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April 30
- PayPal unveils new logo and branding
- Brand new Firefox gets a massive redesign
- Cutting-edge cartoon inspires these glorious vector icons
- Playful illustration turns Paris into a gaming paradise
- Which of these 5 apps can replace Softimage?
- Upcoming event celebrates talent in two top creative cities
- 5 ways to make your branding dateable
- Save 50 per cent on your ticket to Generate New York today!
- The biggest logo designs of April 2014
- 5 top examples of fixed navigation - and how to use it properly
- Humorous posters take an undead-eye view of Plants vs Zombies
- This energetic workspace mixes reclaimed oak with animated GIFs
- Font of the day: Rucksack
- 6 most memorable methods of self-promotion
- 3D printing using Blender explained with this new training guide
- See the process behind this beautiful animated infographic
April 29
- Is A/B testing worth the trouble?
- 6 brilliantly animated commercials by Aixsponza
- Get started with book binding
- 7 ways to make user research work for you
- America and Australia collide in this brash and brilliant font design
- Google homepage gets a bold new look in this design concept
- Why an email list is still important
- Sound design: why creatives still want to design for music
- Font of the day: Predige Rounded
- New guide explores the potential of 3D printing
- What if luxury brands sold everyday groceries?
April 28
- This week in Apple: from net neutrality to the OS X public beta
- Fast masking in Photoshop: 5 pro tips
- The pro guide to taking on design interns
- 10 top tips for multi-screen site development
- Homage to early CG work is a nostalgic marvel
- Florian Schültke reveals the secret to good global management
- How a creative business radically removed all its managers
- Cut-price Photoshop rival unveils latest software
- Font of the day: Pakenham Regular
- Does the new Wacom graphics tablet live up to expectations?
- Album artwork of the week: Blondie's 'Ghosts of Download'
- Pop culture icons transformed into adorable charactures
April 27
- Fonts of the week w/e 27 Apr 2014
April 25
- Parallax scrolling site aptly celebrates the Nintendo Game Boy
- 14 great free camera apps
- You'll be transfixed by these beautiful and strange illustrations
- Speed up your workflow with enhanced 3D content creation tool
- Dan Cederholm to speak at Generate London
- 3D World celebrates the best of the CG community
- Turn inspiration into innovation in 3 steps
- The ultimate guide to creative agency roles
- How Surround made this surreal music video
- Tie your website together with a strong narrative
- Font of the day: Intro Condensed
- How to create a realistic 3D city
- World's flags turned into a beautiful new font
- Movie celebrates the most radical artist of the past 50 years
April 24
- Copy text from web images with Project Naptha
- Lifehacker UK: new tips site from the people behind Creative Bloq
- Ingenious vector icon recipe cards make cookery a joy
- How to design better data visualizations
- Junk takes centre stage in film festival branding
- Behind the scenes at award-winning branding experts, Rose
- Font of the day: ATC Overlook
- The secrets behind Iron Man 3's mindblowing VFX
- Stunning posters combine vintage style with interactive tech
- What if your favourite fonts had offspring?
