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The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration has just found its perfect home

Creative Boom

The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration – the UK's only public arts organisation dedicated to the craft of illustration – has found its perfect home. And the artist himself couldn't be happier. Having been awarded a £3.75

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In Craig Walsh’s ‘Monuments,’ Enormous Projected Portraits Illuminate the Selective Histories of Public Art

Colossal

Now encompassed within the artist’s Monuments series, the digital works continue to animate landscapes and public spaces around the globe, and they’ve evolved in breadth and scope, sometimes incorporating live video and sound that allows viewers to interact with the illuminated characters. .” Photo courtesy of White Night.

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Jacob Lindgren Recommends 7 Publications That Take An Expansive Approach To Graphic Design

Eye on Design

The opening took place in August of 2019, and we spent the year prior plotting how it would work and sourcing publications via friends and our connections to existing publishing networks. That arrangement mostly remains the same now, but we also find it important to take things that are decidedly not publications that we’re familiar with too.

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Snow in the Summer: Ryoko Kaneta's art blends enchanting scenes with environmental crisis

Creative Boom

Ryoko was born in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1991 and graduated from Yokohama University of Art and Design in 2014. Snow in the Summer is open to the public at the Dorothy Circus Gallery in London, located at 35 Connaught Street, W2 2AZ, until 31 July.

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Cute Furry Character Illustrations by Renee French

Design You Trust

She has had solo exhibitions in NYC, LA, Tokyo, Sydney and Melbourne, and her publications include Baby Bjornstrand, 2014 and Hagelbarger and That Nightmare Goat, 2013. More: Instagram.

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15+ Best Graphic Design Books in 2023

Just Creative

Learn More Latest Price on Amazon: Sale 81 Reviews Design Is a Job Audible Audiobook Mike Monteiro (Author) - Mike Monteiro (Narrator) English (Publication Language) 03/31/2014 (Publication Date) - A Book Apart (Publisher) $12.99 It discusses the sector’s commercial aspect and graphic design’s artistic side.

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Embracing play as the core of design

UX Collective

Noguchi’s art installation on his journey to find the design of public playground When you think about playing, what comes to mind? Play associated with non-serious activities that no immediate benefit (Bateson, 2014), in contrast to the challenges of complexity face up during the process of design. Liveliness? References Bateson, P.