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Meet the artist behind the cover of this year’s Booker Prize winner

Creative Boom

Last week, thousands watched as English writer Samantha Harvey was awarded the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital, one of the shorter winners in the competition's history. Its cover—a soft-edged, inky interpretation of space—was designed by Helsinki-based artist Aino-Maija Metsola.

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Art Vinyl names Record Cover Artwork of the Year

Creative Boom

Tonight, Art Vinyl unveiled the winner of the 20th Best Art Vinyl Award, the annual art prize for the best record cover design of the year, at the Hari in Belgravia, London. The album released by Brainfeeder and Ninja Tune was chosen from a diverse shortlist of 50 iconic and memorable vinyl cover art from 2024.

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Kreatives unites 11 illustrators to animate the Paralympic Games 2024

Creative Boom

On Wednesday 28 August, 2024, the Paralympic Games begin in Paris, and, for the first time, competition in every single sport will be broadcast in over 160 countries, reaching the entire world, including the 1.2 Each team member needed to be highly adaptable, working within the Paris 2024 guidelines and skilled in anatomy.

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Penguin Books reveals the Cover Design Award 2024 shortlist

Creative Boom

Louis Martin, Cover Design Award 2024 Shortlist – Fiction Over 1,800 submissions were entered into the Cover Design Awards 2024 hosted by Penguin Books, and the shortlist of 30 hopefuls has just been announced. Take a look at who's in the running for the coveted top spot. Check your eligibility on the Penguin Books website.

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Ai Weiwei’s New Toy Brick Masterpieces Re-Mix Art History

Design Milk

World-famous artist, activist, and provocateur Ai Weiwei is currently exhibiting stunning new work at two different galleries in New York that reproduce famous paintings and news images on a massive scale all composed from hundreds of thousands of LEGO and WOMA bricks.

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What is art? What makes it good? And other things Signal festival makes you think about

Creative Boom

Photography by Tomáš Slavík This year's edition of Prague-based digital arts festival Signal uncovered some big ideas – not least, that a public artwork's success comes down to one of its most fundamental elements – its relationship to place. To deny the links between art and science is to deny Leonardo da Vinci and the entire Renaissance.

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Capturing a sense of vulnerability is what illustrator Mark Conlan does best

Creative Boom

Nature's beauty, fragility, and those rare moments when we feel at one with it are key themes for this Irish artist, who brings them to life through soft details and bold contrasts. Mark Conlan is an artist whose journey began in Dublin as an animator. He moved to London for six years and worked as a graphic and digital designer.