Helpful Resources
Design Resources
Resources Provided When You Enroll in a Design Class
When you sign up for a design class, you’ll be given access to a full subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud for free! This gives you access to everything in the Adobe suite on your desktop, mobile, and tablet devices. Simply sign into Creative Cloud through Google with your Eastern account. You’ll also get access to pro accounts in Milanote and Figma without having to pay subscription fees.
Free Design Resources
In addition to the resources provided when you sign up for a design course, there are plenty of tools available to you around the web for free. See below for some helpful examples.
Fonts
Google Fonts
The best place to find dynamic and varied fonts with multiple styles.
DaFont
A good place to find display fonts and decorative fonts; however, they are not the most dynamic fonts.
Font Space
A good place to find display fonts and decorative fonts.
Urban Fonts
A more modern and polished version of DaFont
Vectors
The Noun Project
A good resource for finding PNG, Vectors, and icons.
Vecteezy
A good place to get free vector art, stock photos and stock videos.
Product Mockups
Is Graphic
A good and effective way of making mockups and presenting your work.
Unblast
Mockups, Templates and 3D models.
Mockupworld
All free mockups: magazines, books, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, iMac, packaging, signs, vehicles, apparel, food, beverages, cosmetics and more!
Mckups
Mckups.com is a curated collection of handcrafted free PSD mockups from most talented designers.
High Resolution Images
Unsplash
Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.
Stock Snap
StockSnap.io has a large selection of beautiful free stock photos and high resolution images.
Pexels
Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through their discover pages.
Pixabay
Pixabay offers a large collection of free stock photos, vectors and art illustrations. All photos are released under Creative Commons CC0.
Inspiration
Behance
Behance is the world’s largest creative network for showcasing and discovering creative work.
Great for looking up any kind of inspiration. They have it all.
Dribbble
This site is an online community for designers to showcase their own artwork.
Awwwards
Awwwards is a professional web design and development competition site.