Are You A Mentor?

The culture of mentorship is strong within the design industry. We frequently see mentorship referenced in the bios of .design sites. It's one of the reasons we love working with designers: the community's culture is nurturing and inclusive.

One way you can be a mentor to an up-and-coming designer is to help them establish their online presence with a .design domain name! If you know a student, recent grad, or fledgling designer, forward this email or send them this link to our recent feature in Computerworld where they can register their own .design name free for one year. It'll give them a great head-start on building their online portfolio and brand presence.

In this month's edition of the digest, we have a bevy of free(mium) design goodies for you, plus a useful and important tool to help you create websites that are accessible to everyone.

THREEDEE.DESIGN

Today's .design featured site isn't just one site; it's a whole suite! ThreeDee is a 3D illustration studio creating libraries of playful, colorful, and customizable characters. Their offerings include:

avatarz.design — 8,000 combinations of 3D faces
characterz.design — the biggest 3D illustrations library in the world with 10,000,000+ combinations of full-body characters
emojiz.design — 24 handcrafted and animated 3D emojis
handz.design — give yourself a hand (or more) with this library, which includes a free version!
iconz.design — 85 custom-made 3D icons

Each library has a Blender Generator for even easier customization, and you can download free samples from every pack as well.

Visit threedee.design to see everything they have to offer!

THREEDEE.DESIGN

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In this edition:

imagecolorizer.com — colorize black and white pictures automatically and for free
experte.com/accessibility — an online tool to check whether your website is accessible to everyone
uplabs.com — find TONS of high-quality design resources, much of it for free

imagecolorizer.com

This online tool is so useful, it seems almost too good to be true! Just drop in any black-and-white image, and the Colorizer's AI technology goes to work, magically adding lifelike color to the image. You don't even need to create an account to use it. They've also developed tools to retouch and enhance photos that suffer from blurriness or low file quality, or to repair scans of damaged photographs. Save yourself some time and let imagecolorizer.com do the heavy pixel-lifting for you.

IMAGECOLORIZER.COM

experte.com/accessibility

An accessible website is one that is designed so people with disabilities can use it with ease and not miss any information. Experte.com's Accessibility Checker tests 41 features across eight categories. The tool crawls your entire site, making sure that each page can be correctly displayed by screen readers which assist blind and visually-impaired users. Check it out and ensure that your web design can be enjoyed by everyone.

EXPERTE.COM/ACCESSIBILITY

uplabs.com

This. Site. Has. Everything. With templates, icons, mockups, fonts, and more, uplabs.com is the one-stop-shop every designer needs to bookmark. There are lots of free downloads mixed in with paid options, so you'll be sure to find something you can use. The site is extremely well organized and packed with design goodies. Stop by and grab some shiny new toys to play with!

UPLABS.COM

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