Why someone should go to such lengths in order to make someone money for free? Have companies just become a leech on public with tax evasion and discount and private?
Couldn't you say the same about most open source software?
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can use the illustrations as you want. The paragraph from our license which says that you can't use products to create templates, and so on, applies to our templates (containing code), not illustrations.
That's not how the MIT license works though. It says: "Permission is hereby granted, [...] without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software"
I think there are two things though, the illustrations and templates. They are claiming one of those is open source. Not both.
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#33This is great! Thank you for sharing.
But... is anyone else growing tired of the sales-pitch we're all using? And do any of us find it valuable for ourselves when we read them? We've trained ourselves (collectively, as an industry) to expect a specific type of one-page: hero image, call-out-message with CTA, then abstract illustrations combined with text about how great something is. I don't know what I want in it's place (let's be honest, I'm clearly no marketing expert!), but what we've landed on has an incredibly bad signal:noise ratio.
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#34I love this! Great job
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#35I'm working on a free and open source Windows app to both learn and demo the new C++ coroutines. I realized one metaphor for how they're implemented is a Choose Your Own Adventure story.
I wanted to have pictures with the text and choices, but although I can draw I didn't want to spend that kind of time for something that's a supporting element to the main point of the work.
These illustrations look like they'd work well for that! Unlike some of the other free image sites people shared, I think the enveloping backgrounds you provide with the foreground people and objects lends itself to storytelling use.
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#36The more and more UI and Illustration are "accessible" and "cheap/free" the more people like me who can produce quality illustrations will have big bucks.
So keep it rolling with Corporate Memphisication.
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#37This is great.
Here's a tip from a designer and engineer by craft. If you want your website or app to have a great design, then either use high-quality images, icons, illustrations, etc, or don't at all.
This might sound unwarranted, but it's true. Your typography should be great, and so should your media assets. This is what makes up most content on any website.
See this for yourself by visiting Microsoft[0] and Apple[1] websites for example. Compare the quality of their product shots, images, and illustrations, if any. See how it makes or breaks the design of the whole site.
Ofc there's a lot more to design than typography and media assets.
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#38Why someone should go to such lengths in order to make someone money for free? Have companies just become a leech on public with tax evasion and discount and private?
As someone who built a free educational platform - I do it because I want my students to have quality learning without feeding into the $300 textbook industry. I'm funded through my career, so it is a passion project. I wanted to build the thing, so I did. I'm not interested in taking on the responsibilities for making it a profitable company.
Re: Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects
#39This is great! Thank you for sharing. But... is anyone else growing tired of the sales-pitch we're all using? And do any of us find it valuable for ourselves when we read them? We've trained ourselves (collectively, as an industry) to expect a specific type of one-page: hero image, call-out-message with CTA, then abstract illustrations combined with text about how great something is. I don't know what I want in it's…
Personally I take it as a good sign if an application has an "ugly" information-dense website.
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#40Neat.
The illustrations are not nearly as cringey as the Alegria style ones I see nearly everywhere now. More reminiscent of 90s corporate Memphis. Getting Micrografx Designer flashbacks.