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Finding new freelance opportunities
How Sasha Prood is growing her freelance career
Designer and illustrator Sasha Prood explains how she’s growing her freelance career this year
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Why you should question graphic conventions
Don’t use conventions as hard and fast rules
There’s something wrong when designers use graphic conventions as hard and fast rules. The trick is knowing when to tread a new path, says Adam Berninger -
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10 pro tips for art-directing magazines
How to create magazines that look and feel just right
Tank’s Liz Muller shares her top 10 tips for creating magazines that look and feel just right -
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Discover user experience design
Modern UX: more practical than academical
Clearleft’s Andy Budd explains how modern UX is more about sketches and prototypes than reams of documentation -
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Five things you never knew about copyright
Think you’ve got copyright sussed? Think again
Think you’ve got copyright sussed? Think again – here’s The AOI’s Derek Brazell with five little-known copyright facts -
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10 tips for painless collaborative projects
Two creative heads can be better than one
Two creative heads can be better than one if you go about it properly; follow our guide to hassle-free collaboration -
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Discover HTML5
How do you exploit HTML5’s functionality?
It might be still evolving, but HTML5 is already synonymous with media-rich, browser-native interactivity that wows where it counts. So how do you exploit its functionality? -
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Micro trends: Graphic design aesthetics
Seven key visual styles for the coming year
FranklinTill reveals the seven key visual styles that should be gracing your studio’s moodboards over the coming year -
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Six things you can do about spec work
Take a stand against working for free!
As a rule, working on spec is in nobody’s interest – not yours and probably not in your clients’, so do something about it with our six-point plan -
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Freelancing: Making tax less taxing
Don’t leave next year’s tax until the last minute
Just finished this year’s tax return? Why not try being a bit more organised when it comes to next year’s? -
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10 pro After Effects tips
Expert advice for compositing or animating
Whether you’re compositing or animating, follow our expert advice -
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Should you work for free?
It's the great spec work debate!
From logo competitions to creative pitches, is spec work really devaluing the work of professional designers? -
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Do you need a degree?
How important are qualifications these days?
How important are qualifications to get ahead in today’s creative industry? Can you progress via the self-taught route? -
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10 pro Illustrator tips
Essential advice for perfect vectors
Essential nuggets of advice for perfecting your creative work in Illustrator -
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10 indispensable InDesign type tips
Here are 10 tricks to ensure you’re doing it right
Whatever the final application, correct type is a must in InDesign – so here are 10 tricks to ensure you’re doing it right -
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10 tips for creating the perfect logo
Get your branding right every time
Get your branding right every time with our guide to creating brilliant identities -
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Do you have an inkling?
We take a close look at Wacom's magic pen
Sketch with a real ballpoint pen on any paper, while simultaneously beginning the first steps of your digital workflow -
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The creative pro's guide to choosing & using graphics tablets
Find out what you need and what you can do with it
Get closer to your design work with a hands-on graphics tablet. Find out what you need and what you can do with it by reading our expert guide -
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The designer’s guide to choosing the right paper stock
Our 10-point guide to picking perfect paper
Don't sell your work short with unsuitable stock - here's our 10-point guide to picking perfect paper -
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My design classic: The hairbrush
It's more than a tool for taming your locks, says Marian Bantjes
The humble hairbrush isn’t just a tool for taming your locks – it’s a design classic in its own right, according to legendary Canadian designer, typographer, writer and illustrator Marian Bantjes -
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Get onto Windows Phone 7
We investigate the opportunities for app developers
Windows Phone 7 is on the up, or so it seems. We investigate the opportunities for app developers on Microsoft’s answer to iOS and Android
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