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Web Design

Web Design Trends To Look Out For

The design industry has always been an ever changing landscape of thoughts, opinions which often leading to trends that are rarely evergreen. The …

13 Jul 2016
Adobe

Adobe Lightroom is all about the Library

Lightroom is lauded by some as the panacea to photographers’ frustration with Adobe Photoshop. The promise is that Lightroom will let you spend more …

21 Jun 2016
Design, Graphics & Print

Key Skills needed to work in Graphic Design

If you’re reading this it’s likely you already know the power of visual content, but did you know that posts which incorporate images reportedly …

8 Jun 2016
Design, Graphics & Print

Effective Page Layout Design with Grids

Page Layout: Why use ten columns when three will do? What is a grid? The grid defines the structure on a page by laying out the spacing for margins …

18 May 2016
Design, Graphics & Print

Career Advice from Creative Professionals

Creative Professionals Share their Career Advice It’s official, the UK’s creative industries are increasing at more than twice the rate of the wider …

15 Apr 2016
Design, Graphics & Print

Design Jobs of the Future

Design and technology is a realm where it’s hard to predict what will happen next, and we’re already in a place no one could have predicted we’d …

10 Feb 2016
Design, Graphics & Print

Typeface Style Options for Design

Understanding something about the different styles of typeface should help when designing printed materials. Choosing the right typeface makes a big …

21 Jan 2016
3D Modelling & Animation

Creating Web Banner Animations with Adobe Edge

This video tutorial explains how to create animations using Adobe Edge Animate. It covers step by step the process of importing images into Edge …

8 Jan 2016