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From data journalism, where you are scrubbing and combining datasets, to ornately designed infographic style posters, you need to understand the tools and your audience to succeed. This article will point you in the right directions to both improve your skills as well as open your eyes to new resources.
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Design hardware manufacturer Wacom is a big favourite amongst digital artists, graphics designers and photographers, with its Cintiq range of tablets particularly favoured in the creative community. Now the company has released a new, improved version of its full HD tablet, the Wacom Cintiq 22HD. The Wacom Cintiq 22HD Touch features, as the name suggests, a multi-touch display that's similar to Wacom's larger, more expensive model, the Cintiq 24HD.
Ben the Illustrator explains how to go about creating vector illustrations using Adobe Illustrator, explaining the key tools and offering some expert tips.
US indie band Darwin Deez are known for their 'out-there' shows and edgy get-ups. So, for their latest music video, director Keith Schofield decided to put front-man Darwin into one of the most uncool places he could muster: reel-upon-reel of stock footage. Thus the 'outsider' connotation of being a rock star is brought to life in a quite literal way.
First go to this page where you can download the Open XML Converter for Macintosh. This program allows you to open Office 2008 programs in older versions of Microsoft office. It also includes all the fonts for Office 2008. So you can either run the installer and it will install itself, or if you are a bit uneasy about installing Microsoft products on your computer, right click on the installer and select show package contents. Open the folder called ‘Contents’ then ‘Packages’ then select ‘show package contents’ of the file that is called OpenXML_all_fonts. Open the folder called ‘Contents’ then double-click on ‘Archive.pax.gz’
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Assuming that you design your Mobile app in 2x, I know it’s tempting to use automatic tools such as Slicy to create your 1x assets. But it’ll be far from perfect, since you’ll end up with half-pixels and that means blurry outlines. You don’t want blurry pixels.
To start with, drawing the map from scratch. Why don’t we challenge the universe of 45 angles by making all ours with a 30-step?
DC Comics' Death of the Family has been one of the best-received Batman series in recent memory, not least because of Greg Capullo's fantastic art work. The artist ABVH has created some expertly-animated GIFs based on a selection of illustrations from the series by Capullo and Patrick Gleason.
The collection and validation of user input seems to be a theme pervading the early days of 2013. Front-line form checking, inline content editing, even the tricky business of establishing a user's humanity get some worthwhile attention.
TOGETHER, THOUSANDS OF CREATIVE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ARE FORMING A TRAVELING LIBRARY OF ARTISTS' BOOKS. The Sketchbook Project is a collection of creative works in the form of sketchbooks that are contributed by individuals from around the world. Thousands of people are adding their voice to this project annually. Together, they have formed a library of over 22,000 sketchbooks from over 130 countries and growing. Anyone – from anywhere in the world – can participate in the project.
There are some great Tumblr blogs covering graphic design, photography, illustration, typography or 3D. We've picked the best...
For web creators everywhere, living and working on the bleeding edge of design innovation is as exciting as ever. To kick off the new year, now seems like a good time to highlight the important trends and developments in the world of design and dev during 2013. Without further ado, here's what you need to know about web design for the year to come.