LibGuides: Online Resources: Graphic Design

Graphic Design

Read daily news and insights regarding the subject of Graphic Design. This includes Blogs, Magazines, Forums, and Informative Websites that will be handy throughout your school experience at LAFS.

INFORMATIVE WEBSITES

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Artstation
Artsation presents an exclusive collection of works for sale by the biggest names in the market, together with a hand-picked selection of works by the hottest new talent.
Befont
Free Fonts are here! High quality design resources for free. And helps introduce first time customers to your products with free font downloads and allow them to try before they buy, it also allows your existing customer to get a free font treat every day!
Behance Graphic Design and Job Opertunities
Showcase your work. Find new inspiration, hand-picked just for you.
Burst Shopify
Their image library includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images that were shot by our global community of photographers.
Canva
Canva simplified graphic-design tool, which uses a drag-and-drop format and provides access to photographs, vector images, graphics, and fonts. This website has free features u can use to create and also purchase plans to get more in depth.
Coverr
Coverr was a side project that we built in order to provide entrepreneurs like us with Free beautiful looking videos, for the products they were building.
Dafont
Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity.
Icons 8
A free website that offers clean, trendy look to your designs. Alongside with stock photos, free icon packs, and free music, we are determined to build a design platform and change the way people create things
Flaticon
A website that has free content and also subscription based pay wall for more content. Their goal is to offer the best high-quality content: illustrations, photos, icons, mockups, and presentations templat
Life of Vids
Free videos for personal & commercial uses. New videos added weekly! High-resolution videos for free for U on our VIMEO.
Lukas Zadam
A website with free illustration library. Here you’ll find MIT licensed SVG illustration images in different shapes & styles. If you don't want to miss any upcoming illustration, join my Facebook group now.
The Noun Project
The most diverse collection of icons ever. Download SVG and PNG. It is subscription based. Icons or unlimited royalty-free icons with NounPro.
Pexels
Free stock photos you can use everywhere. Free for commercial use. No attribution required.
Pickbest
Purchase based website with some free content. Pikbest is a high-quality design templates platform.
Raw Pixel
A website with free and Premium content, Rawpixel is smashing stereotypes to create design resources that reflect today’s society as it really is.
Stock Snap
A free Website for building a business website, creating a print brochure, crafting a digital or magazine ad, or some other brilliant creative project, you know that a great image helps your content transcend "good" and become "great."
Tuts Plus
Purchase tutorials and courses to take your graphic design and illustration skills to a new level! You can find thousands of free tutorials on every design topic under the sun, from making Photoshop actions to designing a classy corporate brochure in InDesign or completing your own vector illustration
Unsplash
Over 1 million free high-resolution images brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers

MAGAZINES

Flipster Magazines (EBSCOhost)
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3D World
Communication Arts
Computer Arts
Juxtapoz
Net
Web Designer

FORUMS / BLOGS

Creative Bloq
Creative Bloq delivers a daily mix of advice and inspiration for digital and traditional artists, web designers, graphic designers, 3D and VFX artists, illustrators, and more.

Graphic Design Published Journals

A Database is a searchable collection of information. You may find databases that the Library is subscribed to, which you will need to access them with your LAFS username and password. Other databases or informational sites listed are public and can be used as open-sourced. Find related and useful material on Graphic Design here!

Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost)
Designed to meet every academic researcher's needs, Academic Search Elite provides access to acclaimed full-text scholarly journals and magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost)
This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management, and economics journals and periodicals. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.bLog in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals. Access for FREE here!
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online digital library of education research and information. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Film & Television Literature Index (EBSCOhost)
Film & Television Literature Index is a database of all types of writing on film and television, including academic journals, industry and trade papers, news journalism, and popular magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries. FREE open access to journals, books, and other digitized Items that are readily available here!
Henry Stewart Marketing Journals Collection
HS Talks offers access to peer-reviewed vocational journals containing articles and case studies suitable for inclusion in courses, to support projects, and to enhance employability and preparation for the world of work. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Hit Songs Deconstructed
Hit Songs Deconstructed provides creatives and music industry professionals with powerful interactive tools, data, and analysis to support their creative process, stay in tune with how today’s hits are evolving, and make strategic songwriting, production, and business decisions. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
IMDb
IMDb is an online database of information related to films, television programs, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew, and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan & critical reviews. Free for non-commercial use. Upgrade to Pro for a price per month/year to get more features.
International Journal of Sport Management, Recreation & Tourism
IJSMaRT aims to present current practice and research in the area of sport management and marketing, recreation, and sports tourism. FREE open access journals available here.
Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search for newspapers, magazines, and other resources from trusted news sources. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian's 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. FREE open access journals available here.
Variety Insight
Variety Insight is the leading entertainment data solution that provides verified, timely, and accurate metadata around people, projects, and companies that work in the global entertainment business. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. *Limit only 50 concurrent users at one time while using the platform.
International Music Score Library Project
A subscription-based project for the creation of a virtual library of public-domain music scores. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's compositions.