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News: Adobe backs #includedesign campaign to get creative subjects into the EBacc
Cites "moral obligation" not to let creative education be downgraded in proposed changes to GCSEs.
News: Sun web app developer discusses HTML5 design for iOS
We interview the student behind an elegantly simple weather app created with some innovative coding.
News: Interview: Tom Hovey on drawing cakes for Comic Relief's Great British Bake Off
The hit show's illustrator reveals the secrets of drawing scrumptious-looking cakes.
News: Creative educators warn EBacc could lead to UK "losing a generation of talent"
Representatives from creative education have rounded on the British government’s plans to excludes creative subjects such as art and design from…
News: In photos: Design Museum Designs of the Year 2013
This year's selection range from the ornately beautiful to the disarmingly simple, and from engaging fun to truly touching social projects.
News: Autodesk to make 3ds Max and Maya upgrades more expensive
According to an email from UK reseller bluegfx, Autodesk is to increase its overall upgrade prices for Maya and 3ds Max from January 21.
News: Adobe denies 'free' CS2 downloads are a giveaway
Adobe has responded to links to freely downloadable versions of Creative Suite 2 saying that if you don't own CS2, you shouldn't be downloading them.
News: Jean Jullien brings wit & wisdom to first solo illustration show in London
Kemistry Gallery showcases the London-based French artist's wry work.
News: Survey reveals British designers feel underpaid, overworked and worried about job security
The Design Industry Voices 2012 report is out and it appears that the design industry is even more unhappy than it was in 2011.
In-Depth: The Best of 2012: Creative tech
For creative tech, 2012 was the year of both the cloud and the real.
In-Depth: The Best of 2012: CG, VFX & animation tutorials
Check out the best tutorials for After Effects, Cinema 4D, Maya and Nuke from 2012.
News: Adobe buys Behance to make it part of Creative Cloud
Will you have to pay for Creative Cloud if you want to continue using Behance? The answer appears to be 'no, but maybe'.
News: Life of Pi's storm VFX revealed
Some nifty VFX techniques from MPC allowed the stormy sea to be animated in different ways to induce fear and awe in the audience.
News: The Best of 2012: Interviews
Our favourite interviews of the year, featuring Noma Bar, Anthony Burrill, Marion Deuchars, Johanna Basford, Ben Grossmann, Bruno Maag and Craig Ward.
News: Out now! The brand-new January 2013 issue
Kickstarter success. Fight rip offs. Pete Fowler interview. Papercut animation. Britain's creative education crisis. Dirty 3D type.
News: Tim Burton gives a gothic polish to The Killer's Here With Me music video
Video stars Winona Ryder – who was Burton's goth teen in Beetlejuice – and Peter Lorre creep-a-like Craig Roberts.
News: Cédric de Smedt's striking animated music video for Max Cooper's hypnotic Pleasures
Watch the artist's hand-fashioned animations reveal the pleasures of the human condition.
News: Interview: Founder of #includedesign campaign to save Britain from a creative education crisis
We interview Joe Macleod from ustwo, a driving force behind the campaign to get design included in the government's EBacc plans.
News: Taschen opens shop in The Simpsons to make Springfield hip
The art, design, photography and "sexy" book publisher's store appears in the episode, The Day The Earth Stood Cool.
Review: Photoshop CS6.1 review
Free update for Creative Cloud users includes improved type styles, blurs, web design tools and Conditional Actions.