Artist Yippie Hey on 3D printing a futuristic magazine cover
The cover was made for a recent future-themed issue of Shortlist magazine.
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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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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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7 best tools for painting, 3D modelling and sculpting in VR
These are the best creative VR tools for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets.
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Is this the future of VR?
VR’s getting physical with innovations powered by wind, drones and rooms with props for multiple players.
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The Best Painting Software for Artists
The best Mac and PC applications for digital painting – including full-price, low-cost and free painting apps.
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How Skyscanner built a design system that makes designers and developers lives easier
Skyscanner's senior design manager shares his approaches and tips for building a design system, what design tools they use and his thoughts on 2018’s biggest UX trends.
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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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See brilliant new talks from leading designers – without leaving your desk
Watch (or just listen to) designers from Minecraft, Airbnb and Adobe, as well as Anton&Irene and the legendary Lance Wyman – live from the Awwwards conference in Berlin.
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Design Trends 2018: 28 leading designers, creative directors & illustrators tell us what’s inspiring them for the year ahead
Find out 2018’s biggest trends across graphic, data, digital and UX design, creative direction, branding, illustration, VFX and VR.
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Visual Trends 2018: This year’s must-know colour, design, branding & photography trends
Expect to see solitude, fantasy, a new masculinity – and a heads up – shades of purple are in. Move over millennial pink.
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See inside the motion design studio behind Blade Runner 2049, Ghost In The Shell and Prometheus' graphics
Territory Studio designs graphics and UIs for Hollywood's biggest sci-fi films. Here its key creatives give us an exclusive an insight into its working processes and the secrets behind its stunning work on Blade Runner 2049 and more.
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Ustwo on creating the wonderful art and design of Monument Valley 2
Recently released on Android as well as iOS, the stunning Escher-inspired geometric puzzles, clever gameplay and an emotive storyline make Monument Valley 2 the mobile game of 2017. It’s creators tell us how it was designed.
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Humanising autonomy: What do we actually need from self driving cars?
Ustwo’s Auto branch has published design principles to humanise autonomous vehicles.
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Draw on this website and Wayne McGregor's dancers will create a performance based on your strokes
See what moves you can make on this digital dance platform by The British Council, choreographer Wayne McGregor and creative agency Flying Object.
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This robot thinks it can paint (and it can)
Developers taught this robot to paint like Monet, then set it up in a park in Moscow.
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The best design, art & animation conferences, exhibitions and festivals 2017/18
Here are the best design conferences, art shows and activities for the year in the UK and beyond. You'll find inspiration, creativity and the chance to further your career – plus some that are just great fun.
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Where VR, AR and mixed reality is going next
The only UK studio working exclusively with the Microsoft HoloLens, Fracture Reality, describes what MR will look like in five years time. You may be surprised.
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How Sensible Object designed 2017's best board game
The Beasts of Balance creator tells us how the game, its graphics, app and characters were designed – and how playing God can be a huge amount of fun...
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IBC 2017: The future of animation, video, AR and VR
We look back over the IBC 2017 show in Amsterdam – where groundbreaking new tech for producing motion media will brings us more realistic VR and AR, purposefully less realistic animation and a (thankfully virtual) exploding chicken.
