Best of the Grad Shows 2017: D&AD New Blood
A mixture of excellent illustration and graphic design student work we discovered at the graduate show.
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Best of the Grad Shows 2017: UAL Central Saint Martins
Known to be one of the best grad shows in the UK, once again the quality of work from these students did not disappoint. Check out their offerings.
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Animations against ageism win RSA Student Design Awards
Animations exploring society’s response to ageing, an 'intelligent carpet' that grows crops in refugee camps and refillable mascara are just some of the fascinating projects to emerge from this year’s Student Design Awards from the Royal Society of Arts .
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Lola Dupre illustrates When Your Child Is a Psychopath
The Glasgow-based artist created a series of 'exploding portraits' for a sensitive article in The Atlantic Magazine about treating 'untreatable' children.
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Viktoriya Grabowska's pioneering digital typeface for visually impaired people
The Polish type designer is researching, creating and testing a digital typeface to act as an educational tool for visually impaired children, based on a font that predates braille.
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Tigz Rice’s 13 Best Photoshop Tips
Most of us spend a lot of time in Photoshop, here’s a list of Tigz Rice’s 13 favourite shortcuts to help you speed up your work – whether you’re a photographer and retoucher like Tigz, or an artist or designer.
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35 ways to make hiring fairer at design studios
Agencies including AKQA, Framestore and ustwo give tips on how studios can help improve diversity in the creative industries.
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When To Say Yes To Working For Free
Gordon Reid – aka Middleboop – explains when it's ok to work for free, and when you should tell those brands and 'clients' to go to hell.
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Graphic tees: Best places for T-shirt printing your custom design
Here are the best 10 screen printing, sublimation or direct-to-garment T-shirt printing companies in the UK, so you know where to go with your design.
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How the Best Design Studios are Improving Diversity in the Creative Industries
Eight creative agencies discuss the practical steps they are taking to improve gender, ethnic and socio-economic diversity to find out what methods are having an impact, and what needs changing.
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Saddo's beautiful wallpaper patterns are packed with nature's wonders
These detailed patterns are bursting with colour and life.
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The best TV shows & films about Design you can watch right now
From Netflix's new 10-part guide to design and illustration to a 1970s BBC series taking a dig at traditional Western art, learn from these documentaries, films and TV series.
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Best laptop for design and art 2017: we test Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Microsoft's most powerful and stylish models to find the best laptop for designers and artists
We've tested the 6 most powerful and stylish laptops (and laptop/tablet hybrids) for artists and designers to find the perfect one for you.
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The Biggest Logo Redesigns 2016/17: Calvin Klein, BBC Three, Mozilla, Kodak & more
Examining the most controversial and radical rebrands and logo redesigns of 2016 and 2017 so far, including a new Calvin Klein logo, BBC Three refresh and Kodak's retro new logo.
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Design trends 2017: 24 leading designers & art/creative directors tell us what’s inspiring them for the year ahead
Find out 2017’s important trends across graphic, digital and immersive design, creative direction, advertising, VFX and VR.
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9 wonderfully designed postage stamp collections
Beautiful stamp collections designed by leading artists, designers and illustrators.
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11 ways company politics can thwart your projects
Politics is an unfortunate reality in many large studios and design departments that are part of large organisations – but there are steps you can take to reduce the pervasiveness and impact to projects.
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Amanda Mocci's haunting mixed-media portraits
The designer and artist discusses her inspiration and showcases her best artworks.
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How neuroscience can test the impact of your design choices
The online test aims to provide neuroscience-based data on designs' visual and emotional impact.
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Best Free Images: Sites for Free Images & Illustrations
We show you how to find free images and illustrations using Flickr, Free Images, Unsplash, iStock, Shutterstock, Pixabay and Creative Commons licensing.