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We are about to enter a new era of people making their own cosmetics. Similar to how we all got involved in making our own dinners with herb...

Art Spider is a website for learning disability arts and is part of Mencap. The gallery has visual arts, film and music made by artists with...

Willard Wigan is the creator of the smallest sculptors in the world. Wigan uses a tiny surgical blade to carve his microscopic figures out o...

Can you see what's hiding away in the logo? Read how and why the designer (Lindon Leader) decided to come up with the optical illusion o...

A very funny parody on graphic design v's client requests. This fantastic video takes the mickey out of the annoying demands clients of...

Ask Jeeves used to be the only place on the net to ask a random question and expect an answer (be it computer generated). It uses a search ...

The Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus is a dictionary and thesaurus with an intuitive interface that encourages exploration and learning. It is an ...

TextEdit and Word are not the best solution when it comes to creative writing, they don't offer the tools you need to help you focus on ...

It would be very hard not to have noticed the themed logos that the people at Google create for special occasions. We recently found the fu...

"what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures ..." It's often hard to find the right image for your ...

Online galleries are the best place to find undiscovered talent. Two of the best galleries for finding this talent are Deviantart and Etsy....

Freelance Switch has set up a survey to gather information on those working in the freelance design market. The information will be used to...

The worst Olympic logo ever? Or a modern master piece? How can we avoid the latest news hype around the new London 2012 Olympic logo . It se...

Amazed we hadn't seen this already. This neat little site converts long URL's (web addresses) to short ones. So if you are writing a...

Getting ideas and creating great designs in Photoshop , can only come with years of practice and experience. Or can they? Tutorial sites can...

Web Designer's Success Guide is the definitive guide to starting your own freelance Web design business. The author, Kevin Airgid , gros...

Visit http://www.apple.com/uk/pro/ and discover some of the most cutting-edge work created by designers and artists on a Mac. Get tips, tri...

Not many of us have missed the iPod advert parodies. They are popping up all over the place. Some examples can be seen above. You can also p...

We can't rave about this service more. If you need to monitor who's coming and going on your new site. Register at statcounter.com ...

Save yourself some pennies this Christmas. Designers' often find that the software tools we need for our work are expensive. If you are ...

Flash has come a long way since 1996, when it was purchased by Macromedia. Back then you would use it for basic animation and website intros...

Take a short visit to Firefly Press in Somerville Massachusetts. This wonderful little documentary speaks to the craftsmanship and love of ...

It was the strange but wonderful Pet Camper doghouse that first drew our attention to straight line design . Judson Beaumont created a mini ...

It's an old project but well worth taking a look at. It's from the fantastic designers at IDEO. It looks at the future of identity...

It is our responsibility, as designers, to embrace the rules which are born of a craft which goes back hundreds of years. Hopefully, this ve...

All about the negative aspects of producing speculative work to win commissions. Their site mission statement is '...to unite those who ...

A great online/print magazine for graphic designers. Their site contains lots of links to ideas and articles in their current edition. Back ...

Thousands of secrets on typography and colour usage for web designers. Including methods to re-create magazine styling (pullquotes) on your ...

A fantastic article about how ugly sites can deliver straight to the point content and still make money. Some very funny points made here. W...

You can view a great portfolio of last years graduates from Loughborough University School of Art and Design. The students have created thei...

ideasonideas is a blog that invites dialogue on issues relevant to communication designers and brand strategists. A recent article 'Des...

The BBC, the bfi, Channel 4 and the Open University set up the Creative Archive Licence Group in April 2005 to make their content available ...

Lets Design and Online Games HQ have just developed the first Flash pixel advertising system. We have used it on a simple but effective pl...

Satta Hashem a fantastic UK based painter and muralist launches an online gallery of his fabulous works. The online flash interactive galle...

Sitting for hours on an office chair in the design studio, will no longer be the back-breaking chore it once was. Not if you get yourself a ...

The principle of the AnswerBank is simple - ask a question in any of their subject categories and fellow contributors will supply the answer...

PANTONE have just announced the availability of 125 new speciality colours. The new PANTONE metallic formula guide features 97 new metallic ...

A design Gallery that can be showcased as a great inspiration to all in the industry. This 'furniture focused' Design Gallery showca...

As of 1st February 2006 the Chartered Society of Designers will be operating from its new offices at: 1 Cedar Court Royal Oak Yard Bermondse...

The Graphic Imperative website is now live. The Graphic Imperative is a select retrospective of forty years of international socio-political...