Neil Bennett
Neil is editor of Digital Arts – overseeing the site’s stories, interviews, features and tutorials that inspire, educate, influence and inform those in the creative industries.
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Articles by Neil Bennett
News: Premiere Pro gains new project tools
Productions is a new panel designed to make managing larger projects easier.
News: These are the best album covers of 2019
Every January, Art Vinyl reveals the winners of its best album art poll – which this year has been won by covers for Klone, Nick Cave and the…
News: Secret 7" returns for a final hurrah in 2020
Create a 7-inch single cover artwork and see it sold to raise money for refugees in the last ever Secret 7"
Reviews: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 review: the perfect tablet for Illustrators
If you're a designer, creative director or artist whose work fits within specific niches, the Surface Pro 7 could be the perfect tablet and…
Features: Inside the new Apple Mac Pro: an in-depth look at Apple’s most powerful hardware yet
We’ve learned a lot about Apple’s new pro workstation – and now we know it's going on sale tomorrow.
Features: Elise Hurst on illustrating Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Australian artist tell us how a scan of her sketchbooks lead to Elise creating a beautiful new illustrated edition of Neil’s coming-of-age novel.
News: These are the best badges of 2019
See the winners of this year's Stereohype's Button Badge Design Competition – now in its 15th year.
News: An infographic wins the Designs Museum's Designs of the Year award 2019
The winners of 2019's Designs of the Year also include work for Adidas, a low-cost HIV detector, a next-generation crutch and graphic design…
News: Adobe is offering almost 40% off Creative Cloud
Check out the latest Black Friday deal on Adobe CC.
Reviews: Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro review: an in-depth look at the first new MBP size since 2006
We've now spent six weeks with the Apple's redesigned new MacBook Pro – and were impressed in ways we didn't expect.
Features: Spider-Verse's Peter Ramsey on why he doesn’t need to be the ‘Obama of animation’ to help inspire the next generation of black animators and artists
The Oscar-winner also gives advice on how to become an animation director, embracing your inner child and how he balanced being one of three…
Reviews: Surface Pro X review: hands-on with Microsoft's first true iPad Pro rival
We spent some hands-on time with Microsoft’s new Surface Pro tablet/laptop hybrids to discover its potential for designers and artists.
Features: Best places to buy graphic t-shirts
Discover the best illustrated T-shirts and graphic tees for (and from) designers, artists and illustrators – including works from Martina…
Features: Fred Deakin on creating the artwork for his sci-fi rock opera The Lasters
The musician, designer and educator tells us how he's brought to life an album that's somewhere between his previous band Lemon Jelly and War…
News: IBC 2019: new video tools from Adobe, Blackmagic, Lenovo and more
Adobe Premiere is gaining a machine-learning-driven way to automatically reframe video content to different aspect ratios from vertical to…
Features: InDesign at 20: how Adobe beat Quark to become the graphic design tool of choice
We look back at the early years of InDesign with Adobe's Maria Yap, who worked on version 2.0.
Features: The Artist’s and Designer’s Guide to iPadOS
Apple has just announced that iPadOS is coming on September 30 - but one key feature won't ship until later.
News: Rob Ryan, Morag Myerscough and other artists urge you to Choose Love
This series of artworks for charity Help Refugees are all based around the iconic typographic statement designed by Katherine Hamnett.
Features: Grad Shows 2019: The Best New Illustration Talent from New Designers
We pick out four illustrators whose work we loved at the New Designers multi-institution grad show in London.
Features: Disney artist Mingjue Helen Chen on creating this year’s poster for Europe’s best boutique art conference/rave
The poster represents artists coming together from around the world to create something magical – as well as bringing out your inner child.
