What makes AKQA tick
Ajaz Ahmed founded award-winning interactive agency AKQA – and become one of the Web’s most successful entrepreneurs.
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Batman begins
The bat is back in the new film Batman Begins, which saw Double Negative charged with creating a digital Gotham City.
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New Blood - part one
Digit presents the hottest new talent from this year’s D&AD New Blood show – part 1 of 2.
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Small is beautiful
If you work in cramped surroundings, or you’re looking to add a second computer to your set-up, a small-format computer might be your saving grace.
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Hardware torture tests
How much "wear-&-tear" can a product take before it gives up the ghost? To find out, we chucked several vital hardware tools around until they broke.
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Peperamis new noodle army
Peperami took over The Sun’s home page and went big on virals when they launched their spicy new product – Peperami Noodles.
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Stars of the small screen
Video on the move could be the next big craze, and the devices that play it are sure to be the next must-have luxury toy. Digit checked out what’s already out there.
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The Viral Factory
You should be working but instead you’re downloading and emailing your mates the latest video viral going round. The Viral Factory did this.
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Mobile telly phone
The range of features on your mobile phone already goes well beyond nattering to your friends. Now, another could be on the way – TV on your phone.
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Get yourself connected
Bluetooth? FireWire? USB? They're all different, but they all do the same thing: connect devices to your PC. But which is best? Digit connects with the issues.
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State of the Nation
Digit reviewed the surveys and spoke to people at the top and bottom of the design industry to bring you the state of the nation in 2005.
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Under the covers
Great covers burn themselves into your brain and sell magazines by the truckload. Here, some of the industry’s best people reveal what makes a magazine fly.
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More than Manga
Japanese design, like Japanese culture, can be bewildering to outsiders. But Japan’s design culture has influenced designers all over the world. Digit speaks to Western creatives who know that great Japanese design is more than just Godzilla in pink.
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Start Creative
Effectiveness in design is everything, say the people at creative agency Start. And they should know…
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Zen and the art of moving media
Digit takes the Creative Zen Portable Media Center on the road. Will it move our world? Find out in our review...
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Preloaded gets Spooked
Spying used to involve exploding pens and seductive double agents – but Preloaded has brought spying into the digital age with its Spooks 3 site…
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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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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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10 things to know about Tiger
Tiger, the latest upgrade to Mac OS X, is preparing to pounce in early 2005, and it's already shown some of its stripes.
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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.