Creative Boom

JULY 10, 2024

With a passion for storytelling and a distinctive graphic novel style deploying bold line work and flat colours, Yuanhao Tang thrives in the world of publishing. However, he has paused all his commercial work to create pieces for his community and gallery exhibitions.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Photography by Andrew Benge Taking place in Leeds and Harrogate, Thought Bubble is the UK's biggest celebration of comic art and culture. Of course, Brits don't have to cross the channel to immerse themselves in this enduringly popular art form. Thought Bubble. We reveal the details of this year's event. how about comics ?"

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Creative Boom

JUNE 22, 2022

And that spirit is clearly embodied in a new exhibition of portraits taken at Glastonbury by award-winning artist Tom Hunter, inspired by his mum's photos of the Isle of Wight festival in the late 1960s. Tom's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in major solo and group shows in the UK, USA and Sweden.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 16, 2024

On display at a new London exhibition, the artist's evocative work helps us explore the impact of dementia. Artist Carey Bennett, whose latest exhibition, titled Memory and Remedy, is now on show at the Museum of Brands in London. Importantly, this is not merely an academic exercise.

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Creative Boom

MAY 15, 2024

The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration – the UK's only public arts organisation dedicated to the craft of illustration – has found its perfect home. With this money, the arts charity will be able to create four galleries, a project space, a learning studio, gardens, a play space, a cafe, and a shop. Having been awarded a £3.75

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Creative Boom

JULY 16, 2024

To say Wenjing's art is unique would be something of an understatement. Having worked with several editorial and publishing brands such as the Washington Post, Wired UK and Dasan Books, she's interested in broadening her experience to include advertising campaigns with installation and animation components.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2024

Her art is at once subtle yet distinctive, calm yet thrilling, steeped in tradition yet irrepressibly modern. My favourite subjects as a student were art and Chinese because I liked drawing and handicrafts very much, and I was also good at them," she explains. Dong first developed a strong interest in art when she was very young. "I

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Alongside the Society of Illustrators Awards in the United States, the UK's World Illustration Awards rank among the most prestigious across the applied arts. It was made using paper cutouts shot using stop-motion, digital art created in Procreate, with editing in Adobe Premiere Pro.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 12, 2022

Founded in 1985, London Original Print Fair is an unrivalled opportunity for people to view and buy original prints from top international dealers, publishers and studios. The purpose of the Fair is to promote prints as collectable works of art," organisers explain. Picasso 'Grande Tête de Jacqueline au Chapeau'.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 10, 2023

She also boasts a degree in Philosophy, where she specialised in digital art and aesthetics. Oh, and she's also learning to tattoo, has two published comic books entitled Animal Party and Internet Sublime, and has collaborated with publications and contributed works to The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveller, GQ Spain and more.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2022

Bright, bold, and impossible to miss, Megan's art also focuses on female perspectives to tell unique stories. Originally from China, Megan Du is a London-based artist studying illustration at the University of the Arts London. It was like my first mini-exhibition," Megan tells Creative Boom.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2024

Her art is at once subtle yet distinctive, calm yet thrilling, steeped in tradition yet irrepressibly modern. My favourite subjects as a student were art and Chinese because I liked drawing and handicrafts very much, and I was also good at them," she explains. Dong first developed a strong interest in art when she was very young. "I

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Creative Boom

APRIL 20, 2022

And thanks to Instagram, he was able to publish a picture a day and get real-time feedback from a supportive community of like-minded people. That sequence of looking-seeing-taking-processing and posting was the bedrock for my future discipline in the fine art world.". Images from this collection have been exhibited before.

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Creative Boom

MAY 3, 2022

With the 59th Venice Biennale well underway, our attention turns to the Italian exhibition's graphic identity for 2022. It matches themes running throughout the entire exhibition of dreams, identity, the body, and reflection. Biennale Arte 2022: The Milk of Dreams. Catalogue published by La Biennale di Venezia.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Magazines to devour Aperture : From its base in New York, Aperture is a nonprofit publisher that leads conversations around photography worldwide through an acclaimed quarterly magazine, books, exhibitions, digital platforms, public programs, limited-edition prints, and awards.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Photographer Martha Cooper got unrivalled access to the revolutionary street art scene of 1980s New York. Then, in the 1970s, a revolution began in the subways of New York City, as youngsters spray-painted vibrant, colourful, cartoonish and overwhelmingly positive graffiti that would spread around the world and change the art scene forever.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

For his main source of income from the late 1950s through the 1970s, Leiter worked as a fashion photographer, and his pictures were published in magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Elle, British Vogue, Queen, Nova and Esquire. When we did an exhibition, it got great reviews. He rarely had money for lunch; I'd always take him out to eat.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 18, 2024

Made for an MFA exhibition curated by Viktor Koen, a School of Visual Arts faculty member, these illustrations touch on themes of mental illness and gender inequality. Although The Yellow Wallpaper was published in 1892, it still resonated and reflected some parts of our lives," Jen adds. Every cloud has a silver lining."

