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  • Create your own fanzine

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    Create your own fanzine

    Cut-and-paste, photocopiers, punk rock, drug culture, passion, independence and the DIY ethic; all the ingredients you need for a classic fanzine design. Go get your hands dirty.
  • Distorted type effects

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    Distorted type effects

    Organic digital effects are hugely popular at the moment, so it's a good time to dig out Illustrator's Distort tools and use them to add an unusual dimension to your work. Martin Fewell reveals how..
  • Profile: Hi-ReS!

    Interview

    Profile: Hi-ReS!

    The most successful projects are all about good timing, says Hi-ReS!'s Florian Schmitt. Sometimes it's better to be the tortoise than the hare. Graeme Aymer finds out more about the London studio challenging tradition.
  • Illustrate >> animate

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    Illustrate >> animate

    Adding animation to your illustration work can reap great creative and financial rewards. But what does it take to make the small jump from Illustrator to , to and page to screen? Nick Spence finds out
  • Expose yourself

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    Expose yourself

    Go on, don't be shy - expose yourself! Get out there and show the world just what you're made of. Lawrence Zeegen gets the low-down on the crucial art of self-promotion.
  • Watercolour effects

    Tutorial

    Watercolour effects

    When you want to create a tactile and fluid effect in your digital art, your best bet is to reach for the real thing. Derek Lea gets out his watercolour paints and reveals how original old-style becomes digitally colour-perfect.
  • Q&A: Chris Thompson

    Interview

    Q&A: Chris Thompson

    This month, Computer Arts talks to London-based designer and animator Chris Thompson about his work in animation and title design and his recent plans to work at Loyal Kaspar in New York.
  • Add depth to charts

    Tutorial

    Add depth to charts

    Infographics needn't be boring, so why not try taking them to another level by importing a mundane Illustrator chart into and making it inspiring. Mark Mayers is on hand to explain how it's done.
  • Behind the scenes: Secret Wars

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    Behind the scenes: Secret Wars

    Hip-hop crowds have been treated to the thrills of live MC battles for years, so why shouldn't illustration offer a similar spectacle? Tom Dennis checks out Secret Wars, where paint is sure to spill...
  • Animate your type

    Tutorial

    Animate your type

    and share many common features, which makes for a fluid workflow. JJ Johnstone reveals how to create an impressive title animation using the two applications side by side.
  • Future horizons

    Tutorial

    Future horizons

    Photoshop is excellent at creating lovely verdant vistas, but as shows, its modelling and texture tools can also be put to use on projects that require a more constructed look, such as a futuristic sci-fi city.

  • Interview

    Profile: Stefan Gandl

    Stefan Gandl's typographic skills have developed from playing around with black marker pens and Letraset as a kid to producing one of today's best-selling design books.
  • Print perfection

    Tutorial

    Print perfection

    In the final instalment of his three-part tutorial on creating a mini magazine for print and the web, magazine design pro Dylan Channon reveals how to avoid hitches when checking your document and sending it to print.
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