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  • Gary Taxali

    "You don't one day decide to have ethics in your business; you always have them." Garrick Webster visits Gary Taxali in Toronto to discuss design principles and the magic of a little whimsy.

  • The making of LittleBigPlanet

    Rex Crowle gives the inside story on how some friends revolutionised the future of videogames, using a PlayStation 3, a boy made of sack, and lots of pens and paper.

  • Cross-platform character design

    Ben Mounsey shows you how to create characters that are easily transferable across the range of modern ad display mediums.

  • Milton Glaser

    "I realised you could create life through the vehicle of a pencil. That sense of miraculousness has never left me." The cultural legend talks making design history with Graeme Aymer.

  • Sketching pen and ink in Flash

    Character animator and background artist Tom Baker explains how to create hand-drawn pen-and-ink-style sketched images using just and your graphics tablet

  • Convey Human Emotion

    Escape Studios' Nick Savy provides expert guidance on giving your characters convincing facial expressions.

  • Craft a caricature

    Capturing a good likeness is largely down to pencil and paper skills, but going digital can really speed things up, explains Stephen Collins.

  • TADO

    They might be regarded as the King and Queen of cute character design, but as Garrick Webster discovers, Mike and Katie have a dark side too.

  • Create your own monster

    How do you give a fictional creature a distinct personality? Peskimo explains how to design a convincing monster.
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