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Spinning a yarn: how Icelandic artist Ýrúrarí turns textiles into stunning works of art

Creative Boom

With her work about to appear at not one, but two exhibitions, we chatted to Ýrúrarí about her knitting process, where she gets inspiration from, and her upcoming shows. Process and perspective How, we wondered, does she approach creating her unique art forms? All the pieces are new and fresh out of my studio in Berlin."

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Inspiring creative women to follow in 2022

Creative Boom

She co-founded her branding and creative agency The Working Assembly , while pregnant with her first child in 2017. Shelley Smoler is Executive Creative Director at Droga5 London , which she joined in 2017. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, Sanuk Kim is a designer and an art director based in New York.

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F5: Elena Salmistraro Shares Her Favorite Accessory, Art + Album

Design Milk

She’s the creator of a unique and highly recognizable aesthetic, and interested in developing work that straddles the lines between illustration, design, and visual arts. In 2017, she won the Salone del Mobile Milano Award as “Best Emerging Designer.” Among her priorities?

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October 2022 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Colossal

Yayoi Kusama , “Pumpkins Screaming About Love Beyond Infinity” (2017), mirrors, acrylic, glass, LEDs, and wood panels, 59 x 59 x 83 ½ inches. Collection of the artist, courtesy of Ota Fine Arts. One photographer will receive a €50,000 grant to produce a body of work, followed by a traveling exhibition and a monograph.

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The Brief, Enigmatic Career of Sylvia Abernathy

Eye on Design

As a member of the Visual Arts Workshop arm of the Organization of the Black American Culture—or OBAC, pronounced as oba-see to invoke a Yoruba word ( oba ) meaning “leader” or “chief”—Abernathy led the layout of the community mural that was painted “guerrilla-style” on a decaying building at the corner of 43rd Street and Langley Avenue.

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50+ Best Gifts for Designers on Every Budget

Inkbot Design

Sale Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter Hardcover Book Phaidon Editors, Phaidon (Author) English (Publication Language) 708 Pages – 03/13/2017 (Publication Date) – Phaidon Press (Publisher) −$15.96 $8.99 Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter offers historical examples of influential graphic design and advertising pieces.

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21 Famous Graphic Designers That Anyone in the Design Industry Needs to Know in 2023

Shillington

On top of this, she is also a teacher at the School of Visual Arts, contributes to Imprint and Uppercase magazine and has co-authored numerous books, including The Typographic Universe, American Typeplay and New Modernist Type. Her work has been exhibited at museums around the world and she is a professor at Yale University.