There are many instances in advertising and promotion where designers need to express ways in which people, places, and/or ideas are connected. Take for instance any cell phone maker or service. Of course we can do more and more things on our cell phones these days like playing games (68,346 is my high score on Tetris in case you were wondering :D) but the whole point of the phone is to easily connect and converse with others. This sense of connection, though not always the feature with the most fanfare in cell phone ads, is still foundational to what the prospective buyer will purchase and therefore important to get across to the viewer of the advertisement. Several products from high speed internet to multi-player video games have a need to express the connections they provide. Fortunately there are many stock graphics that can be incorporated into your creative to either explicitly or abstractly represent the inter-connectivity your product offers.

And as fate would have it I happened to have picked some of the best stock graphics that illustrate this sense of connection. For this set of graphics I was mainly looking for imagery that needless to say showed elements sharing connections, as well as visually appealing images, and some that could easily be used as a background or layer blend with a bigger piece.