Character design tips from 11 leading illustrators
How the likes of Anima Boutique, Dovcek, Jam Factory, Joanne Harker and Showchicken ensure a character’s personality shines through.
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How Uniform created a device that plays music printed on postcards
Uniform's futures director takes us through how the agency built a Postcard Player, currently on show as part of the Design Museum's Designs of the Year show.
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What's the best Mac for graphic design?
Graphic designers traditionally love Macs. In this feature we look at what is the best Mac for creatives.
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Beyond mockups: how leading web designers work in 2013
Craig Grannell explores the best new approaches, techniques and tools for designers as they work in tandem with developers along every step of the creative process.
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11 character design tips from leading illustrators
How the likes of Anima Boutique, Dovcek, Jam Factory, Joanne Harker and Showchicken ensure a character’s personality shines through.
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Interview: Aral Balkan on the importance of being a designer and rediscovering his atheism
The experience designer and developer – and in-demand speaker – discusses the key experiences that have shaped his life.
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How to teach art classes & workshops
Teaching – whether to students or at informal workshops – offers a great way to supplement your income, and to pass on your skills to inspire creativity in others. Anna Richardson Taylor explains how to get started
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The future of web design: leading creatives discuss what's coming next
Leading creatives from Attik, Studio Output, Ustwo, The Neighbourhood and more debate where interactive design is headed.
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Why placing limitations on yourself is the key to creativity
Jessica Walsh, Paula Scher, Phil Hansen and Erik Johansson tell us how limits, rules and guidelines can help drive creativity.
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How to design responsive websites
Responsive web design finally breaks the internet free from the static shackles of print, but understanding how it works requires a whole new way of thinking. Learn it here
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What the Orphan Works Act means for illustrators, designers and photographers
We discuss the impact of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act with the AOI's Derek Brazell and lawyer Iain Stansfield from Olswang.
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What Made Me: YouView creative director Fani Sazaklidou
The creative director of TV service YouView reveals the five principles and experiences that drive her to create
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Can design ever be truly authentic?
Jenny Theolin reports from the first ever Point Conference in London, featuring Erik Spikermann, Nicholas Roope, iA, Phil Lewis and more.
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Master next-generation print effects
New raised effects, textures, foils and metallic inks are now accessible – and affordable – for a wide range of print projects.
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Interview: Innocent creative director Dan Germain
Dan Germain tells Alice Ross why the savviest creatives produce an overarching story for brands that lets customers tell their own around it.
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What Made Me: Chris Harrison of Harrison & Co
Ten years ago, Chris Harrison left the safe confines of a London firm to set up his own design agency in Brighton. Here’s what he’s learned over the past decade
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Trends report 2013: Graphic design & branding
We’ve asked leading creatives to tell us what they’re doing differently – what their clients are asking for, what new tech is letting them do, and what they want to explore themselves.
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Trends report 2013: Illustration
For many illustrators, 2013 is about creative satisfaction over financial reward – but surprisingly that's often by choice.
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Trends report 2013: Interactive & web design
This year websites, apps and other interactive media are becoming both elegantly simple and increasingly complex.
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How to design minimalist websites
Tom Reynolds from digital agency SAS London discusses how less can be more when designing sites for clients.