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  • Reflective surfaces

    There are numerous ways to simulate chrome, but by reflecting an 'environment' into your artwork using and you can really make it shine. Award-winning designer Mark Mayers explains how.

  • Create a waste paper bin

    Experimental designers Waste build a whacky paper wheelie bin that can be used by friends and clients as a desk tidy.

  • Photoshop expertise

    Using stock images to texture and enhance your photos can give standard portraits an artistic twist. Justin Maller reveals how to achieve a variety of effects in by experimenting with Adjustment Layers, modes and masks.

  • From sketch to screen

    In his first tutorial, TechVector's Reggie Gilbert shows you a quick and simple way to create a stylised spray-can illustration from a simple sketch or photograph using a range of tools in Illustrator.

  • Repeating patterns

    Patterns can be used in a number of ways to create intricate repeating images that can be put to a multitude of creative uses. Hannah Gal uses photoshop to demonstrate the possibilities.

  • Photocopier effects

    Talented illustrator Susan Burghart reveals the techniques she uses to add gritty texture to her clean vector illustrations.

  • Creating and using logos

    Slingshot's Mat Burhouse demonstrates how to approach, create and use logos, from sketch book to style guide.

  • Create photo mosaics

    Computer Arts regular Christian Darkin reveals an easy way to create an impressive, complex-looking illustration from a grid of hundreds of smaller images, without giving a seizure.

  • Editorial type design

    Whether it's an annual report or a simple newsletter, attention to detail when it comes to your type usage will result in a much more pleasing and readable design.

  • Perfect cut-outs

    Fed up with cut-outs that look like they've been done with a pair of shears? Then sharpen up your results.
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