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Design Army shakes up the real estate market with arty advertising for Gallery 64

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Design Army's chief creative officer and co-founder, Pum Lefebure, explains how they created an attention-grabbing advertising campaign that targets art-loving apartment hunters. And just like art exhibitions, I love that the branding can constantly evolve and feel fresh – like '64' with ribbon lettering for the holidays, etc. –

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M?icah Purnell's Street Eyes exhibit brings together the biggest names in illustration, photography and typography

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Once I became aware that advertising held an aesthetic monopoly on commercial space, I wanted to get involved and mix it up a bit," says Micah. Thanks to purpose-built sites, Micah and Add-Art have taken works by industry-leading illustrators, typographers and photographers and plopped them in the spaces usually occupied by adverts.

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Photographer Joel Meyerowitz's unique approach to colour and light is showcased in stunning new exhibition

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American photographer Joel Meyerowitz is enjoying exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, with both Huxley-Parlour and the Tate Modern showcasing displays exploring his one-of-a-kind approach to light and colour. Titled Joel Meyerowitz: Dialogues, the Huxley-Parlour exhibition opens on 18 January and runs through until March.

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Brighter Later: Lettering and typography at the British seaside to be celebrated as the clocks spring forward

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His research resulted in Resorting to Type, a recent exhibition in Margate that documented the influences of nineteenth-century bold advertising typefaces such as Serifs, Slab Serifs, Fat Faces, and the under-documented Tuscan in its decorative and chromatic flamboyance.

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The S**t Show: Eccentric ad creative Mark Denton shares unseen creative doodles

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Bitter Lemon © Mark Denton Esq London's Jealous Gallery has launched a new exhibition of Mark Denton's 'daily doings', the artworks he's created in his spare time. We discover more about the show, why it's titled 's**t' and what to expect. Not ad creative Mark Denton. And for the first time, they're available for public perusal.

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Aaron Kasmin's matchbook-inspired artworks shed new light on American consumer culture

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The Chef © Aaron Kasmin London-based contemporary artist Aaron Kasmin is returning to Sims Reed Gallery with his fifth solo exhibition, Strike a Light. In the early 1920s, the humble matchbook soon became the most effective advertising medium and was embraced by almost every industry.

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Class of 2022: A guide to all the UK's graduate shows this summer

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And if you're exhibiting yourself, we wish you the very best of luck! After two years of digital-only exhibition, the iconic UAL college's graduate shows will appear in physical and digital form this year. Work will be exhibited physically at the Brayford campus from 18 June-1 July. Coventry Degree Shows , Coventry University.

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