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FILMGRAB
A library of high quality movie stills for keyframes, mood boards and general deck vibes.
Cosmos
A discovery engine for creatives. Save anything on the web, curate into clusters, and share with the world.
Vidclue
The largest vertical video idea library for brands.
Art of the Title
Beautiful movie & TV show titles.
coverjunkie
A celebration of creative magazine covers & their designers.
Dave Dye’s Pinterest Boards
Dave Dye is a true “art director’s art director” and his Pinterest feed is a visual feast.
are.na
Reference aggregation. A garden of ideas. Tumblr meets Wikipedia.
effect.app
Live effects in your browser for photo and video
Shots.so
Free & easy device mockups. All in the browser or iPhone app.
ActivationIdeas.com
The most inspiring creative commerce, brand experience & activation ideas.
AdAge
Advertising industry news.
Ads of the World
The site is constantly updated with the best, most recent ads in the world.
Adweek
Advertising industry news.
Agency Spy
The ad agency world from the inside. Covering the latest big moves and breaking agency news.
Aisha Hakim
Aisha is a creative leader, an extremely generous sharer, and creator of The Art of Deck Making.
ASCII Art Archive
Convert images to ASCII art, which is text art you can paste anywhere.
Awwwards
The awards for design, creativity and innovation on the internet.
Banter with BUCK
Buck, a leading animation and creative production company, hosts podcast interviews with a wide range of creative people in and outside the industry.
Baseline
The free design bootcamp. Created in-house by expert educators. 100% original course materials. Free for everyone, forever.
Behance
A creative network for showcasing and discovering creative work. A great place to get inspired.
Bendito Mockup
Very premium well-crafted mockups. Some free. Some paid. Affiliate or referral link.
Botframe Currently unavailable
Free, and simple chatbot mockup tool.
Brandfetch
Search your clients brand logos, fonts, colors, socials, and more.
Bre Fern
A generous writer, coach and mentor whose side projects and proactive work push the industry in a more diverse and accessible direction.
Breaking & Entering Advertising
Interviews with advertising people about how they broke into the industry.
Chris Do
Content creator, educator and founder of The Future, Chris helps creatives build businesses.
ClipDrop: Image Upscaler
Upscale, denoise and enhance your images in seconds.
Cool Text
Generate text graphics and logotypes online for free.
Coolors
Get a quick, auto-generated color palette.
Copilot
Microsofts free AI assistant for text, image generation, and more.
CopyChar
Quickly copy & paste emojis, icons, and special characters.
Creative Boom
Art and design news, insights and inspiration for creatives.
D&AD Archive
Everything ever awarded at D&AD for the last 60 years.
Deck of Brilliance
Idea generation tools, conceptual devices or frameworks for creative professionals.
deck.gallery
A curation of nicely designed pitch decks, brand guideline decks, and others decks. Decks.
Designspiration.net
Like Pinterest, but more design-focused.
Don’t Get Me Started
An advertising podcasts focused on the needs of students and juniors. Hosted by a professor from The Creative Circus.
Dribbble
Explore the world’s leading design portfolios.
Eagle
A powerful image reference manager. Pinterest on steroids. It costs a one-time $30 for life. How refreshing.
Ethan Uncurated
A young art director sharing thoughts on creativity and highlighting artists and photographers.
EYECANDY
A visual technique library for visual technique lovers.
EZGIF
All the GIF-related tools you could ever need.
Facebook Creative Hub
A hub for learning about, mocking up, previewing and testing Facebook and Instagram ads
Fearless: The Art of Creative Leadership
Interviews with the world's most innovative, creative and human leaders.
flaticon
Millions of free icons.
Flim.ai
The world’s largest video stills iconographic database.
Fontpair
Free fonts and font pairings.
Frame Set
Search thousands of stills from commercials, music videos, and movies.
Free Faces
A collection of free typefaces.
Free Fonts - Awwwards
An awwwesome collection of free fonts.
Freepik
Free vector art, illustrations, photos, mockups, etc.
Globe Explorer
An AI-powered search tool focused on knowledge topics rather than web page results. Interactive and visual.
Google Rich Media Gallery
Browse a gallery of innovative rich media digital banner examples.
Grammarly
Instantly generate clear, compelling writing while maintaining your unique voice.
GraphicBurger
Tasty design mockups. Free for both personal & commercial use.
Hemingway
Uses AI to make your writing bold and clear.
icons8
Large icon packs of over 10k icons, so you can find visually consistent icons for all your designs
IG Fonts
Generate text fonts that you can copy and paste into your social posts and bios.
Jason Murray
Founder of The Toolbox (the site you’re on right now). A creative and creator sharing tools and advice for creatives wanting to build fulfilling creative careers.
Jeremy Carson
Jeremy writes helpful articles about things he wishes he knew starting out in advertising.
LottieFiles
A massive collection of free web animations.
LoveTheWorkMore.com
Free access to all of the pay-gated Cannes Lions award winning work.
Maneken
Mockups made easy. Entirely editable in the browser. Both free & paid premium mockups.
ManifestoWriting.com
How to write a manifesto—seasoned advertising copywriters share their tips and best practices.
