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Positive stories from freelance creatives to boost your mood in a recession

Creative Boom

Similarly, for artist and illustrator Magdalena Pankiewicz , the turning point was seeing her cover design appeared on Wired IT last year. "I There's something quite magical about a real, physical book, which perhaps explains why this antiquated media format continues to thrive in the digital age. What a cool moment!"

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Top 10 Typography Artists Worth Following

Inkbot Design

Top 10 Typography Artists Worth Following. When expressed in artistic and inventive ways, typography moves away from being only words arranged for print and becomes inspiring and exciting forms of design. In this article, we look at 10 of the top famous typography artists and their work. Christopher Wool. $32.88. Craig Ward.

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Navigating our way back to 'normal' after two years of a global pandemic

Creative Boom

But anyone who imagined Covid-19 would magically disappear and be as irrelevant the Millenium Bug had become in 2001 indulged in an understandable but naive form of wishful thinking. Many artists, designers, illustrators, animators and video editors have found continued remote working not only feasible but, in many ways, preferable.

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Artists translate cinema hits into book covers for BFI Film Classics

Creative Review

When the BFI and Bloomsbury decided to collaborate on relaunching the beloved Film Classics book series, 19 artists were about to get what is, for many, a dream commission from Bloomsbury lead designer Lou Dugdale: to transform the essence of an iconic film into a captivating cover design.

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15+ Best Graphic Design Books in 2023

Just Creative

Grid Systems in Graphic Design book is the foundational text for graphic artists. This book serves as a manual for typographers and graphic artists. More than that, we discovered some wonderful wisdom and humor suitable for any graphic artist. It offers new artists a variety of tried-and-true artistic techniques.

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Processing: the Software that Shaped Creative Coding

Eye on Design

When Maeda joined the Media Lab in 1996, he pushed at the edges of Cooper’s work, exploring what code could enable formally, in the contexts of both art and design. . Cooper and Maeda established a long lineage of designers and artists who were interested in pushing the boundaries of what code could create. Processing 3.0

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The Provocative and Prescient Work of Archie Boston Jr.

Eye on Design

His high school art teacher, Mrs. Mary Jones, encouraged his artistic skill enough for Boston to enter the Pinellas County Fair art exhibition, where he won an honorable mention for one of his paintings. “I In 2001, Boston self-published his memoir with seed funding from his white mentor and friend, the advertising copywriter Dale Zaret.