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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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.
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Sex in Design
Birds do it, bees do it, and even designers and brand agencies do it. Yet is the overt use of sex in design and branding falling out of fashion?
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Designer peepshow
With designers seemingly using sex to sell everything from mobile homes to prosthetic limbs, maybe we should put away the porn stars and take a more mature approach.
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Shaun of the Dead
The Pavement bring the dead to life in the animated menus for the DVD of 'the romantic comedy with zombies'.
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#6 The Zippo lighter
Designed as a functional, wind-proof lighter, the Zippo has gone on to become a design icon - partly for the fact that it’s a mini canvas in metal.
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Triangles MTV VMA promo
To promote the MTV Video Music Awards 2004, MTV and Converse’s idea for a promo with a strong graphical look that highlights this year’s venue of Miami, was brought to life by Triangle Television.
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Reality bites
Stock images used to be a last resort. Today, however, stock images are increasingly defining the visual language of designers as they become increasingly edgy.
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eBoy Growing up with Pixels
Design co-op eBoy has single-handedly made retro-style pixel art cool – and its isometric, quirky, and detailed work is starting an art wildfire.
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Viral Marketing
A viral marketing campaign can make or break a brand. It can increase a company's cred, but it has to be something special to have an impact.
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#5 The Coca-Cola bottle
From 1915, it has influenced designs for cars, planes, furniture, fashion and graphic arts. The contour-shaped Coca-Cola bottle really is the real thing.
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Brainstorming
Thinking creatively is a skill that needs to be mastered if you’re to excel in meeting a design brief. Digit spoke to top UK creative talent to discover how they brew up a brainstorm.
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Passion for Kia car
Passion Pictures' Pete Candeland teams with illustrator Pete Fowler of Super Furry Animals fame for an animated Kia car commercial.
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True types
With an unchecked explosion in computer fonts, are we at risk of losing all sense of the true art of typography? Digit asked leading type designers to spell out how best to use type in today’s hypervisual age.
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Mac's entertainment
Apple may have given the Macworld Expo a miss this month, but there was still plenty going on - especially if you're interested in digital entertainment.
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Insight: Passion Pictures
Digit gets the low-down on leading animation studio and film production company Passion Pictures.
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Throwback: #3 Wacom SD tablet
Forget mousing around when working up your masterpiece – in 1987 Wacom set digital artists free with its SD series graphics tablet.