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  • Profile: 4Wall

    Interview

    Profile: 4Wall

    Sam Stubbings believed the design world was false and elitist, until he stumbled across an exhibition that changed his mind forever. Graeme Aymer meets the brains behind 4Wall, one of the UK's most exciting design collectives.
  • Profile: Marguerite Sauvage

    Interview

    Profile: Marguerite Sauvage

    She can capture character with just a few simple lines, and her eye for clever graphic elements is exemplary. No wonder French illustrator Marguerite Sauvage is in demand with the ever-restless fashion world.

  • Tutorial

    The art of ornament

    Recent Computer Arts cover illustrator Tom Lane reveals how he uses Illustrator and Fontographer to create impressive decorative typefaces that can be used to inject something special into your work.
  • Design for Exhibitions

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    Design for Exhibitions

    Large-scale graphics and displays for exhibitions, expos and conferences used to have a staid image, but now, as Nick Spence discovers, it's a hotbed of creativity and a great opportunity to promote your work to a wider audience.
  • Reinvent yourself

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    Reinvent yourself

    Like all creative fields, design is subject to fads and fashions, so how do the leading designers, illustrators and agencies evolve in order to stay ahead of the game? Sean Ashcroft speaks to the experts about the best way to keep your style fresh.
  • Craftwork

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    Craftwork

    Before graphics software and computers, designers had to use scalpels, T-squares, Rotring pens, Cow Gum and art-board to create physical artwork. Adrian Shaughnessy recalls the days when art demanded painstaking craft.

  • Tutorial

    Hands-on design

    Combining traditional media with digital techniques is a fail-safe way to add an interesting new dimension to your artwork, but you must be prepared to get your hands dirty, as Mark Mayers explains.
  • Real-world collage

    Tutorial

    Real-world collage

    Combat mediocrity by dusting off your old art supplies, photographing real objects, and using innovative methods to assemble things within.
  • Easy money?

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    Easy money?

    Taking an iconic image and manipulating it isn't particularly creative. And although it might be lucrative, it's almost certainly illegal. But how long will the prime suspects avoid the strong arm of the law?
  • Q&A: Alex Jenkins

    Interview

    Q&A: Alex Jenkins

    Alex Jenkins trained as an animator before becoming an interactive designer at agency Unit9. Here he talks about his techniques and the influence his background as an animator has had on his work.
  • Hand made!

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    Hand made!

    Old-school, hand-crafted techniques are challenging today's most advanced digital technology. Illustrator and agent Lawrence Zeegen examines the graphic designer's shift towards using traditional art skills rather than slick computerised processes.
  • Animating scenery

    Tutorial

    Animating scenery

    Flashmeister and regular Rex Crowle explains how to produce a travelling sequence - one that combines the animated movement of a main character, or object, with a continuously scrolling background.
  • Create an image gallery

    Tutorial

    Create an image gallery

    In the second instalment of his three-part series, Pro Richard Guest reveals an easy way to display your work as thumbnail images, to make viewing the images in your online portfolio more enjoyable for users.
  • Interactive panoramas

    Tutorial

    Interactive panoramas

    By creating a fully-formed interactive panorama you and anyone else can step inside the worlds you create. Design duo Peskimo show you how to use to view your illustrations from a different perspective.
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