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The Best Art and Design Conferences of 2020
Find inspiration, fun, and skills at these festivals across subjects from concept art and illustration to branding, and from graphic and UX design to animation and VFX. But which are still running as coronavirus spreads?
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Best art and design exhibitions in 2020
With everything from Alice in Wonderland to Andy Warhol, make sure you pop along to these exhibitions for inspiration, education and reflection.
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Reader Survey: Win a Samsung Galaxy Note 10 & Amazon Vouchers
We need your help: tell us what you think of Digital Arts in our Reader Survey, and in return we're offering the chance to win a Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and one of 40 £20 Amazon vouchers!
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Artists fight back against bots stealing their work to sell
A Twitter fightback against dodgy T-shirts reveals an on-growing problem.
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Neuroscience can explain – and prevent – logo redesign disasters
How some brand agencies are using emerging scientific disciplines to create the perfect rebranding.
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The Guardian responds to artist pressure over its illustration contest
Good news as The Guardian makes changes to its controversial Glasto illustration competition.
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Digital Arts is now on YouTube!
The Digital Arts Youtube channel is here, bringing the best creators working with the best tools out there, leading in the fields of branding and graphic design, illustration, animation, VR and VFX.
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15 great UX design talks you can watch online
Check out some of the best free online talks on UX design out there.
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New Grads 2019: The Digital Arts Guide for Graduating Designers, Illustrators and Animators
Everything a new creative graduate needs to know from how to set up freelance to nail that first job - plus our pick of 2019's best new grads.
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D&AD Awards 2019: Check out the Pencil winners from the year's biggest creative awards
Celebrate the best design and advertising projects of the last year as chosen by the D&AD.
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The AOI reminds illustrators their business is Not a Hobby
The AOI launches its empowerment campaign for illustrators with new visuals from Ben the Illustrator and more.
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Majority of illustrators still don’t earn enough to live from - and it's affecting their mental health, new survey shows
A majority of illustrators say they don’t earn a suitable salary to live 'sustainably' and it's causing anxiety according to a new survey conducted and published by Ben O’Brien, aka Ben the Illustrator.
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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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Fun animations show the eternal struggle between designer and client
DeeKay Kwon's GIF work on designers versus clients took Instagram by storm recently - but how much hassle has the motion designer had from clientele over the years?
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The Walking Dead fans have returned the show to its art roots for a new gallery
We checked out gruesome fan art and real-life zombies at The Walking Dead: Art Apocalypse - and spoke with the artist whose winning entry graced a recent Times Out cover.
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Apple expands its Today at Apple sessions - and creativity with it
Apple's in-store training programme has been expanded today in stores around the world - what does this mean for professional creatives?
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Aardman, Blue Zoo, The Mill, Jellyfish and other creatives join the Resistance against Brexit
Attempting to stop the UK going Solo are some of the country's leading animation, VFX and post-production studios – which have signed a letter calling for a people's vote alongside Terence Conran, Martha Lane-Fox and others.
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How artists, illustrators and photographers can get free cash with DACS payback royalties
If you’re an artist and your work has been published in UK books, magazines or TV – you could be entitled to thousands of pounds. What are you waiting for?
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Bad news - Women in the creative industries still aren't being paid the same as men
A new survey reveals the gender pay gap in the creative industry is as wide as ever.
