As a designer working in the small business end of the marketplace, I\u2019ve come to realise that most people don\u2019t have a lot of money to spend on marketing. So over the years I\u2019ve built up a list of useful sources for various design stuff that is creative commons, open source, public domain, or royalty free. This month I present this list to you.<\/p>\n
Fonts<\/span><\/p>\n Clipart – Photographic and Vector<\/span><\/p>\n Textures for backgrounds and fills<\/span><\/p>\n General – for all kinds of stuff<\/span><\/p>\n Applications to design work with<\/span><\/p>\n This is not the be all and end all of the resources that I call on when doing design work, but it\u2019s a good starting point for people like yourself. I\u2019ll update this as I discover new sources of material to use. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a designer working in the small business end of the marketplace, I\u2019ve come to realise that most people don\u2019t have a lot of money to spend on marketing. So over the years I\u2019ve built up a list of useful sources for various design stuff that is creative commons, open source, public domain, or royalty … Continue reading “Rob’s List of Free Design Stuff.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nThis is my go to place for fonts. While they don\u2019t carry the big name brands, they always have alternatives that look almost the same and are free to use.<\/span><\/li>\n
\nWhile these fonts are designed for online use, they do work in print just fine.<\/span><\/li>\n
\nA commercial font site but it can help you identify fonts from someone else’s design by answering a series of questions or give you alternatives to an existing fonts.<\/span><\/li>\n
\nIt\u2019s a commercial font website but I use the what the font tool for figuring out what a font could be when I\u2019m trying to recreate a customer\u2019s design<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nThe quality of the artwork can be a bit variable, and searching for items can be pot luck but they often have clipart on subjects that the other suppliers don\u2019t<\/span><\/li>\n\n
\n<\/a>More for websites but still useful.<\/span><\/li>\n\n
\n<\/a>This is the media arm of the wikipedia, full all sorts of stuff but some of it is excluded from commercial use so read the licensing details before you download.<\/span><\/li>\n
\n<\/a>You have to dig some times but it\u2019s one best resources for New Zealand related material.<\/span><\/li>\n
\n<\/a>I never cease to be amazed to find what they have made available for public use that\u2019s just a mouse click away.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n<\/a>The open sourced alternative to MS Office that has a basic but still useful desktop publishing tool in the form of the draw module. While it does ask for donation, you don\u2019t have to make one to download and use it.<\/span><\/li>\n
\n<\/a>Nowhere near the power of Photoshop and nowhere near the complexity to use. I use it all the time for quick image editing.<\/span><\/li>\n
\n<\/a>The open sourced alternative to Photoshop that\u2019s free and in some ways more powerful thanks to the huge range of addons you can install. It\u2019s interface can take a while to get use to but there are plug-ins that let you change to act like different programs<\/span><\/li>\n
\n<\/a>The alternative to Adobes\u2019 Illustrator, it\u2019s still under active development so it has some quirks but I\u2019ve found it can do some things a few clicks that can take minutes with Adobe.<\/span><\/li>\n
\n<\/a>Being the open source alternative to Adobes\u2019 Indesign desktop publishing program, it\u2019s a powerful design tool that can do everything from simple flyers to complex books. It does have a bit of a learning curve but when you understand it, it’s quite logical to use.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n