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Dazzle and digital camouflage, the art of staying hidden
Keith Martin There’s more to camouflage than blobs of muted green, yellow and brown – just look at the modern Marpat patterns and WW1 dazzle designs… Seeing patterns in things is one of the most basic...
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Don’t be a one-trick specialist, be a flexible expert
Keith Martin Don’t be afraid to play around with established production methods. If you know enough about them, you’ll find creative ways to subvert them. When you look at designers today, you see...
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Cover design challenges in the digital world
Keith Martin Is it possible to design sophisticated covers that communicate and sell in the virtual newsstand when all we can show are low-resolution thumbnails? Don’t judge a book by it’s cover. We...
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When it comes to resolution, size really does matter
Keith Martin When I teach, I constantly have to remind myself that things that seem simple because I learned them years ago weren’t always easy to grasp the first time around. Image resolution is a...
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Paper facts and recipes for discerning designers
Keith MartinGraphic design processes are almost always about putting marks on surfaces, and those surfaces are almost always paper. We take this medium for granted, but do we really know much about it?...
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Creating interesting new characters for your font
Keith MartinOf all the design discipline specialities, typeface design is probably the most monastic. Creating a new font takes skill, serious attention to detail and a perseverance that a medieval...
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The CD cover game as art therapy for designer’s block
Keith MartinWhat do you do if you find yourself staring at an empty page, unable to get your creative juices flowing? Design block is no fun and it happens to all of us on occasion. Fortunately, one of...
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Drawing lots: can the iPad replace the designer’s sketchbook?
Keith MartinIf you’re a designer, the odds are high that you use a sketchbook. If you don’t, you should. Sure, you can use your Mac to throw together all sorts of ideas, but there are two important...
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Know your audience: the secrets of great cover designs
Keith MartinAbook cover has a specific set of tasks to achieve: it has to provide some kind of recognisable identity; it has to grab someone’s attention (appeal to the right audience); and it must, in...
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iStop Motion for iPad
So you want to make aliens tapdance? On your iPad? You got it… Stop-motion animation is a fun, creative process, and Boinx’s iStopMotion has been helping Mac users do it for years. Now there’s an iPad...
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