Resources

Helpful tools I’ve found along the way


 

Cool Stuff

"The Gap" - Ira Glass
The best advice for young creatives

Good Movies as Old Books
Matt Stevens makes rad book covers for good movies

Art of the Title
Archive of TV & movie title sequences

The Colors of Motion
Colors of every frame from a movie, turned into posters

Batman Onomatopoeia
Catalog of all the WHAMs, POWs and BOOMs from the original TV show

Animated Vintage Book Covers

10x18
33 artists count down their favorite albums of 2018

Video Game Skies
The art of depicting skies in video games

Activation Ideas
Index of interesting/successful brand activations

FilmGrab
Screenshots from movies

Postmortem on “Every Frame a Painting”
Great advice from a great Youtube channel

 


 

Illustrators

 


 

Art

Andy Welland
Scott Albrecht
Evan M Cohen


 

Type

workmark.it
Preview all fonts on your computer

WhatTheFont
Font identification from an image

WhatFont
Identify fonts on web pages (Chrome extension)

Jeffsum
Lorem Ipsum generator, but with Jeff Goldblum quotes

KERNTYPE
A type kerning game

SHAPETYPE
A type shaping game

 


 

Color

Picular
Google for colors

Color Leap
Color palettes through history

Adobe Color
All the color palettes

Color Scale
Create a color palette from one color

Coolors
Customizable color palette generator

Grabient
Pre-built gradients

Practical UI color guide
60-30-10 rule

Contrast
An app to help you choose colors for accessibility

Color Calculator
Pick color schemes based on common color relationships

 

 

Representation

Black Hands Holding Phones
A small but great way to get representation into decks

CreativeInsights - GettyImages
Work that challenges visual stereotypes and strives for authentic and inclusive representation

TONL
Diverse stock photos that represent the true world we live in