The eagle is commonly used as a symbol within coats of arms, sigils and historic heraldry. Perhaps the most prominent modern usage is its depiction as the emblem of the United States of America, appearing in various imagery to represent freedom, strength and patriotism. In today’s design inspiration showcase I Read more…
Adobe Creative Cloud is the industry-standard collection of design software many of us have routinely renewed every year to acquire the applications we rely on in our day to day design projects. Creative Cloud plans offer much more than just creative apps but it can be easy to miss loads Read more…
In today’s Photoshop video tutorial we’re going to create a surreal photo-manipulation piece featuring a sci-fi space scene, using a free sample pack of the Ultimate Universe Creator product that’s exclusively available for Spoon Graphics viewers to download. We’ll compose the various space-themed graphics to make a fantasy cosmic art Read more…
Access All Areas members have a brilliant Photoshop template to download this week, courtesy of Dealjumbo. The Ultimate Watercolor Creator is a unique tool that produces beautiful watercolour art from your photos without using Photoshop Actions. This Photoshop template uses Smart Objects to apply a range of adjustments to your Read more…
Some graphic design styles can’t be created without specialist tools or resources. Effects like watercolour paintings need to be created from physical paints to achieve the desired realism, but buying a load of art supplies and training to become a master artist just isn’t feasible in the middle of a Read more…
Stippling is a classic technique to add shading and colour to an illustration. Depending on the density of the dots, stippling can be used to fill areas or create gradient effects that fade out, while adding interesting stylistic and texturing effects to your work. Traditionally, stippling would be produced by Read more…
Before we come to how to style underlines, we should answer the question: should we underline? In graphic design, underlines are generally seen as unsophisticated. There are nicer ways to draw emphasis, to establish hierarchy, and to demarcate titles. That’s clear in this advice from Butterick’s “Practical Typography”: If you Read more…
The DOM is just a little weird about some things, and the way you deal with attributes is no exception. There are a number of ways to deal with the attributes on elements. By attributes, I mean things like the id in . Sometimes you need to set them. Sometimes Read more…
Listen, I am no GraphQL expert but I do enjoy working with it. The way it exposes data to me as a front-end developer is pretty cool. It’s like a menu of available data and I can ask for whatever I want. That’s a massive improvement over REST and highly Read more…
You’ve created a Progressive Web App (PWA), designed an icon to represent it, and now you’re installing it to your Android home screen. But, if you have a recent Android phone, your icons will show up like this: What happened? Well, Android Oreo introduced adaptive icons, a new icon format Read more…
