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Big Chief Demond Melancon Is Rewriting the Definition of Contemporary Art Through Beads

Design Milk

These are the tools and materials New Orleans-based artist Demond Melancon uses to create his Black Masking suits and his contemporary art portraiture series. I like to listen to podcasts and art interviews, or I’m listening to my reggae music. I branched out to show them that beading can be contemporary art, can be fine art.

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DM 15th Anniversary: Tanya Aguiñiga Spills the Milk

Design Milk

“I actually started as a community activist,” Tanya reminisced, “focusing on migrant rights and border issues as part of the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo.” The work Tanya is creating now is mostly focused on using Craft to aid in social justice and migrant rights. Felt Birds.

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The 10 Projects that Defined a Decade of Canadian Architecture

Azure Magazine

Borden Park Pavilion by GH3, 2013. Joseph Residence by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, 2013. Audain Art Museum by Patkau Architects, 2016. the Audain Art Museum by Patkau Architects of Vancouver. the Audain Art Museum by Patkau Architects of Vancouver. The results, once again, were admirable. Sisters of St.

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Meet the Jury of the AZ Awards 2024

Azure Magazine

Lee Alumni Centre and Ponderosa Hub, both at the University of British Columbia (UBC); Ottawa’s Global Centre for Pluralism for the Aga Khan Foundation of Canada; the Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan; and the recently completed Harrison McCain Pavilion for Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

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Picks of the month: the best (at home) design events in February

Design Week

Collect 2021, Crafts Council. Now in its 17 th year, Collect is one of the world’s leading fairs for contemporary craft and design. It’s organised each year by the UK’s Crafts Council, and as we’ve all come to expect by now, will be taking place online in 2021. More information can be found here.

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The World’s Most Famous Graphic Designers in 2019

Design Wizard

Multimedia Art & Animation. We have spared neither cost nor effort to find the best graphic designers in all areas of the craft. This influential designer, art director and lettering artist has all the multinational acronyms flocking to his door. Product Development. User Experience. User Interface. Video Games. Web Design.

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10 Best Creatives from South Korea

Shillington

They work predominantly for cultural institutions and individuals and this is no exception—their identity for the 2019 David Hockney at the Seoul Museum of Art features a seven-storied title which reflected the exhibitions structure, which itself reflected the phases in Hockney’s body of work. BOWYER Studio. Everyday Practice.