China's astonishing economic success will have serious repercussions for Western designers. A heavy investment in talent is about to catapult the country into the centre of the world's design stage. Tom Dennis takes a look East.
Inspired by the famously arresting Norwegian outdoors, Grandpeople's design and illustration interprets natural processes into graphical forms. Always engaging, occasionally psychedelic, for them, design is more than skin deep, as Mark Penfold found out...
Some call him the bad boy of web design; others say he's a pioneer. Adrian Sandiford discovers that, ultimately, Joshua Davis is an artist looking for patterns.
A change of scenery can work wonders for anyone stuck in a creative rut, but what does it take to step out of your comfort zone and into a bigger, brighter world? Nick Spence speaks to nine established designers about settling somewhere new.
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.
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.
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.
Craig Grannell delves into the world of viral marketing and finds out how to design campaigns that sell themselves and appeal to increasingly weary consumers.
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.
The underground, counterculture graphics of the past four decades have remained a source of inspiration for those wishing to escape the mainstream, as Lawrence Zeegen discovers.
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