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February 28
- Design Indaba: highlights from day 3
- Dropbox's Tim Van Damme on working with talented people
- Designer reveals new superhero packaging for RedBull
- James Bates on seeking out the uncomfortable
- Find a niche market for your designs: 6 pro tips
- 9 pop art tributes to Oscar-nominated movies
- James Fairbank on the design-conscious world of cycling
- 7 best iPhone accessories for smarter photography
- The designer's guide to special characters
- Animated warning on the dangers of taking selfies
- Font of the day: Bardot
- Geri Coady on public speaking, accessibility and riding her Vespa
- Get a free issue of Computer Arts today
- Why it's important to build an inclusive web
- Day of the Dead comes to life with intricate paper art
February 27
- Design Indaba: highlights from day two
- 8 ways to make more money in 2014
- 20 jQuery plugins that you can customize visually
- Animated animals piece together conference logo
- David Litchfield on making the jump to freelance
- 10 awe-inspiring examples of abstract art
- Create a style prototype for your responsive site
- You wouldn't expect this type of billboard from a DIY store
- Font of the day: Simplifica
- 6 amazing examples of matte painting
- Gloriously minimal jazz posters are music to your eyes
- What's so special about the Yves Saint Laurent logo?
- Yaron Schoen on why it's all about the team
February 26
- Mike Kus on going your own way
- Design Indaba: highlights from day one
- Create a carousel out of nothing but CSS
- The 5 biggest freelance headaches - and how to solve them
- Dan Mall on being floored by talented people
- Yesenia Perez-Cruz on embracing scary things
- 25 inspiring typography portfolios on Behance
- Oscars 2014 predictions: which movies should win?
- 5 enticing examples of food branding
- Your website needs to tell a story - here's why
- Hipster brands become corporate sell-outs with these logo redesigns
- Font of the day: Archivio
- The importance of freelance money management
- How to sculpt a detailed 3D hand
- Experimental typography is a candy-coloured pixelated treat
February 25
- Jack Franklin on his passion for JavaScript
- Collaborate with other designers to make extra cash: 9 pro tips
- Font of the day: Goudy Sans Black BT
- Why the world’s top designers are converging on Cape Town
- net magazine explores the future of SEO
- The Pattern Library is now open for you to use for free
- 15 amazing tote bags for designers
- The secrets of creating realistic VFX revealed in the new-look 3D World
- 5 beautiful illustrated tributes to Ghostbuster Harold Ramis
- How a two-hour commute kickstarted Sabrina Smelko's folio highlight
- You won't believe this Star Wars-inspired film is a graduation project
- Street art and soccer collide in this vivid campaign
- How to create your own scalable icon set
- Meg Lewis on breaking industry rules
- Paul Robert Lloyd on not being afraid to ask for help
February 24
- BCNMCR returns to Manchester for a second year
- SEO expert debunks 5 of the biggest SEO myths
- Geri Coady on creative freelancing and public speaking
- The freelancer's guide to earning more while working less
- How Gravity's visual effects were created
- Can you guess the brands from these illustrated clues?
- Create the perfect 3D render of Hellboy
- Letterpress typography pays tribute to 400-year-old street
- Font of the day: Glasoor
- Album artwork of the week: Tycho 'Awake'
- Free book: the designer's guide to becoming pixel perfect
- Ident for sports channel is strangely moving
February 23
- Fotolia TEN S2: winners unveiled
February 21
- #SingItKitty - the new ad from the team behind #DancePonyDance
- Ben Ashman on designing the future of public services
- Win a new car in design competition for SEAT Mii
- How this intricate mural of underwater legends was brought to life
- Beautiful geometric designs explore animal forms
- 10 things to consider when designing a business website
- How to brand an agency: 5 inspiring projects
- Jared Erondu on crafting pixels and shaping words
- How to choose fonts for book illustrations
- Student animation achieves a 2D look using 3D software
- 5 things that can help you land your dream job
- Font of the day: Zakia
- When it's okay to work through the night
- You've probably never seen a scrolling site like this
- Could this new notepad make you ditch your Moleskine?
