Filed under adobe illustrator, Brushes, designer resources, Freebies, Grunge, Resources, spraypaint, Textures, Vector, vector resources by Chris Spooner
I’ve posted loads of Photoshop brushes and textures over the years, but this is actually my first set of completely vector grungy design resources. This bumper pack contains a bunch of textures, brush strokes and spraypaint drips to distress and erode your designs whilst maintaining the scalability of vector artwork. The vector bumper pack contains [...]
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April 9, 2012 at 6:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under adobe illustrator, Design, design resources, designer resources, free vectors, Freebies, Graphic design, illustration, Illustrator, Resources, Vector, vector graphics, vector resources by Chris Spooner
It’s now over four years since I posted my first set of vector snow flakes. I remember the original pack proving pretty useful for a bunch of designers so I thought I’d revisit the topic and produce another set of free snow flake vector graphics. Download this free vector pack of detailed snowflakes for use [...]
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December 12, 2011 at 7:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under Adobe Photoshop, Articles, Brushes, Design, design resources, designer resources, Freebie, links, photoshop, photoshop brushes, post, Resources, stamps by Chris Spooner
It’s inevitable that one day in your design career you’ll need to create some kind of letter, postcard or parcel complete with postal marks. Be ready for that day with this roundup of high quality Photoshop brushes. These sets contain numerous high resolution brushes based on various stamps, post marks and mail signs from around [...]
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November 28, 2011 at 7:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under Articles, Design, designer resources, Fonts, Free, Freebies, Graphic design, links, Resources, typefaces, Typography by Chris Spooner
As a designer if you think of the term “Free Fonts” you’ll probably imagine all kinds of garish decorative fonts worthy for use in nothing more than Microsoft Word, but there’s actually a range of high quality fonts by professional designers available free on the web. This post pulls together a mix of font styles [...]
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October 31, 2011 at 7:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Articles, Design, design tutorial, designer resources, Graphic design, illustrator tutorial, links, photoshop tutorial, Resources, roundup, text effect, Tutorials, Typography by Chris Spooner
Text effects have always been the bread and butter of design tutorials. This post rounds up 25 of the best graphical text effect tutorials from various design blogs on the web, every one of them takes you through the step by step process of creating a detailed typographic design based on a particular style. Remember [...]
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May 9, 2011 at 6:00 am Comments (0)