Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2023

Nærvera © Ýrúrarí aka Ýr Jóhannsdóttir We chat with the brilliant Icelandic artist about sustainability, textile techniques and handing out wool pizzas to the public. But Icelandic artist Ýr Jóhannsdóttir, aka Ýrúrarí , has been turning them into stunning works of art. All the pieces are new and fresh out of my studio in Berlin."

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

This was inspired by Philip Johnson's AT&T building in NYC," says Jason. All photography courtesy of the artist and PHX Gallery, Chicago Artist and architect Jason Sargenti has recreated a series of iconic buildings, both real and fictional, as birdhouses, and his work is about to go on show in Chicago.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 4, 2024

We list the most exciting events around the world to help enrich your mind and fuel your inspiration. This festival transforms Harbin in China into a winter wonderland with massive, intricately carved ice sculptures, ice lanterns, and a variety of winter sports, drawing artists and visitors from around the world. Art Basel Miami Beach.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 24, 2022

But British artist Imogen Hawgood offers a different perspective through her Americana oil paintings with some hinting at the impact of climate change. Based in County Durham, Imogen Hawgood graduated in 2020 with a degree in Illustration from Norwich University of the Arts.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 27, 2022

He explains how he transitioned from graphic designer to full-time artist and what inspires his work today. Coming from a graphic design background, Patrick Nelson has been a full-time collage artist now for a number of years. In 2020 he was featured in the De Young Open in San Francisco, a juried community art exhibition.

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Creative Boom

MAY 31, 2022

Self-taught Nigeria-based artist Collins Obijiaku is currently taking Roberts Projects by storm with his inaugural solo show, Unexpected Sittings. Featuring fifteen new portraits completed over the last year, the exhibition explores the untapped potential of everyday interactions.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 14, 2022

Having won the Art Fund Museum of the Year in 2020, it is well known for its collection of modern and contemporary British art, not to mention its award-winning modernist gallery building. In the meantime, the other shortlisted artists will also scoop up £10,000 each.

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Creative Boom

MAY 29, 2022

A lot of my work is inspired by my own life, childhood memories and experiences," says Anya Paintsil , an artist who grew up in a town located in North Wales. She got into Manchester School of Art, "quickly" swapped to fine art and graduated in 2020. Blod © Anya Paintsil. "A The rest writes itself. Ebo © Anya Paintsil.

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Creative Boom

JULY 3, 2022

Finished as a two-colour Risograph art book, plus a solo exhibition featuring seven screen-printed images, Grant sought to zoom out from a refined concept and explore a "common tone" throughout his work. I would say that music is one of my greatest sources of inspiration," he tells us. And the theme of martyrdom is what he landed on.

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Creative Boom

MAY 18, 2023

The LA-based artist conjures magical worlds and invites us to explore them together "like a shared dream". We share some highlights of his upcoming exhibition, The Brush and the Torch. We've long been a fan of figurative painter Adrian Cox here at Creative Boom, most recently sharing his series Into the Spirit Garden back in 2020.

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Noupe

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Art galleries are great places to visit to get inspiration and get your creative juices flowing. Not only, that’s why visiting the art gallery websites is a great way to appreciate the artwork out there and get inspired, but also art helps with anxiety and depression that you may be facing in these difficult times. Victoria Miro.

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Colossal

JULY 27, 2023

All images courtesy of the artists and the Torggler Fine Arts Center, © the artists, shared with permission From intricate, laser-cut tendrils to vibrantly patterned collages, a new exhibition at The Torggler in Newport News, Virginia, explores the vast potential of a conventionally utilitarian material.

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Design Milk

JUNE 20, 2023

In 2013, I had the privilege to visit ( and feature here ) a dazzling Infinity Room by one of the most famous and influential artists alive: Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner, Ota Fine Arts, and Victoria Miro Yayoi Kusama, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, 2023 (detail) © YAYOI KUSAMA.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 12, 2022

Given that the London Original Print Fair was forced to cancel its scheduled dates in 2020 due to the pandemic, the return of a physical event will be music to the ears of art lovers and buyers. Other highlights include Picasso prints exhibited by Frederick Mulder and works by Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud from Marlborough.

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Print Printmaking Gallery Exhibition 415

Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2022

So whether you're a senior designer scouting around for talent, a creative student looking ahead to your own event in the future, or just someone wanting to be inspired by great work, check out these great shows. And if you're exhibiting yourself, we wish you the very best of luck! BCU Inspired 2022 , Birmingham City University.

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Design Week

DECEMBER 18, 2020

“It could kickstart a revolution”: exhibition design post-Covid. Non-Pavilion, a VR installation at the V&A for last year’s London Design Festival How would the badly-hit exhibition sector return after the first lockdown? Materials would be another focus. Electronic: from Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

And now, an experiential art exhibit celebrating this evocative hue is coming to New York. A multi-sensory experience, Magentaverse draws inspiration and materials from nature, NASA, and the James Webb Space Telescope footage, immersing visitors into what the organisers call the "sounds and feelings of Viva Magenta".

