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Single icons and icon sheets

Learn about new features and best practices for submitting high-demand vector icons and icons sheets.

• Icons have transparent backgrounds and transparent negative space
• Icons are single merged or compound shapes with strokes and texts outlined as paths
• Icons should be a minimum of 500px each, with minimal spacing around each icons
• Icons should not have descriptive or placeholder text in the asset
• Single icons should be uploaded as SVG files and icon sheets should be uploaded as AI or SVG files

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Inclusivity

Stock graphics for all

Stock customers are looking for inclusive visuals that reflect the reality of our world. Include illustrations of a wide range of backgrounds, body and skin types, ages, abilities, and more.

• Content representing global diversity, local and regional cultures, holidays, activities, and daily life in an honest, genuine, accurate way.
• Regionally specific food, homes, activities, clothing are all ways to expand commercial appeal.
• Illustrations in varied styles featuring BIPOC characters and all ages.

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Creative design elements

Graphic resources including backgrounds, textures, frames are in demand. Upload high-resolution or editable:

• Art medium and seamless industrial textures, such as crumpled paper, cardboard, grunge paper, parchment, copper, cement, chain, brushed aluminum, and more
• Nature-based backgrounds and textures, including cork, wood textures, fire or smoke elements
• Fabric, craft-inspired, or material elements, like embroidery, twine, and felt
• Celebratory confetti, glitter, and bokeh overlays, borders, and backgrounds

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Say it with graphics

We’re seeing rising customer demand for high-resolution and editable:

• Simple phrases, quotes, and individual numbers and words in a variety of languages, such as: such as “1 year”, “404 page”, ”5 o’clock”, and “360 degrees” and more.
• Simple, versatile bags, boxes, badges, and document mockups

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STEM revolutions

• Science and technology design assets that depict innovative concepts, including scenes, characters, patterns, 3D renders, paintings, and infographics.
• Representations of BIPOC and older people in fields like scientific research, healthcare, and technology
• 3D renders and vector graphics of medical concepts, chemical processes, and digital devices

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Modern business and retail

• Fresh imagery of small businesses, collaboration, legal and financial concepts, and employee needs across white-collar and blue-collar industries.
• Inclusive scenes of various diverse types of employees collaborating, especially in leadership roles
• 3D renders of new technologies and commercial concepts; mockups and scenes illustrating legal procedures, tax forms, contracts
• Conceptual business interactions on and offline including: pro-bono work; product liability; business decisions; strategic planning; meetings

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Medicine and wellbeing

Refreshed representations of common acute injuries, living with chronic illnesses and issues such as diabetes or addiction, and healthcare specialists such as eye, heart, and foot doctors; dental services; telehealth scenes.

New medicinal treatments and processing methods for cannabis, cannabinoids, THC, and CBD including testing, extraction, products and strains.

Trending Styles

Cartoon time

Colorful, poppy caricatures and cartoons have emerged as a mood-boosting trending style. Cartoons can help add a playful feel to assets and elevate the entire mood of a visual campaign. These assets tend to be highly commercial and great for stock.

Experiment with 3D cartoon shapes and textures, and check out the Soft Pop Design Trend for more inspiration.

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Trending Styles

Add some depth

Linear, radial and free-form gradients have been popping up across all kinds of content as soft backgrounds, graphic details, and textured layers.

Noise/dot gradients in illustrations that allude to risograph textures and other vintage printing techniques are also trending now.

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Trending Styles

Color washing

Flatlays, abstract scenes, mockups, and interior design renders are using limited, matte palettes to add surreal twists to digital renders. Things to try:

• Minimal color accents in constrained palettes in patterns, icons, and characters
• Selective color additions to convey shifts in mood
• Focused color overlays and highlights on black and white imagery or line art
• Layouts, text-based assets, and icons with bi-chromatic palettes for emphasis.

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