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Marco Lawrence

Communication Arts

” The path to working as an illustrator was a bit unexpected for Lawrence, who studied commercial fine art screen printing, fine art drawing and printmaking around Europe before graduating with a BA Honors in 2007. “That dedication to mastering technique is something that still characterizes my work today.”

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“A dusting of love”: Matt Stetson creates mini portals to an almost utopian vision of the past

Its Nice That

Most recently, Stranger Things renewed a cultural interest in 80s creature features, neon lights and synthwave soundtracks and vapourwave, a musical subculture sometimes associated with 80s consumer capitalism, became popular in 2015.

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Kyle Platts’ new 2D short spins influencer culture into a hilarious gravy nightmare

Its Nice That

“The licence free music that often accompanies these videos is also fascinating to me, I think you can carbon date it to when Diplo produced Where Are Ü Now for Justin Bieber in 2015. He studied (BA) Fine Art and has a strong interest in digital kitsch, multimedia painting, collage, nostalgia, analog and all matters of strange stuff.

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Jim Parkinson, 1941–2025

Typographica

He became the go-to guy for art directors looking to refresh their publication, and he redrew some titles multiple times over the years. Jim’s hobby was depicting vintage neon signage as fine art. Later in life, when Jim wasn’t drawing logos or making fonts, he was painting signs. Not how you think. Read our editorial policy.

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F5: Leyden Lewis Loves the Internet, Pork Belly Buns + More

Design Milk

They specialize in creating poetic, culturally sensitive spaces that emphasize the importance of fine arts, design, and structure. One of the things I love about collecting art is its ability to communicate ideas and reflect feelings. What fine art refers to as “mediums,” architecture calls “technologies.”

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Craig Berry on working for Nomad & how changing cities has helped push his creative skills & confidence

Creative Boom

Fresh back from Amsterdam, where he previously worked as a junior designer for Superunion and later Ogilvy Social.Lab, Craig Berry is now part of the team at Nomad , the rising London studio founded by Stuart Watson in 2015. Up until then, I studied Fine Art. We discover more about his journey so far.

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Artist Sarah Graham on raising awareness for bipolar disorder and how art saved her life

Creative Boom

She attempted suicide by overdose twice between 2005 and 2015 until she was sectioned in 2017 and then reclassified as Type 1 bipolar. If you want to pop along to Sarah Graham's upcoming show, you can visit Arkley Fine Art gallery in Hitchin from June. To discover more about her work, visit sarahgraham.info.

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