Nut and Bolts – Design Cuts Closure.
Nuts & Bolts – Design Cuts Closure
Apparently a popular source of digital assets, Design Cuts, has closed. Many creators are left wondering where that leaves them re: purchased content and licenses.
Looking here to understand what has transpired, and the purchase by Creative Market (CM) it is unclear how CM will proceed:
https://designworklife.com/designcuts-closes-abruptly-what-this-means-for-customers-sellers/Excerpt here:
Creative Market’s Role
Creative Market’s acquisition of the Design Cuts brand has been met with mixed reactions from the community. While the deal has ensured that sellers will receive their owed payments, questions remain about the handling of existing customer purchases and downloads. Creative Market has stated they are unable to access any historical Design Cuts records or past purchase information.
For GCU artists using Design Cuts, we suggest the following:
Purchased third party digital elements from Design Cuts (now Creative Market) can continue to be used in compositions until further notice from DC/CM. In your submission, please add a Note to Reviewer like: Elements purchased from Design Cuts before their closure. Links to individual elements and TOU are no longer available.” and if possible include a list of digital elements used for example (cat and flowers).
Our intent is to give GCU artists the liberty to continue using the digital assets invested in until CM establishes a policy that dictates differently.
The difference is made in the details!
Mindy
GCU Community Manager
mindy@gcuniverse.com
GCU Community 
DesignCuts issued an email on 2/13/25 with a link to download files, with the exception of video courses. They haven’t found a feasible, cost-effective way to handle the videos. Pretty Little Lines is providing access to her files with an invoice to show you purchased the class/course/materials. Also, I reached out to Julia Dreams for videos I had purchased, and she provided those after I submitted my invoice for DesignCuts.
DesignCuts said most artists are working with everyone, so reach out!
thank you for this information – good advice!
Hi Mindy, thank you for keeping abreast of this situation for us! So sad that such a wonderful site had to close.