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It’s that time of year when Spoon Graphics gets a little older, with 2022 marking 15 years of tutorial creating, freebie sharing and article writing on what started as a blog that was attached to my design 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 it was nice to see traffic levels plateau somewhat after the massive declines over recent years, so let’s take a look at the latest stats and figures and see how things are going another year on.
The vintage look is more than just a design trend, it’s now a coveted style that’s used to produce stunning artwork for all kinds of projects from printed products through to digital web graphics. Mastering the crafts to painstakingly construct your creations using real life tools without the safety net of CTRL+Z can be extremely rewarding, but the time requirement just isn’t feasible for most design projects. It’s no wonder then why digital tools that recreate authentic looking vintage art are so popular. Tools like vintage fonts, texture kits and ready made illustrations are extremely sought after resources, and they’re all included in a new bundle from Design Cuts that combines the best selling vintage design resource products at a staggering 92% discount. If you want a set of professional quality tools to produce the most in demand style at the moment, this bundle is for you!
Have you ever wished you could create beautiful digital watercolour paintings? This brilliant course by my friend Nathan Brown and the team at Design Cuts teaches you how to use traditional techniques to create wonderful artwork with Procreate on the iPad. The 14-lesson course starts from scratch and covers the basics all the way through to more advanced topics. So whether you’re brand new to digital painting, or you have some experience with the medium, this course has something for you!
Premium design resources can be really expensive. Fonts in particular are often the most costly tool a designer needs, so when a massive saving like this comes along it’s hard to let it pass by! This brand new bundle contains 16 hand-picked typefaces, containing loads of individual fonts, chosen specifically for their quality and versatility. These fonts are best-sellers at their regular price, but you can pick them up with a huge saving for a limited time. This is a great opportunity to grab all these beautiful fonts in one go for just $29.
Forget Photoshop, forget Illustrator! If you ever want to design a logo, label, T-shirt, poster, greetings card or invitation with a vintage style, this amazing new free-to-use tool from Kittl will help you create stunning graphics with ease! Choose from hundreds of ready-made templates (or start with a blank canvas) then customise the text and layout with a complete library of fonts, illustrations, ornaments, and effects.
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 freebies, videos, articles and tutorials performed in terms of view counts. This is my greatest hits collection for 2021, 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?
