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Connor McCann on how creating grotesque comics has helped him process being alive

Creative Boom

This childhood compulsion would take Connor to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he would study printmaking and illustration. I also have a soft spot for 2000's image comics guys like Ryan Ottley, Cory Walker, and Nate Bellegarde," he adds. "I I wouldn't know how to process being alive without comics." I loved it."

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February 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Colossal

The 25 Spiral Independent Creators Festival (International) Launched in 2000, SICF is an open-call art festival in Tokyo that aspires to discover, foster, and support emerging artists and designers. Locust Projects provides selected artists with curatorial guidance, a production budget, an artist W.A.G.E. Deadline: February 5, 2024.

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How Cranbrook’s Design Program Redefined How We Make and Talk About Graphic Design

Eye on Design

From the beginning, there was an emphasis on printmaking and book binding because of Gough’s work in newspapers,” Blauvelt told me. “We This is what made the McCoys so brilliant,” says Elliott Earls, another former student, who has run Cranbrook’s 2D design department since 2000. “I We used to have a bookmaker in residence on campus.”

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Louise Sandhaus Uplifts the Stories of Graphic Design’s Unsung Makers

Eye on Design

Born in 1955 near Boston, MA to parents who were both creative professionals, Sandhaus grew up in the kind of design-filled home that had a printmaking workshop—which doubled as a ping pong table—in its basement. Even before she studied design formally, Sandhaus had always been surrounded by it.

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100 Amazing Graphic Designers to Follow on Instagram

Shillington

Timba Smits is the Creative Director of TCO London, Little White Lies and Huck Magazine—and Shillington graduate way back in the year 2000. Shillington Melbourne graduate Carolyn Hawkins is a designer, printmaker, illustrator and ceramicist all rolled in to one. Timba Smits. Oh No Type Co. Carolyn Hawkins. Nina Hamer.

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20 best illustration agents in the UK, and the awesome illustrators they represent

Creative Boom

It includes artist and director Mat Maitland, image maker Joe Cruz, artist and designer Anthony Burrill, artist and printmaker Kate Gibb, and 3D artist Jack Sachs. NB Illustration NB Illustration was founded in 2000 by Joe and Charlotte, who are passionate about illustration and get very 'hands-on' in the production process.