Sky aye, captain
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was filmed entirely against blue-screen. LA-based companies Luma Pictures and CafeFX reveal the creative trickery that made it happen.
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Ready to wear
People say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Whether the cover provokes desire, rage, or indignation, the point is it inspires something. The same applies to T-shirt design.
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Type Cast
Bruno Maag is MD of one of the world’s top custom font foundries – and even he believes typographers are all a bit strange.
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Top ranking your Web site
If your Web site's got style but no traffic, we've got ten top tips for a search engine boost.
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Shoebox shuffle
The BBC’s flagship autumn show for kids, Shoebox Zoo, meant bringing Celtic carvings to life while working with a transatlantic team of animators, artists and compositors.
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Designing for kids
They’re your toughest customers and they can’t even read yet. How do interactive designers keep their audience of children happy?
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A Web site prodigy
The Prodigy was one of the biggest bands of the 90s, and defined a new style. Rockstar had the job of applying that to a Web site.
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Weta: rendering Lord of the Rings
Special effects are now a central part of the moviemaking process. But as audiences demand more, effects houses are being forced to ramp up their processing power like never before.
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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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Uncle Sam Poster
Flagg’s 1917 US army recruitment poster is the most famous poster ever created – and spawned a whole series of spin-offs.
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Hector Macleod – the art of Glass
Hector Macleod is a dynamo. Owner of CG and post-facility Glassworks, he helped set-up Click 3X in NY when he was 27, and reckons post-production is all in the art.
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Film still bucks the digital trend
Many professional photographers still cling to film. We ask them what it will take to convert them to digital.
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Broken Saints
It’s been billed as the greatest animation series of all time – and now it’s reached the final chapter. Broken Saints takes Flash to a higher level.
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Top 20 movie posters
From Metropolis to Memento, classic film posters are an underappreciated form of graphic design. We celebrate the best.
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The Mill
One of the biggest names in VFX talks Oscars, diplomacy, and the future effects of Doctor Who.
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Sky Captain and the G5 of Tomorrow
Kerry Conran reveals why he used Macs for everything from pre- to post-production.
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Sex in Design
Birds do it, bees do it, and even designers and brand agencies do it. Yet is the overt use of sex in design and branding falling out of fashion?
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Shaun of the Dead
The Pavement bring the dead to life in the animated menus for the DVD of 'the romantic comedy with zombies'.
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#6 The Zippo lighter
Designed as a functional, wind-proof lighter, the Zippo has gone on to become a design icon - partly for the fact that it’s a mini canvas in metal.
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Triangles MTV VMA promo
To promote the MTV Video Music Awards 2004, MTV and Converse’s idea for a promo with a strong graphical look that highlights this year’s venue of Miami, was brought to life by Triangle Television.