34 tips for turning your art and graphics into amazing animated GIFs
6 illustrators reveal how to turn artworks into fun, charming, powerful or hilarious animated GIFs in Illustrator, Photoshop or After Effects.
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19 Amazing Craft Beer Label Designs from Around the World
From floral Belgian brands to stylish supermarket tinnies, we've selected label artworks that are as wonderfully individual as the brews themselves.
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Inclusive Design: why designing for accessibility benefits everyone
Making what you’re designing work well in a wide range of usage scenarios helps both disabled and able-bodied alike.
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How designers created the world of smash hit drama Bodyguard
Ahead of the Bodyguard series finale this week, we look at the graphic design work behind the BBC drama.
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The best new design books of September 2018: From stylish newspaper layouts to an inspiring book of ideas
We check out what newly released books about branding, graphic design and more you should be getting your hands on.
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The 12 best apps for drawing and painting on your iPad
Here's our expert pick of the best iPad apps for artists including Affinity Designer, Procreate 4, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, Comic Draw and more.
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Radim Malinic on why keeping it simple often makes for your best work
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Book of Ideas 2, the illustrator and art director discusses how he's learned to make his most powerful work through restraint.
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This slick female-led branding for cannabis infusions walks a fine line with no rule book
How Canadian studio Blok Design have defined branding for a new kind of female health product.
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How spirit brands are gunning for consumers with a stylish new visual blend
A look at the visual blend of contemporary and classic that's trending in spirits brands from around the world.
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How to define a brand's look with the perfect colour toolkit
Find the perfect hue and ensure total colour consistency on a new branding project, with advice from one of the country's leading agencies.
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How imagery can make people feel emotional about practical products
Chris Christodoulou of creative production studio Saddington Baynes explains how it uses images in marketing and advertising campaigns to get people passionate about something as everyday as a fridge.
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Best Tablet for Art and Design
What's better for art, design or illustration: an iPad, an Android tablet or a tablet PC, convertible or 2-in-1 from the likes of Microsoft, Dell or HP? We compare your options here, including a look at the big three's various competitors.
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30 Poster Design Tips
Leading illustrators and designers give you useful advice on how to create beautiful posters for sale or clients – from composition to creative process and colour palette.
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42 Tips for How to Make Digital Artworks That Look Hand-made
Illustrators from around the world who work digitally or with mixed media reveal to us how they create their best work - including where they find their brushes and textures.
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Anthony Burrill on combining art and music for his new The Future is Now acid house vinyl
Influential print-maker Anthony Burrill gives us a sneak peek of his print screen vinyl sleeve for The Future is Now, an acid house collaboration and the graphic designer's first ever music release.
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These are this year's best Pride in London art projects and campaigns
Get ready for this weekend's Pride in London festivities with the best LBGTQ+-led projects from the UK capital (and worldwide projects too).
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Why you need to design packaging as much for online stores as on-the-shelf
With consumers looking further and further away from the shelf, designers need to consider the small-screen appeal of their work and basic functionality.
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11 companies who are trying to exploit designers, artists and photographers
These brands and companies are attempting to get creatives to work for free. Here we name and shame – plus give you advice on what you can learn from them to avoid being exploited.
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The best iPad stylus for artists & designers
Create beautiful, precise artwork on your iPad using these 6 styluses designed for sketching, drawing and painting.
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UK art and design grads shows 2018: Dates & locations
See when and where graphic design, illustration, photography and visual communication degree shows are happening across the UK.
