Booze-free branding: How to design beer brands for dry drinkers
As Dry January gains popularity in 2019, designers and brands tell us how they position small and alcohol-free beers to an uninitiated audience.
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89 Best Photoshop tutorials
Free Photoshop tutorials, PSD effects and tips and tricks across art, illustration, graphics and photography – including advanced Photoshop tutorials from the world's best illustrators, designers and photographers.
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The 12 Best Graphic Design & Branding Stories of 2018
Our rundown of the best graphic design and branding projects of this year takes in TV design, North Korean propaganda and the budding world of cannabis packaging.
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Has the UK ban on gender stereotyping really changed advertising and marketing?
Shutterstock's global survey on diversity in the imagery used by brands shows the UK leading the way - but there's still a way to go.
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The Pantone Colour of the Year 2019 is 'Living Coral'
As predicted in the autumn, the new Pantone Colour of the Year is a 'life-affirming shade of orange with a golden undertone'. But not THAT shade of orange.
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Moving Brands on 20 years of bringing life to brands - and keeping its brand socially responsible
Moving Brands' CEO speaks out on inventing living identities for brands, and ensuring a living, diverse future for the planet.
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Be a potato, not a planet - why brands need to stop fitting in to stand out
Mike Scott, associate creative director at Siegel+Gale, tells us what a great logo looks like, and why brands seriously need to jump up and jump out.
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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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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 to get a job in design
Getting a first job in design is all about creating 'brand me', says me&dave co-founder Mark Davis.
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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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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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48North's 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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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).