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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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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. “That internship turned into a full-time job, and led to study at Yale School of Art’s three year graphic design MFA program. Published by Ze Books, 2023.

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“Always Moving Under the Surface”: Organic Typography by Alex Ortiga

Design You Trust

The first approach to the art world was through music: in fact, in the same year he started his music production; he later founded a music label (S t A Y Records, 2014-2018), he is art director of the music club Cas*Aupa and Dissonanze Udine.

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Cheryl D. Miller Forged the Path Towards a More Inclusive Design Industry

Eye on Design

That seminal work, subsequently published by Print magazine in 1987 under the headline “ Black Designers: Missing in Action ,” catalyzed a discourse around diversity and inclusion in the design industry that continues to unfold in conference talks, hiring decisions, statements of purpose, and the makeup of AIGA’s national and chapter leadership.

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Dot Dot Dot Is the Most Influential Design Magazine You’ve Never Heard Of

Eye on Design

asked the cover of the first issue of Dot Dot Dot , published in April 2000. Yet unlike Emigre , the popular design magazine published by Rudy Vanderlans and Zuzana Licko through the ’90s, Dot Dot Dot was much harder to define. I remember thinking I really want to publish this but it’s not about graphic design.

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A Trailblazing Photography Collector Champions Black Artists

Feature Shoot

. “The first show was set up like a Sunday afternoon salon—really DIY projects,” he recalls in the new book As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic , published by Aperture. Setupung sa kwana hae II From the series Ke Lefa Laka: Her-story, 2013 Samuel Fosso. Untitled (Self-Portrait), 2020 James Barnor.

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Skate culture: No comply

UX Collective

Written by Craig Berry Designer & Writer Reece Leung – Vaughan Jones (2015) In one of my first ‘proper’ fine art classes in about 2011 we were given a brief for a new project; it was simply called “Passions and Obsessions”. Somerset House’s exhibition explores the impact of skateboarding in the UK. The everything.