February 20
- Dropbox's Dan Eden on the importance of side projects
- How to get paid more in your design job
- Live-action illustration turns Facebook comments into art
- Art director Daniel Perez on the magic of making video games
- Louise Kyme on the challenges facing charitable design
- Free environmental icons: 5 packs to download today
- Victor Erixon on humility, Swedish minimalism and commuting across borders
- 10 steps to redesigning a brand identity
- The arrrrrt of creating a 3D pirate character
- The secret to keeping up with frontend technologies
- Font of the day: Rambla Alt
- How Britain's movie awards were branded
February 19
- Chris Allwood on the joy of monthly meetups
- Poles, wires and puppets replace pixels to craft a magical animation
- 1910 designs a more readable Wikipedia
- Happy Cog's Katie Kovalcin on moving beyond your comfort zone
- These 10 beautiful posters celebrate the golden age of rail travel
- Inside Pomme Chan's Bangkok café-showroom
- Cartoon Network's Head of Design on how to succeed in your career
- How designers can make the most of social media
- How to brand a product that doesn't yet exist: 5 pro tips
- Love the iPhone? Then meet the iCup!
- How to use icon fonts in your mobile apps
- Font of the day: Bleed
- 10 minimalist Android lockscreens to download for free
- New version of Photoshop is less likely to crash
February 18
- Tomasz Wysocki on the importance of finding different perspectives
- New Zealand studio Alt Group explain why lunchtime matters
- Why customer experience is everything in branding
- 5 things you can do if someone rips off your work
- Kick-ass illustrations celebrate The Warriors
- 14 mind-blowing examples of hyperrealism
- Jake Giltsoff on combining a love for Sass and type
- Design a brand identity in 10 easy steps
- Hand-painted or 3D? This charming animation combines both techniques
- 3 ways to design for extensibility
- How cloud rendering can cut costs and shorten production times
- Font of the day: Streetwear
- Giant feather sculptures excude a fragile beauty
- Iconic movies recreated as 8-bit GIFs
February 17
- Sawyer Hollenshead on having the freedom to work on kick-ass projects
- Carl Smith on the science of stress and being a deviant hippy
- How the new RoboCop suits were designed
- Font of the day: Vintagious
- 10 awesome places for designers to hang out
- Jon Gold on working on projects you've always wanted to exist
- Photoshop techniques explained: Exposure
- Starting out in design? You should still get a fair wage
- How to create beautiful cinematic environments
- Oreo's magical animated billboards take over New York
- Lanyrd founders talk responsive design and acquisition
- Swedish designer uses psychedelic daydreams to bring beer to life
- Album art of the week: Dog Knights Productions
February 16
- Fonts of the week w/e 16 Feb 2014
February 15
- Harry Roberts on big CSS, working for Sky, and being a home bird
February 14
- 9 top Illustrator resources
- 11 web design trends I'd like to see in 2014
- 5 illustrated tributes to 80s movies
- Silent animation struts its stuff at Siggraph
- 8 pro tips for branding success
- Anselm Hannemann on INIT, open devices and iPad magazines
- The web designer's guide to style tiles
- Fun facial designs are landscapes for tiny people
- Font of the day: Sant Joan Despí
- Creating an imagination machine for Bombay Sapphire
- Ben Howdle on JavaScript, iOS and picking fights
- Bacon is bad for you: the dangers of a dev monoculture
- Create smooth 3D geometry in 5 simple steps
- Exclusive agency offer: big discount on tickets to Impact Conference
- Classic videogames reimagined as cheesy romance novels
- You'll find this delicious typography good enough to eat
February 13
- World famous race unveils new negative space logo
- Anthony Colangelo on building an event website for MTV
- Free travel icons: 5 packs to download today
- What are the must-know trends in luxury branding?
- How to create impressive 3D graphics in CSS3
- Free game art training available now!
- Generate New York: one amazing day in web design
- World's largest Pinterest board helps launch new brand
- Font of the day: Revisal
- How Leslie David finds time to just be creative
- Jamie Knight on autism, lion plushies and building the BBC iPlayer
- A sensual beauty and ferocious beast brought to life
- 5 examples of unusual computer keys design trend
- McDonald's innovative billboard halves the price of a Big Mac
February 12
- Free Radiohead app transports you to eerie virtual worlds
- 7 ways to make your portfolio sing
- New branding is both logo-centric and camouflaged
- What makes the ideal client?
