Create stunning art for posters, stickers, flyers, badges and gallery prints
Posters, badges, stickers and flyers are great ways to show off your art, finds Graeme Aymer, and you can make money selling them too.
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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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Creative Freedom: Stuart Boyd from Subism
Stuart Boyd, founder of art collective Subism, tells Neil Bennett how he's making street art a live event.
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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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Discover new trends in character-based pattern design
A new book reveals a rising trend for animal-themed pattern design
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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.
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Draw some Cash
Making your own products takes energy, determination and talent – but it’s not hard to see why more and more creatives are taking up the challenge. The market for design-led products is booming, and the choice of objects you can create is bafflingly broad.
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Did Photoshop get Flash onto the Apple iPad?
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Take a look at Arabic Design Now
Alice Ross takes the pulse of modern Arabic design and illustration
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The future of Photoshop Art
We’ve spoken to both established Photoshop gurus and hot new talent to find out what’s in store for the year ahead – and what styles they’ve been exploring in their own personal works, ready to unleash in 2010.
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Get into T-Shirt design
T-shirt design is one of the hottest areas of screen-printing – and a great way to earn some cash.
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Create incredible 3D type-based infographic art
Learn how to use Illustrator to create 3D technical-style illustrated lettering for artwork and infographics.
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Rebels with a cause - the Designers Against Human Rights Abuses
A project for design and human rights organization DAHRA put 10 leading creatives’ typography skills to the test, in aid of Tibet.
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Master the gradient mesh tool
The Gradient Mesh tool is tricky to master, which is why many artists ignore it. Learn how to unlock the power of this tricky tool for subtle results.
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Abstract power
Four international self-taught artists reveal how they create their amazing abstract art.
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Be your own boss: the designer and illustrator's guide to going freelance
Going freelance takes careful planning and nerves of steel: top freelancers tell us how they set themselves up for success.
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2009 D&AD New Blood
From creative arts colleges and universities across the country, a new generation of graduates is bringing an infusion of fresh talent and ideas to the creative scene.
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5 free project management applications you must try
Putting together a project plan can sometimes seem more daunting than completing the project itself. When you need to track each step of a project, along with your costs, staff, and other factors, you probably need a project management application.
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Perfect portfolios
Top creatives share their secrets on how they put together portfolios that win them clients.
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Adrian Shaughnessy talks graphics and passion
Many graphic designers create amazing work but wouldn't know where to start in explaining what makes that work so good. Adrian Shaughnessy isn't one of those designers.