The Creatives Are Community Toolbar is a browser toolbar add-on for Firefox / Flock / Camino and Internet Explorer / Maxthon. It was built to empower, inform, and connect creative professionals like you. The Toolbar puts–and keeps–the most important design-related information and resources at the fingertips of graphic designers, Web designers, illustrators, and other creative professionals. Read the complete list of features.
Find, follow, and connect with other creative professionals across the most popular (and best kept secret) social media services. Share content with peers quickly and easily using buttons for Design Float, Design Bump, Ping.fm, Twitter, and more. Use the Talk Live sub-menus to keep up on who says what in the world of design discussion across the Web in real-time.
Find the most comprehensive and up to the minute design job listings right on the Toolbar. Use the resources on the Jobs menu to polish your portfolio, update your resume, and find creative networking opportunities. Get noticed and get hired!
The Creatives Are Community Toolbar features over a dozen specially constructed search systems enabling you fast access to the best creative media across dozens of sites without the need to visit and search on each site individually. Find free stock photos, rights-managed and royalty free stock photos, vector art, fonts, logos, color palettes, and much, much more!
Photoshop, InDesign & InCopy, Adobe Illustrator, PDF & Acrobat, and QuarkXPress menus deliver the best resources and latest tutorials, news, and reviews hourly from hundreds of different Websites and thousands of the most knowledgeable creative software gurus.
Because the Creatives Are Community Toolbar resides in your browser, available to you at all times, you don’t need to stay on any particular Website to get informed, connected, and empowered. The latest design jobs, freelancing articles, inspiring color palettes, live design discussion, graphics software tutorials, and more is always only one click away. Access a planet’s worth of creative professional information no matter what you’re viewing on the Web. Search for stock photography, fonts, Photoshop brushes, tutorials and more anywhere, any time.
The Creatives Are Community Toolbar can take the place of hundreds of individual bookmarks you’d otherwise have to visit to stay informed, connect with other creative pros, and empower your creative work. And it’s free!
I am extremely pleased to announce that I’ve just entered into alpha testing of the Creatives Are Community Toolbar for installation in Safari. At the moment, it only works with Safari on the Mac, which many believe to be the coolest, fastest, most stable browser available for Mac OSX. Assuming the alpha testing goes well [...]
Get a big start on–or fill in gaps in–your creative follows with this list of 100+ designers and other creative professionals to follow on Twitter.
Whether you’re just beginning with Twitter or an old hand looking for informative and engaging peers with which to connect, this uber list of twittering creative pros–and the links to several other lists–will help you find great creative professionals to follow on Twitter.
Introducing the all new Creatives Are Community (CreativesAre.com) and the Creatives Are Community Toolbar, a unique and powerful free tool to connect, inform, and empower creative professionals of all types.