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Photoshop Tip: Talk to your printer
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Automatic rotation of Illustrator artboards
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Create stunning art for posters, stickers, flyers, badges and gallery prints
Posters, badges, stickers and flyers are great ways to show off your art, finds Graeme Aymer, and you can make money selling them too.
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Top 10 Tips: Preparing images for print
Getting printed output that matches what you see on screen is a bugbear of most graphic designers and digital artists, so here's our guide to producing perfect prints.
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How to build a winning portfolio
We speak to four successful artists to garner what they’ve learned over years of honing their portfolio
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The ultimate guide to Colour
Bold and bright or muted and subtle, colour is key to design. Liz Farrelly speaks to the colour masters
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Discover the brand new retro
Learn how creatives are going back to basics, rediscovering the cult of Swiss school design, and remixing it with modern design trends and tools.
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Draw some Cash
Making your own products takes energy, determination and talent – but it’s not hard to see why more and more creatives are taking up the challenge. The market for design-led products is booming, and the choice of objects you can create is bafflingly broad.
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Adobe Illustrator tip: Live Trace over photos
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Augmented reality brings print design to life
Augmented reality allows designers to add another dimension to their projects.
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Print This: the secrets of screen printing
See your designs as never before: screen-printing offers you amazing image quality on almost any surface you like.
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Get into T-Shirt design
T-shirt design is one of the hottest areas of screen-printing – and a great way to earn some cash.
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Playing with Adobe's new toys
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Where to get started in screen-printing
Screen-printing offers unbeatable colour and the chance to get your hands dirty: here are the places to try it.
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6 things creatives should know about upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7
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Rebels with a cause - the Designers Against Human Rights Abuses
A project for design and human rights organization DAHRA put 10 leading creatives’ typography skills to the test, in aid of Tibet.
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Come together: join a design collective
Joining a design collective can spark your creativity – and give your career a boost.
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Tricks in Si Beggs sleeve
London studio Fiction Department has hand-crafted an exquisitely detailed limited-edition box-set for techno producer Si Begg, with just 50 copies released.
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Design inspires a solar-powered stadium for the World Games