Amrit Pal Singh | Visual Artist | NFTs

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Free Graphic Design Mockups

Mockups are an essential tool for designers to convey the end goal of the projects they undertake. Often, mockups carry the most relief we can offer to a client because most non-designers aren’t adept at visualisation which causes doubts about the work if its not shown as a direct adaptation on reality. Mockups have, over the years, graduated from being photoshoots of high quality prints to digital variants that can be crated easily on 3D software such as blender or Adobe Dimension. As a design student, we used mockups to convey our ideations. Over the years, a few websites became the frequent go-to sources. Some of the most helpful mockup websites are: 

Graphics Fuel

A website for the mockups that you need and cant seem to find as much. This website also has a wide range of icons in various unifying visual languages which help set a consistent tone to your work. Most of them are available after a premium subscription but they also boast a huge collection of freebies. 

Mockup World 

This website sports a very wide collection of photo-realistic mockups. Most of them are offered as PSD files which can be edited later for your needs. 

Unsplash

One of the most used royalty-free website for photographs to change the tone of your presentations, this is a website that boasts high-quality photographs that can be edited upon. Just search for mockups in the search box and you’ll be able to find whatever you require. Many users also curate photographs into mood boards so be on the lookout for mood boards titled ‘mockups’. 

Mr Mockup

Being one of the first websites I ever discovered while I was a design student, this website has been one to stick around in my graphic design toolbox. They have a large collection of minimal, highly stylistic and beautiful mockups. Most of them are free and come as editable PSD files. 

Pixeden

Another website for the mockups you want but cant find, they feature mockups of the most common design projects in angles that you haven’t seen often. The mockups on the internet tend to start looking homogenous overtime and this website helps break that monotony. 

Mckups

Any mockup that is absolutely new and hasn’t made its way onto other websites - this is the place. They are one of the first websites to have N95 mask mockups for brand development. They are generally one of the fastest websites to share mockups of newly released screens as well. 

Pixel Buddha

One of the most widely used, loved and shared mockup websites, this website sports high quality mockups that are shot artistically. Most of them come as PSD and AI files and are fully editable.


Anthony Boyd Graphics 

A collection of mockups and textures, this is a free resource by Anthony Boyd to help designers with their presentations. The website includes posters and gadget mockups which are of a very high quality. 

Mockup-Design

The most staple mockup designs can be found in abundance here. Minimal, clean and high resolution mockups of print deliverables, packaging deliverables and a few digital deliverables are aplenty. 


Behance

This is an untapped resource that isnt utilised by young designers. Behance has a whole world of free mockups presented as work by professional designers. These are meant to help young design learners. Almost every mockup on behance is free and comes as editable files. These include standalone mockups and mockup kits.

One of the most useful behance mockups is this resume.