The tiny city of Skellefteå, in the extreme north of Sweden is an unlikely place to find one of the world's foremost web design agencies, and yet it is the spiritual home for the award-winning North Kingdom. Joe Russ goes on an Arctic expedition to investigate.
Combine your imagination with a sprinkling of technical know-how to make your characters burst off the page and into the dynamic realm of the internet.
Web toys are fantastic applications for generating buzz around a website. Peskimo show you how to create an interactive plaything with unique looks and bags of character that will make your site stand out from the crowd.
In the first part of our series on interactive design, Danny Franzreb and Holger Grünwald from German design studio Taobot show how you can use Photoshop to visualise ideas and concepts from your sketches.
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.
If you want to get your work seen by as many people as possible, the web is the way to go. Couple that with the flexibility of the Adobe PDF format and you have a winner...
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.
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.
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.
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.