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Creative minds unite: All Flows Festival returns to Milton Keynes with star-studded lineup

Creative Boom

Photo by Mark Cocksedge Tiziana Alocci Joining him at All Flows will be Astrid Stavro, president of the International Society of Typographic Designers, whose powerful ideas and exceptional craft have made her one of the most influential voices in contemporary design. Your creative future self might thank you for it. Will you be there?

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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. Since then, she has explored various mediums by creating two-dimensional works and sculptures.

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Documenting the realities of juggling motherhood and a creative career

Creative Boom

By late 2021, she started thinking about all the women she knew or knew of who had young children and also ran their own businesses or were self-employed in the creative industries. She started getting in touch with people she admired, such as Naomi Raybould, founder of Beyond Nine, writer Liv Purvis, photographer Ola O.

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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). Creative coding and software development for the digital creative industries Between streaming, apps, video games, digital art and more, there is a huge and rising demand for technical talent in creative digital realms.

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Five steps to help you get over rejection and move forward

Creative Boom

So don't beat yourself up or spend time dwelling on self-doubt. Feedback is a valuable tool for self-improvement. And so rejection isn't just a negative thing: it's also a positive thing, as a way of gathering pointers on how to move your career and craft forward. Get feedback – ask why you didn't make the cut.

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Inspiring creative women to follow in 2022

Creative Boom

And outside her day job, she's the co-founder of Woodism , an art collaboration that celebrates children with autism whilst raising money for charity. Through her workshop, Own Your Story, Olivia coaches audiences in a methodology for crafting a clear, concise and compelling personal brand story. Charlotte Adorjan. Olivia Christian.

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12 Questions With Kelly Wearstler on the Echo Collection

Design Milk

While Wearstler’s eponymous practice is known for exploring the intersection of craft and technology, Echo returns to an embrace of a singular, natural material and the slowness of something handmade. I knew it needed to be crafted in wood. Design is all about self-expression and it inspires me to see how others interpret my work.

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