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In this piece, we summarize the key takeaways of a live conversation with professional illustrator and Skillshare teacher Tom Froese. Tom has done client work for noteworthy brands and taught of 120K students his unique methods of illustration. We cover how to establish a style, build career momentum, and gauge what’s really working.
Use Noun Project’s 2025 Content Calendar to plan all your marketing and social media content needs.
In this post, we cover the top 6 free Figma plugins for icons. We explain what brought us to rank them this way, and what the pros and cons of each are.
Celebrate winter holidays and ring in the New Year with festive icons and photos.
Noun Project’s Figma Icons plugin gives you access to millions of professionally designed icons right where you work. Whether you design with Figma Design, FigJam, Figma Slides or Figma Buzz – search, select, insert and customize stunning icons right inside the apps.
Looking for free icons for Adobe Express? Here’s why Noun Project is the best place to download high-quality, customizable icons for Adobe Express designs—whether you’re creating social posts, presentations, flyers, or short videos.
Looking for free icons for Notion? Learn why Noun Project is the best place to get beautifully designed, royalty-free icons for Notion pages, whether you’re managing a project, organizing a client space, or a team workspace.
Use Noun Project icons to DIY your way to the best Halloween pumpkin yet 🎃
Searching for the best place to get icons for your Word doc? In this short blog post, we’ll tell you why Noun Project is the top choice for free icons for Microsoft Word, which icons work best, and how to use them.
For over 15 years, Noun Project has been the go-to platform for UI designers, developers, and product teams looking for high-quality, free and affordable icons. With over 8 million total icons and more than 90,000 UI icons – plus a REST API for developers – it’s widely considered the best source for UI icons.
If you've ever asked yourself, "Where can I get icons for my resume?"—you're not alone. ...
Whether you're building a campaign for Instagram, designing a Facebook ad, or publishing a...
Looking for the Best Website to Get Free Icons With Transparent Backgrounds? Noun Project offers millions of PNG icons with no background color or shapes, with added customization and search filter features to save you time.
Looking for worry-free free icons you can use without any attribution or copyrights? Noun Project is the top website for free Public Domain icons with no need to provide attribution.
Designers often ask “Where can I get matching icon sets?” or “What’s the best icon website for icons with a consistent style?” This post explores why Noun Project is the best choice for downloading visually cohesive icons.
Looking for the best icon website? Discover why Noun Project is the best place to find high-quality, royalty-free icons for your website, including free icons for personal or commercial use.
If you’re a freelance designer, in-house creative, entrepreneur, or a developer of an app, you’ve...
Designing for Print on Demand (POD) doesn’t have to take hours or even require design experience....
Design with confidence by getting a firm hold of different icon styles and file formats using this quick guide.
UX designers know the importance of using clear, well designed icons. In this article, we’ll share why top brands and professionals in the space choose Noun Project over any other.
What’s the best approach in icon design: minimalism or details?
We’ve listened to your feedback— Now, we’re making it easier than ever to search icons with new Style and Line Weight filters.
Redditors have had a lively discussion about who they deem the all-time greatest graphic designers and why. Here are their top picks.
If you’re looking for the best icon sites for commercial use, this guide will help you find the perfect resources—whether free or paid.
25 free icons dedicated to accessibility and inclusion, created in partnership with Disability:IN, SVA, and Canva.
Here’s our step-by-step method to add images to your slide deck in Keynote, whether you’re working with icons or photos.
Dive into the best practices, product page layout examples, and optimization tips to help you drive engagement and boost conversions on your site.
Explore the best options for integrating SVG graphics and icons into your software products, and what factors should play into your decision.
Learn a quick and easy method to add images to your slide deck in Google Slides, including both icons and photos.
This guide will walk you through the process of making and customizing icons to help you elevate your visuals, strengthen your brand identity, and ultimately, save time and resources.
Here are 11 practical, actionable tips that will help you craft a graphic designer resume and portfolio that get noticed.
On October 19, attendees gathered at SVA’s MFA Interaction Design Studio to create new icons focused on accessibility and inclusion.
These are the top free design tools and apps you can access on the web (no software required!)
Learn our tips and best practices to design an effective marketing presentation to help meet your goals and KPIs.
Creating a beautiful Powerpoint presentation can be the single most impactful part of delivering your message. Here’s how to use images, icons, and photos to the strongest effect.
Read our tips to crafting a strategic, well-structured story that resonates with your audience and drives a buyer to take action.
Dive into how using icons in data visualizations—like charts, maps, and infographics—can elevate your product’s user experience and ultimately help your users make better decisions
Check out some of the best sites to get free SVG & PNG icons for your projects in 2026.
If you’re contributing multiple icons to Noun Project around a certain topic or theme, here are the top design considerations to help you create a cohesive and unified set.
This guide will explore the importance of visual storytelling and the tools you’ll need to elevate your slide decks, marketing reports, and business presentations with diverse and compelling icons and images.
