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.
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Design Classic #3: The Smiley
Have a nice day!
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Inside the 3D Mummy
Thumbprint Animation helps bring the story of an Egyptian priest to life with 3D reconstructions of a 3,000-year old mummy and the city of Karnak.
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Shock tactics
Ad campaigns designed to shock are on the rise – and while they may make some viewers write angry letters of complaint, shock advertising can achieve some stunning results.
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Eden FX - Hellboy
Digit feels the heat with a behind the scenes report on the visual effects for Hellboy.
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Insight: Clement MokArchitect of the new design economy
Clement Mok reckons design is in decline – and the unstoppable world of business is forcing it to become a commodity. His message is simple... Adapt, or die.
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The 25 best album covers
It's caused anguish, joy, rage, and controversy at Digit Bungalow, but here are the titles we reckon are the greatest examples of album cover art ever.
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Design Classic #2: Lego
Lego is the ultimate toy – a design classic that effortlessly blends a simple form and function with the potential to realize the creative imagination of youngsters. In its 46-year history, the Lego brick has never been bettered.
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Textual healing for designers
Hands up if you spend as much time checking copy as you do sourcing fantastic photography, weighing paper stock, and ensuring colour consistency.
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Insight: Reading Room
Accessibility and usability gurus, interactive agency Reading Room reveals its passion for keeping user interaction at the heart of Web site design.
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A Stunning remix
Design agency Stunning makes a music player interface for CD:UK online.
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Aardman boogies up for Robinsons TV ad
Aardman Animations unleashes jiving juice, painstaking created in Alias Maya and After Effects, in Robinsons Orange Fruit Squash commercial.
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Is everyone creative these days?
The digital doors of design and production have been thrown wide open with the tools of our trade now commonplace and accessible to all.
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Faking it in Photoshop
The age of the hyperimage is upon us. We can warp, fake, and distort the truth with a mouse click – but what is the real impact?
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Design Classic #1: London Underground Map
The London Underground map of the tube system is an out-&-out design classic – one that seamlessly merges form and function, defies previous convention, and has remained an inspiration for over 70 years.
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Insight: Unit9
Digit talks to digital media agency unit9 about its award-winning Web sites and Flash animations, and it plans for future growth.
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3FMs musical makeover
Three stylish spots herald a new look for Dutch radio station 3FM with Brazilian post/fx houses Nakd and Lobo conjuring up some magic tricks.
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Head to Head: Should designers be licensed?
This month’s debate: lawyers are, and so are doctors. So should designers be licensed to practice before they can put pen to paper, or cursor to screen? Two leading advocates of both sides of the argument debate the pros and cons of seeing designers licensed to thrill.
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MPC creates saucy 3D chef
The Moving Picture Company’s team of animators rose to the challenge of creating a flamboyant and eccentric caricature of a French chef to act as the brand identity for Schwartz Real Paste sauces.
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Britney vamps for Toxic
Britney Spears’ video for her latest single Toxic casts the star in the role of a femme fatale out to wreak revenge on a cheating ex-boyfriend. Directed by Joseph Kahn, the video pitches Spears into several roles.