How to land your first job at a digital or branding agency
Leading agencies Wolff Olins, Anomaly, SomeOne, Studio Output and D&AD offer in-depth advice for graduates, on everything from portfolios to internships.
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How to design for K-pop: the design queen for BTS on branding idol chart-killers
BTS are bringing their live show to London - and CDs for their Army of fans to buy on the night. But why are physical albums so popular and well-designed in K-pop? Find out the answers with K-pop's expert designers Studio XXX.
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Best Wacom Cintiq alternatives
Don't have £1,900/$2,200 for a Wacom Cintiq Pro 24? Here are six much less expensive pen display options for drawing, sketching and painting.
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13 best Skillshare classes for designers and artists
These classes from Jessica Hische, Jessica Walsh and Nicholas Feltron will improve your skills at lettering, logo design, doodling, infograhics, ink drawing and more.
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Best graphic design tutorials
Leading graphic designers share their expert design tips and tutorials to help you master patterns, textures, typography, vectors and more.
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How to create a children's version of a brand
How do you design a kid-friendly range without losing any of the original brand's spirit - and is there a special way to draw kids to unusual and global flavours?
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How Leading Design Studios Experiment To Push Their Work In New Directions
Studios including Vault49, Here Design, Found and Trollback tell us why it pays to never play it safe – and what they do to push the boundaries.
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Best UX design courses
Learn UX design with paid and free online courses from the likes of Stanford University and InVision - as well as offline courses from the likes of General Assembly.
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How to create a logo for the Chinese market
Jamie Sergeant of creative agency Crowd tells what he’s learned from launching successful brands in China - including their own.
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Tina Touli on livestreaming her design practice for students and brands like Adobe
The designer also tells us about the power of experimentation, and gives advice on how to be a better on camera.
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How to nail your grad show
University lecturers in graphic design and illustration explain how to stand out from the crowd and land a job offer.
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How designers and copywriters can work together better
The creative director of Reed Words reminds us why successful branding relies on great copywriting as much as visuals.
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Best Laptop for Design and Art
We tested the most powerful and stylish models to find the best laptop for designers and artists.
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Branding in the AI age - a guide to machine learning marketing
Branding for the AI field doesn't need to use the same old science - learn how top studios have bucked the trend in marketing machine learning to the masses.
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How to design for value brands
Supermarket own labels don't need to be drab in look - learn from the minds at Cowan London on how they made discount chain Jack's leap out from the shelves.
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The 17 best font websites
Whether you’re a graphic designer, typographer or someone dabbling in type, we’ve got you covered with the best paid, subscription-based, independent foundries and free font libraries online.
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How to brand a festival for Generation Z
Create stylish festival campaigns that'll catch young eyes using advice from promising newcomers in illustration.
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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 scenes from a designer or artist's life.
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2019's Visual Trends (according to stock libraries)
We look at the predictions from Shutterstock, Adobe, Dreamstime and more on the visual trends coming your way in 2019, ranging from design to colours and typography.
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Inspiring Small Beer & Alcohol-Free Label Designs for Dry January
Look good for Dry January 2019 with soberingly good small & alcohol-free beer artwork that stands with the best craft branding has to offer.