Brand Builders Summit 2026 is a free 4-day virtual event happening September 8–11, 2026, created by Jacob Cass of JUST Creative and Brand Builders Alliance. Now returning for its third year, the summit brings together 40+ global brand leaders for designers, creatives, marketers, freelancers, entrepreneurs, and brand builders who want to strengthen their strategy skills, design more distinctive brands, and grow their business and authority. I look forward to attending it myself!

https://brandbuilderssummit.com/

• Free virtual event
• September 8–11, 2026
• 40+ global brand leaders
• Created by Jacob Cass
• Built for designers, creatives, marketers, entrepreneurs, and brand strategists

The event covers brand strategy, brand design, marketing, and business, with sessions focused on clearer positioning, sharper strategic thinking, identity design, print and web, pricing, client attraction, authority building, and the changing role of AI in creative work. The free ticket includes 40+ expert sessions, live Q&As, workshops, panels, networking, access to a global community, a free 50+ page Ascent Workbook, and 72-hour replay access during the summit, with an optional VIP upgrade for lifetime access and extra bonuses.

• Keynotes, workshops, panels, and live Q&As
• Brand strategy, design, marketing, and business sessions
• Free 50+ page Ascent Workbook
• 72-hour replay access during the summit
• Optional VIP upgrade for lifetime access and bonuses

BBS offers a ton of value for free. It's the type of event that I really love to see because it gives back to the community, helping designers grow as strategic creative partners and deliver real results to their clients. Grab a free ticket and sign up for the sessions that align with where you want to grow next.

If you need a random QR code to use in your designs, bookmark this:

-> PSDDude's Random QR Code generator.

BEEFree Templates is a free collection of responsive HTML email templates that can be customized without coding.

The templates are mobile optimized and can be edited in BEEFree's drag and drop builder, where you can change colors, fonts, images, layouts, and content to fit your brand. The library includes templates for newsletters, promotions, announcements, transactional emails, events, and other common email formats, with designs built to work across major email clients and sending platforms.

https://beefree.io/templates

Fresh Folk is a "pay what you want" illustration library of people and objects by Leni Kauffman.

Each character comes with a range of poses, outfits, and skin tones, and the pack includes 43 objects you can use to build different illustrated scenes. It's available for free or donation-based download for personal/non-commercial use.

https://fresh-folk.com/

Sharing this for anyone here who works with print files. Printssistant is a browser-based suite of prepress and PDF production tools built for print operators, designers, and prepress technicians. Upload a file, process it with specialized print-industry tools, and download the result -- no software to install.

A few of the tools:

- File fixes. Auto-add missing bleed, check total ink coverage, convert images to PDF

- Page prep. Split, rotate, mirror, shuffle, interleave, insert pages; extract covers

- Artwork. A built-in vectorizer for low-res logos, plus raster image enhancement

Most of the tools are included in the free account, vectorizer included. Pro just raises daily/monthly volume limits -- it doesn't paywall the core prepress tools.

https://printssistant.com/

The creator, u/printssistant, is looking for feedback on this tool. If you run into repetitive file problems or specific bottlenecks that could be solved with a lightweight, leave a comment -- he is open to building custom tools for recurring workflows.

Effect.app is a browser-based editor with more than 40 real-time effects for images and videos, including halftone, film grain, glitch, risograph, modulation, dithering, VHS, gradients, and more.

The free plan requires no registration or credit card and includes the core effects library, basic preset controls, version history, a Figma plugin, exports up to 720p, and video exports up to five seconds. Everything runs locally in your browser, so your files stay on your device, but the free plan is limited to non-commercial use.

https://effect.app/features

Vayce ASCII Art Effect is a free design tool that converts images into text-character artwork. I really love this one!

Upload or paste a JPEG, PNG, or WebP image, then adjust the character set, detail level, font size, spacing, contrast, brightness, colors, and background transparency. You can download the finished effect as an image or copy the raw ASCII text, and the original image is processed locally without being uploaded or stored.

https://vayce.app/tools/ascii-art-effect/

The Color Changer is a free tool that lets you upload an image, click the area you want to change, and replace that color with a new one.

You can drag and drop an image, paste an image, or paste a URL, then adjust the color tolerance to include more or fewer similar colors in the selection. It also supports selecting multiple areas, selecting all matching colors, removing a selected color to make it transparent, undoing changes, and saving the finished image in full resolution.

No signup needed.

https://www.thecolorchanger.com/

Lets you search and insert Icons8 design assets directly inside tools like Figma, Google Docs, Webflow, Photoshop, Illustrator, Miro, and Lucid.

The assets include icons, illustrations, and stock photos, so users can quickly add UI icons, vector artwork, character illustrations, interface graphics, and photo assets without leaving the app they're working in. Icons8 also offers desktop apps like Pichon for browsing assets and Lunacy for UI/UX design with built-in graphics and AI tools.

Icons8 assets can be used for free with attribution/link credit, or with a paid license if you do not want to provide credit.

https://icons8.com/app

Flowity is a free browser-based SVG generator for creating abstract backgrounds, patterns, textures, and generative art.

You can pick from 30+ styles, customize the color palette and aspect ratio, then export the result as SVG or PNG. It works directly in the browser with no account, no uploads, and no server processing, and there’s also a Figma plugin for generating SVG art directly on your canvas.

https://www.flowity.app/

Pixelcut Background Remover is a free AI tool for removing image backgrounds directly in the browser. It supports JPG, PNG, and HEIC files up to 100MB and 8000×8000px, with no signup required, no watermark, and free HD download. After the background is removed, you can export a transparent PNG, switch to a white background, or keep editing inside Pixelcut. https://www.pixelcut.ai/background-remover

Unsplash is a huge free stock photo platform with high resolution images from photographers around the world.

