Feature: Custom web fonts - our guide to all the options
Tuesday 24 Aug 2010
The notion of a tiny handful of ‘web safe’ fonts will soon be consigned to history. We check out all the ways you can be more creative with typefaces online.
Feature: Sex and Art: The ultimate guide to creating work that's classy, sensual and fun
Monday 23 Aug 2010
Get it right and your images will shimmer with sensuality; get it wrong and it'll just look sordid. Alice Ross leads you through the minefield that is sex-themed art.
Feature: The cutting edge of vector art
Tuesday 03 Aug 2010
Discover five creative geniuses who are changing they way we look at vector art: from Magnus Blomster's strange take on Art Noveau to Poked Studio's offbeat characters.
Feature: Create stunning art for posters, stickers, flyers, badges and gallery prints
Monday 05 Jul 2010
Posters, badges, stickers and flyers are great ways to show off your art, finds Graeme Aymer, and you can make money selling them too.
Feature: Top 10 Tips: Preparing images for print
Tuesday 29 Jun 2010
Getting printed output that matches what you see on screen is a bugbear of most graphic designers and digital artists, so here's our guide to producing perfect prints.
Feature: How to build a winning portfolio
Tuesday 15 Jun 2010
We speak to four successful artists to garner what they’ve learned over years of honing their portfolio
Feature: Creative Freedom: CitID lets artists rebrand their home towns
Monday 14 Jun 2010
The Oslo-based design studio has been asking artists to put a fresh, type-based spin on their home town. Neil Bennett surveys the submissions.
Feature: Learn how to draw perfect figures
Tuesday 08 Jun 2010
Draw perfect figures, no matter what your style – leading artists show Graeme Aymer how it’s done
Feature: Creative Freedom: Ollie Munden's FreakShow exhibition
Tuesday 25 May 2010
Ollie Munden tells Neil Bennett how Brighton’s illustration community came together to help stage his first exhibition.
Feature: Creative applications for your new iPad
Monday 24 May 2010
We highlight a selection of new applications coming to the iPad, designed to help you get more creativity while making the most of the unique new format.
Feature: Creative Freedom: Stuart Boyd from Subism
Monday 26 Apr 2010
Stuart Boyd, founder of art collective Subism, tells Neil Bennett how he's making street art a live event.
Feature: How to build dynamic colour schemes
Tuesday 20 Apr 2010
Learn how to build complimentary colour schemes, with help from Adobe's Kuler
Feature: The ultimate guide to Colour
Tuesday 13 Apr 2010
Bold and bright or muted and subtle, colour is key to design. Liz Farrelly speaks to the colour masters
Feature: Bags of Character
Tuesday 06 Apr 2010
Alice Ross explores the work of illustrators such as Jon Burgerman, James Jarvis and Tado and their character art creations.
Group Test: Digital SLRs that won't break the bank
Thursday 01 Apr 2010
We compare six recent digital SLRs for image and build quality, price and feature set to see which offers the best for the budget photographer.
Feature: Creative Freedom: Courtney and Philip Mason from Studio Jellyfish
Tuesday 23 Mar 2010
A Michigan-based pair of designers explain their fashion venture
Feature: Welcome to the new wave of type-based art
Tuesday 16 Mar 2010
It’s hard to miss the current vogue for illustration-based ads and other projects – but even more noticeable at the moment is a trend for putting text front and centre, integrating it into the very fabric of the image in detailed, elaborate artworks.
Feature: 10 ways to... be more creative
Wednesday 10 Mar 2010
Whether it’s a blinding flash of inspiration or a reliable stream of functional ideas you can build on, creativity is something that no designer or illustrator can do without – that’s why they’re called ‘creatives’. Michael Burns shares 10 quick creativity boosts.
Project: Grandchildren journeys into the world of knowledge
Monday 08 Mar 2010
The indie animation house explains its surreal animated spot Eat Up Brain.
Group Test: Network-attached storage (NAS) drives
Tuesday 02 Mar 2010
Need storage for your shared files? Cliff Joseph assesses what’s out there to suit your budget, technical ability and studio size
