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Sabina Speich crafts large-scale pizza, bacon and chips through her 'freestyle' method of crochet

Creative Boom

Since 2005, she's been a member of Visarte, Visual Arts Association. She'll also scour the internet, TV and social media for ideas. Here, she graduated with a BA from Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Fine Arts and a master's in fine art and public spheres. Often, though, it's something edible and heavily greasy.

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Mohamed Bourouissa’s carefully staged view of French suburbs

Creative Review

When Mohamed Bourouissa’s photo series Périphérique first appeared in the late 2000s, it gave a choreographed view of life in the suburbs of France, or at least what that life looked like according to media and political representations. Dahmani in one of the book’s two essays.

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‘An Indigenous Present’ Is a Paradigm-Shifting Illumination of Native North American Art Today

Colossal

The tome highlights the remarkable diversity of media and cultural influences across the continent, from fashion artist Jamie Okuma ’s intricately beaded designer boots to Dana Claxton ’s elaborate Headdress portrait series to Northwest Coast artist and Chief Beau Dick ’s expressive masks.

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A New Book Flies Through the Vast World of Birds from Art and Design to History and Ornithology

Colossal

Elizabeth Butterworth, Lear’s Macaw, 2005. Mixed media, Temporary installation at Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK. Chromolithograph, 7.3 × 8.3 cm / 2 7/8 × 3 ¼ in, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Picture credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Jefferson R.Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R.

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Out Now: Azure’s 300th Issue!

Azure Magazine

We published pieces on the floating communities of Lagos, Nigeria (Sept 2007); Frank Gehry’s just-completed Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (Nov/Dec 2003); and Nelda Rodger’s experience of “the Last Salone in Milan” (Jul/Aug 2005). Let’s raise a glass to Toronto — our cover star — and to the enduring power of print media.

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11 Graphic Design Tips to Create Images Like a Pro On Instagram

Graphic Design Junction

It involves everything from typography to photography and can be used in many different capacities, including branding, advertising, and social media. For the sake of this article, we’re going to focus on using the graphic design on social media. The Development Of Social Media As A Whole. The Difference In Opinion.

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In LA, Paul Smith Refreshes a Retail Landmark

Azure Magazine

Back in 2005, London-based fashion designer Paul Smith splashed the façade of his Los Angeles flagship in a flamingo-like hue inspired by the work of Mexican architect Luis Barragán. It helped that the social media crowd soon anointed the spot as its go-to photo backdrop.)