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.
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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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Did you know Picasso was also an illustrator?
The great artist illustrated for over 150 books in his lifetime, one of which is being re-released in an exact replica of its 1930s first edition.
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Butcher Billy's Black Mirror artwork for USS Callister is coming to vinyl
Butcher Billy's artwork for a Black Mirror classic can now be yours in vinyl form for Record Store Day 2019.
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Majority of illustrators still don’t earn enough to live from - and it's affecting their mental health, new survey shows
A majority of illustrators say they don’t earn a suitable salary to live 'sustainably' and it's causing anxiety according to a new survey conducted and published by Ben O’Brien, aka Ben the Illustrator.
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Miffy and Rembrandt join forces to teach kids art history in this new book
Hello Kitty's ancestor meets the forefather of modern art as part of a major new retrospective.
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Discover the craft and legacy of Japan's most famous manga master in a new retrospective
Your chance to see how Urasawa Naoki classics like Monster and 20th Century Boys have influenced the manga field.
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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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The artistic approaches that helped Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse pick up this year's Animation Oscar
This year's animation Oscar winner combines art styles that are as diverse as the multiple universes its heroes and villains come from. Here we take a peek inside their creation.
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Alice Tye on blurring the line between fine art and illustration with Japan as her muse
A recent trip to Japan has inspired Alice Tye's series Mono No Aware, a celebration of all things spring and sakura.
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Dreamlike indie game Etherborn draws inspiration from Monument Valley - and famous artists
Classic 20th century artists such as Escher, Mondrian and de Chirico have influenced a surreal new platformer from studio Altered Matter.
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Terry Crews and other sexual violence survivors tell their stories in these #MeToo animated short films
Hornet, Psyop, Elastic, Deutsch and other top animation houses have animated the words of victims to create these affecting animated PSAs.
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Illustrators react as the AOI pulls pricing advice for members – and the AOI responds
Recent news of the Association of Illustrators dropping its pricing-assistance service has caused debate in the illustration world – we speak to the Association and highlight the decision's impact on artists.
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How artists, illustrators and photographers can get free cash with DACS payback royalties
If you’re an artist and your work has been published in UK books, magazines or TV – you could be entitled to thousands of pounds. What are you waiting for?
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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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Editors’ intimate album artwork for Violence wins Best Art Vinyl Awards 2018
Rahi Rezvari's artwork for Editors' Violence wins best cover at Best Art Vinyl 2018 - check it and all the best nominees from this year's awards here.
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Female pioneers are honoured with brilliant portraits for a new spin on Guess Who
Heroes like Frida Kahlo are immortalised for a board game that highlights the hidden her-story of our world.
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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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This absurd website magically completes your doodles using AI
Magic Sketchpad's neural network helps you turn circles into cats and lines into trucks.
