Earn more with the designer's guide to money!

Increase your freelance rates, negotiate a pay rise and boost your clients’ profits with our ultimate guide to money, in the brand new edition of Computer Arts, issue 262, which hits the newsstand today.

Our special embossed cover (all the more reason to get the print edition) was designed by our very own Jo Gulliver. Check out our behind the scenes video on creating 4,000 raised dots here:

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Animade explains its cross-disciplinary offering

Plus! We reveal how four studios increased achieved branding success for their clients, helping them bring in the cash.

Elsewhere, discover how Finnish studio Werklig partnered with the Helsinki City Museum to put emotion at the heart of its new brand identity.

Also inside Computer Arts 262

Surrealist shapes are being used in product and furniture design

Matt Jones shows how to create your very own art toys
Illustrator Ugo Gattoni discusses the immersive power of large-scale art
How to achieve balance between money and happiness
Three designers critique the WeTransfer rebrand
We explore the latest trend for surrealist shapes
The best new design, illustration and motion work from around the world, and much more

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Tom Manning explores the importance of discovering your goals

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Rosie Hilder is Creative Bloq's Deputy Editor. After beginning her career in journalism in Argentina – where she worked as Deputy Editor of Time Out Buenos Aires – she moved back to the UK and joined Future Plc in 2016. Since then, she's worked as Operations Editor on magazines including Computer Arts, 3D World and Paint & Draw and Mac|Life. In 2018, she joined Creative Bloq, where she now assists with the daily management of the site, including growing the site's reach, getting involved in events, such as judging the Brand Impact Awards, and helping make sure our content serves the reader as best it can.