Creative Boom

OCTOBER 17, 2024

With big, industrial-era typography, a "straight-talking" tone of voice and a vibrant colour palette, the new identity marks a fresh chapter for the arts centre. In a region as rich in culture as Greater Manchester, the Lowry arts centre in Salford has long been a creative powerhouse.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2025

Created by husband-and-wife duo James and Vicky Wall, Art Around Every Corner offers a deep dive into the stories, processes, and inspirations behind some of Leeds' most iconic murals. It shines a light on the creative spirit that defines the city's public art scene. That day, I took the time. That was the spark."

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Originally from Hefei in eastern China, Fangfang relocated to London, studied illustration at the Kingston College of Art, and graduated this year. The piece combines her drawings and digital artwork with Chinese-inspired cut-paper animation and plenty of sounds you'll hear on any Tube journey.

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Creative Boom

JULY 15, 2024

If classic literature brought to life in works of art inspires you, then it's worth pointing your web browser towards three new archives of Victorian imagery released online by Michael John Goodman. They include the Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive , the Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery and the Kelmscott Chaucer Online.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2025

Where ideas bounce from mind to mind, and inspiration strikes when you least expect it. As co-founder of Typeradio.org and a member of the prestigious Alliance Graphique Internationale, Liza brings a global perspective that's sure to provoke and inspire. All Flows takes place 14-16 May 2025 at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes.

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Creative Boom

MAY 25, 2022

But a new exhibition, Ukraine Now, has found an inspired way around this: it's actually being updated in real-time. The exhibition is being digitally displayed to the public at creative agency Wieden+Kennedy London's gallery (16 Hanbury Street, E1 6QR) until 31 May. © Yulia Chervinska. © Serhii Nuzhnenko. © Volodymyr Petrov.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

We reveal the best place to buy wonderful art prints to fuel your mood, imagination and creativity. If your surroundings are on the drab side, you're missing the opportunity to put a smile on your face, day in and day out, and creatively inspire you and your loved ones. They Made This Make your home beautiful for an affordable price!

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 30, 2024

MUSE , a new restaurant in Santa Monica, California, inspires guests with culinary delights and artwork in a jewel-box setting. This rich backdrop serves to highlight the impressive, rotating collection of art that is exclusive to the restaurant. For more on Marc Ange, visit marc-ange.com. Photography by Pablo Enriquez.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

If you're seeking inspiration from centuries of visual culture and a browsing experience that is both intuitive and immersive, this might just be the platform for you. Each image taps into "the surprising, the strange, and the beautiful in the history of art, literature, and ideas," according to Green. While many (myself included!)

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Andy Warhol exhibition 'Beyond the Brand ' at Halcyon Gallery Think you know Warhol? But how much do you really know about him and his art? Opening tomorrow (18th January), the show runs until 24 March across Halcyon Gallery's two Mayfair sites, at 29 and 148 New Bond Street in the West End. Andy Warhol, Ads: Chanel, 1985.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 3, 2024

Innovative design meets coastal inspiration – we take a closer look at the Glasgow branding studio's vision for one of the world's most celebrated visual arts awards. David Whyte, co-founder of Tangent, shares insights into their approach: "In the art world, identities can be exclusive.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 8, 2023

Generative artist Matt DesLauriers weaves together art, programming and technology to build playful, creative projects for public installations, print media, and the web. His interactive installations have been displayed in special events at the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 6, 2023

Visual artist and illustrator Melissa Lakey found the High Desert of California the perfect environment and inspiration for her work, which is about to go on show in the town of Joshua Tree. Moving to the high desert in 2015 brought me back to art after a long hiatus," she recalls. For Melissa, making art is about happiness. "I

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 31, 2024

During this year’s PAD London , Movimento Gallery presented Marks of Existence , an exhibition designed and styled by Artefatto Design Studio. From the gallery, “In Buddhism, the three marks of existence are three undeniable truths of all that exists: impermanence, imperfection and incompleteness.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 7, 2023

Online art gallery Aunt Joy is bringing the talent of creative young girls with established and emerging artists. Still under-represented As the art world is still largely male-dominated, Aunt Joy is highly motivated to pave an easier path for the younger generation of female creatives. And the results are pretty special.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Zhongwen Hu finds her approach to painting a unique form of art therapy. This work, imbued with emotional sensitivity, can be found in art galleries, books and commercial products. Zhongwen reveals that most of her work is inspired by real people she's met during the course of her life. "I

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Creative Boom

JUNE 27, 2022

Patrick Nelson uses paper like a paintbrush to create incredible collage art. He explains how he transitioned from graphic designer to full-time artist and what inspires his work today. He sells his work online, in galleries and through curated shops. In mid-2020, I took the leap of faith and began a full-time art career.

