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Bored of Pinterest? 8 alternatives to try for design inspiration

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A 2015 reimagining of StumbleUpon, a popular tool amongst web developers in the early 2000s, Mix is a personalised content discovery platform offering a serendipitous approach to inspiration. Mix Want to be surprised? From saving images to categorising content into "pearls," this platform is a great choice for meticulous organisers.

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Food illustrator Tom Hovey talks Bake Off, Bristol and building a creative community

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Hovey recalls: "I was living in Bristol at the time and would go down to London and mix with other illustrators and street artists. "I In the 'off-season' in 2015, Hovey tried to focus on more general food illustration. I was doing what I thought an arty person does and got paid nothing for almost all of it.

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Artist Sarah Graham on raising awareness for bipolar disorder and how art saved her life

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Sarah Graham has become a renowned British artist for her fun and joyful kitsch paintings, paying homage to familiar toys, sweets and brands from the 1980s and 1990s. She attempted suicide by overdose twice between 2005 and 2015 until she was sectioned in 2017 and then reclassified as Type 1 bipolar.

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Artisan wine label designs by Fen Acey craft a narrative through collage and typography

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The designs combine the artistic elements of handmade collages, typography and silkscreen prints to create a visually striking and unique label series with subtle hints that pay homage to the typographic world. "The After a year of living in Wellington, New Zealand, she moved back to the UK due to the 2020 pandemic.

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Homebird: Ewa Smyk's beautiful hand-painted film depicts the power of self-belief

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In Homebird , we're introduced to a young artist called Nina, who moves to a new city. It was therefore important to me to include references to that specific place, which was crucial in shaping my personal, cultural, and artistic identity," Ewa tells Creative Boom. "I Homebird is her first short film.

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Somerset House art show revisits the last 50 years through the prism of horror

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Courtesy of the artist. An imaginative new art show points to how the horror genre influences rebellious artists and helps us to understand a chaotic world. In this way, the last five decades of British history are recast as a story of cultural shapeshifting, told through some of our most provocative artists. © Kerry Stewart.

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Jaenam Yoo's synthetic, dream-like drawings focus on the beauty in the mundane

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Los Angeles-based artist Jaenam Yoo blends the natural and the artificial to create otherworldly illustrations of inflated flowers and plump, floral humanoids. Among all the people who influenced me, my uncle was the one who particularly impacted me the most, as he introduced me to the creative and artistic world," Jaenam tells Creative Boom.

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