The Unsplash Book

In the last three years, Unsplash has become one of the fastest-growing and most engaged online photography communities.

Every month, the photos on Unsplash are viewed and downloaded nearly a billion times by creative individuals from writers to designers, bloggers, artists, and more. Every photo is free to download, licensed openly so you can do whatever you want with them, and shared with a simple message: Make something awesome.

The Unsplash Book is a 250 page,11.5" X 8.75" hardcover photography, design and art book featuring work from 120 photographers, writers, and artists. Every element in the book, from the photos, to the title, cover, and materials, was sourced from our community making it the first fully crowdsourced open book.

Each of The Unsplash Book’s five main chapters focuses on a different aspect of the creative process from inspiration, to incubation, to finding space, and reflecting on what you’ve done. We reached out to some of the greatest writers and thinkers in the new creative economy to share their thoughts about the future of creativity. People like:


Whether on your coffee table or your desk, The Unsplash Book was designed as a spark for your creative spirit—something to pick up when you're facing the long, dark nights of the creative process and find hope and inspiration.