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Features
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Be more creative
Even in a gloomy economy, design remains a fantastic way to make a living. Here’s how to love your design career.
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Alex Trochut
Barcelona’s hottest illustrator talks to Digital Arts about his type-driven illustrations.
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Inside the creative mind
Five international digital artists reveal exactly how they created astonishing commercial, personal and exhibition work.
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Web design trends for 2009
Software advances are broadening the possibilities for online designers – what lies ahead this year and beyond?
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Best of British: the hottest new illustrators for 2009
The new crop of UK illustrators have bags of talent and ideas to match: prepare to be dazzled.
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Type trends
Look around you – typography is everywhere. We take the pulse of the type design scene.
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Logan forges Guns of the Patriots
Games publisher Konami turned to Logan to produce five short films as the introduction to the game Metal Gear Solid 4.
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Parasol Island rolls back the years
The Sony Ericsson mobile phone ad is a fast-moving jaunt through the graphic styles of several decades.
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Marked for Success
Logos are the strong, silent types of the graphic design world; Digital Arts unpicks the best.
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Young talent showcase
Each year, D&AD's New Blood exhibition celebrates the hottest new design talent. Digital Arts samples the best of the bunch.
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Hope blooms for Burma
US studio Shilo has created a viral message in support of the Burmese people.
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Burma book brings together top designers
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David Hillman
David Hillman has spent almost 50 years in editorial design and has won 16 D&AD Yellow Pencils, and two Black Pencils.
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Top free fonts for professional designers
Free fonts don’t have to be trashy and pirated: there are some excellent free-of-charge sets out there if you look hard enough.
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David Pearson
David Pearson is one of the UK’s top book designers, and has won a D&AD Yellow Pencil for his work for Penguin.
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Stay fresh
How do you develop your own style without becoming stale? Top designers give us their tips on how to stay on top of your creative game.
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The rising stars of design
Check out the new talent you should be looking to commission and be inspired by in the coming 12 months.
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Future Design 2008
Forewarned is forearmed – so Digital Arts finds out what’s in store for interactive, graphics, 3D and post for the next year.
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New adventures in typography
Typography is the key to effective brand definition. We talk to the designers with their eyes on the next trends in letterforms.