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Expand your creativity: become a creative generalist

If you really want to stand out and attract clients, you need a broad range of skills.
- Topics
- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Interactive
Master web typography

Give your online designs a boost by using typographic techniques and web fonts that add interest and impact
- Topics
- 3D type,
- Interactive,
- Typography,
- Web
Does nationality affect creativity?

Neil Bennett asks if where a creative was born and grew up leaves a legacy on their craft
- Topics
- Animation,
- Motion,
- Graphic Design,
- Hacking & Maker,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Photography,
- Printing,
- Typography,
- Video
The R&D group making media and devices accessible to the disabled

We visit the National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) in Boston to discover what the pressing issues in accessibility are.
- Topics
- Motion,
- Interactive,
- Video,
- NCAM
Usability test: Touch Cover vs Type Cover for Microsoft's Surface RT tablet

Which keyboard cover for the Surface RT performs better under the scrutiny of empirical testing?
- Topics
- Interactive,
- Apps,
- Microsoft
Create art and design-led phone and tablet apps

We’re increasingly seeing apps whose selling points include top-notch illustration, animation and graphic design. Craig Grannell reveals how to become one of the creators of art-led apps.
- Topics
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- iPad & iPhone,
- Apps
Get paid to showcase your creative process for clients

How to showcase your creative process - and get paid for it by clients
- Topics
- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Motion,
- Hacking & Maker,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Photography,
- Video
In-depth: How to make your gallery show a success

Putting together your own exhibition can feel quite daunting. Lisa Hassell discovers what it takes to put together a hit show.
- Topics
- Business & Career,
- Exhibitions,
- Interactive
What's a Facebook Like really worth?

If you're using Facebook for legitimate marketing, what's the ROI of having virtual fans?
- Topics
- Business & Career,
- Interactive,
- Facebook
What's the creative legacy of the London 2012 Olympics?

Leading designers, illustrators, creative directors and VFX supervisors reflect on the creative legacy of the London 2012 Olympics.
- Topics
- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Software,
- Motion,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Photography,
- Video,
- Ciara Phelan,
- Crystal CG,
- D&AD,
- Framestore,
- Jon Burgerman,
- Pete Fowler,
- Rupert Ray,
- SomeOne
26 must-know typography tricks for print & online

Buff up your body copy and sculpt your letterforms. Seven leading designers share their tips for truly honed use of type
- Topics
- Graphic Design,
- Interactive,
- Typography
How to predict future design trends

Bill Gardner reveals what he thinks the next set of trends will be in logo design
- Topics
- Trends,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Logos,
- Typography
Interview: Secret Cinema's experience designers

Death to the Flippers and Framestore reveal how they spooked Neil Bennett at this year’s hottest cinema experience
- Topics
- Animation,
- Experiential design,
- Hacking & Maker,
- Interactive,
- Video
The Graduate Designer/Illustrator's Guide to Success

Anna Richardson-Taylor asks some of the questions graduates will be facing along their initial career steps, and gets expert advice from creative industry veterans to help them answer them – and hopefully secure a glittering career.
- Topics
- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Clients,
- Freelance work,
- Graduates,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Photography,
- Typography,
- Video
Master this year's top type techniques

The days of uninspiring typefaces are long gone, with the latest offerings going in bold new directions, says Anna Richardson Taylor
- Topics
- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Life & Style,
- Photography,
- Printing,
- Typography,
- Video
Coding for creatives: How to get started with CSS

Our getting-started guide tells you everything you need to know to understand CSS.
- Topics
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Interactive,
- Video
How to get into creative hacking and making

If you don't know coding or engineering, just pick it up as you go along.
- Topics
- Hardware,
- Hacking & Maker,
- Interactive,
- Printing,
- Video
Create innovative interactive paper apps by mixing graphic design and printed electronics

Conductive inks you can screenprint or litho print offer a whole new world of creative possibilities.
- Topics
- Graphic Design,
- Hacking & Maker,
- Interactive,
- Life & Style,
- Posters,
- Printing,
- Programming,
- Screenprinting,
- Novalia,
- Uniform
Animation Trends 2012: Animation meets programming

Mathematically generated imagery is becoming ever easier for animators to exploit, thanks to open-source programming languages like Processing.
- Topics
- Animation,
- Software,
- Trends,
- Motion,
- Interactive,
- Programming
Advertisement: Make the most of your photos with new Kodak apps

Here's how to enjoy printing from your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad using Kodak's range of printers and apps.
- Topics
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Mobile,
- Photography,
- Printing

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