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When you come up with a killer idea, you need equally killer visuals to help bring it to life. iStock design elements are an endless visual toolbox for creatives: tens of thousands of design banners, backgrounds, icons and flourishes for you to punch up your designs. To save you time, we've grouped the main design vector categories together for quick browsing. Enjoy.

Web Design Elements & Patterns

Design Patterns and Backgrounds

Design backgrounds and graphic wallpapers that serve as the backdrop canvas for your designs. Many of our graphic design patterns are seamless for endless wrapping and resizing.

Banners and Signs

Display your text, branding or messaging on one of these banners, badges, starbursts or scrolls. We have a huge variety ready to go for your website banner design.

Flags and Maps

We have the whole globe covered in all manner of styles, from the realistic to the highly-stylized.

Design Frames and Borders

We have all styles of design border details, from elegant Victorian line-work to hand-made stitching.

Icon Sets

Find rich, thematically grouped sets of web design icons, ideograms and pictorgrams that visually represent all kinds of ideas. A vast array of different graphic options can convey concepts and give instructions. Use them in signs, as web design elements, buttons and in your web navigation.

Textures and Grunge

Soft, organic, rough, metallic: a huge range of graphic design textures to provide detail options for your surfaces and layers.

Infographic Elements

As the old saying goes, “show, don’t tell.” These vector icons, symbols, maps, graphs, charts and other visual representations will help you tell (or better yet, show) your story.

Sketches and Doodles

Hand-drawn and uniquely stylized illustrations to give your projects that distinct pen-and-paper feel.

Vector Ornaments and Flourishes

All kinds of swirls and decorative elements to adorn the borders of your page.

Silhouettes

Vectorized silhouettes of people from all walks of life, in all shapes and sizes, doing all kinds of things. Incorporate people into your designs in an abstracted, easily-editable fashion.