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In-Depth: What's the creative legacy of the London 2012 Olympics?
Leading designers, illustrators, creative directors and VFX supervisors reflect on the creative legacy of the London 2012 Olympics.
News: A cut above most music packaging
The debut album from Cave Painting features a case with a concertina of die cuts.
News: Classic fairytale Thumbelina brought to life as an iPad storybook with beautiful illustrations
We interview the illustrator behind a forthcoming interactive storybook for Apple's tablet.
News: Adobe debuts new suite of Edge web design tools
Adobe has launched a suite of tools that add to Creative Suite's toolset for creating websites using modern web standards
News: Interview: Dredd 3D VFX supervisor Jon Thum
Dredd 3D's script-to-screen production model allowed Prime Focus World to integrate the VFX process from the very beginning.
News: Tom Lane details vintage-style branding for US firefighters clothing company
Tom Lane takes us through designing logos and icons for Hook & Irons.
News: Adobe releases Illustrator CS6 update with three new features to Creative Cloud subscribers
Adobe Illustrator CS6 adds mooted Package tool, plus a couple of additional extras.
News: Microsoft redesigns logo to match Windows 8 branding
Microsoft's first new logo for 25 years is based around the Segoe font used across current branding.
News: Artists create portraits of each other to raise money for the National Autistic Society
On show are a works by illustrators including Pomme Chan, Sandra Diekmann, Miss Led, Tim McDonagh, Harriet Seed and Holly Wales.
News: The creatives who want to stop Battlefield 3 players killing each other for Peace Day
We speak to the winners of the D&AD's Student White Pencil and Student of the Year prizes, Martin Headon and Olly Wood.
In-Depth: Interview: Secret Cinema's experience designers
Death to the Flippers and Framestore reveal how they spooked Neil Bennett at this year’s hottest cinema experience
News: How to turn personal work into client commissions
Johanna Basford reveals how important it is to create self-generated projects to win new work.
News: Dell launches first laptop with a stereo 3D screen for creative pros
New line of Dell Precision mobile workstations add Intel’s 'Ivy Bridge' line of processors.
News: London 2012 Olympics inspire Adam Ismail's dynamic artworks
Adam has created a series of works based around the concepts of 'Focus, Dream, Succeed'.
News: Microsoft Office 2013: a copyright hero or villian?
One new feature in PowerPoint 2013 is the ability to pull images off the web via a Bing-powered image search.
News: How to appear racist through poor choice of stock images
Every designer's been thoughtless in their choice of stock images and realised it could make it easy to misconstrue the meaning of a piece – and…
News: Calculate how many Lego bricks it would take to build your house
Lego My House answers the sensible question of how many bricks you would need to build a house of any dimension.
News: Framestore creates live effects and graphics work for Secret Cinema's Prometheus experience
The interactive theatre experience featured immersive VFX created by the London post house.
News: Illustrator Simon Wild builds a Tiny Universe for creative kids
Simon Wild, the illustrator behind Fantastical Flying Machines, has launched Tiny Universe – a new site offering creative materials for children.
In-Depth: Create innovative interactive paper apps by mixing graphic design and printed electronics
Conductive inks you can screenprint or litho print offer a whole new world of creative possibilities.