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Shotaro Kitada creates a serious yet jokey reality in his paper sculpture artworks

Creative Boom

Japanese illustrator Shotaro Kitada uses humble rolls of copy paper to create three-dimensional handmade sculptures that inhabit their own peculiar reality. Taking the shape of whacky giant heads perched on the top of vans to clumsy pedestrians getting their tongues stuck to icy lampposts, Shotaro's sculptures are a bizarre joy to behold.

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Megan Du on creating bright and bold illustrations that are fascinated with retro-futurism

Creative Boom

It was like my first mini-exhibition," Megan tells Creative Boom. At the same time, she was constantly being exposed to comics, magazines and picture books with a look to becoming a painter or a fashion designer when she grew up. "To I thought it was a very free field, and you could express yourself in any way you wanted."

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Weishan Yang is a multimedia artist with a love of horror fiction, ghosts and spontaneity

Creative Boom

Working across installation, sculpture, video, and digital drawing, London and Hangzhou-based Weishan Yang is a polymath of sorts. In recent times, she's had recognition for her works, too, having shown internationally at exhibitions, with a recent piece being shown in London Grads Now 21 at Saatchi Gallery.

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'I like to make pieces that make you look twice': Carly Owens on her symbolic embroidery artworks and paintings

Creative Boom

Nowadays, she combines both and has gone on to exhibit works widely, including at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York as part of the annual contemporary jewellery exhibition, MAD About Jewellery. Thy Bird Leaveth Thee, A photographic story by Olesya Parfenyuk featuring jewelry by Carly Owens f0r Holm Magazine © Carly Owens.

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F5: Paper Artist Zoe Bradley Shares a Go-To Pen, Favorite Liqueur + More

Design Milk

Working across disciplines, her work brings together sculpture, fashion, and theater, with her skills as a former fashion designer being evident in the almost tailored sculptures. My challenge is always to create something unexpected and playful from a 2D sheet of paper into a magical 3D sculpture.”

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Heimtextil 2025 Shines a Spotlight on Sustainable Futures

Azure Magazine

Meanwhile, the marquee Heimtextil 2025 installation sees visionary designer Patricia Urqiola transform an exhibition hall into an invigorating and welcoming design hub. The post Heimtextil 2025 Shines a Spotlight on Sustainable Futures appeared first on Azure Magazine.

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LDF23: The Second Iteration of Material Matters Steals the Show

Design Milk

It has been co-founded by industry heavy-weights, including former editor of Crafts Magazine and Blueprint , Grant Gibson, and former deputy director of the London Design Festival itself and director of both 100% Design and Clerkenwell Design Week, William Knight , so you know you’re in safe hands.