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: Illustrators including Marion Deuchars have redesigned the Baby on Board badge
Marion, Ellie Thomas and Erin Aniker have created their own versions of the usually plain-and-informative badge for a Mother's Day campaign.
Reviews: Apple Mac Mini review
The Mac mini has much to recommend it for graphic and UX designers who won’t mind its lack of 3D power.
Features: What 500 years of medical illustration has taught us about art and anatomy
The history of medical illustration in Western Europe tells two intertwined stories of ever-improving technique and understanding.
News: Nvidia’s Gaugan tech turns simple colour blocks into realistic landscapes
The company says the tech can turn anyone into an accomplished artist (though that’s not true, obviously).
News: Designing a near-future Kowloon Walled City for Alita: Battle Angel
Production designer Caylah Eddleblute tells us about the architecture, colour, texture and lighting of Alita's Iron City.
News: Apple has upgraded the iMac to make it twice as fast – and given the iMac Pro a quiet bump too
Apple has launched new versions of its 27- and 21.5 inch iMacs with faster CPUs and graphics, which Apple claims makes it up to 2.4x faster…
News: Apple's new iPad Air is a low-cost rival to the iPad Pro
While Apple says that the iPad Air isn’t for pro artists and designers, there are a few features we prefer to the iPad Pro.
Features: Best Laptop for Design and Art
We tested the most powerful and stylish models to find the best laptop for designers and artists.
Reviews: Asus ZenBook Pro 14 review: the designer-focussed laptop with a second screen built into its trackpad
We were expecting a laptop with innovative new features you won't get elsewhere, but what we got was impressive in other ways.
News: The artistic approaches that helped Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse pick up this year's Animation Oscar
This year's animation Oscar winner combines art styles that are as diverse as the multiple universes its heroes and villains come from. Here…
Features: Jorge Gutiérrez on the Power Being Autistic Brings to his Creativity
The director of The Book of Life and animated shows for Nickelodeon and Netflix discusses being autistic, mixing Mexican culture with sci-fi…
Features: These rare medical illustrations detail how we’ve viewed the workings of the human body from medieval times until today
A new exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians in London shows how our understanding of anatomy has been represented by illustrators.
News: Adobe buys Substance Painter and Designer to bring 3D tools to Creative Cloud
Creative Cloud subscribers could get their hands on the Substance line of software applications for creating 3D textures and materials soon.
Features: Freelance Wars' has given us a year of hilarious, oh-too-true GIFs about nightmare clients and spec work – and now it's over
Alex Griendling reflects on a year of creating a fantastically popular Twitter account that combine Stars Wars clips with instantly relatable…
News: Lenovo's new PC for artists and designers is the oddest-looking desktop you can draw on
This asymmetrical all-in-one looks like Dieter Rams' take on Microsoft's Surface Studio – which some will love for its retro charm and others despise.
News: Wacom has launched a cheaper Cintiq
The new Cintiq 16 is under half the price of the same-size Cintiq Pro and uses the same pen technology – but it has a much lower-quality screen.
Features: How Anki designed and animated a loveable personality for its real robot friend, Vector
Mooly Segal, animation lead at Anki tells us about the character design of its smart-and-cheeky robot companion, which is like having a real…
Features: Inside the concept art behind Nicolas Cage's most bizarre film, Mandy
Artist Rob McCallum tells us how curses, rust and emailed photos of 80s hair metal legend David Lee Roth inspired the look of Panos…
Reviews: iPad Pro 2018 review: there's much for artists and designers to love about Apple's new iPad
The new iPad Pro is smaller, much more powerful and features a sleek new design – but it's the new Pencil that will make the most difference…
News: These artists reimagined the Apple logo for the new iPad Pro launch event
More illustrators have come forward with their versions of the Apple logo that the Mac-maker commissioned for last week's launch of the iPad…
