Toolbox Database

The most inspiring creative commerce, brand experience & activation ideas.

Advertising industry news.

The site is constantly updated with the best, most recent ads in the world.

Advertising industry news.

The ad agency world from the inside. Covering the latest big moves and breaking agency news.

Aisha is a creative leader, an extremely generous sharer, and creator of The Art of Deck Making.

Reference aggregation. A garden of ideas. Tumblr meets Wikipedia.

Beautiful movie & TV show titles.

The awards for design, creativity and innovation on the internet.

Buck, a leading animation and creative production company, hosts podcast interviews with a wide range of creative people in and outside the industry.

A creative network for showcasing and discovering creative work. A great place to get inspired.

Free, and simple chatbot mockup tool.

Search your clients brand logos, fonts, colors, socials, and more.

A generous writer, coach and mentor whose side projects and proactive work push the industry in a more diverse and accessible direction.

Interviews with advertising people about how they broke into the industry.

Content creator, educator and founder of The Future, Chris helps creatives build businesses.

Upscale, denoise and enhance your images in seconds.

Generate text graphics and logotypes online for free.

Get a quick, auto-generated color palette.

Quickly copy & paste emojis, icons, and special characters.

Everything ever awarded at D&AD for the last 60 years.

Dave Dye is a true “art director’s art director” and his Pinterest feed is a visual feast.

Idea generation tools, conceptual devices or frameworks for creative professionals.

A curation of nicely designed pitch decks, brand guideline decks, and others decks. Decks.

Like Pinterest, but more design-focused.

An advertising podcasts focused on the needs of students and juniors. Hosted by a professor from The Creative Circus.

Explore the world’s leading design portfolios.

A powerful image reference manager. Pinterest on steroids. It costs a one-time $30 for life. How refreshing.

A young art director sharing thoughts on creativity and highlighting artists and photographers.

A visual technique library for visual technique lovers.

All the GIF-related tools you could ever need.

A hub for learning about, mocking up, previewing and testing Facebook and Instagram ads

Interviews with the world's most innovative, creative and human leaders.

A library of high quality movie stills for keyframes, mood boards and general deck vibes.

Millions of free icons.

The world’s largest video stills iconographic database.

Search thousands of stills from commercials, music videos, and movies.

A collection of free typefaces.

An awwwesome collection of free fonts.

Free vector art, illustrations, photos, mockups, etc.

Browse a gallery of innovative rich media digital banner examples.

Instantly generate clear, compelling writing while maintaining your unique voice.

Tasty design mockups. Free for both personal & commercial use.

Uses AI to make your writing bold and clear.

Large icon packs of over 10k icons, so you can find visually consistent icons for all your designs

Generate text fonts that you can copy and paste into your social posts and bios.

Jeremy writes helpful articles about things he wishes he knew starting out in advertising.

A massive collection of free web animations.

Free access to all of the pay-gated Cannes Lions award winning work.

Search all active ads currently running on Meta social platforms.

Ad creative tips, inspiration, and tools for creating Facebook or Instagram ads.

Free stock music, sound fx, video footage, and templates for your next video project.

 Tons of free PSD mockups.

An online course, podcast and community that teaches the in’s and outs of freelance.

Generate short, brandable business names using artificial intelligence.

The latest news, tutorials, interviews and videos about film for film professionals and enthusiasts—even if you didn’t go to film school.

The most comprehensive universal icon collection.

A free, online portfolio school for a new generation of Black creatives.

A YouTube channel dedicated to helping students, interns, and juniors at ad agencies build their portfolios and grow a career in advertising.

A tool for building color palettes.

Search brand color palettes.

Patrick shares tips and advice about how to navigate your career, the ad industry, and making great work.

Free stock photos and videos.

Quick, sometimes corny, picture effects generated online. No Photoshop needed.

Is this even legal? It’s basically photoshop for free in a web browser.

Free stock photos and videos.

A powerful, community-driven, user-friendly thesaurus

Easily turn iPhone screenshots/mockups into 3D images or animations.

An AI-powered paraphrasing tool to enhance your writing

Discover accessible and vibrant color combinations.

A massive database of real ad industry salaries organized by company, location, gender, race, and nationality.

A podcast dedicated to filling the learning gap between being a creative and being a creative leader.

Find insights from the people! Start with r/showerthoughts or r/todayilearned.

A powerful video reference search tool that includes commercials, movies, and motion design.

A popular ad industry parody account that is both helpful and hilarious.

An image search engine that curates image styles together like diving down a rabbit hole of color and design.

An motion design industry podcast, also applicable to any creative discipline.

Search 3D models. Rotate, screenshot, and cutout for better oriented Photoshop comps.

Tons of free Google Slides templates.

Create mockups right in your browser. No photoshop needed. Free and paid.

Search commercial and branded video content.

A powerful, free, user-friendly, web-based 3D app.

In case you haven’t already transitioned your entire life of continued-education to TikTok, start here.

Interviews with some of the most successful creative leaders in the ad industry.

AI-powered tools for rappers, writers and wordsmiths, from Google.

A deck about making decks by Aisha Hakim.

An online course, podcast, and videos from W+K veteran Jason Bagley.

This is the home of Graphic Design’s Greatest – from designers, studios, type foundries and brands operating at the top of their game, to the best products and jobs in the business.

Connecting, inspiring and elevating an inclusive new generation of creative industry leaders.

Advertising industry news.

Content, courses and tools for creative professionals.

Hours of free content for creative professionals. How to freelance, what to charge, how to value your work.

Chris Do talks design, business and freelance topics.

A news site about technology and how it makes us feel.

Search the massive library of ads being run on TikTok.

Explore what’s trending in typography and fonts.

Free stock photos and videos.

A collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems and makes decisions.

The best short films on the internet, handpicked by Vimeo staff.

We Are Next is a resource for students and junior talent beginning their careers in advertising and marketing.

An efficient and visual way to preview and choose fonts already on your computer.

Search words or phrases of dialogue from movies and TV shows. Then quickly download a GIF or video clip.

Weekly industry news, trends and insights from Adweek

Zoe Scamon is a creative strategy force whose thoughts and industry influence are constantly at the bleeding edge of innovation and disruption.