How to choose colours for a branding project
Laura Snoad explores the simple principles that guide leading agencies’ use of colour
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Push the boundaries of digital design using projection-mapping, Arduino, Microsoft Kinect & more
Michael Burns suggests how you can push the boundaries of digital design using projection-mapping, Arduino, Microsoft Kinect & more
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How to cut Flash from a client's website (and why you might not want to)
Flash is a problem for iDevices, which makes mobile access to a website problematic. Here's what smart shops are doing about it.
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Why Don't You? – 50 project briefs from leading creatives to inspire your next project
Laura Snoad asks the world’s best graphic and interactive designers, illustrators and animators to set briefs to inspire your next project. Here are their inspired suggestions.
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Advertorial: Discover the technology that helps offices run efficiently and keeps overheads low
Kodak is thus the first printer manufacturer to offer cloud printing convenience to existing customers.
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Inside leading designers' experimental personal projects
Personal projects not only give you the chance to experiment but can also lead to future commissions, as Laura Snoad discovers
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How to set up a successful live art show
Live art events are an opportunity for unfettered creativity, a bit of self-promotion, and pure good fun. Lisa Hassell reveals how to make your day (or night) a grand success
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Logo design tips from leading designers
Leading designers tell Michael Burns how to create the perfect logo
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The graphic designer's guide to interactive design
How you can break into web & app design by Craig Grannell
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Design and ethics - Can you stick to your beliefs?
Whether it’s choosing clients, fonts or even styles to emulate, there are aspects of art and design that should give us pause, says Laura Snoad
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Make digital projects seem hand-made
Lisa Hassell finds out why it’s become so fashionable to bring a handcrafted dimension to digital artwork
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Nightmare Clients... and how to tame them
We’ve probably all had at least one client from hell, but how do you spot them from afar, and how do you keep them under control? Laura Snoad finds out
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Take your art into the next dimension
Whether you’re an artist who’s never touched 3D, or an accomplished modeller wanting to spice up your renders, there’s a lot to learn about how best to bring 3D suites, Photoshop and Illustrator together. Michael Burns finds out how the experts do it
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Get the best from your printer
Neil Bennett finds out how to ensure your print provider delivers projects exactly as you want – and what to do when they don’t
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Design for change -- how your art and designs can make the world a better place
Why are more and more creatives devoting their energies to good causes? Lisa Hassell investigates how your art and designs can make the world a better place
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Creative Freedom: mc bess on why his Dead Pirates band is his most important creative outlet
Neil Bennett talks to the artist and director about his cherished sideline -- his band
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The secrets to success as a designer, illustrator or artist
Should I be part of a professional creative body? Should I work for free? Michael Burns discovers the answers to the questions about how to succeed in the design industry, with advice from those in the know.
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DIY Design: get into zine culture with this in-depth guide
Self-generated projects such as zines, picture books and illustration-led comics are causing a buzz in the creative community. Alice Ross reveals how you can create one today
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The Future of Graphic Design
The trends, techniques and technologies at the cutting edge of graphic design – and how you can use them to produce your best work
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Discover the world's best character art
A guided tour of the artists, exhibitions, workshops and entertainment of Berlin’s annual character design and art festival