55 FREE

RESOURCES

FOR
GRAPHIC Get beautiful

DESIGNERS
JULY 2020
design
elements for
your work
completely
Free.

A compilation of
FREE graphic design tools
for the busy designer.

Curated by Adam Daniel.

Contents

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Stock Images

You need never pay for a

stock image again with this
collection of free online
image libraries.
CREATE FOR FREE
03 Illustrations
04 Stock Images
05 Stock Video
Icons & Emojis

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06 Icons & Emojis
07 Fonts Professionally designed icons
that you can use in your
08 Design Inspiration
websites, apps and graphic
09 Image Editors designs, for free.

10 Mockup Tools
11 Design Software
12 Animated Video Tools
13 Screenshot Tools

Design Inspiration

08 View work from gifted

designers and agencies
worldwide to gain insight and
inspiration.

Design Software

11 There is simply no need to

pay for design software, not
when quality, professional
tools are available for
designers like you to use
completely free.
Illustrations
An incredible collection of illustrated resources for your designs.

Free Illustrations from Lukasz Adam

High-quality vector art illustrations and

icons completely free. They can be used for
personal and commercial projects.

Lukaszadam.com

Humaaans

Modular, vector illustrations of people that

you can edit and position to create unique
designs. Free for both commercial and
personal use.

humaaans.com

Humaanas by Pablo Stanley

www.humaans.com
Joe Schmoe

An collection of avatars for designers to

use.

joeschmoe.io

Drawkit Ouch Pics

DrawKit is a collection of free, customisable Free vector illustrations. Clean and vibrant
MIT licensed SVG illustrations to use in use in any website or design.
Websites and Designs.

drawkit.io icons8.com/ouch

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Stock Images
Free professional quality photographs to include in your designs.

Unsplash
My own personal favourite Unsplash comes
with filters and tools to quickly find the
perfect image for your design.

unsplash.com

Landing Stock
Contains only high-quality minimalistic
photos, that crop well and provide space
for advertising copy. A really great
source of images for online advertising.

landingstock.com

Burst One of thousands of Unsplash images.

www.unsplash.com
Shopify’s site where you can download
stock images for free, whether or not you’re
a Shopify user. Use without attribution for
personal or commercial projects.

http://burst.shopify.com

New Old Stock 5. Photo Creator

Copyright-free vintage photo from
public archives, excellent for olden
themed ad’s and content.
https://nos.twnsnd.co/
Want a unique photo that no one
else has? Photo Creator allows
you to combine different photos to
create your own unique image.
https://photos.icons8.com/creator

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Stock Video
A collection of professionally shot video for you to use

Videvo

Free stock videos which can be used free of

charge, in both personal and commercial
productions. Some clips must be attributed to
the original author.

videvo.net/stock-video-footage

Motion Places

High quality, free HD stock footage from

individual contributors worldwide. No signup
needed.

motionplaces.com

Life of Vids Category Choices

www.lifeofvids.com
Life of Vids

Free videos for web designers, filmmakers or at

all. You can create infinite loops and they are
available for both personal and commercial use.

lifeofvids.com

Coverr Mixkit

Beautiful stock videos free to download for Mixkit is a gallery of high-quality videos and
commercial and non-commercial use, no animation, made by international contributors
attribution required. all content licensed for free.

coverr.co mixkit.co

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ICONS & EMOJIS
A collection of professional icons for your designs.

Animaticons

High-resolution, customisable animated GIFs

that you Compatible with all browsers, emails,
and smartphones.

animaticons.co

Ionicons

IBuilt by Ionic Framework,  all Icons are free

and open source.

ionicons.com

Ionicons, a huge source of professional icons

www.ionicons.com

Streamline Emoji

A free collection of emoji available to

download for free under the Creative Common
Attribution licence.

emoji.streamlineicons.com

Simple Icons Noun Project

Free SVG brand icons available to Two million curated icons available for use by
download for free. designers for free.

simpleicons.org thenounproject.com

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Fonts
A resource for use-inspiration and download of free fonts.

Font Squirrel

Archive of free fonts, free for commercial use.

fontsquirrel.com

BeFonts

Collection of free fonts, including display, script,

symbol fonts and non-Western styles.

befonts.com

Font Squirrel
www.fontsquirrel.com

Google Fonts

Open source web fonts for designers to use as

they choose.

fonts.google.com

Emotype
Dafont

Emotype is a collection of free fonts that you

Huge archive of free & downloadable
search depending on the emotions you want to
fonts.
convey in your design.

dafont.com
emotype.webflow.io

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Design inspiration
Find beautiful, stylish and modern designs to inspire your work.

