Best art and design exhibitions still happening in 2020
As galleries and museums slowly reopen, make sure you pop along to these exhibitions for inspiration, education and reflection.
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How design duo Rob en Robin sexed up data vis and their local car park
Art & AR meets graphic design in the Netherlands.
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Best digital painting software for PC and Mac
The best Mac and PC applications for digital painting – including full-price, low-cost and free painting apps.
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'Super Plumber Man' and the reality-bending games ideal for lockdown
Wish we could play these interactive gems.
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How the Avengers – and Territory Studios – are helping medical heroes save real lives
Where XR meets UI, and Marvel meets Medtech.
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To engage remote audiences, AR is more vital than ever
BTS concerts and the longest augmented reality broadcast ever show there's a way forward for crisis-hit creatives.
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How Empire State history – and King Kong – was resurrected through immersive design
VR, FX and film come together for a unique new way to experience the Empire State Building Observatory.
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Will consumer VR finally break out in 2020?
VR expert Hayden Dingman from our sister site PCWorld.com discusses whether VT will finally find a mainstream audience this year.
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Apple AR artists adapt to new mediums for a worldwide takeover – are you ready?
New Museum on how the Apple [AR]T Walk was put together in a collaboration of creatives and code.
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Björk: her best videos at the apex of digital art
The 12 greatest Björk promos of all time, taking us all the way from the Moon to the Moomins via VFX and animation mastery.
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Björk's new VR album shows emotion and audio are the future of the medium
First look: We got to experience Vulnicura VR in one of London's best kept secrets, going deep into the project's history with co-creative director and long-time Björk collaborator James Merry.
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Studio McGuire on bringing beautiful moving artworks to the fine-dining table
Davy and Kristen McGuire’s hallucinatory projection-mapped worlds helped bring Howl’s Moving Castle to the stage – but their latest project is a lot more intimate.
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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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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.