38 Icon Design Tips
Top illustrators and designers share their techniques for creating eye-catching and meaningful icons and badges.
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Studio Ghibli meets Finnish folklore in this year's best student animation
The making of Fox Fires, a British short film that's lit up Youtube.
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Illustrator Hedof on making playful commissions for adults and children
Interview with Rick Berkelmans, the Dutch creator behind some of China's cutest strollers and playgrounds.
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Adobe CC buying guide: Cyber Monday deals, pricing, new features & free trials
If you’re considering a shift to the cloud as well, but aren’t totally sure where (or how) to start, or if it’s worth it, here’s what you need to know about the app – and grab discounts while you're at it.
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Check out this art – and then check your breasts!
Genie Espinosa, Eva Cremers and more team up with Life Saving Lingerie to remind women to coppa feel.
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Adobe Illustrator for iPad: Hands-on with a desktop classic in tablet form
A review of the graphic design software's tablet version in beta, learning a few secrets along the way with Adobe's development team.
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Best iPad photo editors
Discover the best iPads apps for professional-level photo editing on your iPad – including photography apps from Adobe, Affinity, Google and more.
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How to choose a colour palette for an artwork
15 colour tips from leading illustrators.
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Adobe Fresco is finally out for Creative Cloud users and in free, stand-alone versions
Adobe Fresco is released today: here are all the details, prices and deals you need to know.
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The colouring books brightening dementia patients' lives
A Colourful Life offers personalised colouring books to dementia patients as created from their personal photographs.
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What will be Pantone Colour of the Year 2020?
Probably not Baywatch Red, but there are plenty of interesting candidates among the colour forecasts for next year.
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Illustrator Ari Liloan reveals how her distinctive style comes from being blind in one eye
An interview with the exciting new talent on her world of giants and wild colours.
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The next Photoshop will have a new selection tool for cutting out multiple things
Quick Selection leave you howling at the moon? Say hello to the Object Selection Tool.
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Halloween Photoshop & Illustrator tutorials: 21 ways to create spook-tacular artworks
Whether you want to create a horrifying artwork or a fun take on our creepiest holiday, here are 21 Halloween Illustrator or Photoshop tutorials from leading illustrators and designers.
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Kanye West album covers ranked – which one is King?
With artwork over the years from the likes of Takashi Murakami and Kaws, Kanye has rarely put a foot wrong when it comes to branding his music.
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Jar Jar Binks designer Terryl Whitlatch on keeping fantastic beasts grounded in reality
The acclaimed creature creator on her dazzling career of chimeras and cuties.
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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 directors on Spider-Verse.
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Loish and the influence of The Little Mermaid on her female character designs
Interview: The new Dutch master on designing for Horizon Zero Dawn, and why thin eyebrows won't exist after the apocalypse.
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MacOS Catalina: Do Adobe, Affinity, Corel, Wacom and others support Apple's 64-bit only MacOS 10.15?
Apple's new MacOS is the first to be 64-bit only – so many older apps and hardware won't work, and newer tools may need to be updated to work correctly. Here's what we know so far – including updates on Photoshop, Corel and Wacom compatibility.
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No pink, all greens: Period care gets a 21st century rebrand
Earthy colours dominate a new line of stylish-looking tampons.