Microcopy Inspirations

This site has curated examples of superb

microcopy content such as 404 pages,
newsletter text layout and online sales
copywriting.

microcopyinspirations.com

Httpster

Httpster showcases incredible website

designs from all over the world. A great
resource for web designs.

httpster.net

A curated selection of stunning websites

Dribbble www.httpster.com

A highly popular  online community

for showcasing creative work.

dribbble.com

Ficture
Behance

It can be difficult to picture what your font

Behance is a popular platform to show and
choice will look like on a finished website.
discover creative work, including
Ficture shows you examples of specific
illustration, graphic design and animation.
fonts in use online.

behance.net
ficture.design

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 Free image editing tools
Manipulate images quickly using these free resources.

Photopea

Photopea allows you to open and edit PSD,

XCF, Photoshop, Gimp, Sketch or any other
image files.

photopea.com

Pixel Editor X

Pixel is a simple and reliable free, browser

based photo editor.

pixlr.com/x

The Photopea editor

Remove www.phtopea.com

Need to remove the background from a

photo? This free tool does it quickly.

remove.bg

Social Sizes Fotor

Social Sizes gives designers pre sized
templates for Sketch, Adobe XD and
Photoshop for all social media platforms.
All templates available for free download.
socialsizes.io
300+ Million Users use Fotor for editing and
touching up images, making collages or
general design. Well worth a look.
fotor.com

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 Mockup Design Tools
Quickly design device mockups with these free tools.

Shotsnapp

Design device mockups quickly, for free

with Shotsnapp.

shotsnapp.com

Smartmockups

Create professional looking mockups in

your browser, on desktop and mobile.

smartmockups.com

Use Smartmockups in your browser.

Screely www.smartmockups.com

Screely allows you to turn a

screenshot into a mockup, Just upload
your image and let Screely do it's
thing.

screely.com

Mockup World Screenpeek

A huge source of free photorealistic mockups Copy and paste a URL and Screenpeek will
online. Well worth looking at. generate a mockup in seconds. 

mockupworld.co screenpeek.io

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 Free graphic design tools
A collection of design tools for you to use

Gravit Designer

Gravit Designer is a full-featured vector

graphic design program for PC and Mac.

designer.io

GIMP

GIMP is a completely free image editor

that provides all the tools you’ll need to
manipulate your images.

gimp.org

Canva, our favourite graphic design software.

www.canva.com
Canva

Browser based simplicity, the quickest way

for anyone to produce Professional quality
designs that we know of.

canva.com

Pencil Inkscape

Pencil is an open source app that allows
you to design prototypes for web, mobile
and desktop applications.
Available Mac and PC.
pencil.evolus.vn/
Vector graphics software that runs on
Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. Open
source & Free.
inkscape.org

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Animated Video Designers
Build videos from illustrations and clipart

Biteable

6 million people use Biteable to build

animated videos for advertising.

biteable.com

Powtoon

An intuitive user interface allows for the

building of animated videos with a short
learning curve.

Powtoon.com

Powtoon
Renderforest
www.powtoon.com

Make 3D / Professional quality animated

videos with a free lifetime account. As
used by the BBC, BOSE and other fortune
500 companies.

https://www.renderforest.com

Crello
Animaker

This Canva like animated video creator

Combine styles and templates in this
allows you to build videos for all social
animated video creator to build your video.
media and other video platforms quickly.

animaker.com
crello.com

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Free Screenshot tools
Capture screen content quickly and easily.

Snappy

Use Snappy for taking and collaborating

on snapshots for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

snappy-app.com

Lightshot

A free Mac app, Lightshot allows you to

capture and then annotate any part of
your screen, upload it to their server and
get a shortlink.

Itunes.apple.com

The Get ShareX Interface

www.getsharex.com
ShareX

A Free, open source app for screen

capture and file sharing.

getsharex.com

Collabshot
ScreenToGif

This web and desktop application

Free and open source app for Windows
enables you to take screenshots and
combines a screen, webcam and sketch
share the URLs, also features multi-person
board recorder with integrated editor.
drawing and sketching.

screentogif.com
collabshot.com

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