Top free resources for designers

We’ve put together the following list of resources for print designers to get you out of a pinch whether you need free Stock Photography, PSD mockups and elements or Fonts.

Stock Photography

UNSPLASH

Completely free (CREATIVE COMMONS ZERO) and searchable stock photography – particularly good for landscapes and architectural photography – 10 new stock photos uploaded every 10 days.

Example image from Unsplash

DEATH TO THE STOCK PHOTO

A stock photo website with a twist – rather than searching deathtothestockphoto emails you a monthly bulletin of free monthly stock photos to spark your creativity.

GRATISOGRAPHY

From the horse’s mouth: “Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. New awesome pictures added weekly!”

MAGDELEINE.CO

“Hand-Picked free photos for your inspiration” – Magdeleine provides high resolution stock organised into handy categories including Nature, People, Food and Technology.

 

Mockups And PSD Resources

BEST PSD FREEBIES

As it says on the tin – “best PSD freebies”, we’ll leave the judgement of whether they’re best or not up to you but we certainly think they’re good enough to include in our list. Everything from backgrounds, Actions, Icons, and Layouts.

GRAPHIC BURGER

PSD and font resources neatly organised into sections of Mock-ups, Text Effects, Backgrounds and Icons.

PSDDD

Hand picked resources from the highly creative dribbble.com community.

Example from PSDDD of a CD Jewel case mockup

Fonts

DAFONT

Perhaps the most ubiquitous and largest font site, DaFont offers a huge range of free and inexpensive fonts for designers neatly organised into categories.

CREATIVEBLOQ

If you’re not looking for anything in particular – just some great fonts, this article from Creativebloq (the guys behind .net and ‘computer arts’ magazines) fits the bill. An extremely well curated list of contemporary fonts.

FONTSTRUCT

Looking for something a little more hands on? Fontstruct allows you to design , build and publish your own custom fonts.

Example of the FontStruct build interface