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Designious 15% Discount for All Premium Members Posted: 29 Dec 2009 11:00 PM PST Designious is a small design studio specializing in creating amazing vector art. Their collection includes various royalty-free vector graphics, brushes and t-shirt design, all available for use in your own design projects. Designious have kindly setup a 15% discount on all their products for Blog.SpoonGraphics Access All Areas Members. Fancy ... This content is for Access All Areas members only Access All Areas members have the ability to view exclusive design tutorials and giveaways, discounts on a range of awesome design related products and more! Sound good?! Find out more about becoming a member.

Free High Res Mixed Brushes Pack for Photoshop Posted: 27 Dec 2009 11:00 PM PST This latest free brush pack includes a range of strokes styles, from thick and heavy through to light and rough, giving plenty of variety when grunging up or distressing your designs. Each brush weighs in at the max 2500px size, giving awesome levels and detail and allowing the brushes to be used for any project, whether it’s a large scale print job or a web based design. Download Free Photoshop Brushes 8.2mb | 1 x ABR (CS4) Free Hi-Resolution Paint Stroke Photoshop Brushes High Quality Rough and Grungy Photoshop Brushes Free High-Res Watercolour Photoshop Brushes Set 2 Free High-Res Watercolour Photoshop Brushes Set 1 20 Photoshop Actions to Add Flair to Your Photos

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A Look Back at My Favourite Posts & Tutorials of 2009 Posted: 27 Dec 2009 11:00 PM PST With 2009 coming to an end I decided to create some kind of roundup of my posts and tutorials for this year. This collection isn’t statistically the top content on my blogs, but more so the articles I enjoyed writing, and those that offered me a kind of creative outlet to experiment in new areas. 10 – Twitter Background Design How-To and Best Practices 9 – Create a Letterpress Effect with CSS Text-Shadow 8 – How To Create an Awesome Vector Skate Deck Design 7 – Create a Clean Modern Website Design in Photoshop 6 – Handy Tips for Creating a Print CSS Stylesheet 5 – Create a Bright Retro Grunge Vector Illustration 4 – How To Display Your Twitter Status in a Unique Design 3 – Create a Trendy Galactic Poster Design in Photoshop 2 – How to Create a Lifestream of Your Online Activities 1 – Create a Cute Furry Vector Monster in Illustrator Which posts or tutorials did you enjoy the most this year? I’d love to hear which ones you personally found useful. Behind the scenes I also recorded a behind the scenes video to offer a little insight into how the video was put together. I’ve had a few questions asked in the past about what hardware and software I use, so here’s your chance to find out. The main presentation was also hashed together unscripted, so there were plenty of times when I lost my way mid-sentence :-) View the behind the scenes video Top Places to Find Quality Illustrator Tutorials Online This Week's Favourites – December 25th 2009 Downloadable Source Files Added to Popular Tutorials This Week's Favourites – December 11th 2009 This Week's Favourites – November 27th 2009

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This Week’s Favourites – December 25th 2009 Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:00 PM PST Merry Christmas everyone! In this week's roundup of creative goodness, we have a fantastic icon design tutorial; a great website design tutorial allowing you to create a cool sidebar effect; a roundup of awesome snowboard designs; a handy web design tip to keep your site’s accessibility in check; and an overview of various usability tips. PSDFan PSDFan hosts this fantastic step-by-step icon design tutorial that shows you how to design a beautiful Google Calender icon in Photoshop. Using subtle shadows and textures the final design boasts plenty of realism. DesignM.ag DesignM.ag originally published this tutorial earlier in the year, but I thought it deserved a fresh look! Find out how to create the popular sticky-sidebar effect on your website with this brilliant walkthrough and demo. DesignrFix The skiing and snowboarding season is here, so it’s quite fitting that DesignrFix have put together this awesome design inspiration rounded of 60+ amazing snowboard designs. A great resource for fans of illustrative design! 24Ways 24Ways is back again this year, and has been packed full of daily web design goodies. This particular tip on the use of the :focus selector captured my attention, and provides a super useful tip for those who want to balance their websites between good design and accessibility. UX Booth UX Booth is a great place to learn about all things surrounding the topic of usability. This post titled The Weaker Side of Usability Guidelines highlights a range of uncommon usability recommendations. This Week's Favourites – December 11th 2009 This Week's Favourites – November 27th 2009 This Week's Favourites – November 13th 2009 This Week's Favourites – October 16th 2009 This Week's Favourites – October 30th 2009

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Woothemes 25% Discount for All Premium Members Posted: 22 Dec 2009 11:15 PM PST The friendly folks from over at WooThemes have kindly offered a fabulous 25% off their huge collection of awesome Wordpress Themes for all Blog.SpoonGraphics Access All Areas members. The discount applies to any individual themes as both single and developer packages. WooThemes are leading the way in the Wordpress theme ... This content is for Access All Areas members only Access All Areas members have the ability to view exclusive design tutorials and giveaways, discounts on a range of awesome design related products and more! Sound good?! Find out more about becoming a member.

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Retrospective Wordpress Theme for Premium Members Posted: 19 Dec 2009 03:13 AM PST I've been busy working on my first premium Wordpress theme exclusively for Access All Areas members. Retrospective combines a sweet muted colour palette with large type and a spacious layout, and is sprinkled with a few nifty design touches. Being a premium theme means it's only available to premium members, ... This content is for Access All Areas members only Access All Areas members have the ability to view exclusive design tutorials and giveaways, discounts on a range of awesome design related products and more! Sound good?! Find out more about becoming a member.

Downloadable Source Files Added to Popular Tutorials Posted: 19 Dec 2009 02:10 AM PST One of the benefits of being an Access All Areas member is the ability to download the source files from select tutorials here on Blog.SpoonGraphics. To kick start the premium area I've gone back to six of my most popular tutorials and added the original Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop ... This content is for Access All Areas members only Access All Areas members have the ability to view exclusive design tutorials and giveaways, discounts on a range of awesome design related products and more! Sound good?! Find out more about becoming a member.

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