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Our favourite stories of 2021 so far...

As we head off until Tuesday for the long weekend, here’s a collection of some of our favourite stories, posted so far in 2021.

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We’re away from our (WFH) desks this weekend as it’s an Easter Bank Holiday here in the UK. While we’re taking a little break, here is a collection of some of our favourite articles published in 2021 to keep you entertained over the long weekend.

We’ll be back on Tuesday to continue sharing the most inspiring work from the creative world. In the meantime, have a lovely weekend and some well deserved time out!

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To Survive on This Shore spotlights transgender and gender nonconforming older adults through portraiture and interviews

1 March 2021

Lunga Ntila uses a cut-and-paste aesthetic to add drama, spirituality and narrative to her work

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Our favourite stories of 2021 so far...

Features

Lawrence Lek talks simulation art and his interest in the ambiguity between two paradoxes

Is graphic design too trendy?

Defying the norm: An interview with Grayson Perry on what it means to be an artist

Lockdown in pictures: ten photographs that document an extraordinary year

The camera as a “revolutionary tool”: Joan. E. Biren on unifying lesbians in their struggle for freedom

The Pink Triangle: how a symbol moved from one of persecution to power

And breeaaathe: the animation supergroup creating meditation TV for Netflix’s Headspace

“A project of continental peace”: over 150 rejected flags for Europe published 65 years after creation

Graphic Design

Exploring the treasure trove that is 2wice’s online visual archive by Pentagram’s Abbott Miller

Ikki Kobayashi returns with a new train of thought, this time focusing on positivity and interiors

What’s in store for the future of Arabic visual culture? Archief Cairo on communicating across borders

Huruf explores Malaysia’s visual culture and multilingual vernacular through type

Stefanie Vogl creates elongated and experimental typefaces based on emotion

From a trained ballerina to graphic designer, Boah Kim creates synergy between client and designer

“It’s Glasgow nae Cannes”: O Street crafts new identity for a digital film festival

After a period of change, Raissa Pardini views collaboration as the most important part of her design practice

Illustration

Virginia Gabrielli on leaving the viewer “as free as possible” as an editorial illustrator

Jo Zixuan Zhou, the editorial illustrator combining atmosphere, narrative symbols and technique

Lena Yokoyama uses illustration as a translation tool for intrinsic words or phrases

“I’m not trying to make a statement with my work”: Paul Verdell on how he’s “just here to paint”

Illustrator Jordan Moss shows us how to work a good gradient

Marvel at Oscar Ukonu’s intricate, hyperreal ballpoint pen drawings

Toma Vagner on analogue processes, ballpoint pens and illustrating for Harry Styles

Alexandra Bowman on making her soft and painterly illustrations fill up the page

Photography

To Survive on This Shore spotlights transgender and gender nonconforming older adults through portraiture and interviews

Lunga Ntila uses a cut-and-paste aesthetic to add drama, spirituality and narrative to her work

Intersecting fashion and photography, Miftha Bahardeen puts human emotion first

Xiaoxiao Xu takes us on an eye-opening journey of everyday life along the Great Wall of China

Pushing wild swimming into coordination, meet the synchronised swimmers of Henleaze Lake

“I had the chance to open the doors a little”: Stephan Gladieu photographs the people of North Korea

Cynthia Mai Ammann captures life in the transitional Ho Chi Minh City

With just five years of experience under her belt, Nicole Osula displays an artistry beyond her years

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