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.
Digital Arts is dedicated to enhancing the professional and personal lives of creative people across advertising, animation, branding, digital design, illustration, user experience and visual effects.
Articles by Neil Bennett
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.
Reviews: Razer Blade 15 Advanced review: the laptop of choice for 3D artists
Razor isn’t a brand you associate with creativity – but the Razer Blade 15 Advanced may change that.
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.
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: 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.
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
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.
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,…