Learn how the principles of grouping and proximity can help make your graphic design compositions more scannable and clear.
These online tools will help you quickly find beautiful, harmonious color schemes to use in your designs – without all the guesswork.
As part of our “Design Fundamentals” series, learn how to utilize alignment and grid systems to bring order and cohesion to your compositions.
Learn how rhythm, repetition, and pattern can make your designs both more digestible and more dynamic.
In this series, we’re sharing conversations about work, life, and the future with some of today’s most influential designers and artists.
Learn how to use balance and white space in your designs by distributing your elements to promote visual flow.
Learn how to effectively use the principle of hierarchy to direct the viewer’s focus.
Learn how to use icons in Notion to visually organize tasks, projects, and notes for everyday use.
We’ve updated the submission requirements for icons that depict well-recognized symbols and common objects like food items and buildings.
Learn how to set yourself up for success with grid systems and vector editing tools.
Explore these helpful resources on how to create presentations that are beautiful, memorable, and make an impact.
Ring in the season with creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky icons and photos deep from the Noun Project vaults.
Canva is a free, beginner-friendly web-based design tool that allows you to quickly create amazing graphic designs with icons and other elements.
We’ve rounded up some of our favorite FREE tools and resources for design, branding, project management, and more.
Browse through thousands of cozy autumn photos and icon collections to get into the spirit of the season.
In this series, we’re sharing conversations about work, life, and the future with some of today’s most influential designers and artists.
Noun Project launches a new collection of 30 icons dedicated to celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. Created in partnership with Out & Equal, Human Rights Campaign, and Canva, all icons are available for free as Public Domain.
Celebrate the sunny season with our favorite summer-themed icon and photo collections.
Learn how to use Noun Project to create your own illustrations and add a more personalized, expressive touch to your brand.
Join Noun Project, Canva, Out & Equal, and Human Rights Campaign for a community design workshop to create new icons for the public domain.
From Public Domain icon and photo collections to free editable templates, here are our top graphic design freebies to ring in the summer of 2023.
In this series, we’re sharing conversations about work, life, and the future with some of today’s most influential designers and artists.
Save time by tracking and organizing your most common design assets and making them components in Figma.
Learn how to store and organize your assets with clear usage rules – and how Lingo can make brand management a breeze.
Canva users now have access to a curated selection of icons from Noun Project to add to their creations.
Learn how to design better surveys, quizzes and forms with Typeform using our Icon API.
Web-based design platform Adobe Express offers a streamlined way to make design accessible to everyone.
Learn how the visual collaboration platform Mural uses our Icon API to help teams unlock their creative power.
We’ve been rounding up our favorite examples of creators stepping beyond the screen and getting crafty with icons.
Ring in the holidays and celebrate the spirit of giving by scoping out these freebies from Noun Project!
All you need is a printer, glue, and a precision knife to make these delightfully minimal paper gift boxes.
Add a more personalized flare to your holiday shopping this year by customizing gifts on Zazzle with icons!
Here are the do’s and don’ts of using icons effectively in your user interface designs.
Learn some of the most common symbols and their meanings, and see how you can successfully implement universal symbols into your graphic design.
Need some inspiration for your next project — or a laugh? These graphic design quotes are perfect to get your creative juices flowing or to send to your client.
Learn how to use Figma’s Auto Layout tool to quickly add padding and alignment rules to standardize your design elements.
If you’re looking to get something printed professionally, you may be considering an EPS file format. Here’s what you need to know.
When it comes to RGB vs. CMYK, what’s the difference? These color modes are best for different design formats — RGB for digital work and CMYK for print.
The Amsterdam-based designer and illustrator shares his tips for making clean, consistent, minimal geometric designs using grid systems in Illustrator.
What are marketing materials? This guide covers the basics of marketing materials and practical examples of what they can look like.
These creative menu design ideas are effective and will look great in your restaurant or cafe. You don’t need to be a designer to create a menu that stands out.
What are royalty-free images? This guide will help you understand royalty licensing and how to properly use royalty-free images in your next blog post.
Good color combinations are used in a variety of contexts, from web design to branding. Understand the basics and see examples to inspire your own color choices.
Graphic design is an important field that shapes the visual environment of our world. Learn about 10 types of graphic design and how to make it your career.
Jake “JP” Hytken, DEI & ERG Engagement Manager for Snap Inc., helped Snap introduce the first wheelchair Bitmojis – and shares his tips on how people can better represent disability in design.
This is a visual guide on different graphic design styles and their characteristics, along with beautiful illustration examples to inspire your next design.
Vector graphics are composed of lines, curves and dots that are based on mathematical formulas created through design software.
Need some infographic inspiration? Learn how to create interesting visuals with our favorite infographic examples and an easy five-step process.
Learn how to create visual notes for deeper learning and retention.
