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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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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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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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.
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Pepsi unveils a love-fuelled rebrand for 2019
The soft drink giant has rebranded its cans for 2019 - why? 'For the love of it,' apparently.
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Don't be a snowflake - the British Army recruitment ads aren't a branding nightmare
Karmarama's ad campaign for the UK Army has been met with online derision - but there's more to the promos than meets the eye.
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The 10 most fun stories of 2018
From badly-drawn footballers and wonderfully garish royals to hilarious poster mashup – plus a whole host of cats and dogs – these are the stories that tickled us most in 2018.
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How designer Lena Groeger exposed Trump's lies using stylish infographics
The Kantar-award winner brings data to life in surprising ways - including a rebuttal of claims made by a certain world leader.
