As we head into the weekend, I wanted to wrap things up this week with one of the beautiful images that Andrea Pippins just added to the Adobe stock imagery collection. This week’s discussion about inclusivity in design (the response to which has interestingly been happening mainly via DMs, but you can see my public […]

As we head into the weekend, I wanted to wrap things up this week with one of the beautiful images that Andrea Pippins just added to the Adobe stock imagery collection. This week’s discussion about inclusivity in design (the response to which has interestingly been happening mainly via DMs, but you can see my public response to those in my Instagram stories) has led to so many great off-shoots of that topic, one of which has been the lack of representation for people of color, people over 40, people with disabilities, and people from the LGBTQ community in stock photography. We don’t use a lot of stock photography at Design*Sponge, but I know so many publishers, brands and companies do and I wanted to share some of what Andrea is putting out into the world, as well as links to three companies providing wonderful options for anyone looking to celebrate women of color in stock photography: CreateHerStock, ColorStock, and Nappy. Seeing ourselves and our full community reflected in imagery is so important, so if you’re looking for imagery for your next project, I hope you’ll consider pieces like the ones Andrea has posted (abo...