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How did graphic designers work before digital tools like PhotoShop and InDesign came along? Documentary Graphic Means explores the techniques used before computers were there to help: bit.ly/2o9QOtO
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Engaging your creative side can have a positive impact on mental health, explains freelance illustrator and columnist Ben Tallon: bit.ly/2n5OnZe
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Learn an array of new skills with our range of training courses. Find out more here: bit.ly/2LLLrkf
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From the archive: Originally produced between 1974 and 1981, US consultancy Henry Dreyfuss Associates’ Humanscale manual was conceived for designers to refer to when creating everything from tractors to telephones: bit.ly/2vFtcSb
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Kerning the Gap founder Nat Maher looks at how female designers face career progression challenges and lack of exposure – an inequality that was revealed to her through a simple Google search: bit.ly/2oXoWft
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From the archive: Penguin creates colourful book covers based on geometric paintings: bit.ly/2qNZvwd
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We follow freelance illustrator and designer Ben Tallon as he makes his way through the London creative scene. In this instalment he looks at the power of storytelling and how to tell your tales: ed.gr/ffb0
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Design Week Top 100 consultancy survey and report is open for entries - find out how you can be part of it here: bit.ly/2vbXiNk
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We ask designers about the everyday products they would miss the most if they were to go out of production: ed.gr/fe4d
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Freelance illustrator Ben Tallon on how an accident proved to be the inspiration to embrace mistakes and experimentation in his work: ed.gr/fe4l
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Design studio Ragged Edge has created the branding for a new hotel chain called Assembly and aimed at “millennials”, with their first branch opening in London bit.ly/2B5S6ki
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From the archive: We ask designers how screenless technology could be used in the future: bit.ly/2n9liMt
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McCann London launches the Visibility93 campaign to change perceptions around disability, and raise awareness of conditions such as diabetes, arthritis and Alzheimer’s, which may be unseen to on-lookers bit.ly/2vxw19m
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From the archive: New look Guardian designed to give title "place and purpose in today’s turbulent news agenda": bit.ly/2DARP6y
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We spoke to Pentagram, Studio Moross, Jones Knowles Ritchie and more about what students and graduates need to do to stand out: bit.ly/2ognFAs
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Design studio The Team has created a new brand for charity Bowel Cancer UK, following its merger with fellow charity Beating Bowel Cancer in January, to reflect the “human” side of the organisation bit.ly/2vRLErl
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The Beautiful Meme (TBM) has created the branding for workspace Twentytwo, a new 62-floor shared workspace, which will occupy the tallest building in the City of London when it opens next year bit.ly/2M2uaU1
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We asked designers to think about their favourite club crests and shed light on an area of graphic design where passion and tradition are often the prevailing factor: bit.ly/2kjlbfG
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DesignStudio has rebranded Australian stock trading platform Stake, which is being positioned as a portal for ordinary people to access and invest in global financial markets bit.ly/2M9FRYs
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The 2018 Design Week Top 100 ranks the most successful independent UK design businesses, across all sectors based on total fee income, while also spotlighting, growth, turnover, projections and staffing levels. Find out how to enter here: bit.ly/2vbXiNk
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