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Magical world of inflatable art opens new cultural landmark in Manchester

Creative Boom

Yayoi Kusama and Dots Obsession, 1996-2011 Installation view_ The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner. Dots Obsession, 2013 Installation view from Manchester International Festival 2023 exhibition ‘Yayoi Kusama_ You, Me and the Balloons’ at Aviva Studios.

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Dutch design agency From Form's new identity is a cinephile's dream

Creative Boom

From Form was founded in 2013 by married couple Ashley Govers and Jurjen Versteeg “to offer a playful and cinematic approach to film and design,” says the duo. According to From Form, such titles exemplify “an art form where the worlds of cinema and analogue design meet”.

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This Experimental Publisher Is Rethinking How Design Books Get Made

Eye on Design

Since its inception in 2009, Kickstarter has hosted approximately 3,700 campaigns centered around art books, with an estimated 500 specifically about design. That is when he realized there were other “ignored areas of publishing” that he might be able to tap into. The idea of crowdfunding books on design is no longer a new concept.

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Joe Boyd's illustrations of nature, place and movement show a never-ending thirst for adventure

Creative Boom

Growing up in the serene landscapes of Cumbria, at just 16, he enrolled in art college in Carlisle. This early exposure to art sowed the seeds of his passion for visual storytelling. However, his move to Leeds in 2013 to study illustration marked a pivotal moment in his career.

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Lost Art of the Streets: Rediscovering 1980s London Graffiti through Peter Marshall’s Lens

Design You Trust

The 1980s London graffiti scene, not as organized or acclaimed as Banksy’s work, was largely a transient art form. Much of it, inspired by New York City street art, was erased or lost during urban development.

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Artistic rebel, urban poet: new book celebrates the iconic photography of Saul Leiter

Creative Boom

For his main source of income from the late 1950s through the 1970s, Leiter worked as a fashion photographer, and his pictures were published in magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Elle, British Vogue, Queen, Nova and Esquire. It took a painful ten years before Saul Leiter: Early Color was published, but it was worth the wait.

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Sait Maden

Logo Design Love

He designed around 8,000 book and magazine covers for many publishing houses, as well as periodicals, brochures, packaging, labels, and around 500 logos. In 1979, in an effort to document the history of Turkish graphic design, Maden started the book project “Turkish Graphic Art from the Beginning to the Present.”