We shall start 2012 with freebies and announcements

Jan 01, 2012

by Simon H. in Announcement, Freebies

Tagged with: 13 Spade, freebies, polaroid, prints, textures

Happy new year!

By the time you’re reading this, it should be January 1st, 2012. The whole team here would like to wish you a happy new year, and all the best for your endeavors in this fresh set of 365 days (that is if the Mayan calendar thing isn’t true) that’s ahead of us.

Announcements

Here at the Studio, we decided to kick off the new year right by making a few announcements:

• We’re doing a “Kicking off the Year of the Apocalypse by cleaning out the inventory” sale on 13 Spade! It’ll happen for a limited time only, and it’s the perfect spot to get these late holidays gifts. Please remember that this first run is the only one we’ll do on canvas, and there were only 10 prints of each. And there might be a little surprise hidden along with the first, let’s say, 10 orders.  Finally, the inventory has already taken a good toll during 2011.
• We created a small poster bundle, combining the prints “Air traveling” and “Broadcasting” in a diptych. It’s (almost) 2 prints for the price of 1!
• New prints to launch soon! Here are some sneak peeks (that you might have already seen if you followed our Tumblr and Dribbble shots closely these days):

Also, beyond that, we’ve got a couple truckloads of work in the pipes for January and February. Some really exciting projects, that we can’t wait to share with you.

Freebies!

We also decided to jump start the year by giving away some texture freebies.

The first batch is a series of scan of a Polaroid picture that turned out completely wrong (film expired for way too long). We scanned it in its original state, but we also wanted to know what what inside of it.

The second series is a couple scans from a piece of heavy paper/cardstock.

These scans are high resolution scans (600 to 2400 dpi), and should be fit for any design projects, from print to web. That high resolution means that it’s going to be 2 long downloads, and 2 big Zip archives. The first archive is named “saos-2012-kickoff-freebie-pack-2012.01-polaroid.zip” and weighs 87+ Mb, the second one is named “saos-2012-kickoff-freebie-pack-2012.01-heavy-paper-full-resolution.zip” and weighs 328 Mb! Just click on the links to start the downloads.

We choose to use a Creative Commons license to release them:

This work by Studio Ace of Spade is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

That means that you can use them in commercial and personal projects, with or without attribution (although sourcing them would be nice). What’s forbidden is for you to sell them or to claim you’ve created them. Feel free to share what you did with them!

Also, something tells me freebies like these might become a regular thing over at a certain blog that we’re the editors for, but shhht. Stay tuned for more!