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Colossal

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This time, the fair brings together an ensemble of over 120 independent artists in a brand-new setting at ZeroSpace. The November edition ignites with additions like an exclusive exhibition of paintings by Guest Artist Danny Cole, complimentary personalized haikus (exclusive to Thursday’s Opening Night!),

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Artist Art Printmaking Exhibition 68

Logo Smith

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The post Impossible Type – Concept Font Inspired by MC Escher by Fleta Selmani appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ Impossible Type is a clever concept font, inspired by the impossible geometries of MC Escher , and designed by Fleta Selmani. Found via Kottke : Impossible Type.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 21, 2024

Her book Das Neue Land is a Spiegel bestseller and won the Frankfurt Book Fair's Entrepreneurial Book of the Year in 2020. Since 2016, Engelbert has consulted as creative director for Swarovski Professional, creating inspirational publications and overseeing artistic collaborations. Born in Ghana and raised in the U.S.,

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

If you want to get inspired, discover new ideas and network with others, we've rounded up the best conferences and events throughout 2023. Or maybe follow design inspiration at the AIGA Design Conference by exploring the cultural and historical landmarks of the Big Apple. So keep this page bookmarked, and keep checking back!

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 18, 2022

Courtesy of the artist and Desert X AlUla. The organization behind the exhibition, The Desert Biennial , is a California-based arts non-profit dedicated to staging site-specific interventions that build upon the land art movement of the ’60s and ’70s. Courtesy of the artist and Desert X AlUla. Photo Lance Gerber.

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Design Week

APRIL 29, 2020

“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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Colossal

APRIL 22, 2022

“Style Variation 35” (2020), acrylic paint and graphite on digital inkjet photograph, 245.1 In Looks , artist Derrick Adams references the immense potential of a wig to alter an appearance and construct a persona. “Style Variation 33” (2020), acrylic paint and graphite on digital inkjet photograph, 245.1

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Creative Boom

JULY 26, 2022

In her latest body of work, Chinese Panamanian artist MaiYap responds to racism against Asian Americans and the attacks many have suffered. Inspired by Chinese landscape art, her beautiful colourful pieces feature highly textured lily pads floating on top of the water in all shapes and sizes, painted in oils and using only palette knives.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 10, 2023

It also includes fresh contributions from filmmaker Roman Coppola, industrial designer Sabine Marcelis, architect Bjarke Ingels, artist CJ Hendry, and digital entrepreneur Mikaela Jade. We hope you find it inspiring, sure, but that you ingest it not in a passive manner and see it instead as an invitation.

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Creative Review

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The exhibition at Pace Gallery features 50 illustrations by musician, artist and Talking Heads frontman David Byrne that reflect his experiences of isolation and mundanity throughout the pandemic – feelings that have taken on a universal significance this year. Top: Podiatrist Punctuation, 2020. Above: T.M.I.,

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Illustration Illustrator Gallery Exhibition 107

Feature Shoot

AUGUST 16, 2023

Courtesy the artist/Bradley Ertaskiran Jamel Shabazz. He dedicated it to showcasing photographs by Black artists. The project grew from there: today, the hugely influential collection includes more than four hundred works, selections of which are now part of an exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 18, 2023

London-based photographer Opalko has her daughter in peak pandemic times, in June 2020. Smit and artist Laxmi Hussain. This project will hopefully inspire them, making them feel heard and understood, and through a sense of community that comes with this project, they might not feel alone."

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Creative Boom

JULY 25, 2023

Photography by David van Delden Designer and lettering artist Kevin Rooi is having quite the moment. In 2020, he secured his first agency job via MediaMonks , and then later, joined Denstu Creative. It's a refreshing change that keeps me feeling inspired and creative. It wasn't always so easy, though, as we find out.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Carla van de Puttelaar for Iris van Herpen, various collections (2020). In addition to van Herpen’s designs, the exhibition also includes works by artists like Casey Curran , Rogan Brown , and Janaina Mello Landini , who have either inspired or collaborated with the designer over the years. Image © Dominique Maitre.

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Colossal

APRIL 25, 2024

All images © Ronald Jackson, shared with permission Six years ago, Ronald Jackson had only four months to prepare for a solo exhibition. “Portraits, which are usually based in concepts of identity, can present a challenge for artists desiring to suggest narratives,” he tells Colossal.

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Exhibition Visual Art Artist Presentation 63

Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Having graduated with a degree in Visual Communications in 2020, Imo's career has hit the ground running as she has already scooped up the John Vernon Lord Sketchbook Prize, been featured on Tate billboards around London, and been selected as one of the winning artists for the TDK awards 2020. I just love that.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2020

Here are 10 of 2020’s most anticipated buildings, finally seeing the light of day: 1. We’ve been told that 2020 is the year that patrons and curious passersby alike will be able to step inside this one-of-a-kind hotel. Ace Hotel by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects. The Ace Hotel’s Winning Hand.

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Colossal

APRIL 20, 2021

Hundreds of thousands of sleek, black LEGO structure the utopic universes by Toronto-based artist Ekow Nimako. His ongoing series, Building Black , is an expansive collection that encompasses fantastical masks inspired by West African tradition and mythological characters that draw on folklore and proverbs. “Esun” (2020).

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Artist Sculpture Gallery Exhibition 101

Colossal

APRIL 25, 2024

” The Brussels-based artist’s frequent travels provide encounters and research opportunities that fuel both her work and devotion to the beauty and wonder of the sea. “How human beings either explore, travel, or exploit the ocean has always been a very strong source of inspiration to me.”

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Creative Review

AUGUST 20, 2020

” The words that most continue to inspire and shape her work come from artist and Gucci collaborator Coco Capitán’s book, If You’ve Seen It All, Close Your Eyes. The post Gradwatch 2020: Designer Shona Speres, Falmouth University appeared first on Creative Review.

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