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
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: 2019's Designs of the Year celebrate protest signs, football scarf design and people that don't exist
The nominees of the Design Museum's Designs of the Year 2019 have been announced. Here's our pick of the best graphics, art, illustration and…
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.
News: Watch these fantastic short animations that won the RSA Student Awards 2019
Taking on everyday sexism and 'how to be more pirate', these three 60-second animated films were created by outstanding new illustration and…
News: These new laptops for designers and artists from Dell, HP, Lenovo and Razer give you oodles more creative power on the move
Ignore Intel's 10th-gen chips announcements - these are the new laptops you should be checking out.
Features: Apple's Pro Display XDR is the monitor every creative will want, not just video editors
Launched at the same time as the Mac Pro, the Pro Display has a broader appeal than the
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 at WWDC – including what really might make them a success in a way that wasn’t possible before.
Reviews: Apple 15-inch MacBook Pro 2019 review
Here we review Apple’s latest powerful, sleek laptop for designers and artists using Photoshop, Cinema 4D and more.
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…
News: Apple has upgraded the MacBook Pro
Apple has launched a new MacBook Pro, offering 8-core chips for the first time.
News: Lettering and photography combine to bring out the power of music
Artist Ben Tallon and photographer Andrew Cotterill have collaborated on a five-year project featuring Ian Brown, Damon Albarn, FKA Twigs,…
Features: Studio McGuire on bringing beautiful moving artworks to the fine-dining table
Davy and Kristen McGuire’s hallucinatory projection-mapped worlds helped bring Howl’s Moving Castle to the stage – but their latest project…
News: There’s now a small Wacom Intuos Pro again for designers and artists on the move
Wacom has reintroduced a smaller version of its Intuos Pro graphics tablet for designers and artists on smaller budgets - or who want…
Reviews: Apple iPad mini review
Like a pocket Moleskine, 2019’s iPad mini isn’t ideally sized for drawing – but it might be your perfect travelling companion.
News: Game of Thrones GIFs: how Eran Mendel is creating hilarious weekly GIFs based on each episode's most shocking moment
Eran Mendel tells about his hugely popular weekly project turning Game of Thrones iconic moments into funny vector-based animated GIF – plus…
