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Why Do Books are the perfect life companion for creatives

Creative Boom

The Do Book Company is an independent publishing house in London that grew out of the Do Lectures, which has been gathering together the world's doers, disruptors and pioneers to share their stories since 2007. They've been translated into multiple languages and published in print, digital and audiobook formats.

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Inspiring photo project by Abbie Trayler-Smith tackles the issue of obesity head-on

Creative Boom

Sheffield, 2013 © Abbie Trayler-Smith Shannon, age 16, has the words ‘Kiss it!’ Sheffield, 2013 © Abbie Trayler-Smith Shannon, age 16, recovers in hospital © Abbie Trayler-Smith "I saw the mutuality between us and the difference. by Abbie Trayler-Smith, with texts by Sally Williams and Abbie Trayler-Smith, is published by Gost.

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40 New Startup Websites and Landing Pages for Inspiration

SpyreStudios

This gallery contains 40 startup website layouts and landing pages for inspiration. The styles will obviously differ based on your business model, whether selling a product, a service, or publishing content online. This post was originally published in April 2013; updated July 2021. The Puzzlers. Objectivity. Vectornator.

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Spanning Four Decades, Edward Burtynsky’s Photos Document the Devastating Impacts of Industry

Colossal

Salinas #2, Cádiz, Spain (2013). Image courtesy of Flowers Gallery, London. Opening this month at Saatchi Gallery in London is Extraction/Abstraction , the largest survey of his work to date. Burtynsky will also open an exhibition of new works on February 28 at Flowers Gallery in London. Thjorsá River #1, Iceland (2012).

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Artistic rebel, urban poet: new book celebrates the iconic photography of Saul Leiter

Creative Boom

For his main source of income from the late 1950s through the 1970s, Leiter worked as a fashion photographer, and his pictures were published in magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Elle, British Vogue, Queen, Nova and Esquire. It took a painful ten years before Saul Leiter: Early Color was published, but it was worth the wait.

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Jim Naughten’s Digital Paintings: The Artist Creates Worlds that Seem Both Familiar and Fictional

Design You Trust

Naughten’s work has been widely featured in exhibitions across Europe and the US and including solo shows at the Imperial War Museum, Horniman Museum, and a forthcoming show at the Wellcome Collection (2022), and group shows at the Royal Academy of Art and National Portrait Galleries in London.

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An Immense New Book Surveys the Work of More Than 300 African Artists

Colossal

The forthcoming volume follows the publisher’s 2019 book Great Women Artists , which gathers works from 400 artists from 54 countries across 500 years, and it’s available for pre-order from Phaidon and Bookshop. Photo © the artist, courtesy of Gallery 1957, Accra. Photo © the artist. centimeters. John Akomfrah.

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