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Mammoth Straw Creatures Populate Japanese Farmland in the Annual Wara Art Festival

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All images courtesy of Wara Art Festival. The towering sculptures are part of the Wara Art Festival , a summertime event that displays massive animals and mythical creations fashioned from the crop’s leftover straw.

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David Adjaye Awarded RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal for Architecture

Azure Magazine

Since establishing his practice in 2000, the studio — which operates out of Accra, London and New York — has profoundly shaped the architectural landscape with projects that blend “history, art and science” to craft “engaging environments that balance contrasting themes and inspire us all,” according to RIBA president Alan Jones.

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10 Landmark Projects Shaping Architecture in 2024

Azure Magazine

Hampi Art Labs, Tungabhadra, India by Sameep Padora and Associates Mumbai architect Sameep Padora has been creating sublime architecture attuned to its context – like the wonderful Maya Somaya Library at Kopargaon – since setting up practice in 2006. Due to be completed imminently, the Hampi Art Labs is his most recent masterstroke.

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Meet the Jury of the 2023 AZ Awards!

Azure Magazine

His gamble paid off and in 2007, he opened his eponymous studio , where he envisions an impressive array of product and furniture design, as well as art direction and interior architecture, for such international manufacturers such as Ligne Roset, Bonaldo, Buzzispace, Varaschin, Casamania, La Chance and Another Country. JERRY VAN EYCK !melk’s

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Creative leads on the women that inspire them most

Creative Boom

After an early career as a lawyer at a magic circle firm, she began her art career at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Priya read modern languages at Cambridge University then received a distinction and the annual dissertation prize in the history of design from the Royal College of Art. Her inspiration. His inspiration.

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Abraham Palatnik: 7 Decades of Pushing Artistic Possibilities

Design Milk

Trained in both engineering and art, he then returned to Brazil where he boldly reinvented the possibilities in art for seven decades. His most significant breakthrough occurred while teaching art workshops at a Psychiatric Hospital in Rio de Janeiro. Palatnik shocked the art world in the 1950s with his “Kinechromatic Devices”.

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

Creative Boom

Arena Founded in 1968, Arena is home to an enviable and carefully crafted list of illustrators, including award-winners and best-sellers. Categories covered include animation, illustration, mural art, sculpture and CGI. Peter is represented by Folio Art 9. The list of creatives on its books is wide-ranging.