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It’s that time of year when Spoon Graphics gets a little older, with 2021 marking 14 years of tutorial creating, freebie sharing and article writing on what started as a blog that was attached to my portfolio website in 2007. Every April I take some time to reflect on the past 12 months and talk about how things have changed. Last year I talked about how my subscriber counts were growing well despite plummeting traffic levels, so let’s take a look at the latest stats and figures and see how things are going another year on.
To finish off every year I enjoy taking a moment to look back at my content from the past 12 months to compare how all my articles, tutorials, freebies and videos performed in terms of view counts. This is my greatest hits collection for 2020, broken down into individual roundups for each category. Did you miss any of these most popular posts? Which one from the list was your favourite? Or was there a particular piece of content you found really useful that didn’t make the cut?
My friends at Heritage Type Co. recently launched a magnificent new collection of vintage fonts and ready-made label designs. If you love the detailed design style of vintage branding with ornate embellishments, this extensive set of tools and resources may be just what you’re looking for to create nostalgic logos, packaging designs, posters, wedding invitations, and much more! The Nostalgic Font and Label Collection is currently on sale with $50 off, but Spoon Graphics readers get an additional 20% off using the code SPOONER-LABEL-20, which works out to a total of 34% off the regular price.
Just over a year ago I reviewed the must-have tool for logo designers: Logo Package Express. It’s a brilliant Adobe Illustrator Extension that automatically generates every file format, color scheme, and logo configuration your client could ever ask you for. AI, EPS, PDF, SVG, PNG, JPG, CMYK, RGB, Pantone, Full Color, Mono, Reversed… You don’t even have to spend time naming or organising your files. Logo Package Express takes care of it all. Logo Package Express is now smarter, easier-to-use, and contains even more useful features in the new 2.0 version. Find out what’s new!
There are many vintage fonts out there, but not many have been expertly crafted by a talented lettering artist who lives and breathes the vintage aesthetic. The Vintage Font Bundle from Heritage Type Co. contains 6 typefaces designed by Tobias Saul, whose inspirational vintage logos and type designs have been featured many times in showcases on Spoon Graphics. These beautiful fonts authentically capture the style of late 19th to early 20th century lettering and are packed full of features, such as alternate characters, ornamental graphics, and even ready-made logo templates. The bundle is currently on offer with 70% off, but I’ve teamed up with Heritage Type Co. to offer Spoon Graphics readers an extra 10% discount code, making the final price $44 ($149). Use the code SPOONER during checkout to secure the best price around!
Creating vintage style designs for company brands, T-shirts, packaging designs, book covers, window signs, and countless other graphic design project scenarios has never been easier with this huge bundle of 200 editable logo templates from Heritage Type Co. Logo Templates are ready-made designs that can be easily customised to quickly create stunning badges and emblems with a vintage theme. This ultimate collection contains every layout you could ever wish for across 8 topic categories, including Eat & Drink, Outdoor, Victorian, Nautic, Craft & Trade, Vintage, Botanic and Wild Animals, providing you with a huge variety of time-saving tools for your future design projects. I’ve teamed up with Heritage Type Co. to offer Spoon Graphics readers a 20% discount with the code SPOONER-LOGO-20.
