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The Creative Boom 2023 Christmas gift guide for creatives

Creative Boom

Stocking Fillers Grumpy Ant plush toy by Aysha Tengiz If you have a friend who makes (or just appreciates) good art, check out the online shop of Aysha Tengiz, a London-based artist working within illustration, animation and textile design. Founded in Spain in 2016, the brand's products for men and women come in a range of colours and styles.

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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. ” Bras-CoupĂ©, Demond Melancon, 2016. Bras-CoupĂ©, Demond Melancon, 2016.

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50+ Best Gifts for Designers on Every Budget

Inkbot Design

Here are the top picks in this category: Art and Design Books From modern to contemporary works, art books give designers eye candy to admire and draw ideas from. Some examples: Taschen’s The Art Book : A visual dictionary covering 500 influential artists and their most famous pieces from medieval times to today.

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15 Instagram Influencers In The Design Field You Should Follow

Graphic Design Junction

His art has populated city walls and floors, shoes, buildings, books, jackets, clothing, and galleries worldwide. Other personal projects of his include, Twelve Kinds of Kindness, People of Craft, Friends with Secrets, and Build Kindness Not Walls. Mike Perry’s Instagram feed is an oasis of color, animation, and hand-crafts.

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Design in Conversation: Stephanie Hosein, Jeff Shaw, Jordan Rice, and Omar Gandhi

Azure Magazine

From Douglas Cardinal’s Canadian Museum of History and Raymond Moriyama’s Science North to John and Patricia Patkau’s Audain Art Gallery, the country’s public galleries and museums claim a leading place in the national design discourse, providing a civic lens through which we understand culture, art, history, and nature.

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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.

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Vintage Fabrics Encase Ceramic Shards in Zoë Hillyard’s Mended Pottery

Colossal

based artist ZoĂ« Hillyard revitalizes shattered vases and bowls by melding traditional craft techniques. She currently has pieces at Contemporary Applied Arts in London and will show new works in June 2022 at The Pool House Gallery in Gloucestershire. via Women’s Art ). Birmingham, U.K.-based x 27 centimeters.