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How The Designers Foundry went from side project to global type provider

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Bisel by The Designers Foundry The New Zealand type foundry has been offering quality, accessible and interesting typefaces to designers since 2012. The company was launched by Daniel McQueen as a side project back in 2012. Looking back now, that launch year feels like a different era.

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BBC unlocks iconic design archive with new platform, BBC Playback

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It was launched in 1974 and operated until 2012. all by entering a three-digit number on our remote. The service was eventually discontinued due to the digital switchover and replaced by the BBC Red Button service. If you were someone born after 2000, you would never have seen or heard of Ceefax.

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Joelle McKenna brings the creative struggle to life in comic store installation

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A 2012 graduate from Boston University's College of Fine Art, she's also the creative director of Brooklyn Magazine print publication. Joelle is a creative director based in Brooklyn who heads up McKenna Studio – an interdisciplinary firm focusing on branding, creative strategy, content, editorial design, and installations.

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Sound and vision: the 3D animation of Reggie Perry, Jr

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He graduated in business, but in 2012, he produced the track Rosana for the rapper Wax under the moniker Nobody Famous. Not only did I not personally know any 3D designers, animators or graphic designers, I certainly didn't know of any who looked like me," says Reggie.

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Mum's Life: Inès Pagniez's funny campaign explores the universal realities of becoming a parent

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A graduate of the French animation school Supinfocom, Inès arrived in London in 2012 and worked as a 3D animator for some years. A French sculptor specialising in plasticine, Inès's work is characterful, playful and cleverly depicts the everyday mannerisms and nuances of human expression.

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Concrete Hong Kong: learn about architecture through foldout models

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These include Miasto Blok-How (2012), Brutal London (Prestel, 2016), Brutal East (2017), Modern East (2017), Brutal Britain (2018), Panelki (2019), Eastern Blocks (2019), Concrete Siberia (2020), Brutal Poland (2020), Monotowns (2021), Brutal East vol.

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David Hockney is brighter and bolder in new Kings Cross dynamic art space

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His most recent iPad drawings were shown at huge retrospectives at Tate Britain in 2017 (seen by 478,082 visitors, it remains the most popular Tate show of all time) and at the Royal Academy in 2012 and 2020.

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