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Magical world of inflatable art opens new cultural landmark in Manchester

Creative Boom

Images © David Levene Yayoi Kusama, The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity will Eternally Cover the Universe, 2019. Yayoi-chan, 2012-2023 Installation view from Manchester International Festival 2023 exhibition ‘Yayoi Kusama_ You, Me and the Balloons’ at Aviva Studios. Installation view, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai.

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Framed by Frozen Lakes, Richard Johnson’s ‘Ice Huts’ Capture Wintertime Communities in Canada

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“Ice Hut GRID #6” From the Series ‘Ice Huts’ (2007-2019). All images © Richard Johnson Photography, Inc., shared with permission Starting in late December and January when the temperatures stay consistently below freezing, bodies of water in the northern United States and Canada begin to freeze.

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Spoon Graphics Turns 15 Years Old — The End is Nigh! (or is it?)

Spoon Graphics

It’s that time of year when Spoon Graphics gets a little older, with 2022 marking 15 years of tutorial creating, freebie sharing and article writing on what started as a blog that was attached to my design portfolio website in 2007. Every April I take some time to reflect on the past 12 months and talk about how things have changed.

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A Major Retrospective Celebrates Iris van Herpen’s Mesmerizing Designs at the Intersection of Art, Fashion, and Science

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Van Herpen founded her eponymous brand in 2007 and has since created a vast oeuvre embracing the beauty of the natural world. “Epicycle” dress, ‘Hypnosis’ collection (2019), glass organza, crepe, PetG, mylar. Image © Dominique Maitre.

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Spoon Graphics Turns 13 Years Old — Traffic Down, Subscribers Up!

Spoon Graphics

It’s that time of year when Spoon Graphics gets a little older, with 2020 marking 13 years of tutorial creating, freebie sharing and article writing on what started as a blog that was attached to my portfolio website in 2007. Email Subscribers: 189,773 (up 14% from 2019)*. YouTube Channel Subscribers: 332,014 (up 30% from 2019).

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Ekow Eshun curates an exhibition inspired by activism and agency

Creative Review

Top: From the series Sleepers, 2007-2013 by Dhruv Malhotra. James Brown, from the series The Royal House of Allure, 2019 by Sabelo Mlangeni Medina Dugger’s series is inspired by Muslim women in Lagos, Nigeria, and reframes the hijab as a form of self-expression, rather than oppression.

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Coming Up For Air looks back on 30 years of work by Stephen Gill

Creative Review

From Hackney Flowers, 2004-2007 From The Pillar, 2015-2019 From Talking To Ants, 2009-2013 From Talking To Ants, 2009-2013 The Pillar features photographs shot in rural Sweden – the place Gill made his home after leaving east London in 2015 – and stars some of the 250 species of birds that are native to the country.