Sky aye, captain
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was filmed entirely against blue-screen. LA-based companies Luma Pictures and CafeFX reveal the creative trickery that made it happen.
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Start Creative
Effectiveness in design is everything, say the people at creative agency Start. And they should know…
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Quark barks again
Just when it appeared that Adobe had the DTP market back in its hands with InDesign, the XPress maker is looking surprisingly fighting fit.
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Overclocking the World Cyber Games
The founder of one of the US' biggest LAN parties on the ultimate custom gaming rig.
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Ready to wear
People say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Whether the cover provokes desire, rage, or indignation, the point is it inspires something. The same applies to T-shirt design.
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Type Cast
Bruno Maag is MD of one of the world’s top custom font foundries – and even he believes typographers are all a bit strange.
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Top ranking your Web site
If your Web site's got style but no traffic, we've got ten top tips for a search engine boost.
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Shoebox shuffle
The BBC’s flagship autumn show for kids, Shoebox Zoo, meant bringing Celtic carvings to life while working with a transatlantic team of animators, artists and compositors.
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Designing for kids
They’re your toughest customers and they can’t even read yet. How do interactive designers keep their audience of children happy?
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What to tell the kids?
Childhood is a time of colour, chaos, and boundless creativity. Which is kind of what design should be all about, surely?
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Zen and the art of moving media
Digit takes the Creative Zen Portable Media Center on the road. Will it move our world? Find out in our review...
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A Web site prodigy
The Prodigy was one of the biggest bands of the 90s, and defined a new style. Rockstar had the job of applying that to a Web site.
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Weta: rendering Lord of the Rings
Special effects are now a central part of the moviemaking process. But as audiences demand more, effects houses are being forced to ramp up their processing power like never before.
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Preloaded gets Spooked
Spying used to involve exploding pens and seductive double agents – but Preloaded has brought spying into the digital age with its Spooks 3 site…
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Uncle Sam Poster
Flagg’s 1917 US army recruitment poster is the most famous poster ever created – and spawned a whole series of spin-offs.
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Hector Macleod – the art of Glass
Hector Macleod is a dynamo. Owner of CG and post-facility Glassworks, he helped set-up Click 3X in NY when he was 27, and reckons post-production is all in the art.
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Film still bucks the digital trend
Many professional photographers still cling to film. We ask them what it will take to convert them to digital.
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Telly dangerous
If the PC is for when our brains are turned on, and the TV for when they’re turned off, would both together be a disaster for our creativity?
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Broken Saints
It’s been billed as the greatest animation series of all time – and now it’s reached the final chapter. Broken Saints takes Flash to a higher level.
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Top 20 movie posters
From Metropolis to Memento, classic film posters are an underappreciated form of graphic design. We celebrate the best.