- The 200 best design moments in our lifetime - part 4
- Ian Carrico on Drupal, cheesecake and saving lives
- Business cards provide a pop of colour
- 10 tasty examples of restaurant branding
- Stock library brings photographers and digital artists together
- Font of the day: Mink Type
- The fall and rise of Dutch design
- Meet a designer who loves to showcase beautiful type
- How to create a killer 3D robot
- Explore how creativity changes lives at UK design festival
- These pictures preview a radical new look for Twitter
- Are you guilty of these 20 web design crimes?
- Kinetic door design is straight out of a sci-fi movie
February 11
- Jonathan Ginn on hackdays, digital hubs and John Hurt
- Mindblowing VFX stretches the limits of human imagination
- Special student offer: 25% off Impact Conference tickets
- 4 responsive web design tools to add to your workflow
- How to create a great branded experience
- You'll love these incredible high-speed shots of water droplets
- Font of the day: Gist
- How Marshmallow Laser Feast turns downtime into inspiration
- Adam Howard on making apps for the music industry
- Unfolding the possibilities of cloud rendering
- Minimalist posters poke fun at film titles
- The internet reimagined as a world map
February 10
- Studio's new geometric logo is modernism with a capital M
- High-end advertisements reinvent the GIF for the luxury crowd
- Chocolate branding is wildly enticing
- Font of the day: Resamitz
- How to design a poster: 10 pro tips
- The secrets of A Good Day to Die Hard's explosive VFX
- How to legally protect your most valuable ideas
- 5 smartphone habits you need to break
- Penguin reveals brand new letterpressed look
- Album artwork of the week: Bombay Bicycle Club
- Final chance to enter Fotolia's $130K design contest
February 7
- Does iDraw bring the power of Adobe Illustrator to your iPad?
- Boost your brand by using the right words
- How to celebrate diversity without being patronising
- Design studio gives mobile booking app super powers
- This could be the perfect desktop lamp for designers
- 5 ways to stay in love with your job as an illustrator
- Create your own 3D Lego superhero
- The designer’s guide to choosing the right paper stock
- What makes a brand iconic?
- The alphabet transformed into fruity women with a twist
- Font of the day: Brandon Printed
- Inside Kate Kiefer Lee's peaceful home office
- How to give your android a killer stare
- 5 tips for making the most of your downtime
- The keyboard made especially for Photoshop users
- You won't believe these vintage gadgets are actually paintings
February 6
- Top artists reveal the secrets of art direction
- Minority Report interface comes to life in Kickstarter campaign
- How to get a promotion: 15 tips
- Create fantasy book artwork with the new IFX
- 6 free icon sets for foodie projects
- Font of the day: Hitchhiker
- 10 illustrations promoting gay rights at the Winter Olympics
- How Luke Brookes turned The Tree of Life into an illustration
- Want to be more creative? Start your own disco
- Computer Arts explores the relationship between typography and branding
- What's the future of 3D rendering?
- Iconic images turned into 8-bit watercolours
- Discover how the mind-blowing Lego Movie was put together
February 5
- The future of retail branding
- 37signals becomes Basecamp
- Six decades of D&AD awards: the 1990s
- Stunning geometric tattoos will make you want to get some ink
- New software will make your 3D production five times faster
- Font of the day: The Carpenter
- Create beautiful abstract patterns with Amberlight
- 45 free nasty icons will add some evil to your work
- Leslie David: from Jean-Paul Gaultier to Björk to M/M Paris
- What's the point of unsolicited redesigns?
- Gorgeous interactive map of the Sochi Winter Olympics
- World's top logos recreated with new Squarespace tool
February 4
- What's growing in these surreal TV idents?
- How to improve your app in 5 easy steps
- 15 printing terms every designer needs to know
- In-depth guide to the new Mac Pro costs just 99p
- 10 free presentation tools to help you deliver that perfect pitch
- Kickstarter campaign wants to teach your kids coding
- Font of the day: Brownie
- What happens to your Facebook content once you're dead?
- Create a responsive CSS3 product wall
- Is Wacom's Cintiq Companion tablet the best of both worlds?
- QNY Creative's New York studio is a modern imaginarium
February 3
- How the Adidas logo earned its stripes
- February's art and design shows that you mustn't miss
- 30 workshops to boost your design skills in 2014
- Album artwork of the week: Wild Beasts 'Present Tense'
- Font of the day: Precious Sans Two
- The One Web vision: design for the user, not the device
- Upgraded 3D package offers finite elements
- Illustrators reimagine Coen brothers' films as gig posters