What's influencing the colours designers choose? A new report has surprising answers
James Cropper's Progressive Palettes report shines a light on colour trends for branding, packaging and social.
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Twitch rebrand pays tribute to classic game heroes; doubles down on the retro
Pika Pika yellow and Princess Peach pink are all yours in Twitch's brand new look – but the purple stays.
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Designers and illustrators create ready-to-hold placards for the Global Climate Strike
Two initiatives are giving the public a choice of ready-made placards, posters and materials they can share on social media for the strikes from September 20-27.
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Pantone has invented 294 new colours
The ink system has gained more neutral and tan shades, as well as new tools for InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator to let more easily work with them.
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2019's Designs of the Year celebrate protest signs, football scarf design and people that don't exist
The nominees of the Design Museum's Designs of the Year 2019 have been announced. Here's our pick of the best graphics, art, illustration and digital work.
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The Best Art and Design Conferences of 2019
This year find inspiration, fun, skills and the chance to meet some like-minded people at these festivals across subjects from concept art and illustration to branding, and from graphic and UX design to animation and VFX.
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Neuroscience can explain – and prevent – logo redesign disasters
How some brand agencies are using emerging scientific disciplines to create the perfect rebranding.
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The Guardian responds to artist pressure over its illustration contest
Good news as The Guardian makes changes to its controversial Glasto illustration competition.
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Digital Arts is now on YouTube!
The Digital Arts Youtube channel is here, bringing the best creators working with the best tools out there, leading in the fields of branding and graphic design, illustration, animation, VR and VFX.
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Nike ranges new and classic get wildly interpreted by artists and animators worldwide – here are the best
Unsung Taiwan collectives and cult stars like Julian Glander give their takes on the Air Max 97 and 270 React for one of Nike's most colourful promo pushes yet.
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Marvel at the rocking new Thor logo – but which one?
How Marvel won hearts at Comic Con with not one but two logos for Thor: Love and Thunder – plus a whole load of Desert Chrome.
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These new laptops for designers and artists from Dell, HP, Lenovo and Razer give you oodles more creative power on the move
Ignore Intel's 10th-gen chips announcements - these are the new laptops you should be checking out.
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Best Tattoo Fonts
Most 'tattoo' fonts are crap. Check out these 10 that you might actually use.
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Hold your horses, logo police - the BT rebrand hasn't rolled out yet
BT's new EE-esque logo is getting a bashing - even though it's just a trademark. Either way, the new look is a unique case of like son, like father instead of like father, like son...
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IKEA just changed its logo - but shh, it's a secret
IKEA adapts their classic look for the digital age - and name it something that's Peak IKEA.
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Apple has upgraded the iMac to make it twice as fast – and given the iMac Pro a quiet bump too
Apple has launched new versions of its 27- and 21.5 inch iMacs with faster CPUs and graphics, which Apple claims makes it up to 2.4x faster than previous models.
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Apple's new iPad Air is a low-cost rival to the iPad Pro
While Apple says that the iPad Air isn’t for pro artists and designers, there are a few features we prefer to the iPad Pro.
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The creative sector has a diversity problem - are talent schemes the answer?
As a new report calls on the creative sector to aid disadvantaged youth, major studios like ustwo and Beyond launch a scheme to encourage more diversity - but is it enough?
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Cannabis Branding - How to design for the budding marijuana market
Find the right designs and touch the right audience by taking a leaf out of big studios' books on branding for the cannabis industry.
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23 best picture books for children
Brilliant picture books with art by famous illustrators that your children will love for half term – and which you'll appreciate too.
