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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

Creative Boom

Art and fashion have always had a tumultuous and unpredictable relationship. A founding figure in the mid-century New York School movement, Philip Guston helped pioneer a modified form of representational art known as neo-expressionism. Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s by Eddie Chambers.

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Print's not dead: the best magazines for graphic design inspiration

Creative Boom

For most of us, even some of us who work in the media, the answer is probably: "I can't remember." Communication Arts Founded in 1959 by Richard Coyne and Robert Blanchard, Communication Arts remains one of the premier sources of inspiration for graphic designers around the globe today. But that would be a mistake.

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Content Marketing Tricks: Social Media, Email, and Beyond

Inkbot Design

Content Marketing Tricks: Social Media, Email, and Beyond In 2023, when smartphones and social media have created an era of information overload, businesses face an immense challenge in capturing their audience's fleeting attention. The stories resonated with women who often felt unrepresented in media.

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A New Book Flies Through the Vast World of Birds from Art and Design to History and Ornithology

Colossal

Bird: Exploring the Winged World is an extensive celebration of feathered creatures across thousands of years of art, science, and popular culture. cm / 2 7/8 × 3 ¼ in, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Picture credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Jefferson R.Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R.

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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. Above: 28 Millimètres, Portrait d’une génération, Braquage, Ladj Ly vu par JR, 2004. “A pasting in one place is art and in another means crime.

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A Comic Book Classic and Master of Abstraction: Illustrations by Bill Sienkiewicz

Design You Trust

His work has graced the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; galleries in Paris, Barcelona and Tuscany; Spain’s famed La Semana Negra (The Black Week) Festival; advertising campaigns for Nike, MTV and Nissan; posters for The Green Mile and 2006 Winter Olympics; and magazines such as Entertainment Weekly and Spin.

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Explore Maze-Like Passageways Exploding with Elaborate Mosaics at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens

Colossal

In 1991, Zagar began to work in a couple of vacant lots adjacent to his studio, initially coating the walls of the buildings on either side in colorful tesserae, then sculpting partitions and passageways through the center and creating an immersive art environment.