The useful information for design creators in October 2022 is here. It is full of various design tools and fresh materials that can help you increase your productivity! Please enjoy it slowly. If you think the content is good, please share it with others around you.
【Design materials】PikWizard
PikWizard provides millions of free commercial photo libraries, including more than 1 million high-quality photo materials, which can be used for commercial purposes for free, and can be released under CC0 authorization without indicating the original author or image source. The introduction will share that in addition to a large number of photo materials, this website also provides a lot of video materials. You can preview the videos directly on the website, and you can also choose different resolutions when downloading, up to With 4K high-definition resolution, in addition to being able to search for the material you want, PikWizard can also use the preset keywords on the website to quickly find the same type of material you want. As for the video licensing part, it is the same as the photo material. It can be used for personal or commercial purposes for free, and you can download it directly without registering an account.
[Reference example]Branding Style Guides
Many design students will definitely be faced with an assignment while studying in school, which is to design a brand’s corporate identity system. If you have seen a large number of corporate identity examples, you will be more comfortable designing it. This time I will introduce “Branding Style” Guides” is a website that contains a large number of design specifications for corporate brands from all over the world. The number exceeds thousands. We only need to search by keywords, or even search for the document language or the country where the company is located… We can find the corresponding brand specification documents in the database of the website. As long as you register for a free account, you can directly download these corporate identity system documents, and they are in PDF format, which is very suitable for use as a reference when you need to refer to the development documents.
【Design materials】Icônes
Illustrations are a very important part of design. A work must be very refined. Putting small icons in some small details can upgrade the overall sophistication to a new level. The website I want to introduce is “Icônes”, which contains hundreds of open source illustration collections. The number even reaches hundreds of thousands, and the design of the website is also very simple and clear. Once you enter, there are many combinations of icons. You can download the icons individually or in batches. Each icon will have a detailed description. There are many download formats, the most important of which are vector SVG files are a must, and even icon font file packaging is provided. If you are doing web design, you can also use it in an external connection. “Icônes” also provides a black background mode for you to switch, which is convenient for viewing the status of the display in a reverse-white situation. You can download and use it without registering as a member.
【Reward Design】OSGL
If you are tired of designing, come and play games. The full name of the website “OSGL” I want to introduce is Open source games list. It is a collection site that provides open source games. It currently contains more than a thousand open source games and 311 A variety of game simulators and tools. Each game is introduced and sorted by category. This website is an online database completed by a large number of volunteers. You can easily find information about open source games from here. Some games can be downloaded directly, or Run the game online, or go directly to the website of the original author of the game through the introduced link to check the latest development progress of the game. It is also good to play sketch games after work. Oh, and by the way, there will be one at the Taipei Flower Expo from December 09 to 11, 2022 G-EIGHT Game Exhibition is a place specifically for independent game creators to communicate with players. If you have time, you can go shopping.
【Design materials】short time
This is a material website “Tokidana” from Japan. This website contains various types of design materials, all of which can be downloaded for free. The website provides four file formats for download, namely SVG and Ai formats in vector format, and JPG and PNG in bitmap format. For image files, the website is very considerate and provides online editing tools for users who do not have drawing software installed. You can modify the single color of the image or automatically apply other color combinations. You can also modify the size of the image and add text to the image. The text part can be set. Color, size, line spacing, vertical and horizontal arrangement, and it can support the input of traditional Chinese characters. Although some copyrighted websites are free to use, if more than 20 materials are used at a time, the source of these materials needs to be marked. It can be regarded as a very Buddhist material website.
Source: KOCPC Chinese