Best desks for designers 2018
Whether you work at home, at a studio or in a shared workspace, here are desks that will be sure to make your working life easier.
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The best free online development courses
Learn to code for free with these online development courses.
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24 brush lettering tips and techniques
Five leading illustrators on how to create brilliant brush stroke lettering - including what brushes to use, where to find inspiration, dry eraser and acrylic paint techniques, and how to paint onto an object.
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These animations helped explain the complexity of Russia's Olympic doping for 2018 Oscar-winning documentary Icarus
NY-based design studio ODD NY explains how it created animations to help make Russia's sophisticated plot easy to understand.
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Incredible illustrations dealing with the most important of subjects
These artworks bring an quietly forceful tone to important subjects like the Holocaust, gun control and the death penalty.
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Best websites and online tools for learning animation
Create your own 2D and 3D animation using software including Adobe After Effects, Animate and Autodesk Maya with these online tutorials, videos and courses.
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18 Best Adult Colouring In Books 2018
It can be difficult to find colouring books for adults that feature truly beautiful art – but these have been drawn by some of our favourite illustrators including Johanna Basford OBE, Lizzle Mary Cullen, Mike Perry, Jon Burgerman and Tom Hovey.
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Lettering artist Justin Poulter on working for National Geographic, Little White Lies & moving into Print Club London's studio space
We unpick Justin’s array of lettering projects and how he hopes to set up his own studio in the year ahead.
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Illustrator Joren Cull on creating award-winning art and animations for Pitchfork, The School of Life and The Guardian
Joren explains how he illustrates and animates the 'A Brief History of' animated web series, and how illustrating New York waste earned his spot in the New York Times' top illustrations for 2017.
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Inside the art and design of 2018's most beautiful mobile game
Alto's Odyssey is an 'endless runner' game with a soft, ever-changing colour palette and a low-poly landscape packed with hidden details that change over time. We interviewed its lead artist and developer about its creation
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The secrets of creating real-looking CG digital doubles
It's the near-imperceptible little details that make CG humans like Star Wars: Rogue One’s Grand Moff Tarkin, and Blade Runner 2049’s Rachel look truly real, says Joao Sita from Image Engine, which created digital doubles for Logan.
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Simon Stålenhag's Incredible Paintings Show an Alien Invasion That has Gone Wrong
The artist's near-photorealistic style provides a wonderful contrast to its otherworldly subjects
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13 Inspiring Interviews with Amazing Female Illustrators and Designers
For International Women's Day, we've delved into our back catalogue and picked out some our favourite interviews with female artists and designers from the past couple of years.
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2018's best up-and-coming illustrators
Check out the work of artists recently signed by top illustration agencies and expected to make it big this year.
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How Territory Studio created 'tangible' screen graphics for Blade Runner 2049
From the LAPD Brainscan to scanners in Deckard’s Penthouse, see how the 'future UI' studio crafted the VFX Oscar-winning film’s "tangible" technology systems.
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Best Free Fonts: 43 Free Typefaces Every Designer Should Have
Whether you want a beautiful vintage typeface, a smart sans, an elegant serif, a script or an interactive font that turns itself into bar graphs, find our pick of 43 free fonts you want to download.
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Best Keyboards for Designers and Artists
These are the best keyboards for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom and more – with customisable dials, key lighting and keyboard covers with shortcuts specific to your apps.
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16 ways positioning elements affects how viewers perceive your art and designs
Graphic designer Nei Valente created a survey to discover how people subconsciously ascribe meaning to positioning of elements – and the results will be of interest whether your an artist or UX designer.
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Illustrator Toby Triumph on his polarising covers for Time Out magazine
Within weeks of moving to New York City from London, Toby managed to offend the people of Williamsburg with his magazine cover typography, but he has no regrets.
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14 tips for live drawing and painting
Leading illustrators tell us their techniques for drawing, painting and performing in front of an audience, what tools they use and how to embrace imperfection.
