\nAs\n a designer working in the small business end of the marketplace, I\u2019ve \ncome to realise that most people don\u2019t have a lot of money to spend on \nmarketing. So over the years I\u2019ve built up a list of useful sources for \nvarious design stuff that is creative commons, open source, public \ndomain, or royalty free. This month I present this list to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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You\n want a simple tool to get all kinds of things made up, from business \ncards to posters? Then this is your one stop solution. While it\u2019s no \nreplacement for a professional designer, when you need to get something \ntogether quickly and know it will be printed right then you can go \nwrong. Check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n This\n is not the be all and end all of the resources that I call on when \ndoing design work, but it\u2019s a good starting point for people like \nyourself. I\u2019ll update this as I discover new sources of material to use.\n\n<\/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 “Robs List of Free Stuff 2017 Edition”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860"}],"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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.copyexpress.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fonts
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This\n is my go to place for fonts. While they don\u2019t carry the big name \nbrands, they always have alternatives that look almost the same and are \nfree to use.
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While these fonts are designed for online use, they do work in print just fine.
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A\n commercial font site but it can help you identify fonts from someone \nelse’s design by answering a series of questions or give you \nalternatives to an existing fonts.
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It\u2019s\n a commercial font website but I use the \u2018what the font\u2019 tools for \nfiguring out what a font could be when I\u2019m trying to recreate a \ncustomer\u2019s design
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<\/a>\n The quality of the artwork can be a bit variable, and searching for \nitems can be pot luck but they often have clipart on subjects that the \nother suppliers don\u2019t<\/li>Textures for backgrounds and fills
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<\/a> More for websites but still useful.<\/li>General – for all kinds of stuff
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<\/a>this\n is the media arm of the wikipedia, full all sorts of stuff but some of \nit is excluded from commercial use so read the licensing details before \nyou download.<\/li>
<\/a>you have to dig some times but it\u2019s one best resources for New Zealand related material<\/li>
I never cease to be amazed to find what they have made available for public use that\u2019s just a mouse click away<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nApplications to design work with
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<\/a>\n The open sourced alternative to MS Office that has a basic but still \nuseful desktop publishing tool in the form of the draw module. While it \ndoes ask for donation, you don\u2019t have to make one to download and use \nit.<\/li>
<\/a> Nowhere near the power of Photoshop and nowhere near the complexity to use. I use it all the time for quick image editing.<\/li>
<\/a>\n The open sourced alternative to Photoshop that\u2019s free and in some ways \nmore powerful thanks to the huge range of addons you can install. It\u2019s \ninterface can take a while to get use to but there are plug-ins that let\n you change to act like different programs<\/li>
<\/a>\n The alternative to Adobes\u2019 Illustrator, it\u2019s still under active \ndevelopment so it has some quirks but I\u2019ve found it can do some things a\n few clicks that can take minutes with Adobe.<\/li>
<\/a>\n Being the open source alternative to Adobes\u2019 Indesign desktop \npublishing program, it\u2019s a powerful design tool that can do everything \nfrom simple flyers to complex books. It does have a bit of a learning \ncurve but when you understand it, it’s quite logical to use.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n