Meta Ad Library
Search all active ads currently running on Meta social platforms.
Meta Creative Center
Ad creative tips, inspiration, and tools for creating Facebook or Instagram ads.
Meta Sound Library
Free music and sound effect that you can use across all Meta products, including ads.
Midjourney
Arguably the most aesthetically pleasing, highest quality AI image generator. Great for mockups, image reference and pitch decks.
Mixkit
Free stock music, sound fx, video footage, and templates for your next video project.
Mockup World
Tons of free PSD mockups.
Mt. Freelance
An online course, podcast and community that teaches the in’s and outs of freelance.
namelix
Generate short, brandable business names using artificial intelligence.
No Film School
The latest news, tutorials, interviews and videos about film for film professionals and enthusiasts—even if you didn’t go to film school.
Noun Project
The most comprehensive universal icon collection.
One School
A free, online portfolio school for a new generation of Black creatives.
Open Door Creative - YouTube
A YouTube channel dedicated to helping students, interns, and juniors at ad agencies build their portfolios and grow a career in advertising.
Oren John
The internet’s creative director. Oren’s Instagram, YouTube, newsletters, podcasts are all a wealth of knowledge for creatives.
Pacdora
The easiest way to design packaging—templates, dielines, 3D mockups, and downloadable animations. Affiliate or referral link.
Paletton
A tool for building color palettes.
Palitra
Search brand color palettes.
Patrick Maravilla
Patrick shares tips and advice about how to navigate your career, the ad industry, and making great work.
Pexels
Free stock photos and videos.
Photofunia
Quick, sometimes corny, picture effects generated online. No Photoshop needed.
Photopea
Is this even legal? It’s basically photoshop for free in a web browser.
Pixabay
Free stock photos and videos.
Power Thesaurus
A powerful, community-driven, user-friendly thesaurus
Previewed
Easily turn iPhone screenshots/mockups into 3D images or animations.
Public.work
A massive collection of public domain/copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources.
QuillBot
An AI-powered paraphrasing tool to enhance your writing
Randoma11y
Discover accessible and vibrant color combinations.
Real Creative Leadership
A podcast dedicated to filling the learning gap between being a creative and being a creative leader.
Find insights from the people! Start with r/showerthoughts or r/todayilearned.
Refsee
A powerful video reference search tool that includes commercials, movies, and motion design.
Resource Boy
A massive database of free design resources and mockups.
Runway
A suite of creative AI tools—video generation, editing, VFX & more.
Same.Energy
An image search engine that curates image styles together like diving down a rabbit hole of color and design.
School of Motion Podcast
An motion design industry podcast, also applicable to any creative discipline.
SHOT.CAFE
A completely free database of movie stills.
Shotdeck
The largest collection of fully searchable high-definition movie images.
Sketchfab
Search 3D models. Rotate, screenshot, and cutout for better oriented Photoshop comps.
SlidesGo
Tons of free Google Slides templates.
Smart Mockups
Create mockups right in your browser. No photoshop needed. Free and paid.
Spectacle.is
Search commercial and branded video content.
Spline
A powerful, free, user-friendly, web-based 3D app.
StuffAboutAdvertising
In case you haven’t already transitioned your entire life of continued-education to TikTok, start here.
Supahero
A library of inspiring, high-quality hero designs for every niche and style.
Talking to Ourselves
Interviews with some of the most successful creative leaders in the ad industry.
TextFX
AI-powered tools for rappers, writers and wordsmiths, from Google.
The Art of Deck Making
A deck about making decks by Aisha Hakim.
The Audacious School of Astonishing Pursuits
Online advertising courses by W+K veteran Jason Bagley. Affiliate or referral link.
The Brand Identity
This is the home of Graphic Design’s Greatest – from designers, studios, type foundries and brands operating at the top of their game, to the best products and jobs in the business.
The Creative Ladder
Connecting, inspiring and elevating an inclusive new generation of creative industry leaders.
The Drum
Advertising industry news.
The Futur
Content, courses and tools for creative professionals.
The Futur Podcast
Chris Do talks design, business and freelance topics.
The Futur | Youtube Channel
Hours of free content for creative professionals. How to freelance, what to charge, how to value your work.
The Verge
A news site about technology and how it makes us feel.
TikTok - Top Ads
Search the massive library of ads being run on TikTok.
Typewolf
Explore what’s trending in typography and fonts.
Unsplash
Free stock photos and videos.
Untools
A collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems and makes decisions.
Vimeo Staff Picks
The best short films on the internet, handpicked by Vimeo staff.
Visual Electric
An image generator built for designers. Sign up & get 100 free volts. Affiliate or referral link.
Website Headlines
Curated website headlines, organized and explained.
WhatTheFont
Identify the font in your image.
Wordmark.it
An efficient and visual way to preview and choose fonts already on your computer.
Yarn.co
Search words or phrases of dialogue from movies and TV shows. Then quickly download a GIF or video clip.
Yeah, That’s Probably an Ad
Weekly industry news, trends and insights from Adweek.
Zoe Scamon
Zoe Scamon is a creative strategy force whose thoughts and industry influence are constantly at the bleeding edge of innovation and disruption.