How to choose colours for a branding project
Laura Snoad explores the simple principles that guide leading agencies’ use of colour
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Push the boundaries of digital design using projection-mapping, Arduino, Microsoft Kinect & more
Michael Burns suggests how you can push the boundaries of digital design using projection-mapping, Arduino, Microsoft Kinect & more
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How to cut Flash from a client's website (and why you might not want to)
Flash is a problem for iDevices, which makes mobile access to a website problematic. Here's what smart shops are doing about it.
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Advertisement: Why your next office printer should be an inkjet printer
What you really need is a single, do-everything printer that combines fast print speeds with low print costs.
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How to choose the perfect typeface
Laura Snoad hears how leading designers follow some simple rules when choosing the ideal typefaces for their projects
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Why Don't You? – 50 project briefs from leading creatives to inspire your next project
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.
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Advertorial: Discover the technology that helps offices run efficiently and keeps overheads low
Kodak is thus the first printer manufacturer to offer cloud printing convenience to existing customers.
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Inside leading designers' experimental personal projects
Personal projects not only give you the chance to experiment but can also lead to future commissions, as Laura Snoad discovers
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How to find new clients
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
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How to set up a successful live art show
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
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Children's illustration grows up
The best creators are leaving saccharine clichés and simplistic figures far behind in an effort to captivate today's younger audience, finds Alice Ross
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Logo design tips from leading designers
Leading designers tell Michael Burns how to create the perfect logo
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Top 10 in-depth features of 2011
Here are our most popular features from the last year, across graphic & interactive design, illustration, motion media and business.
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The graphic designer's guide to interactive design
How you can break into web & app design by Craig Grannell
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Design and ethics - Can you stick to your beliefs?
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
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How to avoid being exploited
Don’t work for a pittance – know the hows and whys of earning a fair reward, says Neil Bennett
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Creative Freedom: John Mark Herskind of Designers Against Child Slavery
Neil Bennett talks to a teenager who’s brought top illustrators together to help ex-sex workers
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Make digital projects seem hand-made
Lisa Hassell finds out why it’s become so fashionable to bring a handcrafted dimension to digital artwork
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How to make your design work more eco-friendly
Laura Snoad explores sustainable principles in print and other aspects of design, talking to Nat Hunter from Airside, outgoing D&AD president Sanky and Pentagram's Harry Pearce.
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Nightmare Clients... and how to tame them
We’ve probably all had at least one client from hell, but how do you spot them from afar, and how do you keep them under control? Laura Snoad finds out