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Interview: Dalton Maag's Bruno Maag on creating Nokia's Pure – a typeface for the whole world

Bruno Maag discusses his bold quest to create a font that lets you say anything in almost any language.
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- Hardware,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Life & Style,
- Mobile,
- Printing,
- Typography,
- Dalton Maag,
- Nokia
Steve Jobs tribute designer creates Coca-Cola campaign poster

The student designer behind the Steve Jobs tribute that went viral after the Apple co-founder’s death in October has landed a commission from Coca-Cola.
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- Business & Career,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Life & Style,
- Printing
Want to make your own designer toys? Get a Cube 3D printer

If you have $1,300 (£800) to drop on a gizmo that builds plastic designer toys ready for you to customise (a la Munny), check out 3D Systems' new Cube 3D home printer.
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- 3D printing,
- Hardware,
- Hacking & Maker,
- Printing,
- Cubify
Many Hands' Ciara Phelan on how to set up an art and illustration label

Many Hands is a new art and illustration label and online store selling stylish prints, cards and homewares.
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- Business & Career,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Life & Style,
- Printing,
- Many Hands
Our pick of the Pick Me Up illustration and graphics exhibition at Somerset House

Pick Me Up, the graphic art and illustration fair, has returned to Somerset House in London. Here's our pick of what's on show.
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- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Life & Style,
- Printing,
- Typography,
- Pick Me Up
Microsoft discusses interface design of IE 10

Microsoft says its latest version of Internet Explorer clears out a lot of clutter and creates a more immersive browser experience when paired with Windows 8's touch environment.
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Mobile,
- Printing
Digital Arts magazine now available on Android through Google Play. Free preview issue included

You can now get your favourite creative magazines on your Android tablet through Google's new store.
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- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Life & Style,
- Mobile,
- Printing,
- Typography,
- Video
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 released and price halved

Adobe releases Photoshop Lightroom 4 with support for video and geo-tags
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- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Illustration,
- Photography,
- Printing,
- Video,
- Adobe
Advertorial: 59% of printer buyers consider total cost of ownership

In a recent poll nearly two thirds of our readers said that when buying a printer their first consideration is the cost of replacement ink cartridges.
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- Printing,
- Kodak
Raw Meat's 'Don't Wanna Grow Up' live art event in Camden features Dead Sea Mob

The Dead Sea Mob and others will be creating live art as part of a celebration of 80s childhood memories set up by artist Doyle.
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- Illustration,
- Life & Style,
- Mobile,
- Printing,
- Screenprinting,
- Doyle,
- The Dead Sea Mob
RIM launches BlackBerry Playbook 2.0 OS

Research in Motion today released the second generation operating system for its Blackberry Playbook tablet.
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- Software,
- Interactive,
- Mobile,
- Printing,
- RIM (BlackBerry)
Adobe reveals more on CS6 and Creative Cloud launch plans

Adobe will launch its Creative Cloud software-and-services bundle alongside CS6.
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- Creative Cloud,
- CS6,
- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Mobile,
- Photography,
- Printing,
- Typography,
- Video,
- Adobe,
- Apple
Apple releases printer drivers for Canon, Ricoh, others

Apple has released a slew of updated printer drivers, but chances are the only ones most of us will care about are those for Canon, Ricoh, and Samsung printers.
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Photography,
- Printing,
- Apple,
- Canon,
- Ricoh
New book lets kids learn about colours using Pantone swatches

Pantone Colours hardy picturebook for pre-school kids featuring illustrations based around shades of a single colour.
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- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Life & Style,
- Printing,
- Abrams Appleseed,
- Pantone
Get Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 half-price

Customers in the UK, US, Canada and Mexico can get 50 per cent off Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 at the moment.
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Photography,
- Printing
Disappointment a year after Thunderbolt debuted, as few products are available

It's been almost 12 months since Thunderbolt made its debut on the 2011 MacBook Pro. In that time, just a few dozen Thunderbolt products have shipped, to the disappointment of users eager to take advantage of the fast connection.
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- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Motion,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Mobile,
- Photography,
- Printing,
- Video,
- Apple,
- Blackmagic Design,
- LaCie,
- Seagate,
- Sonnet
>> Promotion: Learn how to design a brilliant animated web banner

PROMOTION: HOW TO DESIGN A BRILLIANT ANIMATED WEB BANNER
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- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Hacking & Maker,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Life & Style,
- Photography,
- Printing,
- Typography,
- Video,
- Wacom
12 illustrators chart a creative Chinese Zodiac

We speak to new art brand Soyu about 12 posters by 12 artists, all based around the signs of the Chinese Zodiac.
- Topics
- Software,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Printing,
- Soyu
Hands-on: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4

The latest iteration of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom reveals both refinement and new features.
- Topics
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Photography,
- Printing,
- Video,
- Adobe
The Partners designs new identity for The Prince's Foundation

The Partners have redesigned the identity of Prince Charles's architecture, planning and development charity.
- Topics
- Graphic Design,
- Interactive,
- Photography,
- Printing

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