A Few Words With Bigstock+Printed Winner Claire Montgomery

A few weeks ago we announced our Easter-themed competition with printed.com, hosted on Pinterest. Now that Easter’s past, we’re delighted to announce our winner of 300 Bigstock credits: Claire Montgomery. Claire is a Brighton-based illustrator and designer specializing in hand crafted, often surreal collage illustrations. She likes to combine traditional paper craft processes with unusual…

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Cleaning Up With Bigstock

Do you know how hard it is to make Spring Cleaning look colorful and cool? Well, we dug in anyway, scoured our collection, and gussied up an all-new lightbox of spring photos and vectors just for you. True, we can’t help you with your own spring time chores, but we do think this collection of…

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Eggs-citing Easter Photos

We’ve been scrambling all morning to get this brand-new collection of Easter egg photos out to you, but ultimately, it was over … easy. (Give us time, we’ll think of a few more egg puns.) Truly, we’re shocked the decorators of these eggs didn’t crack under the pressure. (Told ya.) Hard-boiled and bold, these images…

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Happy Free Cone Day!

Although we do scream for ice cream, we’ll never forgive Ben or Jerry for limiting Coffee, Coffee, BuzzBuzzBuzz to only their Scoop Shop. They’ve won us back though, with their “Free Cone Day”, which takes place everywhere today. Inspired by their show of generosity, we’ve put together this collection of ice-cream photos and vectors. Cool…

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Plaid-Men!

Sometime late last night, a memo went out to all the young gents at Bigstock declaring Tuesday March 20th “Plaid Day.” OK, not really, but we couldn’t resist a quick photo op for this ridiculous coincidence. And while we’re at it, here’s a gallery of some stellar plaid photos and vectors to help you plan…

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How to Place Images Onto 3D Objects

A Photoshop tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pureworks, Victoria Jordan. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to superimpose images onto 3D objects in Photoshop. I picked a cube as our simple 3D object, and 3 spring-themed Bigstock photos to go on the sides. I’m going to copy and paste a square section…

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Rock Your Shamrock in Style

With so many colorful symbols and images to choose from, St. Patrick’s Day is a designer’s dream. Expect to see a surge of green heading into the weekend. We’re getting a jumpstart on the party by showcasing some of our favorite St. Patrick’s Day photos and vectors that will get you into the spirit of…

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