Freebies Of The Week: 21,000+ Golden Age Comics, Shutterstock’s Food Packs…
Image via Digital Comic Museum (CC BY 3.0)
This is a period of experimentation, and a great way to accomplish that is by adopting materials you had never considered in order to discover new styles.
This week, ignite your creative senses by designing collages or memes using the snippets of more than 21,000 comics, introducing futuristic feels in your projects with a space-themed typeface, and more, with the roundup of freebies curated by DesignTAXI.
Dive into the assets below, and discover more by checking out last week’s lineup.
Shutterstock’s food video packs
Have you picked up some new cooking skills during the pandemic? Flex them with this yummy pack of free food-themed backgrounds, transitions, lower thirds and animated characters from Shutterstock. All 1.3GB of tasteful resources is yours, for free.
Not only that, but there’s also a separate collection of over 50 cooking and kitchen sounds to bring zest to footage, as well as tips on how to create great-looking food videos, in this blog post.
Screenshots of animated backgrounds for food video introductions, ingredient lists, and so on, via Shutterstock
Over 21,000 Golden Age comics from the Digital Comic Museum
Top left cover: ‘Coo Coo, the Bird Brain’ #57. Top right cover: ‘Rocket Kelly’ #1. Bottom left cover: ‘Strange Fantasy’ #7. Bottom right cover: ‘Realistic Romances’ #7. Images via Digital Comic Museum (CC BY 3.0)
Let your projects radiate retro vibes, or simply update your bathroom reading material, with over 21,000 resources from the Golden Age of Comic Books. The Digital Comic Museum showcases high-quality user-uploaded scans of comic books from before 1959 that you can browse through and even build upon to create new art.
The website’s moderators avoid allowing material where copyright issues might get tricky. As it seems, most—if not all—of the resources are registered under the Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license, meaning they’re free for you to share or adapt even for commercial purposes, as long as there is proper attribution.
Preview a couple of newer uploads and check out the rich comic book collection here.
Comic Uploaded: 03-07-2020
— Digital Comic Museum (@DCMCaptainDJ) July 3, 2020
Fantastic Comics 012 (paper) c2c
Uploader: builderboy
Link: https://t.co/CKGnDLml4l pic.twitter.com/e9oqb53KeV
Comic Uploaded: 21-06-2020
— Digital Comic Museum (@DCMCaptainDJ) June 21, 2020
Spunky 004
Uploader: Teachbug
Link: https://t.co/RnIzWVynAf pic.twitter.com/ktGEvX5goS
T-shirt mockup
Mockup by Mr.Mockup with artwork from Alan Cheetham
Selling t-shirts with your designs on them is one source of revenue to consider venturing into during this downtime. To help you get started, here’s a simple, frills-free mockup from Mr.Mockup that puts focus on your prints. The free PSD allows you to easily add in your designs via smart objects or tweak the tee’s color.
‘Supernova’ typeface
Image via Pixel Surplus
Have you been a little… spaced out when it comes to switching up the feel of your work these days? A simple change in typeface might do the trick. ‘Supernova’ by design resource platform Pixel Surplus is a hand-painted translucent sans serif bound to amplify the messages in headlines, advertising and marketing materials, social media posts, and more.
The otherworldly asset, conveniently available in OTF, SVG and PSD formats, is free for personal use with an option to purchase it for commercial purposes.
Image via Pixel Surplus
Image via Pixel Surplus
Brand identity mockup template
Image via Mockup Den
Present a unified visual identity to clients, or simply indulge in the guilty pleasure of seeing your logo in a neat layout, with this free brand identity mockup set from Mockup Den. The high-quality PSD template is hugely versatile, with access to all layers, abilities to change object and background colors as well as apply brandings using smart objects, and the option to remove shadows. The asset was spotted in a roundup by Graphic Design Junction.
Image via Mockup Den
Image via Mockup Den
Microsoft’s courses for in-demand job skills
Microsoft has released an array of courses that teach you must-have skills, including graphic design, for the 10 jobs it predicts will be most coveted after the COVID-19 pandemic. The classes, hosted on LinkedIn, are all free until the end of the year, but you can also take online exams for them to obtain official Microsoft Certifications at just US$15.
[via various sources, cover image via Digital Comic Museum (CC BY 3.0)]
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