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Published by Union Square & Co. She's just released a new coffee table book, published by Union Square & Co (an imprint of Barnes & Noble) called Cone of Shame. The series has exhibited most recently at Fotografiska New York, Fotografiska Tallinn, and Fotografiska Stockholm.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It's arguable that more than anyone, she transformed the discipline from being purely commercial and functional to becoming an art form in its own right. Her objective was to explore the intersection of fashion photography and the art world, a theme that had been gaining significance but was still relatively underexplored.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 7, 2023

A lifelong art lover, Ndumiso's earliest memories of interacting with a creative culture can be traced back to watching cartoons and reading comics with his older brother, Sindiso, who is also an illustrator. Art wasn't seen as a responsible career path in our hometown of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe," he explains.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 30, 2022

"I got so inspired that I decided to start experimenting with digital art and 2D, and publish it online every few days, no matter what. Growing an audience, Nikita started receiving commissions, and it wasn't long until he began working with his favourite music artists and exhibiting worldwide. And there we have it.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Published by Blue Monday Press, the book will show readers how to make meals mentioned in Doom's songs, including Nice Verse Pie, Fillet-O-Rapper, Rapp Snitch Knishes, and Deep Fried Frenz. I hope I'm honouring Doom by expanding a major theme of his art into another medium," he says.

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Creative Boom

JULY 5, 2023

Here's a great example from Process Play , an independent design and identity studio based in West Yorkshire working across the worlds of art, music, culture and craft. As well as working closely with clients to help them discover and tell their unique stories, we also publish, exhibit and collaborate on various experimental projects."

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 23, 2024

Molly Maine is single, living alone in London, and working full-time in publishing. This has also been helpful for work, as it has allowed me to touch base with clients, attend industry events, and exhibit at shows such as The London Illustration Fair." But something isn't right.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Opening this book is like unwrapping a present," says Jeremy Myerson, professor emeritus at London's Royal College of Art. There was nothing else in the entire exhibition that used colour that way. And so far, it's had rave reviews. It's a gift from one of the design gods. Take this anecdote from the very start of his career. "I

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Colossal

DECEMBER 4, 2024

“The Windhorse” is one of dozens of works included in Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now, a large-scale exhibition curated by Michelle Bennett Simorella of the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art in New York. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month.

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Booooooom

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For our regular art and photo spotlights, we've always asked to see a body of work—multiple images—either a series or a cohesive selection of images. If you think of a spotlight feature as a solo show, “Array” will be more like a group exhibition. So for this open call, we're allowing single-image submissions.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 18, 2022

I have a little folder in my phone of nice messages – a note where someone I didn't know brought up my work in person, or an email where an art direct was complimentary. I'll see a peer get selected for an exhibition, and I'll start to believe that my work isn't as good as theirs or maybe I don't fit in somehow.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 12, 2022

Fine art photographer Vicky Martin explains the thinking behind her new series, a thoroughly modern interpretation of the Victorian children's classic. But Vicky Martin , a fine art photographer from Staffordshire, has nailed it with Curiouser and Curiouser ; a conceptual series of photographs influenced by the much-loved Lewis Carroll novel.

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Creative Boom

JULY 5, 2023

Ivory by Lineto Ivory is an unusually solid and sturdy serif with pronounced shapes and character and exhibiting relatively little contrast and sharpness. JAF Cupidus Light by Just Another Foundry Designed by Tim Ahrens and Shoko Mugikura and published last year, JAF Cupidus is distinguished by its very high x-height.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When I published the image, I got a lot of answers from people on how that impacted them. It was one of the first times I understood how my individual art could impact people around me; even though I work with self-portraits, I can use my body to translate other people's feelings and complications."

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Just Creative

APRIL 27, 2020

The Art of Record Covers: Illustration Meets Lettering – $12. The Art of Sketching: Transform Your Doodles into Art – $19. Lee has been published in The New York Times, BBC, ABC News, Wired, The Guardian, and more. He has also been published in the Communication Arts Annual in 2016 & 2017, MTVnews.com.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And considering that Chanel will be a destination where creatives and the curious come to marvel at art and take a peek behind the curtain, this barnstorming debut nicely encapsulates the platform's essence. The Story Cycle uses Somerset House as a metaphor for the body and artistic learning.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 21, 2024

She has an unerring sense of the contemporary aesthetic and is known for blending sophistication and playfulness through her deep knowledge of art, music, dance and film. The Museum of Modern Art commissioned her for a site-specific piece and include her work in its permanent collection.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Jam Factory, a new arts centre in Lviv, Ukraine, has just launched its opening exhibition. Here at Creative Boom, we get invited to a lot of exhibitions, and there's unfortunately never time to attend them all. But here we're going to take a deep dive into some of the artwork in the exhibition itself. Digital photo.

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Design Milk

JANUARY 19, 2024

” Launching in 2012, with a collective background in fine arts, curation, creative direction, design, publishing, and fashion, With Projects, Inc. Growing up in France, my parents were constantly taking us to museums and art institutions whenever they had the chance. “My career trajectory wasn’t an obvious one.

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