Articles by Spoon Graphics from September 2016

In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a custom typography design. Usually text styles like this would be lettered by hand, but in this tutorial I’...

Hot foil stamping is one of those super cool special print finishes that every designer wishes to use in their projects. It’s often combined with embossing to transfer metallic foil to the print...

Access All Areas members have a fantastic new font to download this week, courtesy of Sam Parrett from Set Sail Studios. Sickamore is a loud and proud handmade brush font with a powerful and edgy styl...

As commercial designers we often have to create various graphic styles on demand in all the projects we work on throughout the day. Being able to experiment with new looks keeps the job exciting, but ...

A simple black and white conversion is a pretty simple task, but there’s a range of additional tweaks that can generate beautiful tones and enhance the overall mood of the shot. Following on fro...

Access All Areas have a great set of vector textures to download this week, courtesy of Freepik. Known as Cover Textures, this is a collection of 10 different surface materials that have been vectoriz...

In today’s video tutorial we’re going to combine the powers of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator to create a contour map effect, you know, the ones with loads of lines that show the to...

The talented Lisa Glanz has teamed up with Design Cuts to launch a brand new resources collection, and it’s humongous! This All-In-One toolbox is a versatile collection of fonts, illustrations, ...

I’ve featured what I’ve always called ‘Geometric Photo Collages’ on my site numerous times before in inspiration showcases and tutorials. It turns out they’re actually kn...

This week Access All Areas members have a thorough collection of handy sunburst shapes and complementing vector graphics to download, courtesy of Tatiana Lapina from Creative Veila. Sunbursts are real...

Vector graphics are some of the most useful types of resources to have at your disposal. They can form an integral part of a design, or be a finishing touch that complements other elements within your...

Motorcycle helmets, wooden signs and bananas. There’s a never ending source of solid objects that can be used as canvases for hand lettered artwork! Typically we see inspiring typographic design...

This week Access All Areas members have another useful website PSD template to download courtesy of bigpsfan. Quest is a professionally designed single page creative portfolio with 6 PSD files coverin...

In today’s Photoshop video tutorial we’re going to realistically apply a rust texture to a design. This can be done with any kind of image, it could be a single colour logo like I’ll...