This tuto­r­ial shows how to create del­i­cate shadow lines and shaded engraved type.

Sometimes, flat just doesn’t cut it, and we need to find other, more attrac­tive ways to present designs to our cus­tomers. One tech­nique I’ve been using recently works remark­ably well for text, logos and other vector art­work. It con­sists of taking a vir­tual pho­to­graph of the work by com­bin­ing Adobe Illus­tra­tor and Pho­to­shop fil­ters. The […]

There are quite a few qual­ity stamped or dis­tressed fonts avail­able — Frankie and Frankie Dos, Road­kill, Bat­tery Park, Hawksmoor, Chase, Cold­har­bour, Despatx­ada, FF Stamp Gothic, FF Con­fi­den­tial, FF Bull, Ele­phant­men to name but a few. Unfor­tu­nately ready-​made stamp fonts present a number of draw­backs: repeat­ing char­ac­ters are iden­ti­cal (unless you have alter­nate glyphs), and the amount […]