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Jan Kaláb’s Graffiti Has Always Been Art + Now It’s Even More

Design Milk

His view on the evolution of his own art, from what began as lettered graffiti, is interesting and a real story of following what’s possible. I used to draw and I studied at an art high school, but I didn’t call myself an artist just yet. We had the opportunity to talk with him about his creative trajectory and how it came to be.

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The FBI Guide to Internet Slang: Pentagram's new booklet on the most cryptic acronyms

Creative Boom

In 2014, the FBI commissioned a study of the jargon, creating an 83-page document to help it translate and monitor chat on social media. Just like any part of language, internet lingo never stops evolving. Now Pentagram has paid homage to this glossary by designing its own book, complete with custom typefaces inspired by FBI agent jackets.

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How Phunk pioneered a riotous clash of art and design in Singapore

Creative Review

Later Phunk launched magazines and websites, landed work doing moving graphics for MTV, and other multimedia commissions for brands such as Levi’s and Casio – often mixing disparate styles and influences in joyous fashion. Control Chaos is published by Thames & Hudson; priced $50, thamesandhudsonusa.com.

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From Mad magazine to B-Movies: An Oral History of Beastie Boys’ Artwork

Eye on Design

It means we have fewer clues regarding the amazing art direction of Paul’s Boutique and its extended gatefold though — when Yauch tragically died in 2012, aged 47, Hörnblowér went with him. . Beastie Boys’ Mad magazine inspired debut, full of schoolboy visual gags to accompany their ironic frat boys persona. Licensed to Ill (1986).

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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. Growing up in France, my parents were constantly taking us to museums and art institutions whenever they had the chance. “My career trajectory wasn’t an obvious one.

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Florence Henri: the forgotten female pioneer of surreal photography

UX Collective

Therefore, she married a Swiss domestic servant and moved to Paris in 1925 to study painting in the art studio of cubism. It is a typical painting influenced by Constructivism (1915–1930) (The Art Story, 2012). This photo was published in the avant-garde magazine i10. 2014, July 17). 2014, September 7).

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The Evolving Legacy of Ken Garland’s First Things First Manifesto

Eye on Design

Kalle Lasn of Adbusters had seen the original in Eye magazine and reprinted it. Other signatories—making 33 total—were approached by Adbusters , Rudy VanderLans of Emigre magazine, and me. wrote Dietmar Winkler, director of the school of art and design at the University of Illinois, in a reply to Adbusters.