Just Creative

MARCH 29, 2023

Discover the best desktop publishing software in 2023. Desktop publishing software is used to create visual communications, such as brochures, business cards, greeting cards, posters, web pages for professional or personal printing online or on-screen. Affinity Publisher Affinity Publisher. Limited PDF editing options.

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Creative Boom

JULY 6, 2023

Sara Neuhart – Visual Thoughts on Current Affairs (Editorial) Over 5,000 entries to this year's World Illustration Awards have been whittled to a shortlist of 200 incredible artists. We hope this year's selection inspires commissioners, illustrators, and the public.

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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. The trick is that whenever a collector mints an artwork on Art Blocks, the code randomly generates a new artwork that not even the artist can know in advance.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

As a new monograph highlights, this uncompromising artist was a true rebel with a radical approach that resulted in a huge archive of truly groundbreaking work. Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective presents the full spectrum of his artistic output for the first time, including rare and previously unpublished material.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Named The Brownies' Book, the publication was filled with empowering stories of black role models and inspirational art, stories, letters and activities. Featuring more than 50 new black writers and artists spread out across 208 pages, The New Brownies' Book was a mammoth undertaking to design.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

French illustrator and graphic designer Malika Favre has been impressing audiences for years with her minimalist work for publications such as The New Yorker, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. Now over a decade's worth of her work has been released in a new monograph from Counter-Print, which contains a suitably stripped-back aesthetic.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Maya Ish-Shalom is an illustrator from Tel-Aviv, Israel, who's known for crafting digital and hand-drawn illustrations for books, brands, ad campaigns, animations and publications including the New York Times, FT and Washington Post.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Dominated by grim and nasty scrawl, it was overwhelmingly devoid of artistic merit, replete with obscenity and dominated by offensive slurs. Now a thrilling new book, published by Prestel, brings that era back to glorious life. The book brilliantly evokes the action, adventure, and artistic anarchy of this exciting period.

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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. French artist Jean Jullien is one of our favourite creatives working today. whatever your age.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Mascioli has worked on the project in collaboration with the independent publishing house Oreri and a Risograph printing workshop based in Cagliari, Italy. Oreri is known for its dedication to supporting independent artists, so it's great to see this book launch on Kickstarter.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 26, 2023

© Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda, courtesy of the artists and Counter Print Spanish artists Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda have captured the world's imagination using various props and backdrops for their meticulously posed photographs.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 16, 2022

What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter. On the one hand, there's a long-running stereotype of artists and bohemians wearing black, featureless clothing. What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter. Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s by Eddie Chambers. I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston.

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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 12, 2020

Today we are featuring professional Graphic Designer and Illustrator artist Richard Davies , with his amazing digital illustration artwork. He’s working is predominantly used in the entertainment and publishing industries. He is from Carmarthenshire, Wales. Inspired by the movie poster and commercial art of his youth.

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Colossal

JANUARY 15, 2025

This month, the team at The Public Domain Review launched a new project aimed at artists, illustrators, designers, and creatives of all stripes. Containing 10,000+ items, the Public Domain Image Archive is a vast trove of illustrations, prints, scans, and more, all downloadable and free for use.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 5, 2024

Since 2006, independent kids publisher Studio Anorak has taken children's magazines in bold new directions. Just like any publication, Anorak has had to adapt to survive. The publishers we work with understand our ethos and look after our titles really well, so we are very lucky! " They grow up so fast. she laughs.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Participating artists include Noma Bar, Zoë Barker, Sarah Boris, Marylou Faure, Peter Greenwood, Dani Molyneux, Danielle Rhoda, and Wendy Wong. We'll now share a little more detail about each of the eight artists below and give you an overview of the exclusive print they've created for Creative Boom. Love Boom by Sarah Boris.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

To help you find the best resources, we've curated a list of the best photography publications available today. New issues come every two months and typically combine profiles of rising photographic artists with detailed analyses of historical figures. Shotkit : Ever wondered what gear your favourite photographers use?

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Image courtesy of publisher Sit back, relax and reacquaint yourselves with the joys of devouring a beautifully designed print magazine. The publication is based in California and covers graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography, interactive design and typography. Spread from the latest Type 01 magazine.

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Creative Boom

JULY 9, 2024

Helping with the funeral arrangements helped Ethan cope better with his grandfather's death, which led to the artist's interest in what funeral directors actually do. At the time of writing, the project is a work in progress and with the first chapter available to sample on Ethan's site , he is looking for a publisher.

