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'I destroy the work after an exhibition': Inside the weird worlds of artist JeeYoung Lee

Creative Boom

South Korean visual artist and designer JeeYoung Lee is returning to London's NOW Gallery with her upcoming exhibition, Maiden Voyage. Inspired by her heritage, this piece meditates on JeeYoung's past and the present, relationships, literature and nature. © JeeYoung Lee. The production for the piece took about a month.

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Somerset House art show revisits the last 50 years through the prism of horror

Creative Boom

That's the theory, at least, expounded by a new exhibition hosted by London's Somerset House. Harminder Judge, Self Portrait (after Kali & Gene), 2009. The exhibition's third and final act, Witch, focuses on the period stretching from 2008's financial crash until the present day. © Jamie Reid. © Harminder Judge.

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Presenting Ange Degheest: The Pioneering 20th-Century Female Type Designer

Eye on Design

Who was type designer Ange Degheest (1928–2009)? The students, all of whom happen to be female, launched the exhibition Reviving Ange Degheest as part of the design festival Une saison graphique 2020, held in Le Havre. From Reviving Ange Degheest, 2022. Why have design historians ignored her long and illustrious career until now?

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Sait Maden

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In 1979, in an effort to document the history of Turkish graphic design, Maden started the book project “Turkish Graphic Art from the Beginning to the Present.” Various retrospective exhibitions were publicly shown between 2009 and 2019, and the Turkish design great passed away on June 19th, 2013.

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Unique Photographs of Russian Beauties in Old Costumes

Design You Trust

In 2009 the Russian Ethnographic Museum presented an exhibition of old Russian costumes in the Center of Yves Saint Laurent. Daughters of Natalia Shabelskaya continued her legacy and often modelled for those photographs. A small part of the photo collection was taken by them to Paris in 1925.

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Volga-Atom: How in The USSR Created a Car with A Nuclear Reactor

Design You Trust

The Soviet inventive thought lagged behind the American, while in 1958 the second secretary of the USSR Embassy in Washington did not see Ford Nucleon at the industrial exhibition. In 1958, Ford, known in the invention of the conveyor, presented the Ford Nucleon atomic car layout. Ford Nucleon remained only a museum exhibit.

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Women’s History Month–Worldview Purveyors

Thinking Design

In 2013 the California Museum held a year-long exhibition which showcased Ray’s life’s work, including solo work from before her collaborations. Betsey Johnson (1942-present) Betsey Johnson is no stranger to style and cultural movements. Eames won many prestigious design awards, though they were always in tandem with Charles.

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