Top 10 Tips: Preparing images for print
Getting printed output that matches what you see on screen is a bugbear of most graphic designers and digital artists, so here's our guide to producing perfect prints.
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How to build a winning portfolio
We speak to four successful artists to garner what they’ve learned over years of honing their portfolio
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Creative Freedom: CitID lets artists rebrand their home towns
The Oslo-based design studio has been asking artists to put a fresh, type-based spin on their home town. Neil Bennett surveys the submissions.
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Learn how to draw perfect figures
Draw perfect figures, no matter what your style – leading artists show Graeme Aymer how it’s done
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Sssh, don't tell anyone but Secret Cinema is back
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Creative Freedom: Ollie Munden's FreakShow exhibition
Ollie Munden tells Neil Bennett how Brighton’s illustration community came together to help stage his first exhibition.
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Creative applications for your new iPad
We highlight a selection of new applications coming to the iPad, designed to help you get more creativity while making the most of the unique new format.
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Facebook moves videos from Flash to HTML 5 to help iPhone & iPad users
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How to build dynamic colour schemes
Learn how to build complimentary colour schemes, with help from Adobe's Kuler
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The ultimate guide to Colour
Bold and bright or muted and subtle, colour is key to design. Liz Farrelly speaks to the colour masters
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Bags of Character
Alice Ross explores the work of illustrators such as Jon Burgerman, James Jarvis and Tado and their character art creations.
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Welcome to the new wave of type-based art
It’s hard to miss the current vogue for illustration-based ads and other projects – but even more noticeable at the moment is a trend for putting text front and centre, integrating it into the very fabric of the image in detailed, elaborate artworks.
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How to: Convert AVCHD files for iMovie
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10 ways to... be more creative
Whether it’s a blinding flash of inspiration or a reliable stream of functional ideas you can build on, creativity is something that no designer or illustrator can do without – that’s why they’re called ‘creatives’. Michael Burns shares 10 quick creativity boosts.
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Grandchildren journeys into the world of knowledge
The indie animation house explains its surreal animated spot Eat Up Brain.
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Network-attached storage (NAS) drives
Need storage for your shared files? Cliff Joseph assesses what’s out there to suit your budget, technical ability and studio size
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Savvy studio network storage
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Tune into Last.fms newspaper
Music-streaming site Last.fm ventured into print to celebrate 2009's biggest hits.
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A reflection on 'photoshopping' on Photoshop's 20th birthday
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Discover the brand new retro
Learn how creatives are going back to basics, rediscovering the cult of Swiss school design, and remixing it with modern design trends and tools.