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Paula Scher and Jonathan Yeo launch online courses in design and painting with the BBC

Creative Boom

Described as the "master conjurer of the instantly familiar," she straddles the line between pop culture and fine art in her work. In a typical project in 2012, Scher created a new logo for Windows 8 that took it back to its roots as a window. Early in the development process, Scher asked: "Your name is Windows.

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Remembering Bob Gill: “There’s no such thing as a bad client”

Design Week

He later studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before moving to New York. The team worked from a mews house off Baker Street (alongside a receptionist and her dog) with clients including Penguin, Pirelli and Time Life. ” Gill died on 9 November 2021 in Brooklyn.

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The Alternative Limb Project by Sophie de Oliveira Barata is where art meets science

Creative Boom

During her time as an art student, she also worked at a hospital serving tea and coffee. I was going to go into fine art but decided to go into special effects. Creating The Alternative Limb Project , Barata became more involved with the clients on a personal level, which took the work to another, more intimate level.

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F5: Jiminie Ha’s Book Plans, the Furniture That Changed Her Life + More

Design Milk

” Launching in 2012, with a collective background in fine arts, curation, creative direction, design, publishing, and fashion, With Projects, Inc. has developed relationships with a dynamic range of clients and collaborators as a result of its multidisciplinary practice.

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Creative leads on the women that inspire them most

Creative Boom

His work encompasses sound, music, installations, product design, art direction, education and contemporary art for a range of clients worldwide. She was a staunch supporter of the arts and developed artists and muse relationships that one could only dream of by befriending the likes of Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau.

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Ed Fella’s Flyers Blur the Lines Between Design and Art

Eye on Design

When the exhibition was ready, I walked around it with Marek Pokorny, who was then director of the city’s fine and applied arts gallery. Pokorny had never seen Fella’s work before; his background as a critic and curator was in fine art, not design. But he never lost the urge to make art. .

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Maine Media Workshops Have Taught Generations of Photographers. Now, They’re Celebrating 50 Years. (Sponsored)

Feature Shoot

“ Matt Cosby graduated from the Professional Certificate in Visual Storytelling program in 2012. ’ “Since graduating from the Professional Certificate program, Cosby has been published with The New York Times , National Geographic , Rolling Stone , NPR , Maine Magazine , Boston Magazine , and numerous other clients. .’

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