Icônes

Icons are an important aspect of design. A piece of work can be made more refined by adding small icons to the small details, making the overall refinement level rise to a new level. The website "Icônes" collects hundreds of sets of open-source icon sets, with a total of tens of thousands of icons. The website design is simple and clear, with a large number of icon combinations available upon entering. You can download individual icons or whole batches, each of which will have detailed instructions. There are many types of formats to download, and the most important is the vector SVG file. They also provide icon font packages, and if you are doing web design, you can use external links to use it. "Icônes" also provides a black background mode for you to switch, making it easy to view the icon's state in a whitewashed situation. You can download and use it without registering as a member.

 

Branding Style Guides

Many students in design departments will face the task of designing a corporate identity system for a brand during their school years. If you have seen a lot of corporate identity examples, designing will become more comfortable. This time, I would like to introduce the website "Branding Style Guides", which contains a lot of design specifications from companies around the world, with over a thousand copies. We can find the corresponding brand guidelines in the website's database through keyword search, even advanced search by document language or the country of the company, etc. By registering for a free account, you can directly download these corporate identity system documents in PDF format, which is very suitable for use as a reference when formulating documents.

 

PikWizard

PikWizard offers millions of free commercial-use photos, with over a million high-quality photo materials that can be used for commercial purposes for free, without having to label the original author or photo source, using the CC0 license. In addition, this website provides a lot of video materials, you can preview the video directly on the website, and you can choose different resolutions to download. The highest can reach 4K high-definition resolution. In addition to using search to find the material you want, PikWizard can also quickly find similar materials with the website's default keywords. As for the video license, it is the same as the photo material, and you can use it for personal or commercial use for free without registering an account, and you can directly download and use it.

 

Picreator

Picreator is a powerful AI image generation tool. Like other similar services, such as Midjourney, it can create realistic photos and art illustrations through its powerful, intelligent AI. By inputting descriptions of the image you want into the Picreator website (currently only supporting English input), the AI can create four beautiful images in about 20 seconds. This platform greatly reduces the threshold for beginners, mainly by compiling several commonly used AI drawing subjects into a drop-down web menu. Users first choose the type of image they want to produce, such as photos, illustrations, graphics, games, and concept designs, and then select sub-options based on the main topic, such as painting style, scene, and imitating the style of a certain artist. Then, you can produce the desired image. Currently, free accounts have limitations on the number of images that can be produced, but you can also upgrade by paying a monthly fee to unlock more refined images. 

 

Designevo

Designevo is an online tool that helps you design a logo quickly. By selecting the category, you can quickly find the type of logo you need, such as clothing store, bookstore, restaurant, etc. After choosing the category, enter your brand name and you will be presented with hundreds of logo styles to choose from. Designevo offers a free version, but it has some limitations, such as no original files, and image resolution is only 300x300 pixels. Of course, by paying, you can get advanced services from DesignEvo, the highest level version of the fee is about $50, you can get the logo in the original vector format and the font files of the trademark, and you can edit the trademark freely in the future.
Regarding trademark legality, first, you need to pay for official website authorization. Then, in Taiwan, the image and text parts are separate. Registering text trademarks is relatively simple, but if the image similarity is too high, it cannot be registered as a trademark. Jieidv has tested that the logos designed on the platform and searched for online using images are rarely registered as trademarks. It is more suitable for start-up companies or online sellers to use. First, register the text trademark, then use Designevo to quickly create a professional trademark to enhance the corporate image. After the company's profits are stable, find a professional designer to design a new logo and register a trademark. This is a transitional method. In addition, there is an exclusive discount code for Jieidv in cooperation with the official website. Readers can register through the link and enter the code "JieidvDE" to get a 20% discount.

 

Happy Hues

This is an online color reference website that contains 17 sets of color schemes. Each set contains five colors and a background color combination. Clicking on a color scheme will show you its application effect on the website. The color code of each color element used will be labeled and can be copied by clicking on the color. In addition to color schemes, the website also shares some explanations of color terms, such as hue, saturation, brightness, chroma, and common scenes and uses for each color. For example, red is a very emotional and visually strong color that can affect the body's metabolism, breathing, heart rate and make people feel hungry. Red is also very eye-catching, so it is often used by fast food chains. This website is a good resource for novice designers.

