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Swiss sculptor Christian Bolt offers a fresh answer to the age-old question: what is beauty?

Creative Boom

Sometimes, art can provide a fresh way to look at things. There he took a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Europe’s traditional and oldest art academy, where he studied technique and materials of sculpting, art history and anatomy. What is beauty?

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A new show is presenting over 15 years of JR’s thought-provoking art

Creative Review

Opening this summer at London’s Saatchi Gallery, JR: Chronicles is a new exhibition encompassing over 15 years of JR’s brand of art as activism. This includes one of his earliest projects, Expo 2 Rue, where he documented graffiti artists and presented the images in the streets.

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F5: David Trubridge on Forward-Thinking Art, Indigenous Voices, + More

Design Milk

The company itself is driven by this ever-present environmental responsibility, which informs all aspects of design and production within the brand – always comes before profit. Whereas he’s practical in nature, she attended art school, trained as a sculptor, and has a freer, more open approach to creating.

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The art of the interactive storyteller

UX Collective

In a presentation I regularly deliver on the subject of Motion Design, I position myself as a clueless Canadian who doesn’t understand the concept of a curveball in baseball. A story’s strength lies not only in its content and context but also in its presentation. You can’t read the radio. You can’t watch the radio. You listen to it.

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‘Art Is Art’ Celebrates the Vast and Varied Creativity of Hundreds of Disabled Neurodiverse Artists

Colossal

All images courtesy of Chronicle Book, shared with permission Spurred by the belief that art changes lives, Florence and Elias Katz founded Creativity Explored in 1983, a San Francisco-based nonprofit studio and gallery designed for disabled neurodivergent artists. ” “I Speak Through My Art,” and “Blackiful.”

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I ?? NY

Fonts in Use

“I ❤️ NY” presentation board, two-line version, 1976, as archived in the MoMA collection. “I ❤️ NY” presentation board, one-line version, 1976, as archived in the MoMA collection. The same iconic image was used as the front and back page of the Daily News on September 19, 2001.

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F5: Sarah Jefferys Prizes Sustainable Design, Lots of Natural Light + More

Design Milk

She has been acting principal since the studio’s establishment in 2001 completing numerous residential, commercial, and small institutional designs from new construction, additions, and renovations throughout New England and the United States. Today Sarah Jefferys joins us for Friday Five ! Photo: Morten Smidt 1.