Top 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.

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• Graphic Design Courses
• UX/UI Courses
• Logo Design & Branding Courses
• Brand Strategy Courses
• Marketing Courses
• Animation Courses

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• 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

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Software & Services

• Adobe Creative Cloud (Get 40- 65% off!) – Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Lightroom and more!
• 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
• 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 library (get 10% off)
• RetroSupply – Retro effects for Photoshop & Illustrator
• YellowImages – 3D Object Mockups (20% off with coupon ‘justcreative20’)

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.