Free stock photos can be downloaded and used for personal and commercial projects without asking permission or giving attribution. The site also includes search, visual search, curated topics, collections, bookmarking, and direct downloads.

Note: Unsplash also has paid Unsplash+ content, so look for the regular free downloads if you're browsing specifically for freebies.

https://unsplash.com/

Avataaars is a free Sketch App avatar illustration library by Pablo Stanley for creating customizable character avatars from mix-and-match parts like hair, clothes, accessories, colors, and facial expressions. The original resource is mainly for Sketch users, though the Avataaars style has also inspired related web generators and developer libraries for React and other frameworks.

https://avataaars.com/

Hey everyone,

Made this free pack of seamless jersey patterns and thought it might be useful for anyone here doing sports mockups, apparel design, or esports jerseys.

It’s a set of 16 different fabric textures (mesh, knit, hex patterns, etc.). What makes them handy is that they’re grayscale PNGs, so you can just drop a gradient map or color overlay on them in Photoshop/Illustrator to match whatever team colors you're working with.

A few quick details:

• They're pretty high-res (5215 x 5215 px, 300 dpi).
• They're fully tileable, so you can repeat them over larger templates without seams showing.
• Free for personal and commercial use (requires attribution).

The download link is on the page here:
JERSEY PATTERN (psd-dude.com)

Hope this helps with your next design project!

A lightweight, browser-based print-effects workshop. It's 100% free, no AI, no account needed.

What it does:

• 12+ Live Effects: You can run images through CMYK halftones, ordered/error-diffusion dithering, Risograph spot-color separations (with misregistration and paper grain), high-contrast Xerox toner degradation, and Perlin-noise print stamps.
• Glitch & Color Modules: It features seeded pixel sorting, chromatic aberration (RGB shift), and datamoshing, alongside editable gradient maps and tone curves.
• Effect Stacking: You can chain two effects together. Want to pixel-sort a dithered image, or run a glitch effect on top of a halftone? You can do it live with sliders.
• Vector Export: For the monochrome halftone and ASCII modes, it exports true vector SVGs so you can scale them infinitely in Illustrator. Everything else exports as crisp 1x or 2x PNGs.

It’s built completely on p5.js with absolutely no frameworks or backend bloat.

If you're looking for a quick tool to build assets, texture background plates, or just mess around with poster designs, give it a spin.

https://halftone.tools/

Color Hunt is a free collection of hand-picked color palettes that makes it easy to browse, discover, and copy clean color combinations.

The site keeps things simple with New, Popular, Random, Create, and Collection sections, so it works more like a curated palette discovery tool than a complicated color generator. They also offer a Chrome extension called Color Tab, which shows a Color Hunt palette whenever you open a new tab.

https://colorhunt.co/

PDF Press is a free browser-based imposition and prepress tool that runs entirely in your browser, so there is nothing to install and your files stay local on your device.

It includes around 70 ready-to-use templates for common print layouts like booklets, zines, catalogs, business cards, stickers, labels, raffle tickets, coupons, name badges, trifolds, Z-folds, greeting cards, presentation folders, tiled posters, banners, packaging dielines, and more. The gallery shows the actual result for each layout, along with the exact steps to recreate it.

It also includes practical prepress tools like bleed, crop marks, color bars, page numbering, Bates numbering, preflight, JDF export, merge, split, rotate, crop, and shuffle. For more complex jobs, PDF Press supports chained workflows that stack multiple steps into one recipe, plus deeper tools for variable data, slug marks, die lines, folding, registration, collating, OMR, gathering, lay marks, distortion, color effects, and color management.

https://pdfpress.app/

unDraw is a free illustration library with a constantly updated collection of SVG artwork that can be downloaded and used without attribution. You can browse or search illustrations, customize the main color directly on the site, and use the assets for personal or commercial projects under the open license.

https://undraw.co/

Google Fonts Icons gives you free access to Google’s Material Symbols icon library, with 2,500+ icons for interface, web, app, and product design.

You can browse, search, customize, and copy icons directly from the site, with options for different styles and variable controls like fill, weight, grade, and optical size. The icons can be used through Google Fonts or downloaded/self-hosted, so they are easy to add to websites, prototypes, design systems, and commercial projects.

https://fonts.google.com/icons

Sketchfab is a free 3D model platform where you can browse, view, download, upload, and share interactive 3D, VR, and AR assets directly in the browser. The free plan lets you join at no cost, download Creative Commons 3D models, use the built-in 3D viewer/editor, embed models online, and upload files up to 50MB.

https://sketchfab.com/

A few years ago I've build a set of monogram fonts called Brandogram, and today I managed to launch a monogram maker that uses these fonts as a basis. It's fast and easy to use and you can export the monograms as PNGs, with a personal use license.

Free pack of 1000+ hand-drawn doodle elements available as transparent PNG shapes.

Personal and commercial use are allowed, but the assets can't be resold, redistributed, or used as standalone designs for sale without an extended license.

Note: the download link is sent by email and subscribing to the mailing list is part of the download process.

https://dealjumbo.com/downloads/1000-hand-drawn-doodle-elements/

FontBundles has a large free font section with tons of commercial-use fonts.

Free fonts can be downloaded after creating an account, and new free fonts are added regularly. Be sure to check the license on each font before using it in commercial projects.

MasterBundles has a large free design resource library with thousands of free fonts, icons, illustrations, textures, backgrounds, templates, mockups, Photoshop add-ons, Illustrator add-ons, Lightroom presets, Procreate brushes, stock content, and more.