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The Artists Guide to Photoshop

Follow step-by-step as the world’s best illustrators reveal the secrets of their best work – so you can produce yours.

Feature articles

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

Friday 11 May 2012
thumb Laura Snoad teases out what makes the best film posters shine and how to succeed in a tough field. Don’t miss it

What made me: Noma Bar

Saturday 05 May 2012
thumb 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

How to choose colours for a branding project

Tuesday 01 May 2012
thumb Laura Snoad explores the simple principles that guide leading agencies’ use of colour


Push the boundaries of digital design using projection-mapping, Arduino, Microsoft Kinect & more

Monday 23 Apr 2012
thumb Michael Burns suggests how you can push the boundaries of digital design using project-mapping, Arduino, Microsoft Kinect & more

How to cut Flash from a client's website (and why you might not want to)

Thursday 19 Apr 2012
thumb Flash is a problem for iDevices, which makes mobile access to a website problematic. Here's what smart shops are doing about it.

Advertisement: Why your next office printer should be an inkjet printer

Monday 16 Apr 2012
What you really need is a single, do-everything printer that combines fast print speeds with low print costs.

How to choose the perfect typeface

Monday 02 Apr 2012
thumb Laura Snoad hears how leading designers follow some simple rules when choosing the ideal typefaces for their projects

Why Don't You? – 50 project briefs from leading creatives to inspire your next project

Monday 19 Mar 2012
thumb Laura Snoad asks the world’s best graphic and interactive designers, illustrators and animators to set briefs to inspire your next project. Here are their inspired suggestions.

Advertorial: Discover the technology that helps offices run efficiently and keeps overheads low

Sunday 18 Mar 2012
thumb Kodak is thus the first printer manufacturer to offer cloud printing convenience to existing customers.

Inside leading designers' experimental personal projects

Tuesday 13 Mar 2012
thumb Personal projects not only give you the chance to experiment but can also lead to future commissions, as Laura Snoad discovers

How to find new clients

Thursday 08 Mar 2012
thumb Alice Ross gets to grips with the freelancer’s perennial headache – finding new sources of work to keep the cash flowing in and yourself constantly inspired

How to set up a successful live art show

Monday 06 Feb 2012
thumb Live art events are an opportunity for unfettered creativity, a bit of self-promotion, and pure good fun. Lisa Hassell reveals how to make your day (or night) a grand success

Children's illustration grows up

Monday 16 Jan 2012
thumb The best creators are leaving saccharine clichés and simplistic figures far behind in an effort to captivate today's younger audience, finds Alice Ross

Logo design tips from leading designers

Tuesday 10 Jan 2012
thumb Leading designers tell Michael Burns how to create the perfect logo

Top 10 in-depth features of 2011

Thursday 05 Jan 2012
thumb Here are our most popular features from the last year, across graphic & interactive design, illustration, motion media and business.


The graphic designer's guide to interactive design

Monday 12 Dec 2011
thumb How you can break into web & app design by Craig Grannell

Design and ethics - Can you stick to your beliefs?

Wednesday 07 Dec 2011
thumb Whether it’s choosing clients, fonts or even styles to emulate, there are aspects of art and design that should give us pause, says Laura Snoad

How to avoid being exploited

Tuesday 29 Nov 2011
thumb Don’t work for a pittance – know the hows and whys of earning a fair reward, says Neil Bennett

Creative Freedom: John Mark Herskind of Designers Against Child Slavery

Tuesday 22 Nov 2011
thumb Neil Bennett talks to a teenager who’s brought top illustrators together to help ex-sex workers

Make digital projects seem hand-made

Tuesday 08 Nov 2011
thumb Lisa Hassell finds out why it’s become so fashionable to bring a handcrafted dimension to digital artwork