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Private commissions: Another string for your creative bow?

Creative Boom

By building up a network of private contacts, you'll have something to fall back on when commercial clients brands, agencies, even local companies reduce their budgets. A private client will come to you because they truly value your creativity. It's something that makes me really happy, along with seeing the client's reaction."

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

Creative Boom

After co-founding design consultancy Atlas and a stint as a Pentagram partner, during which she created identities for clients including Vitra, Tate and Phaidon, Stavro now runs her own practice with a focus on "designing a better world." We can't wait to hear what she has to say about all that.

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Capturing a sense of vulnerability is what illustrator Mark Conlan does best

Creative Boom

The contemplative nature of his work, his style, and what he depicts really do resonate with clients and their audiences, leading to commissions for everything from packaging to travel to pieces for global brands. Packaging artwork for Shortbread House of Edinburgh. In Your Head.

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Pickleball's not the only paddle game: TOPSP!N celebrates the art of table tennis

Creative Boom

All photographs by Emile Mbunzama While the hipster crowd obsesses over pickleball, Pim-Pam's latest exhibition celebrates the cultural significance and community roots of table tennis. N, the third edition of its exhibition series that transforms ping-pong paddles into coveted works of art to support community sport.

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Spin shares its design experiments in Etcetera, a groundbreaking new exhibition

Creative Boom

A new exhibition from London studio Spin isn't quite what you might expect. So it's great to see that London design studio Spin is bringing together experiments, offshoots, and outgrowths of their work beyond commissioned design projects, in a new exhibition called Etcetera. But why exhibit them as art? Hi © 2022 SPIN Studio.

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BCNMCR mastermind Dave Sedgwick on why the popular design exhibition is coming back one last time

Creative Boom

We all work for many clients, and that's great, obviously, but I wanted to do something for me again. "I During one conversation about the similarities between Barcelona and Manchester, the idea came to me to consider an exhibition of design work from Barcelona but here in Manchester, and maybe they would also come along."

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Solo Exhibitions: Martha Rich’s ‘It’s Wild Here’ + Lisa Congdon’s ‘Ode to Kyoto’

Design Milk

The exhibition pays homage to her own experiences in Kyoto and Osaka, while honoring the cultural heritage of the place and its people. and internationally, but It’s Wild Here is Rich’s first solo exhibition in her hometown of Philadelphia. Rich’s art has been shown throughout the U.S.