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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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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.
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No Deal? The Backstop? Brexit is finally explained in this handy infographic from David McCandless
A well-designed animated infographic can explain the most complex of topics - even Brexit.
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How Letraset Transformed Graphic Design
In an age before computers made layout almost effortless, Letraset revolutionised typesetting – letting designers create headlines in mere minutes.
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How to brand an Esports team
London creatives Lovegunn tell us how it rethought traditional sports branding to create the identity of British esports team Excel.
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Designers respond to the new Slack logo
Reactions to the logo range from "friendly in a generic way" to "bland new nothingness." And that's before you consider the rather suggestive colouring.
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Ken Sausage's illustrations for Powerade mash-up Where's Wally with Morph
Ken Sausage's illustrations for Powerade Spain put the surreal into sports drink branding.
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The Pantone Colour of the Year 2020 'will be Bleached Coral'
Creative duo Jack + Huei have hijacked Pantone's Colour of the Year 2019 to draw attention to the environmental crisis killing the Great Barrier Reef.
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Lenovo's new PC for artists and designers is the oddest-looking desktop you can draw on
This asymmetrical all-in-one looks like Dieter Rams' take on Microsoft's Surface Studio – which some will love for its retro charm and others despise.
