The Viral Factory
You should be working but instead you’re downloading and emailing your mates the latest video viral going round. The Viral Factory did this.
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Web Head
Jon Bains has been part of the Web scene since before there was a Web scene but there’s no love lost between him and the Nathan Barley brigade.
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Budget Blockbuster
Take £50,000, a good idea, network a renderfarm, call in your mates and work non-stop for three months. The result? Hollywood on a shoestring.
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Brand New Identity
Rebranding presents a great opportunity to boost a company’s fortunes. Digit checked out the best way to do up a brand.
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The brand played on
The Discreet name is no more, while Avid has made a play for Pinnacle. Rebranding is coming to a desktop near you.
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Give your storage a boost
Storing your video files and images – not to mention your iTunes library – demands masses of hard drive space. Here’s how to beef up your storage space.
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Mac security: fact and fiction
Just because you use a Mac doesn't mean you're immune from hackers and viruses. Find out what you should and shouldn't worry about...
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Tribal DBB
Tribal DDB London is ten this year. That’s quite an age for a new-media ad agency. We asked them to tell us all their secrets and they said yes.
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Animatics
Animatics gets George Lucas all hot and sweaty. We lift the lid on what he knows and what you’ve been missing.
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David Droga's Ad Age
“Selling is everything, from chatting up a girl in a bar to what you wear in the street.” But selling is changing, says David Droga, one of the biggest creative names in advertising.
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Mobile telly phone
The range of features on your mobile phone already goes well beyond nattering to your friends. Now, another could be on the way – TV on your phone.
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Doctor Who
Everyone’s favourite Timelord is back, with a new BBC series and a huge array of effects created by The Mill. Digit bagged the first look…
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Pitch to win
Pitching for work is vital to landing the good jobs. The process is loathed by some, but it can be as creative as the account that’s up for grabs. Here’s how to charm the people holding the purse strings.
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Stop paying us too much
The creative industry faces staffing challenges and high turnover – but the reasons are often more bizarre than you’d realize.
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Ripped off
Illegal DVD-ripping software is flourishing, despite well-publicized wins by DVD piracy foes and laws against copying Hollywood movies. Digit checked out the dodgy DVD market.
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The Web browser battle
There’s something new on the Web every second, but most people have been using the same old browser for ages. We put the latest versions of five browsers through their paces.
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The joy of InDesign
InDesign may well be conquering the world of DTP, but can it cut it as graphic design tool par excellence in the world of branding and graphic design? Digit found out.
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iLovedust
With clients like Marks & Spencer and Hugo Boss on their books, newly established creative design trio iLovedust are making waves from their seaside base in Southsea.
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State of the Nation
Digit reviewed the surveys and spoke to people at the top and bottom of the design industry to bring you the state of the nation in 2005.
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The design meat factory
The UK design industry needs a new structure to compete.