Design is all around you
From beautiful washing machines to computer mice that look as if they belong in a design museum. We’re surrounded by design – and that can only be a good thing.
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Feeding frenzy
You can now get news delivered to your desktop - Digit checked out how to keep up with the world via an RSS news feed.
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The drive of your life
The price of storage has plummeted since the 80s, but it's still important to choose the right drive for your needs. Digit outlines your options.
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The state of Web 3D
There’s a way to go before we can visit an online 3D corner shop, but Web 3D continues to develop, and is an increasingly intriguing technology.
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Design Classic #3: The Smiley
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Insight: Mook
Interactive design agency Mook explains its formula for success and the three simple rules for making interactive content successful.
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Make your mark
If you want prettier labels than a few hastily-scrawled words to keep your CD archives in order, check out one of these CD printing solutions.
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Subservient chicken
CP&B’s streaming poultry antics serves up big demand for Burger King.
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DVDs up the pace
With blue-laser technology and double capacity DVD+Rs on the horizon, your DVD drive may soon be obsolete. Again.
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watch whenever wherever
If the hype of a few years ago had come true, we’d all have chucked out the telly in favour of online video by now. Digit checked out when streaming video really will change our lives.
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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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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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Digital Actors Swing into Hollywood
Digit talks to the CG pioneers and effects makers about the march of the virtual actor.
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Web accessibility check list
Digit presents ten quick tests to check your Web site for accessibility from Webcredible.
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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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Printing your cash away
Printing costs are getting ever-higher, so cutting corners could save you a packet. Here's a guide to printing on a shoe string.
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Living dolls
Gamers demand realism, and with next generation consoles on the way, ragdoll physics technology is making lifelike human movement a reality.
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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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Insight: Liz Citron - BIMA
From being a key architect in the rise of the new media industry to working as a user experience expert and chair of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA), Liz Citron reckons the interactive industry is on the road to recovery.