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Why today's visual artists need to be multi-disciplined masters

Creative Boom

All images courtesy of Visual Education Adding a few strings to your bow helps you stand out and truly achieve your creative potential. We explain how world-class platform Visual Education can help you do just that. The world of visual arts is no longer confined to distinct categories. Want to be a successful creative?

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Spinning a yarn: how Icelandic artist Ýrúrarí turns textiles into stunning works of art

Creative Boom

But Icelandic artist Ýr Jóhannsdóttir, aka Ýrúrarí , has been turning them into stunning works of art. This project evolved into 'visible mending' workshops in her open studio at the The Museum of Design and Applied Arts in 2021. Process and perspective How, we wondered, does she approach creating her unique art forms?

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Xiangni Song follows her instincts to create paintings of the abstract images in her mind

Creative Boom

Spending her time between Beijing and New York, Xiangni was trained at the School of Visual Arts in 2016. She subsequently transitioned from illustration to fine art by enrolling in the MFA Fine Arts program at Pratt Institute in 2020. This doesn't mean her background in illustration was time wasted, though.

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California studio Cubic Orange help the fight against menstrual poverty in Kenya

Creative Boom

Also, the program connected Kenya with American companies to collaborate and fund this valuable and beneficial project." Research and brand concept The team began by thoroughly researching Kenya's economic and cultural landscape to understand the pivotal role education plays in shaping confidence and fulfilment among Kenyan women.

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Meet Tüpokompanii, the type foundry redefining letterforms through 'mistakes' and tradition

Creative Boom

Tüpokompanii works across pretty much all things letter-based: designing and publishing retail fonts, logomark design, typeface modifications and language extension, research and consultation, Opentype feature programming, and offering custom type design services to clients such as the second-largest in Estonia, Tartu. the studio explains.

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A Hybrid Mass Timber Addition Unifies the California College of the Arts

Azure Magazine

The California College of the Arts (CCA) has lived many lives since it was founded by Frederick Meyer in 1907. Then known as the School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts, it set up shop in the Studio Building in downtown Berkeley with just 43 students enrolled.

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The jobs of the future will need creative thinkers, and UAL is feeding that demand

Creative Boom

And these will largely be drawn from universities like UAL (University of the Arts London). may see significant negative impacts, the only groups that will see an estimated rise in net employment will be those educated in higher education or to a degree level." While some graduate jobs [.]