role in design.
Typography
- Kerntype: A Letter Spacing Game This link opens in a new windowTest your eye for spacing with this clever game.
- dafont.com This link opens in a new windowExplore fonts for download. Be sure to explore documentation or readme file to learn about how you can use the fonts.
- WhatTheFont? This link opens in a new windowUpload an image to reverse-engineer the font used.
- Urban Fonts This link opens in a new windowUrbanFonts features a collection of free fonts, premium fonts and free dingbats. Most fonts on this site are freeware, some are shareware or linkware. Some fonts provided are trial versions of full versions and may not allow embedding unless a commercial license is purchased or may contain a limited character set. Please review any files included with your download, which will usually include information on the usage and licenses of the fonts.
- Fontstruct This link opens in a new windowBuild, share and download fonts.
- WordCount This link opens in a new windowWordCount™ is an interactive presentation
of the 86,800 most frequently used English words. - 1001 Free Fonts This link opens in a new windowLarge collection of freeware and shareware fonts. Be sure you know the license for the font you'd like to use.
- Beginning Graphic Design - Typography This link opens in a new windowTypography is everywhere we look. It's in the books we read, on the websites we visit, even in everyday life—on street signs, bumper stickers, and product packaging. This tutorial provides an overview of typography.
- https://fontsinuse.com
- https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont - font identifier
- https://www.typewolf.com – popular type blog
- http://type.method.ac/
- http://www.dafont.com/
- http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
- http://www.urbanfonts.com/
- http://www.veer.com/
- http://playplayplayplay.com/
- http://ilovetypography.com/
- http://www.wordcount.org/
- http://fontstruct.com/
- http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
- Have fun creating your own type and fonts! https://icomoon.io/
Pattern
- Brusheezy This link opens in a new windowSearchable collection of patterns and photoshop brushes. Check each pattern for license info to see how you can use the resource.
- Pattern8 This link opens in a new windowSearchable and browsable collection of patterns. Be sure to look at the license information for guidance on using these patterns.
- Textures.com This link opens in a new windowA variety of textures available for images