April 23
- Tether your eyes to the screen with this glorious music visualiser
- 5 fantastic tools for making your own video game
- 7 ways to ensure your showreel stands out from the crowd
- Illustrating for T-shirts: 5 pro tips
- 20 pro tips for web design freelancers
- Fabulous illustrated ping-pong paddles are a smash
- 33 exclusive free wallpapers for phone, tablet and desktop
- Why Oculus Rift is the next big thing in interactive design
- How to speed up your character design workflow: 5 top tips
- Font of the day: Universum
- The importance of industry-focused teaching
- Magnificent body art comes to life in stop-motion short
April 22
- Discover the story behind this band poster's enchanting illustration
- There's an uplifting surprise in these Amnesty candles
- Font of the day: Nord
- Learn how to be your own boss in the new net magazine
- Improve your lighting with these 7 expert tips
- How to create a design prototype: 10 pro tips
- 3D and animation heavyweights head to FMX
- Wooden illustrations are simply tree-mendous
- 3D World goes to Jurassic Park
- How to design for dyslexia
- Artists produce Pringles pop art pieces
April 21
- 5 tips for using animated video on your agency website
- Freelancing: what to do when it all goes quiet
- Create custom social media icons for your website
- Double Negative's Pete Bebb on why movies shouldn't rely on VFX alone
- Font of the day: Roihu
- Hakim El Hattab discusses the interactive and unexpected
- Brian Wynia on the importance of reference in creature design
- New Penguin book covers revealed in an unusual way
April 19
- Fonts of the week w/e 20 Apr 2014
April 18
- Get started with game development - 6 pro tips
- Style icons swap logos with iconic brands
- 5 killer ways to tell a story with your design
- This salty streetwear collection is nautical but nice
- Font of the day: QG
- Responsive site blends advanced technology and artisan craft
- 5 tips for making a monster movie
- Surreal Simpsons illustrations will make you eat your shorts
- Interactive exhibition of art inspired by top HBO shows
April 17
- 10 impossibly cool female-led zines
- 15 weird and wonderful uses for Helvetica
- 10 stunning motion graphics in music videos
- You'll be hypnotised by this stop-motion GIF of a 3D-printed bear
- Font of the day: Margot
- How to elevate your creative work onto the world stage
- Chui Chui Tan on the importance of international user research
- Pro tips: creating flat app designs for iOS 7
- How Framestore crammed 50 years of Doctor Who into one minute
- If you use digital typography you need this advice
- World Cup soccer team logos get the flat design treatment
April 16
- 5 things you need to become a successful illustrator
- Infographic: cameras and smartphones in a photography face-off
- 12 steps to a kickass showreel in Premiere Pro
- 36 inspiring examples of landscape design
- Font of the day: Geometria
- 7 great ways to promote yourself for free
- Create a responsive HTML wireframe
- Zombies, Star Wars and umbrellas: the highlights of HP ZED Paris
- Designers reveal how to be a perfect client
- Flat design meets Moleskine notebooks meets... chess?
April 15
- When design meets music and results in beautiful artwork
- Why choose non-photorealistic rendering?
- 13 questions to ask before redesigning a website
- How to build your own workstation
- What if all superheroes were like Iron Man?
- Font of the day: Bobber
- Why getting fired isn't always a bad thing
- Cachemonet: what it is, and why you should care
- Street art created from sculpted brick walls are a joy
- Now you can learn graphic design while playing poker
- This week in Apple: from Jobs' warplan to ethical smartphones
April 14
- OFFF founder Héctor Ayuso calls for a creative revolution
- Add photoreal cloth to your 3D scenes
- 10 clever bottle designs that could help save the planet
- Album artwork of the week: Coldplay's 'Ghost Stories'
- Font of the day: Zona Pro
- This brewery's rebrand stays true to its roots
- How to create an accurate estimate for your projects
- Go on an egg hunt with Saatchi & Saatchi
- You've never seen Batman illustrated like this before
April 13
- Fonts of the week w/e 13 Apr 2014
- ImagineFX 135 workshop files and resources
April 11
- How to design for the multi-device future
- Font of the day: Manteka
- Animation gets kids thinking about design
- 55 designers and illustrators to follow on Dribbble
- Meet Ethan Marcotte and Dave Shea at the Generate New York pre-event
- Beautiful packaging for a brand new brewery
- Create slick CSS layouts with Flexbox
- Design festival identity is a marbling marvel
- Letterpress business cards are a turquoise treat
- Aral Balkan: we've all become cyborgs
April 10
- Font of the day: Quaint
- Double Negative launches new animation division
- Why has FontShop released a half-finished website?
- How to optimise your web content for sharing: 7 expert tips
- Cinema's 5 greatest CG environments
- The 14 best iOS productivity apps for designers
- Design pioneer Louise Fili on gastronomic passion and gangster clients
- Classic album covers seen from the other side
- Create 3D models for game engines: 5 pro tips
- Boost your design career with this gorgeous book
- Google Maps design secrets revealed
- Adobe Illustrator for beginners: 11 top tips
- You've never seen sneakers like these
April 9
- Tiny buildings bring business cards to life
- Monotype buys Mark Boulton Design
- Font of the day: Maroque
- This type-based identity is built to evolve
- Why not every business needs an ecommerce website
- How HTML5 Hub built the Museum of Mario
- Smash Pong redesigns the bat
- Behind the VFX of Thor: The Dark World
- Animated tribute to classic videogame consoles
- Hugo Guerra on sending a football star into Hell
April 8
- How to extend a set with 3D matte painting
- Vintage-style logo and branding for New York restaurant
- Get a website for a year for less than a pound
- How to pick the right components for your own workstation
- Has web design become too slick?
