The Sims - ruling a virtual world
Controlling the day-to-day lives of imaginary people has proved bizarrely engrossing. Digit looks at the team behind The Sims series.
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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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Mac mini: What you need to know
The Mac mini has arrived. Here’s what you need to know about the machine that’s tipped to propel Apple into mainstream computing.
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TimeSplitters: Future perfect
UK-based company Free Radical is the brain behind the TimeSplitters video game series. Digit got the inside story.
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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.
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Picture your perfect camera
Which of the flash new features on digital cameras are just hype, and which will make a difference to your photography? Here’s our guide to buying your next digital camera.
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Sony's viral blast
How to get the message across about the switchover from analog to digital TV? Sony asked Kempt to develop an online game that was fun, addictive, and kept to their brand values. So it made a shoot-’em-up.
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Netscape browser gets an overhaul
Netscape’s new browser impresses with its revamped look and new functionality. We dissect the beta version.
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Multimedia search comes of age
Internet search providers are reacting to users’ rising interest in finding video content on the Web. But there are some steep challenges to be overcome.
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Digital TV comes to the masses
Projecting 3D models onto real people gave a distinctive look-&-feel to Aardman Animation’s campaign for the BBC’s multichannel services.
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Specialmoves
In a break away from the one-stop-shop for Web design, Specialmoves is a dedicated interactive design agency specializing in high-end production for the Web.
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Modern is the new old
Wowed by the lastest digital technologies? Think again – what we consider new is actually heading for the techno scrapheap.
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Under the covers
Great covers burn themselves into your brain and sell magazines by the truckload. Here, some of the industry’s best people reveal what makes a magazine fly.
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Renegade Master
“The design community used to be an exclusive club. Now they let any riff raff with a computer in.” Meet the ever-contrary Ian Anderson, founder of the unique Designers Republic.
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Graphics for gamers guide
As games such as Doom 3 push PC hardware to its limits, gamers are looking to PCI Express cards to maximize performance. We investigated the best upgrade options.
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City Paradise
Channel Four’s Animator in Residence scheme allows fresh talent Gaelle Denis to realize her curious, charming vision of a foreigner in London.
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Brand Designs
Creating a brand identity for a global company can be financially lucrative, but the commission will bring its own kind of design challenges.
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Cover story
Covers of books, magazines and anything else that contains interior content are more than the sum of their parts.