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News

Allyou offers simple customisable online portfolios for creatives

A new service offering portfolio design and hosting aimed at designers, photographers, artists, architects, and stylists.

Kapitza sisters to discuss their fascination with fonts at St Bride talk

Nicole and Petra Kapitza talk about their working processes and inspirations at St Bride Foundation in London on May 30.

ixxi offers unusual, inexpensive way to create saleable wall art

If you're looking for a innovative and relatively cheap way to display your artwork – or someone else's – check out ixxi from Holland.

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Product reviews

InDesign CS6 revisited

Here we reflect on InDesign CS6 after using Adobe's design software for almost a month.

Sencha Architect: HTML5 without coding?

Sencha's drag-and-drop tool for building Web and mobile apps is friendly to designers if they're also developers

Akvis Decorator 3.0

While the masking tools are hit and miss and it takes an age to run the preview, the basic results can actually be fairly convincing

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Tutorials

Photoshop Tutorial: Add narrative to a painted illustration

Lucy MacLeod shows how a single, balanced artwork featuring traditional and digital elements can sum up an entire tale

Promotional Tutorial: Make the most of After Effects CS6’s new 3D engine

Creation and rendering of raytraced objects in After Effects CS6 positively screams with NVIDIA technology

Illustrator Tutorial: Create promotional artwork that sells you to new clients

Ben the Illustrator shows how to excite new clients with your work

IN-DEPTH GUIDES

Sports and London 2012 Olympics design campaigns revealed

There’ll seldom be a better time to get involved in sport-led design, says Laura Snoad

How top studios create their best movie posters for Hollywood and indie films

Laura Snoad teases out what makes the best film posters shine and how to succeed in a tough field. Don’t miss it

In the first of our new series of interviews, the Israeli illustrator and creator of one of the nominations for the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year 2012 tells us the five things that have had the most impact on him and his career

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Tips

Reset Mac OS X Lion's 'annoying' page scrolling

I wouldn't exactly call myself an old-fashioned guy, but I'm a little surprised at how long it's taking me to get accustomed to one of the minor little tweaks in OS X Lion, the new version of Apple's Mac operating system that launched today. I'm talking about page scrolling, which Apple has just inverted by default, and the newly tweaked feature can take more than a little getting used to…

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