- The Winnie the Pooh guide to UX
- 10 of the best ever viral videos
- 5 ways to make the most of a rainy lunchtime
- Swiss Style movie posters are marvellously minimal
- How to promote yourself for less
- Crisp, organic branding for design magazine
- Font of the day: Comic Neue
- You'll want to own this low-cost 3D printer
- Editing photos on iPad just got easier
April 7
- How to render depth of field faster
- Hakim El Hattab on Squarespace, Slides and Stockholm
- Nautical playing cards decked out with abstract illustrations
- Font of the day: Moderne Sans
- Anne-Gaelle Colom on being a coding lecturer
- Pepsi brings packaging to life with augmented reality
- Monument Valley is an Escher-inspired iOS treat
- Why have today's designers stopped dreaming?
- The pro's guide to hand-drawn typography
- Album artwork of the week: Ghettoville by Actress
- Why great design can overcome anything
- Magical Alice in Wonderland-inspired branding
- HP ZED Paris starts today
April 6
- The design agency that wants to change the world
- Why Clarisse iFX offers a revolution in rendering software
- Why a flat hierarchy means working like a family
- How design can change your life
- Dan Croak of thoughtbot on contributing to the open source community
April 5
- Ben Steers of Fiasco Design on keeping it simple
April 4
- Why you should get excited about TYPO Berlin
- Andrew Clarke on designing for the Left
- Beautiful geometric branding for Italian music festival
- James Stone on scorpiochs, Belgium and 3D modelling
- 30 mobile website design tips
- John Denton of Goodboy Digital on their 'tech first' approach
- How to use sketching to build brilliant designs
- Generate New York ticket sale ends at 10am EST today!
- Why Minimalist's design space is anything but minimal
- Font of the day: Rodian Sans
- Incredible Game of Thrones concept art revealed
- Early Bird tickets on sale now for Generate London
- How to successfully create story-driven characters
- Superheroes join in on the 'selfie' craze
April 3
- Write that killer proposal - 5 essential tips
- Why arrogance leads to bad design
- Matt Griffin on the joy of doing meaningful work
- Pixar's Saschka Unseld on bringing umbrellas to life
- Erin Jurew of Cadre on doing significant things with slender resources
- Book Creator app arrives on Android
- Street artist's tiny people raise awareness of homelessness
- Explore the world of design in the new Computer Arts
- Top CG tips: how to make a render look more realistic
- Font of the day: UGO
- Do you really need a Mac Pro?
- Predators prowl in these 3D-effect vector portraits
- Branding for organic supermarket goes back in time
April 2
- Dan Mason on juicy zombies and working on the fly
- How to choose the right illustration tool for you
- Cole Henley on creating Mud with Matt Powell
- Typography posters celebrate the 3 most foolproof fonts
- Syd Lawrence on why coding should still be fun
- 2500 free resources for designers
- Dominik Martin on dropping out of design school
- 5 enchanting illustrated movie posters
- Why designers fail - and how to embrace failure
- Jon Lax on building Medium, Krush and Hyperlapse
- Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn on the advantages of getting an agent
- Font of the day: Eveagita Luxury
- Revealed: the future of cinematic storytelling in video games
- Adobe adds 7 new features to After Effects
- Breaking Bad and Street Fighter collide in new animation
- Vivid repeat-pattern sushi packaging is a foodie's delight
April 1
- The net Awards 2014 shortlist announced
- The 5 greatest CG spaceships ever
- Jennie Lamere on her passion for hackathons
- 10 amazing illustrators working in pen and ink
- The Third Floor on the secrets of previs
- The easy way to use your own fonts in iOS 7
- Behind the scenes of The Lego Movie video game
- Your Lego manual for the new JavaScript era
- Game of Thrones houses depicted as corporate logos
- The importance of psychology in web design
- Erik Spiekermann on why type is brand
- Global creatives showcase their essentials on this responsive site
- Font of the day: Derkon
- How to create a Street Fighter-style CG character
- Incredible illustrations based on basketball player's beard
- Ingenious pixel artwork created using Pantone modules