The golden touch
Life isn’t perfect – unless you’re a professional image manipulator with the power to alter reality. Digit spoke to the best in the business.
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Frubes fruity adventures
Yoplait’s current TV campaign for its Frubes brand called for four spots starring fun characters brought to life by Aardman Animations.
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Creative zing
All truly creative endeavour needs a spark that inspires the project and makes sure the results are worth the effort.
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Airside
Having created work for Coke and Orange, Airside is winning over major clients with the help of smart hairdressing.
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Land of the dead
George Romero’s latest chapter in his zombie film series sees the director embrace the magic of digital effects.
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Creating the hyper real
Digital manipulation is changing the face of reality – often quite literally.
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Blood & Glitter
Life, death and the normality of everyday existence... Elevator's photo campaign for denim brand Blood & Glitter.
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Disc dilemma
As both the Blu-ray and HD-DVD camps travelling full steam ahead to get their disc format to market, optimism for a single successor to the DVD format is diminishing.
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Broken
The action-thriller shot on MiniDV, edited in Final Cut Pro and with special effects created in Shake, all for just $8,000.
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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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Darkastle in 3D
Designing a theme park ride for an increasingly CG-literate audience means building a 3D environment. Hollywood's Super 78 did just that.
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Perfect portfolios
A portfolio is your passport to a brighter, happier future – or a one-way ticket to full-time frustration. Digit unearths the portfolio pitfalls to avoid.
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Change something
While designers can feel weighed down by jobs, dating, and life, they have the tools to change the world.
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3D in the fast lane
When Ford want a sexy new shot of their cars in action, they don’t hire a photographer, they turn to a crew of 13 3D animators in Essex.
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Console carnage
This year’s E3 saw the next-gen console war kick off. With Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo showing off new hardware, we asked the experts who’s going to win.
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Tado
Working from Sheffield young design duo Tado is intent on taking over the world with cute toys, a dog, and a saccharine sweet vision of the future.
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Type trends 2005
Type design is evolving faster than ever. Digit spoke to the industry’s type experts about the fashion for fonts in 2005.
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AKQA takes us into the Xbox
Microsoft wanted an interface so good you wouldn’t notice it for its new Xbox 360 console. AKQA spent two years creating just that.
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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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The art of bad spelling
Designers should ignore the rules of grammar at their peril – but the next generation of designers seem determined to do just that.