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It’s that time of year when Spoon Graphics gets a little older, with 2018 marking 11 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 over the past 12 months and talk about how things have changed. Last year marked a decade of Spoon Graphics, so let’s take a look at some fresh stats and figures another year on after that big milestone.
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 2017, broken down into individual top 10 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?
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Over the past 10 years I’ve created all kinds of artwork solely for the purpose of explaining how it was made in a tutorial. Beyond that, the files have just been sat unused in my archives, so I decided to make use of all those old designs by setting up a T-Shirt store! Do you remember my intricate vector heart illustration tutorial? That heart graphic makes a really beautiful tee! What about the cute turtle character from my sponge art effect tutorial? He’s available in a range of sizes.
I would have never believed way back in 2007 that an experimental WordPress install on a sub-domain of my design portfolio would become my entire livelihood. It’s now 10 years since the Spoon Graphics Blog was launched, and both the website and my life have changed dramatically over the last decade. Every April I share some behind the scenes insights, which document my site’s growth and the opportunities that came from it. Last year I talked about how my website redesign resulted in a huge growth in newsletter subscribers, so let’s take a look at the latest stats and figures.
To finish off every year I enjoy taking a moment to look back at my content from the past 12 months to compare how they all performed in terms of reader engagement through the total number of social media shares. This time I’m breaking down my posts into a series of top 10 roundups of my articles, freebies, tutorials and videos. 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?
