What is Inktober 2019 and how do I take part?
Everything you need to know about Inktober, which aims to help you get better at drawing through a series of themed challenges.
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50 screen-printed artworks inspired by the past 50 years
Print Club London’s new show features Anthony Burrill, Pure Evil and more.
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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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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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DeviantArt may be heading for a comeback thanks to Twitter – but are illustrators that mad?
Twitter's new changes annoy digital artists everywhere, so what are the alternatives?
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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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15 iPad art tips
Tips for artists and designers who are new to the iPad from four leading professional illustrators who've moved from traditional media to digital drawing, painting and lettering.
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Yuko Shimizu's Godzilla box set illustrations want to make us spend monstrous money
The Criterion Collection is bringing the classic Godzilla movies to Blu-ray with awesome presentation from Yuko Shimizu.
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Rob Ryan, Morag Myerscough and other artists urge you to Choose Love
This series of artworks for charity Help Refugees are all based around the iconic typographic statement designed by Katherine Hamnett.
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Watch these fantastic short animations that won the RSA Student Awards 2019
Taking on everyday sexism and 'how to be more pirate', these three 60-second animated films were created by outstanding new illustration and design talent.
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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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Chip sauce inks and the world's largest letterpress made for new book on northern identity
Design studio Split explore what it means to be from the North with massively ambitious project These Northern Types.
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Moleskine launches limited edition Lord of the Rings notebook collection
Moleskine just released four limited edition Lord of the Rings inspired notebooks, along with a Collector's Edition version that comes in its own box.
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Game of Thrones GIFs: how Eran Mendel is creating hilarious weekly GIFs based on each episode's most shocking moment
Eran Mendel tells about his hugely popular weekly project turning Game of Thrones iconic moments into funny vector-based animated GIF – plus see all the GIFs.
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The AOI reminds illustrators their business is Not a Hobby
The AOI launches its empowerment campaign for illustrators with new visuals from Ben the Illustrator and more.
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Illustrators including Marion Deuchars have redesigned the Baby on Board badge
Marion, Ellie Thomas and Erin Aniker have created their own versions of the usually plain-and-informative badge for a Mother's Day campaign.
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Magical mystery tour: this artist has colourfully customised a bus to promote positive mental health
Public transportation gets a psychedelic makeover by a rising new talent, all in support of mental well-being.
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Designing a near-future Kowloon Walled City for Alita: Battle Angel
Production designer Caylah Eddleblute tells us about the architecture, colour, texture and lighting of Alita's Iron City.
