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Bored of Pinterest? 8 alternatives to try for design inspiration

Creative Boom

Unlike platforms that encourage public sharing, mymind keeps your repertoire entirely private. Launched in 2014, it's especially popular among conceptual thinkers and experimental creators. If you're ready to expand your horizons, here are eight alternative platforms to ignite your creativity.

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A Tribute To Nature: Standards Manual Releases Parks 2

Design Milk

While these lands were occupied with native peoples beforehand, protecting and tending to the land, these acres are now set aside for a similar purpose, for the public to enjoy. Standards Manual is a 2014 independent publisher founded by New York-based designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth.

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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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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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Order's Jesse Reed on launching your own design agency and following your creative dreams

Creative Boom

In 2014 he teamed up with fellow Pentagram designer Hamish Smyth to found the publishing imprint Standards Manual. Specialising in brand identity, publication, signage and wayfinding design, their approach is research-based, systematic, and practical, as encapsulated by their slogan 'Everything is in order'. Absolutely, yes.

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Buy a Firmship Land Rover Defender, Receive a Matching Aera P-1 Titanium Watch

Design Milk

Firmship was founded by Casper Vissers, the former co-founder of Dutch furniture and lighting brand Moooi, a venture he began with designer Marcel Wanders back in 2001 before stepping down in 2014. Every one of the twenty-five FS Defenders also comes with an additional surprise: a complementary special edition titanium watch.

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F5: Jiminie Ha’s Book Plans, the Furniture That Changed Her Life + More

Design Milk

Due to South Korean censorship, nudity was not permitted in the publication. With Projects conceived of “censoring” the anatomy by sourcing public artworks that could cover the areas that were in question.