Top Tools & Resources
Courses
- SkillShare – Get 2 weeks of Skillshare Premium for free and get access to thousands of online classes in design, photography, business, and more.
- Udemy – As a JUST Creative reader, you get 70-95% off 35,000+ online courses to teach you practically anything, including design.
- Graphic Design Courses
- UX/UI Courses
- Logo Design & Branding Courses
- Brand Strategy Courses
- Marketing Courses
- Animation Courses
- Best Skillshare Courses
- Best Udemy Courses
- Best Coursera Courses
- Best Futur Courses for Design & Business
Design Bundle Deals
- DesignCuts – Every 2 weeks they offer an extremely high quality design bundle deal plus get 30-50% off in their marketplace.
- FontBundles – Free fonts and font bundle deals.
- My Logo Font Bundle – Get 5 of my fav logo fonts for 50% off
Top Gear for 2021
Looking for a new laptop, monitor, tablet, camera, or electronics?
Software & Services
- Adobe Creative Cloud (Get 40- 65% off!) – Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Lightroom and more! View all Adobe Creative Cloud Discounts
- CorelDRAW Discounts – Get 10-80% off
- SmartMockups – Create stunning mockups with ease, without Photoshop.
- Dropbox – Backups & cloud storage for all your files.
- Logo Package Express – Export logo files in just one click.
- Astute Graphics – Illustrator plugins to speed up your work flow.
- Moo Printing – Business card printing and more. Get 25% Off.
- WebFlow – Create websites without code
- LegalZoom – Trademark registration
- Aweber – Email newsletters
- Termly – GDPR, CCPA, ePrivacy compliancy for small businesses
Books
- Logo Design Books
- Branding Books
- Brand Strategy Books
- Business & Design Books
- Blinkist – No time to read? Listen to summarised audio books!
Hosting
- BlueHost – BlueHost is my recommended web host for small to mid-sized businesses. Easy to use, great value, great support and my first choice for clients. Just Creative readers save 43% off their hosting. See my tutorial on how to set up your own website.
- Media Temple – Have been hosting with them since 2010 and can highly recommend for high performance, high trafficked websites.
Accounting & Business
- FreshBooks – Accounting & invoicing (60% off)
- HoneyBooks – Client management software (get 50% off)
- Bonsai – Proposals, contracts, time tracking, and invoices (2 months free)
- Dubsado – All-in-one business management solution
- Monday.com – Project management for teams
- GrindKit – Bundle of templates for freelancers (eg. proposal, contracts & more)
- TransferWise – Send international transfers for less
Stock Photography
- Shutterstock – Highly recommended stock photography & vectors.
- iStock – Another great stock photos provider.
Design Assets, Themes, Fonts
- Envato Elements – Get unlimited downloads of 50+ Million Design Assets including CMS Templates, HTML Templates, Fonts, InDesign Files, Stock Photos, Mockups and much more.
- MyFonts – Where I go to look for fonts, with regular deals.
- ThemeForest – Top tier website templates & themes for WordPress, HTML, Email, Joomla and Magento.
- Brand Style Guide Template – Get 20% off with code ‘just20’
- Streamline Icons – The world’s largest icon & illustration library (get 10% off)
- RetroSupply – Retro effects for Photoshop & Illustrator
- YellowImages – 3D Object Mockups (20% off with coupon ‘justcreative20’)
- View all Design Assets
All of the products & companies listed above are those I work with and can attest to their quality. I wouldn’t recommend them otherwise. Full disclosure, the links are affiliate links, meaning I get a little cut if you buy anything, at no extra cost to you.