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  • 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.
  • Profile: serialcut

    Interview

    Profile: serialcut

    In a Spanish design scene where you must compete and struggle to make a name for yourself, Sergio del Puerto has garnered the attention of clients across the world. Adrian Sandiford talks to the man behind Madrid's best up-and-coming creative studio.
  • Profile: Fenotype

    Interview

    Profile: Fenotype

    "i'm suddenly surprised by the thought that it might actually be possible to make a living from type design. Wouldn't that be something?" Finnish font designer Emil Bertell describes the experience of starting out.
  • Real-world effects

    Tutorial

    Real-world effects

    Peskimo reveals how to put your vector creations out into the real world, using and to combine the illustrations in your head with the realism of the world outside your front door.
  • Be the best

    Feature

    Be the best

    Learning new skills can reap great rewards and open doors to new creative opportunities. But what does it take to keep pace with the latest technologies and stay one step ahead of the pack? Nick Spence finds out.
  • Adding interactivity

    Tutorial

    Adding interactivity

    In the second instalment of his three-part magazine creation tutorial, Dylan Channon takes the basic layout he created in part one and adds some interactive elements to bring the design to life.
  • Poetry in motion

    Tutorial

    Poetry in motion

    Motion capture can generate incredibly realistic animation; but only if you have access to cleaned data. We explore the process of cleaning raw optical mocap data for yourself, using only the tools in
  • Q&A: Carolina Melis

    Interview

    Q&A: Carolina Melis

    Sardinian-born Carolina Melis trained as a dancer and choreographer before specialising in illustration and animation. As a result, her work now reflects the grace and fluidity of dance.
  • Creative cityscapes

    Tutorial

    Creative cityscapes

    Illustrating city scenes can be simple, but creating an idyllic place is often tricky. Ben the Illustrator, aka Ben O'Brien, uses Illustrator to create subtle effects and creative techniques that will bring a cityscape to life.
  • Inside magazine design

    Feature

    Inside magazine design

    Despite the tremendous growth of the internet, magazines remain unassailably cool. Jason Walsh talks to a range of designers across the industry to find out what the ink-stained life is really like.
  • Design a display font

    Tutorial

    Design a display font

    Spacing, kerning, geometrics, ink-traps, proportions, overshoot and inspiration; we explain everything that's important when you start to create your own display font...
  • Gimme some skin!

    Tutorial

    Gimme some skin!

    To skin a character so that its mesh deforms correctly when its skeleton moves is one of the least-documented aspects of 3D. In this beginner's guide, we set out three of the basic techniques used to do so.
  • Profile: Hannah Stouffer

    Interview

    Profile: Hannah Stouffer

    With a stated aim of redefining 'classic' and a rich, elegant body of work, Hannah Stouffer mixes traditional opulence with modern-day influences to create a unique and heady style.
  • Animated Flash stickers

    Tutorial

    Animated Flash stickers

    In the real world, people put stickers on things to send out messages and to grab the attention of passers-by, so why not try doing something similar using animation? Rex Crowle shows you how.
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