The Best Design Conferences in 2018 (and beyond)
Find inspiration, fun, skills and the chance to meet some like-minded people at these design festivals.
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Moleskine's new range of notebooks for artists includes concertina & landscape pages
Moleskine's new art collection offers landscape sketchbooks, watercolour support, concertina pages, storyboard frames and more.
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This typeface mixes Braille with visual letters to help make existing public signage more inclusive
Designer Kosuke Takahashi’s Braille Neue concept typeface combines Braille with Latin and Japanese characters enabling visually impaired people to read current public signage.
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Dalton Maag on designing custom typefaces for brands like Netflix, the BBC and Nokia
Type design studio and foundry Dalton Maag explains how a custom typeface is created – and why major brands are increasingly commissioning their own fonts.
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8 digital brands that designed custom typefaces to save millions
Following Netflix Sans, we take a look at digital companies moving away from font licensing in favour of custom typefaces.
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Lettering artists Jessica Hische, Martina Flor, Craig Black & more have designed prints to raise money for arts education
Art and design non-profit WeMake commissioned 26 local and international artists to design a print for Design Week Portland.
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Monotype launches two sans serif typefaces designed for modern brands
Unitext and Madera are legible sans serif fonts for logos and small text in print or digital.
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See Thirst Craft and illustrator Jack Daly’s celebration of Scottish land for Loch Lomond Brewery
A localised collaboration between two Scottish creatives for a Scottish brewery results in an elegant rebrand true to the Loch’s natural beauty.
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Learn digital design techniques with these new, free online video tutorials
MediaMonks senior digital designer Adrian Somoza covers UI design, typography, layout and more on his YouTube channel, Bont Co.
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Illustrator Biff on his flamboyant hand lettering, 'glorified doodles' & prolific sketchbooks
Spontaneous, raw and relatable, Biff’s illustrations comment on pop culture and deeper issues with a refreshing style.
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Cyber Monday Deals for Artists & Designers: Wacom, Adobe, Apple, Corel Painter, Microsoft Surface & more
Cyber Monday is here - so here's our regularly updated, expert guide to the best deals on the software, hardware, art equipment and prints.
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This new crowdsourcing platform aims to publish illustrated books on the visual arts
Much like Kickstarter, with Volume anyone can back and pledge the production of high-quality books about design, art, photography and more.
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Now you can design and download free colour typefaces in Illustrator & Photoshop
Download and use free colour fonts for your projects in Illustrator and Photoshop for this week only, thanks to Adobe and Fontself.
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Watch Adobe's still-in-development tools, including automatically colourising black-and-white photos
Watch the videos from Adobe Sneaks event, where Adobe prototype features are demoed, including a new object removal tool and complex data visualisations.
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Adobe releases Creative Cloud 2018 with new Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, XD, Dimension, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Lightroom & more
You can now download Adobe CC 2018. We take a look at the new features in updates to Photoshop, XD, Lightroom, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Character Animator and Dimension.
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Confusion and outrage over the new Dropbox visual identity
Dropbox has unveiled a massive design overhaul for the first time in its 10-year history, which kept Twitter buzzing overnight with supportive and downright brutal responses.
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Learn everything about type with this brilliant (and weighty) tome
Paul McNeil has just published a new book on the history of type communication.
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Design Museum’s Designs of the Year 2017: Nominees
This year’s nominees are a pretty good reflection of what happened over 2016 – Pokemon Go, Kanye West clothing and the Olympic Refugee Flag.
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New BBC typeface Reith designed (in-house) for small screens
The broadcaster has already rolled out Reith on its BBC Sport website and app, and soon it will be used by all programmes and websites.
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Best of the Grad Shows 2017: Winchester School of Art
These graphic art students explore the concepts of consumerism, feminism and queer theory through textiles, ceramics and illustration.
