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Tom Harrad

Recent articles by Tom Harrad

The thin controllerIssue 92, Summer 2016
Feature

                                            
	Progress bars have changed the way we engage with songs, films and stories            
AnecdotageIssue 90, Summer 2015
Review

                                                GraphicsRCA: Fifty Years and Beyond, which reminisces over the past half-century of the graphic design…                        
Crowd-sourced wisdom?Issue 89, Winter 2014
Feature

                                            
	As Hershey and Airbnb have discovered, the internet has spawned a vast, powerful audience of opinionated design critics. If resistance is futile, how can designers adapt?            
Another frame for the newsIssue 88, Summer 2014
Feature

                                            
	The redesign of RTL Nieuws makes a radical break with the conventions of television news graphics, crossing the now fluid boundaries between broadcast and online.            
Sticky businessIssue 87, Spring 2014
Feature

                                            
	The dead-wrapped Tunnock’s Tea Cake is both hipster treat and Scottish design classic            
Glazed and confusedIssue 87, Spring 2014
Feature

                                            
	From the synthesised splash of sugary fizz to 3D-printed hamburgers, the future of food goes way beyond the real thing            
Picture: KillaIssue 87, Spring 2014
Feature

                                            
	Each of Graham MacIndoe’s drug ‘baggies’ brands a different high            

Recent blog posts about Tom Harrad

Typographic freak-out

25 March 2014
Graphic design, Technology, Typography, Visual culture

Content Aware typography makes Adobe’s software ‘fail’ in the most interesting way

Content Aware Fill first appeared in Adobe Photoshop CS5, released in 2010, writes Tom Harrad…