Creative lighting techniques By Creative Bloq Staff published 13 October 08 It's easy enough to add natural-looking lighting effects to your clean vector graphics, says Ben the Illustrator.
Nesting your styles By Creative Bloq Staff published 17 September 08 There's nothing fun or creative about applying Character Styles. So let do the work for you, says Susannah Hall.
Sharpen your design skills, part one By Creative Bloq Staff published 4 September 08 Get more from the software you use every day as five top creatives share their favourite tricks and techniques for working faster and smarter.
Mastering InDesign preferences By Creative Bloq Staff published 7 May 08 InDesign is not just a tremendously powerful layout package, it's also hugely customisable. Susannah Hall explains how to change the default settings to suit you.
10 minute tutorial: Type within type By Creative Bloq Staff published 17 December 07 When you convert type to outlines in it creates a frame that can contain a picture or be used as a text frame that you can then fill with type.
Be the best By Creative Bloq Staff published 8 June 07 Learning new skills can reap great rewards and open doors to new creative opportunities. But what does it take to keep pace with the latest technologies and stay one step ahead of the pack? Nick Spence finds out.
Make the most of OpenType By Creative Bloq Staff published 1 June 07 What does an OpenType font have that other font formats don't? Maybe nothing or maybe everything. We explain.
Fake 3D in After Effects By Creative Bloq Staff published 30 April 07 It's easy to add extra depth to your motion graphics work using Illustrator's Collapse Transformation function to create simple 3D objects. Regular JJ Johnstone gives you all the know-how you'll need...
101 ways to create better images By Creative Bloq Staff published 29 November 06 It's all about the image, and there are ways of getting it right and ways of getting it wrong. We present invaluable advice from top designers on making sure the images you create, in whatever medium you work in, are bang on the money every time.
Design skills to pay the bills? By Creative Bloq Staff published 26 September 06 Feedback from our forum suggests that many of you are dissatisfied with the way design-software skills are taught in higher education. But are the universities to blame?
Colour spot check By Creative Bloq Staff published 4 August 06 Special inks such as metallics, fluorescents and varnishes are surprisingly easy to manage in Acrobat Professional.
What's happened to Adobe? By Creative Bloq Staff published 7 March 06 The long-awaited Adobe/Macromedia merger has finally been given the go ahead, but is the message being broadcast by Macromedia's redesigned website the way forward for Adobe? Jason Arber hopes not.
Profile: Graphic Thought Facility By Creative Bloq Staff published 21 February 06 A decade and a half ago, Margaret Thatcher was in power and GTF was just getting started. Graeme Aymer meets the mature design studio searching for a certain type of client.
Profile: Happypets By Creative Bloq Staff published 24 January 06 Lausanne's brightest design trio talk to Graeme Aymer about their style, experimentation, illustration and the influence of Swiss design.
I want that one By Creative Bloq Staff published 30 March 05 If you';e the type of person who dribbles over new software and constantly updates your kit, whether you need it or not, it's hard to justify the expense.
Interface Design By Creative Bloq Staff published 11 November 04 Here, we're going to show you how to build a CD-ROM based on Formula One racing.
Indesign 2.0 part 1 By Creative Bloq Staff published 23 May 03 Study InDesign 2.0's best features such as typographic control, image colour sampling, re-linking, feathering, and Transparency controls.