Raster and vector graphic file formats both offer advantages and disadvantages. Learn about the differences between raster vs. vector and how to use them effectively.
Animate your user interface design with Noun Project in Figma using these tips.
Design your own creative (and free) Valentine using Adobe Express with Noun Project icons.
The illustrator, designer, and “Cat Artist” shares his tips on making design more personal and expressive.
Read our tips about how to make your presentation designs more visually powerful, using PowerPoint, Google Slides and more
Corporate logos of the absurd: Artist Michael A. Salter reacts to visual culture through his uniquely surreal icon designs.
Step beyond flat design and add dimension to your icons with neumorphic effects in Figma.
Just starting out in the world of design? Check out these helpful tips from some of the top designers and illustrators shaping the future of the industry.
Celebrate nature and outdoor recreation with stunning photo and icon collections on Noun Project.
Learn icon design basics in Adobe Illustrator from French Graphic Designer Adrien Coquet.
John Caserta is a Graphic Design professor at RISD and the founder of a design-centered coworking space. Learn about John’s creative path and advice for budding designers.
Learn about the history of illustration and different analog or digital illustration techniques.
Drag and drop SVG files directly into your workspace from the Noun Project Mac App and our Plugins...
Celebrate Women’s History Month and use one-of-a-kind visuals year-round with these icon collections and photographs from outstanding members of our Creator Community.
Learn how to use the rule of thirds in design as a simple way to bring a greater sense of visual balance into the frame, while consciously directing the viewer’s attention to key elements.
Discover how to make a repeating pattern in Photoshop with icons, gradient fills, and other Photoshop effects.
Book Creator is a simple tool for creating awesome digital books for any subject and grade level. We spoke with Book Creator’s Dan Kemp about how students can combine text, images, Noun Project icons and more to make engaging digital books that demonstrate their learning.
Luis elevates the familiar pictogram style to dazzlingly witty, socially incisive new heights.
Learn some of the best tips for using images and photos in PowerPoint to make better presentations.
Noun Project’s Redefining Women Iconathon series will bring creative communities together to design new public domain icons that more accurately represent the women (and men) of today.
Use these free templates to create engaging, highly visual educational materials with Noun Project icons.
Create visual lessons and augment student learning with these classroom-friendly icons.
You don’t have to be a professional designer to create engaging, educational infographics with attention-grabbing icons.
Bring your creative vision to life with millions of icons now available in Projector. Projector is...
Refer to these technical guidelines when creating icons to submit to Noun Project. Anyone can...
Make the most of your meetings by using MURAL and Noun Project to visually collaborate.
Make an eye-catching repeating icon pattern using Adobe Illustrator.
Want to make your icons pop off the screen? Use Adobe Illustrator to add your own custom color palettes and add multiple hues to a single icon with this method.
Noun Project was founded in 2011 with a mission to build a global visual language to unite the...
Choose from over 3,000 mandala icons to print out and color at home. Adult coloring books have...
Noun Project icons are now available in Typeform to help you create easy, fun surveys for everyone.
Icons to help communicate important hygiene, health and wellness information. During an emergency,...
Cozy up for the colder months with these wintry icon and photo collections.
From robots to brains and lightning bolts, representing concepts related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be complicated. Noun Project recently teamed up with Essence, a data science and measurement-driven agency, for an Iconathon to create a new collection of icons that better represent key concepts in AI.
Tips for designing icons that depict gender from Noun Project’s lead content curator Erika Kim.
Noun Project launches a new collection of 60+ icons representing women in design, technology and leadership positions, available for free as Public Domain.
Here at Noun Project we’ve been working with Google to bring over 1 million icons directly into...
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to animate your icons using Adobe Photoshop. Skill Level:...
On Saturday, April 20, participants gathered to create more equal and accurate representations of women in design and creative leadership positions.
On Saturday, March 23 we hosted our second Redefining Women Iconathon at The Riveter in West Los Angeles. 50 participants gathered to create more equal and accurate representations of women in leadership positions.
Over 50 participants gathered at General Assembly’s SF campus for an Iconathon design workshop to create new icons for more equal and accurate representation of women in business and entrepreneurship.
Our curation team is responsible for reviewing every icon that’s submitted to Noun Project for consideration. Lead curator Erika Kim shares how we evaluate and curate content so our users have access to the most diverse collection of icons ever.
Butterfly icon by Jacqueline Fernandes With advanced editing features, you now have more control...
Deanna Henderson of Minibeast Wildlife shares how their latest app puts spider identification in...
Add some flair to your Slack workspace with millions of Noun Project icons.
One of the earliest formal depictions of race was the International System of Typographic Picture...
With the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Noun Project Creator Spotlight
We interviewed Salih Abdul-Karim, Airbnb’s design lead and animator, to learn how he turned Noun Project’s icons into moving animations with a new tool called Lottie.
Iconathon with Cree, Inc.