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Creative Boom

JULY 29, 2024

The international art collective teamLab is taking immersive art to the next level. If you're involved in the creative world, by now you're probably aware of the concept of the immersive art show. But in the art world, nothing stays the same for long. And I've got to say, I was blown away.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 16, 2022

We've hand-picked ten unique, original, inspiring reads for creatives you may not have thought of. Art and fashion have always had a tumultuous and unpredictable relationship. A founding figure in the mid-century New York School movement, Philip Guston helped pioneer a modified form of representational art known as neo-expressionism.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Every creative should know about these 25 design studios and learn from their inspiring work. In a world overflowing with creativity and design innovation, there are thousands of outstanding design studios to be inspired by. Hopefully, their work will inspire you too.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Cereal Magazine Cofounder Opens Up Her First USA Gallery. Rosa Park is one of those women whose perspectives on design is one I am always interested in hearing about, whether it’s for Cereal Magazine, features with brands like B&B Italia, or her newest venture, Francis Gallery. The Metropolitan Museum of Art x J.

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Creative Boom

MAY 4, 2022

Leading online art retailer Art Republic has collaborated with Pentagram to create a new strategy and brand identity. Designed to build on Art Republic's success, the new approach also aims to challenge the status quo of the art sales marketplace. It's something of a rarity in the world of buying and selling art.

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Creative Boom

JULY 31, 2024

a series of art prints that celebrate the artistry and history of London’s ancient streets through brightly coloured reproductions of its manhole covers. the technique elevates utilitarian art and design from the early industrial era to equal status. Pentagram partner Marina Willer has announced Overlooked 2.0, Overlooked 2.0

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 21, 2025

A shopping centre car park in Stockport, often dismissed as an eyesore, is the surprising inspiration for View Through a Hole. The hand-built ceramic sculptures draw inspiration from the views of Stockport, which are visible through the gaps in Boyson's geometric facade.

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Creative Boom

JULY 10, 2024

However, he has paused all his commercial work to create pieces for his community and gallery exhibitions. Sometimes, a busy illustrator just needs a break – time to focus on personal projects and, perhaps, to make a difference in the world by creating art for people to enjoy without a brief or a price tag.

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Creative Boom

MAY 4, 2023

She considers art to have saved her life and is launching her biggest solo show next month to help others. Now in recovery from 18 years of mental health difficulties and a diagnosis of bipolar disorder eight years ago, Sarah strongly believes that if it weren't for art, she wouldn't be here today.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 30, 2023

All photos taken by Pawel Streit and © Impulse Gallery The artist's latest exhibition in Lucerne showcases both philosophical insight and innovative technique. Sometimes, art can provide a fresh way to look at things. Case in point: Christian Bolt's latest exhibition, On Human Beauty, at Impulse Gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 30, 2024

Atlanta-based graphic designer and illustrator Broly Su brings both his skills together in work inspired by retro toys, hip-hop culture and graffiti. I found out I really loved creating art and continued to do so," he tells Creative Boom. As Broly suggests, hip-hop has been a long-term inspiration.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 3, 2023

Dubbed 'one of the most progressive figures in fine art photography', Garry Fabian Miller's work is currently on show at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. And it looks to place Fabian Miller's 'camera-less' darkroom practice among the work of other artists, writers and thinkers that have inspired him throughout his career. "We

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 18, 2024

We chatted with the Derby-based illustrator to learn more about her creative journey to date, how she gets inspired, and where she sees the profession heading. The illustrated books I most loved as a kid were those you could come back to, find more stories within stories in the art," she enthuses.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 11, 2022

Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo by Todd-White Art Photography. I feel inspired by all the lush and beautiful vegetation of my native island, by the infinite arrays of colour, light, texture and shapes within the natural world," she explains. "I Photo by Todd-White Art Photography.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In fact, the Danish designer characterizes his work as the art of finding the shortest distance between function and aesthetic. His answers from the original inspiration to the techniques used in crafting the collection might surprise you. What inspired you to reimagine Play-Doh creations as a concept for the Tivoli table designs?

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Creative Boom

JULY 16, 2024

Photography and video captured by Jay Dawson, Ben Hughes and Thomas Lennox Pearson Artist Andy Welland is behind what's thought to be the UK's largest piece of temporary pavement art. It's a great place to do some sightseeing and visit one of the buzzy art galleries or some of its trendy bars and clubs.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 8, 2023

The Chef © Aaron Kasmin London-based contemporary artist Aaron Kasmin is returning to Sims Reed Gallery with his fifth solo exhibition, Strike a Light. Featuring works inspired by his beloved collection of vintage matchbooks, the paintings on display will hark back to a bygone era and present American consumer culture in a whole new light.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 3, 2024

Photography by Kate Shanasy The Paris-based artist brings an intimate experience of colourful ocean life, inner coral reefs and natural wonders to the National Gallery of Victoria for their latest Triennial. He graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2008 and the Royal College of Art in 2010. whatever your age.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 8, 2023

Installation view of Cristina Iglesias, Dear Earth – Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis. Courtesy the Hayward Gallery Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis is an ongoing group show at the Hayward Gallery this summer – and it's one of many activities getting us to freshly-look at climate change. Photo: Mark Blower.

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Design Milk

JANUARY 24, 2025

Basedow and Draga Obradovic of Draga & Aurel Photo: Valerie van der Werff The partners in work and life established Draga & Aurel , a multidisciplinary studio and workshop for art, collectible design, and furnishings, in 2007. Dan Flavin This is an artist which attitude really inspired our work.

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