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It's all in the eyes for A Practice for Everyday Life's identity for the 59th Venice Biennale

Creative Boom

With the 59th Venice Biennale well underway, our attention turns to the Italian exhibition's graphic identity for 2022. Crafted by A Practice for Everyday Life , the London studio founded by Kirsty Carter and Emma Thomas in 2003, it's inspired by Surrealism and represented by eyes, which can be seen dotted around the Venetian city.

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Barbara Cole's underwater photos are ethereal, timeless and utterly enthralling

Creative Boom

Once I began to shoot underwater in 2003, I thought that that series would be a one-off," he notes. "I Selections from Somewhere will appear in a photography book, Between Worlds , from teNeues publishing house, and in several forthcoming exhibitions, including at the new Bau-Xi Gallery in Toronto, from now until 30 September.

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Remembering Richard McConnell 1942-2020: the inimitable exhibition designer

Design Week

Exhibition design is the ultimate in multi-disciplinary design. There is nothing money can buy that you can’t put in an exhibition. “There is only one crime that an exhibition designer can commit – and that is to be boring! . It was a museum he would continue to visit for more than 50 years.

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Andrew Satake Blauvelt Elevated Graphic Design Far Beyond Notions of “Problem Solving”

Eye on Design

“Graphic design must be seen as a discipline capable of generating meaning on its own terms without undue reliance on commissions, prescriptive social functions, or specific media or styles,” wrote designer, curator, and writer Andrew Satake Blauvelt in 2003. . Exhibition Design: Andrew Blauvel. Graphic Design: Now in Production.

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Top of the Stack: Colossal’s Favorite Art Books of 2022

Colossal

We’ve published dozens of articles on artist monographs and compendiums of broader topics across art and design and science and history over the last 12 months, and these are the 10 titles that impacted us most. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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LWD MCR: In Conversation with Sarah Boris

Shillington

Sarah Boris is a an artist and designer based in London since 2003. She recently self-published a book titled ‘Global Warming Anyone?’ Her work was acquired by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and was exhibited at the Design Museum, London. 6:00pm BST/1:00pm EST. Register for a space and get your questions in now!

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These Uncanny ’80s Illustrations of Life After Humans Are More Relevant Today Than Ever

Eye on Design

Having studied paleontology and geology, Dixon started out his career working in publishing at Mitchell/Beazley Ltd. one of the major publishers of encyclopedias in the 1970s. . “I In fact, encyclopedias were such a direct influence on After Man that many of its spreads are based on the publishing house’s 1973 Atlas of World Wildlife.