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It’s all me, me, me this week in terms of my web roundups! With recently making the transition to freelancing on a fulltime basis I’ve not quite had time to document my interesting findings on the web (in other words I forgot to save them!).... read more »
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T-shirts, album art and skateboard graphics are often used by designers and illustrators as a blank canvas to express their personal creativity, with no limits holding back the creative ideas there are many stunning examples to be seen. This... read more »
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A design destined for print requires setting up to certain specifications to ensure that the work is printed correctly by industrial lithographic or digital print firms. This often starts with the initial document upon which the design is to be created by adding the correct bleed area and crop marks. Let’s take a look at [...] read more »
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It’s time for a little roundup of some of my favourite finding for the past week or so, with mostly illustration based topics this time including interesting articles from VectorTuts, Inspiredology, Abduzeedo and KHulsey.


VECTORTUTS
VectorTuts always pull out some great vector based tutorials, this topic in particular is extrememely useful for beginners to the applicat read more »
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I’ve just caught news from the blog over at GoMedia that the latest vector set; Pack 12 has now been released. Featuring a range of scalable vector objects and textures including 8-Bit style graphics, Zombies, Guts & Slime, Halftones, Asian Imagery, Linework and Tattered Scrolls; a real useful addition to any designer’s toolbox.









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I guess with recent topics being based on vector illustrations and cute characters, it’s about time for another Illustrator character tutorial. Previous versions saw the creation of Captain BlackSpoon and Freddy the Fish which seemed pretty popular, not to mention the quick and simple monster series. This time follow this Adobe Illustrator walkthrough on the [...] read more »
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A recent post of Blog.SpoonGraphics was a roundup of vector landscapes used in web design. Follow this Adobe Illustrator tutorial through the process of creating your own simple vector scene form scratch.



Start with a new document, I’m using a square of 1000px to base the illustration. Using the Pencil tool draw a rough outline, paying [...] read more »
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As you can see from the web design here at Blog.SpoonGraphics, I am quite a fan of the distressed and craft like feel of brown paper. These five textures are straight from my collection of resources, scanned from the likes of parcel wrapping, grocery bags and old envelopes. At 300dpi each they are larger than [...] read more »
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A few useful links for this week’s roundup include some great content from DesignM.ag, Function, DarkMotion, DzineBlog, GoMedia and ScrnShots as well as an interesting and useful app named Backboard.


DesignM.ag
An exciting new startup in the web design community is from Steven Snell of Vandelay Design. His new website DesignM.ag has already displayed some great [...] read more »
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One of my favourite aspects of illustration is character design, particularly the simple and quirky vector based cartoons. After scouring the internet I’ve compiled an inspirational roundup of my favourite cute character designs from a range of talented artists and illustrators.

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A personal project I’m currently working on with a developer friend is a website called myNiteLife. As part of the overall design process one of the first jobs of the project was to develop a logo and brand for the website, follow this step by step documentation of the whole process of the logo [...] read more »
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I’m a big fan of illustrated elements in web design, particularly those that use vector cartoons or characters.  A popular trend I’ve noticed is the use of illustrated landscapes, used as part of the website header or built into the complete website design.  These often depict grassy fields, blue skies and water, but read on [...] read more »
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Continuing my roundup of my week of web browsing we have useful content from Signified, Vandelay, My InkBlog, Detached Designs, Web Designer Wall and NETTUTS. Early this week I decided to start my quest to learn Javascript and subsequently settled on the jQuery framework, so be warned, much this roundup is jQuery related!SignifiedDuring the [...] read more »
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The Safari browser from Apple has a great little icon that works well in small formats while also displaying quite a lot of intricate details when viewed in large format. Navigate through this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to draw up your own vector Safari inspired compass in Adobe Illustrator.As usual start with a new document [...] read more »
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