Review
Apple iMac 2019 review
Best-of-breed performance and great design makes for a near-perfect all-in-one that's well worth the high price tag. But in 2019, should we be buying all-in-ones?
Interactive Design & VR Guide
All the latest news, in-depth features, tutorials and tech reviews related to interactive design and virtual reality (VR)
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55 leading designers and illustrators have designed the world's most unique deck of cards
Brosmind, Radim Malinic, Signalnoise and more have illustrated a new deck of Playing Arts Creative Cards that have been successfully Kickstarted in 60 minutes.
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The Pantone Colour of the Year 2019 is 'Living Coral'
As predicted in the autumn, the new Pantone Colour of the Year is a 'life-affirming shade of orange with a golden undertone'. But not THAT shade of orange.
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Best digital painting software for PC and Mac
The best Mac and PC applications for digital painting – including full-price, low-cost and free painting apps.
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Studio McGuire on bringing beautiful moving artworks to the fine-dining table
Davy and Kristen McGuire’s hallucinatory projection-mapped worlds helped bring Howl’s Moving Castle to the stage – but their latest project is a lot more intimate.
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Magic Leap hands-on: Magic, sure, but augmented reality is still a long way away from mass consumption
We're talking five or ten years at least, I think.
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Review
Apple Mac Mini review
The Mac mini has much to recommend it for graphic and UX designers who won’t mind its lack of 3D power.
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HP's high-res Reverb VR headset blows the screen door effect off its hinges
Its astounding resolution is well deserving of this exclamation mark!
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Apple's new iPad Air is a low-cost rival to the iPad Pro
While Apple says that the iPad Air isn’t for pro artists and designers, there are a few features we prefer to the iPad Pro.
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The creative sector has a diversity problem - are talent schemes the answer?
As a new report calls on the creative sector to aid disadvantaged youth, major studios like ustwo and Beyond launch a scheme to encourage more diversity - but is it enough?
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Lenovo's new PC for artists and designers is the oddest-looking desktop you can draw on
This asymmetrical all-in-one looks like Dieter Rams' take on Microsoft's Surface Studio – which some will love for its retro charm and others despise.
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HTC reveals two new VR headsets, the untethered Vive Cosmos and gaze-tracking Vive Pro Eye
Only one of them seems worth your attention, though.
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Artist Yippie Hey on 3D printing a futuristic magazine cover
The cover was made for a recent future-themed issue of Shortlist magazine.
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Inclusive Design: why designing for accessibility benefits everyone
Making what you’re designing work well in a wide range of usage scenarios helps both disabled and able-bodied alike.
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7 best tools for painting, 3D modelling and sculpting in VR
These are the best creative VR tools for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets.
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Music meets AR in this app collaboration between Sigur Rós and Magic Leap
Magic Leap steps further into the light in a collaboration with the ethereal post-rock gods.
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Is this the future of VR?
VR’s getting physical with innovations powered by wind, drones and rooms with props for multiple players.
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VR giants unveil VirtualLink, so you can connect VR headsets with a single cable
AMD, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oculus and Valve – but not Intel or Sony – have backed the interface.
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Oculus Medium 2.0 makes the VR-based 3D modelling and sculpting software even more creative
VR artists will find a lot going on under the hood in the latest iteration of Oculus Medium
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Cybershoes let you physically run through VR from the comfort of your chair
Cybershoes are like a VR treadmill, but without the treadmill. Or the standing.
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What Apple and Adobe just announced for designers at WWDC
Coming this autumn is a more pro-looking dark mode for MacOS, help with your mess of a desktop - and some new apps for pro designers.
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Best art and design exhibitions in 2018
Everything from political graphic design to Kelly Anna's strong female figures, make sure you pop along to these exhibitions for inspiration, education and reflection.
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Lenovo's Mirage Solo is a brilliant wireless VR headset you can move around wearing
The Mirage Solo now stands as the standalone VR headset to beat.
