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.
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Sell your work: the ultimate guide to selling artworks as prints, iPhone & iPad cases, collectables and more!
Deciding on how best to sell your work as art can be a real challenge. Laura Snoad explores your different options
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Plan professional and personal projects better
Whether you are planning professional projects or personal projects, many of the same dynamics come into play. It follows that developing skills in one area will help you succeed in the other.
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26 must-know typography tricks for print & online
Buff up your body copy and sculpt your letterforms. Seven leading designers share their tips for truly honed use of type
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What Made Me: 5 things that keep illustrator Adrian Johnson's creativity in top form
The master of bold, ‘economical’ illustration has found favour across editorial, advertising and apparel. Here he picks his five biggest influences.
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Discover how to take your motion projects to the next level with the Digital Arts guide to VFX and Animation
Discover how to take your motion projects to the next level with the Digital Arts guide to VFX and Animation
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How to predict future design trends
Bill Gardner reveals what he thinks the next set of trends will be in logo design
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What Made Me - SomeOne's Simon Manchipp on the 5 best ways to creative success
Five guiding principles for success from the creative director and co-founder of SomeOne, whose recent projects include the London 2012 Olympic pictograms
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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
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The Graduate Designer/Illustrator's Guide to Success
Anna Richardson-Taylor asks some of the questions graduates will be facing along their initial career steps, and gets expert advice from creative industry veterans to help them answer them – and hopefully secure a glittering career.
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Master retro collage illustration
Collage is making a comeback and as Alice Ross discovers, today’s artists are taking it in exciting new directions
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Master this year's top type techniques
The days of uninspiring typefaces are long gone, with the latest offerings going in bold new directions, says Anna Richardson Taylor
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Coding for creatives: How to get started with CSS
Our getting-started guide tells you everything you need to know to understand CSS.
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How to get into creative hacking and making
If you don't know coding or engineering, just pick it up as you go along.
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Ex-Airside creative director Alex Maclean draws his heroes, reveals what they can teach us
The co-founder of Rupert Ray and the former creative director of Airside reveals the five driving forces that get him out of bed in the morning – and has drawn portraits of the people who awoke these passions in him
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How to get an illustration agent
As Laura Snoad discovers, signing up with an agency can help take your career to the next level
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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.
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Animation Trends 2012: Photorealistic CG meets traditional animation
You don’t have to look much further than Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin to see the impact that advances in photorealistic rendering and lighting have had on mainstream animation.
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Animation Trends 2012: Discover the hottest new forms and styles
Your work can be massively enhanced by the latest trends in CG and 2D animation and motion graphics, says Michael Burns
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Animation Trends 2012: Stop motion animation is hip again
Aardman’s The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists proves there is still a place in people’s hearts for stop-motion – and not just footage produced with the most elaborate gear.