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Just Creative

MAY 23, 2023

Grid Systems in Graphic Design book is the foundational text for graphic artists. This book serves as a manual for typographers and graphic artists. Niggli Verlag (Publisher) $54.14 More than that, we discovered some wonderful wisdom and humor suitable for any graphic artist. Buy on Amazon 2. Buy on Amazon 3.

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BP&O

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Text by Richard Baird 160 Faces is a new publication from Swedish artist Daniel Götesson working under the name Ekta, designed by Lundgren+Lindqvist and distributed under the studio’s publishing arm ll’Editions.

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Colossal

APRIL 1, 2025

Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. 2025 Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award Featured Booooooomand Bookmobile are teaming up for this popular open call supporting artist publishing. Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PST on June 6, 2025. Deadline: 5 p.m.

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Creative Boom

MAY 28, 2024

Now, a Kickstarter campaign for a newly published collection is set to right that wrong. For decades, the incredible street photography of Charlie Phillips has been criminally overlooked and largely unseen by the public. But until recently, he's failed to get the recognition he deserves. Not that he ever saw himself that way. "I

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

A collaborative zine produced by Franklyn and Michael Freimuth highlighting ai artists across an array of themes and visual exploration As our special report earlier in the year shows, many agencies have already incorporated AI into processes such as idea generation, prototyping and mockups.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 7, 2024

While their early attempts to do so were pretty clunky and only seemed to inflame matters, they've put a bit more thought into this blog post , which was published yesterday. Firefly generative AI models are trained on a dataset of licensed content, such as Adobe Stock, and public domain content where copyright has expired.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The blend of practical skills, artistic insight and philosophical musings in these ten books offers a comprehensive journey through the multifaceted world of photography. In this seminal and groundbreaking collection of essays, first published in 1977, she delves into the philosophical and societal implications of photography.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 28, 2024

We speak to anti-capitalist artists at this year's Glastonbury about their radical approach. As we explain in our article on Shangri-La elsewhere, artists at this year's event are tackling themes of consumerism, data privacy and alternatives to the current economic system. Photo by Jody Hartley Want to make impactful, subversive art?

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2023

All photography by Yeshen Venema TYPEONE magazine isn't just a beautifully designed print publication; it's also full of key insights about the evolving interaction between typography and graphic design. A bi-annual magazine, TYPEONE has published six fantastic issues to date. Read on to find out what it's all about.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 18, 2022

Below we share some examples of typical things we tell ourselves and follow up with some advice from artists and designers to help beat them. Artist Michelle Heron confesses that she also finds Instagram challenging sometimes: "It makes me compare myself with other artists. Chatting to artists helps, too.".

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Creative Boom

JUNE 2, 2024

Award-winning children's book illustrator Ian Morris reveals how he broke into the industry, why he prefers older artists, and what he keeps in mind when drawing for young audiences. Origin story Like many artists, Ian can remember the work that initially grabbed his attention.

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Around 1800, London-based published Samuel William Fores continued the playful—if occasionally unsettling—tradition of composite portraiture in a series of aquatints depicting a florist, a baker, an armorer, a tailor, and several others, made from the sum of their tools and wares. Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Creative Boom

MAY 3, 2022

This year's inaugural show, The Milk of Dreams, has been curated by Cecilia Alemani, who says its title is taken from a book by Leonora Carrington in which the Surrealist artist describes a "magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination". Catalogue published by La Biennale di Venezia.

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Colossal

JANUARY 13, 2025

Numerous artists and arts workers across the region are devastated by the loss of homes and studioseven entire careers’ worth of work. The fellowship notes that professional artists make their livelihood through sales as reported on a Schedule C with a U.S. Federal tax return and that a demonstrated exhibition history is ideal.

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Creative Boom

MAY 15, 2024

And the artist himself couldn't be happier. The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration – the UK's only public arts organisation dedicated to the craft of illustration – has found its perfect home. Having been awarded a £3.75 As a location, the atmospheric Grade II listed engine house is a fitting one.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 10, 2023

It also includes fresh contributions from filmmaker Roman Coppola, industrial designer Sabine Marcelis, architect Bjarke Ingels, artist CJ Hendry, and digital entrepreneur Mikaela Jade. In contrast to other sections in the publication, there are no images on these pages, making the point that creativity isn't always visual.

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Creative Boom

JULY 3, 2023

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's exhibition You, Me and The Balloons is a colourful wonderland of inflatable inspiration: a suitable opener for a brand new type of arts centre. The new venue will be commissioning and presenting a year-round programme by leading artists from across the world.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

And here's one that almost every freelancer can anticipate in their future: that serendipitous moment of seeing your designs on products, posters, or publications in a public space. Similarly, for artist and illustrator Magdalena Pankiewicz , the turning point was seeing her cover design appeared on Wired IT last year. "So

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