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In-Depth: Viva design
Digit investigates South American design culture and its influence throughout the world.
In-Depth: Far East fusion
Japanese design style is influential throughout the West - engaging with the culture is the key to truly innovative design.
In-Depth: Pressing matters
Print production is a thousand accidents waiting to happen. Digit’s got the answers to ease your printing pain.
Review: Strata 3D CX 5 review
Strata is a 3D application aimed at giving designers the kind of simplicity they experience on the likes of Photoshop and Illustrator, offering an…
In-Depth: Stock options
Stock imagery is a part of the creative process whether you like it or not. Here's how to get the best from picture libraries.
In-Depth: In good company
A job at a wacky creative agency may appear glamorous, but can designing in-house for a business be equally creative? Digit investigates.
Review: Form.Z 6.0 review
Form.Z has been one of the more capable 3D modelling applications for some years, but version 6.0 sees it take a significant step.
In-Depth: Selling yourself
Creatives earn their keep promoting their clients’ brands - but to win clients they need to promote themselves effectively too.
In-Depth: Designs on the World Cup
The media is saturated with football-related advertising, reaching fever pitch when the big summer tournaments kick off. Digit investigates.
Review: Craft Camera Tools review
Craft Camera Tools is a set of 3D camera plug-ins that allows you to record travelling, flying, or wandering cameras through scenes in Autodesk…
Review: StoryViz 2.0 review
This release of StoryViz is free to owners of version 1.0, but there's much new here and it’s now closely integrated with RealViz’s MatchMover…
Review: Moujou review
Moujou is a matchmoving plug-in for Maya from 2d3. It takes its functionality from Boujou, the company’s popular standalone camera tracking…
In-Depth: Site of the times
Since the dot-com crash, conservatism has ruled the Web, but there's a new spirit of experimentation about.
Review: CorelDraw X3 Graphics Suite review
Now in its thirteenth incarnation, Corel Graphics Suite seems confident enough to take on Adobe’s Creative Suite 2, armed with a stack of new…
Review: Encore DVD 2.0 review
The new version of Encore DVD shares many of the other enhancements of the Production Studio components. Customizable workspaces with…
Review: Premiere Pro 2.0 review
As part of the Production Studio, Premiere Pro 2.0 ties into the workflows of Adobe’s other production tools. Even as a standalone application,…
In-Depth: Vision express
Previsualization techniques have become central to the development of all kinds of movies.
In-Depth: New ways to wow online
In Web design it's creative and technological innovations that are driving the scene forward.
Review: Paint Shop Pro X review
Paint Shop Pro has been around for years, but this is the first major version to be released after its acquisition by Corel. While often seen as a…
In-Depth: Get it together
The rise of the design collective has given creative people a new way of working, away from the tedium of regular design jobs.