 

Flexclip

With the advent of the video generation, Jiejie introduces a very easy-to-use tool, Flexclip, a very user-friendly online video production platform that can quickly produce dynamic images through simple steps, the interface is as simple as PPT. There is a free service that can be directly experienced, and there are many templates, transition effects, video and audio materials, and even some independent features such as adding a logo watermark to the video, compressing the video size, converting the video, screen recording, merging multiple videos, rotating videos, making video collages, etc. Flexclip is very useful for handling some social post videos. Of course, you can also pay to unlock more features, such as removing the watermark from the video, making videos longer than 10 minutes, higher quality, and more high-quality materials. The official currently has a special discount code for Jiejie to cooperate with, through the link registration, enter [JieidvFC] and the price will be directly discounted by 20%.

 

辰宇落雁體

This is a free traditional Chinese handwriting font "Chen Yu Luoyan Body", many people think that writing must be very beautiful to make and share, but Jie believes that each Chinese handwriting font has its unique style and charm. This font is made by two Taiwanese students, one is responsible for writing, and the other is responsible for font production. Chen Yu Luoyan Body uses OFL 1.1 licensing to release open source, so it can be used not only for personal use but also for commercial use. Currently, this font is placed on Github for everyone to download for free. Here is a small reminder that due to the fact that the Windows version of Word does not support non-proportional font format, there will be a problem of overlapping words. You can download the proportional version. The font's author has also made many versions based on everyone's suggestions, including minor adjustments and additional characters, so when you download, remember to download the latest version, which will be more suitable for use. If you like it, you can also support them with a small amount of money.

 

Timeline Hero

This website can help you create beautiful timelines and Gantt charts that you can place in presentations or project plans. With simple settings and data input, you can create a very professional timeline for any project in no time. Although this is a foreign website, it also supports inputting traditional Chinese characters. The platform offers a free version that allows you to create a timeline, with no limitations on the number of items on the timeline. You can save the timeline/Gantt chart directly as a .png file format. Additionally, you can upgrade to the paid version of Timeline Hero, which allows you to create an unlimited number of timelines and save them directly as a .pptx presentation format. The cost is 5 euros per month, about 150 TWD.

 

Workspaces

Every creator dreams of creating their own perfect studio. With the evolution of digital technology and the pandemic, some people have been working from home for a long time. So creating an ideal desktop is a top priority. During the design planning, refer to the styles of others, draw on their experience and design inspiration, and help improve your own long-neglected work environment. Workspaces is a website that provides office design styles every week. These environments are work situations for creative people, designers, developers, entrepreneurs, etc. Currently, there are at least two hundred design works. By subscribing to the newsletter, Workspaces will send these creations and behind-the-scenes business processes to your inbox on Saturdays and Sundays, giving you plenty of creative motivation.

 

住宅設備ペーパークラフト

I am not quite sure how to classify this website, but in simple terms, it is a paper model provided by a bathroom brand website that allows you to download and print out for free. Once assembled, it will become a three-dimensional model. Most of the materials on the website are categorized as indoor furniture. The name of this page can be translated into Chinese as "Household Equipment Paper Crafts." The main purpose is to allow people to make table-top samples for discussions when planning interior design. Each object will be marked with the estimated time of production and the number of paper sheets required. After downloading, it will be a PDF file. It is suggested to use slightly thicker paper when printing for better folding results. If you don't have thick paper at home, you can go to a convenience store to print on thick paper. That being said, if you want to use it as a paper house and burn it, I guess it should work too (joke).

 

imgtools face-privacy

If you want to make the masking action of all the faces appearing in the photo, the method used by Jie Jie before is to throw it into the Photoshop software, and mask each face one by one and put on the mosaic. In fact, the whole process is not too difficult, but it is too laborious. Fortunately, now there is a powerful AI artificial intelligence, through excellent image automatic recognition, can help us save a lot of time. Open this website, click on the upload option in the middle, and directly upload the photos in the computer, and it can automatically recognize the face to perform masking actions. In addition, it also provides a variety of masking styles to choose from, such as mosaic, blur, heart, mask, smiling face, etc. Currently, the image file format that can be uploaded is GIF, PNG, JPEG, JPG, SVG, WEBP, TIFF, TIF, PSD, these common files, currently this website is completely free.