FREE Vintage Illustrations for your creative projects! Heritage Library collects beautiful illustrations from the past which are 100% free to use. Get inspired by our free illustration bundles and create gorgeous packaging, postcards and more.

All 2,242 of James Sowerby’s illustrations from his compendium of knowledge about mineralogy in Great Britain and beyond published between 1802 and 1817 and arranged by color.

Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup --- This is a list of smaller tools that might be useful in building your game/website/interactive project. Although I’ve mostly also included ‘standards’, this list has a focus on artful tools & toys that are as fun to use as they are functional. The goal of this list is to enable making entirely outside of closed production ecosystems or walled software gardens.

A teapot or a watering can with the spout pointing at itself. A one-inch-long ruler. A door with three doorknobs. is a collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani.

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Mix & match avatar illustrations in Sketch App with this free library.

Mix-&-match illustrations of people with a design library for InVIsion Studio and Sketch.

Open Peeps is a hand-drawn illustration library to create scenes of people. You can use them in product illustration, marketing, comics, product states, user flows, personas, storyboarding, quinceañera invitations, or whatever you want! ⠀

Your daily dose of pixelated skies and 8-bit clouds, from vintage and retro video games.

Back in 2009 I began pestering friends and random strangers. I would walk up to them with a pen and a sheet of paper asking that they immediately draw me a men’s bicycle, by heart. Soon I found out that when confronted with this odd request most people have a very hard time remembering exactly how a bike is made. Some did get close, some actually nailed it perfectly, but most ended up drawing something that was pretty far off from a regular men’s bicycle.

Along with Pink Floyd, Thorgerson and Hipgnosis were central figures in the transition from 60s psychedelia to the expansive, million-selling radio rock that defined most of the 70s. More than any single figure, he established intricately composed, surrealist photographic techniques, collages, and pictorial reappropriations as key ingredients of mainstream album art.

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Great, of course.

Great, modern, hip photography.

Beautiful photographs to demonstrate words.

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This is fun to browse through. "From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, The Museum of Modern Art's collection has grown to include 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. MoMA also owns some 22,000 films, videos, and media works, as well as film stills, scripts, posters and historical documents. The Museum's Library contains 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and the Museum Archives holds approximately 2,500 linear feet of historical documentation and a photographic archive of tens of thousands of photographs, including installation views of exhibitions and images of the Museum's building and grounds."

Cute and well-done.

"Adaptable, minimalist interfaces." Oh. My. God.

Simply a collection of beautiful book covers.

Filip Dujardin is an architect who in his spare time puts together photographs of buildings to form new structures.

Beautifully stark architectural photos. I love this stuff.

A design studio. Keep refreshing the homepage.

"Nick Veasey uses x-ray technology to create mesmerizing and intriguing art. In a world obsessed with superficial appearance it is a refreshing change to be able to look beyond the surface."

Good pictures, good overview of his work, and, of course, sage words from the designer himself.

A great collection of unique and beautiful business cards.

Another take on the "NYC" portion of the recent and much-maligned NYC taxi redesign. It is praised. The logo on its own is quite interesting, and the possibilities shown with it as a "vessel" are cool.

Brilliant art preserved in digitized notebooks and gallery technology to make the experience just as good (from the folks at Behavior). To all of my friends in NYC, *please* go see. Interesting to note how the iPhone has already raised the bar.

"experiments with hand lettering...a ongoing series based on spam subject lines in my mailbox" Excellent.