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Spinning a yarn: how Icelandic artist Ýrúrarí turns textiles into stunning works of art

Creative Boom

With her work about to appear at not one, but two exhibitions, we chatted to Ýrúrarí about her knitting process, where she gets inspiration from, and her upcoming shows. Process and perspective How, we wondered, does she approach creating her unique art forms? All the pieces are new and fresh out of my studio in Berlin."

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October 2022 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Colossal

Yayoi Kusama , “Pumpkins Screaming About Love Beyond Infinity” (2017), mirrors, acrylic, glass, LEDs, and wood panels, 59 x 59 x 83 ½ inches. Collection of the artist, courtesy of Ota Fine Arts. One photographer will receive a €50,000 grant to produce a body of work, followed by a traveling exhibition and a monograph.

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Inspiring creative women to follow in 2022

Creative Boom

She co-founded her branding and creative agency The Working Assembly , while pregnant with her first child in 2017. Shelley Smoler is Executive Creative Director at Droga5 London , which she joined in 2017. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, Sanuk Kim is a designer and an art director based in New York.

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F5: Elena Salmistraro Shares Her Favorite Accessory, Art + Album

Design Milk

She’s the creator of a unique and highly recognizable aesthetic, and interested in developing work that straddles the lines between illustration, design, and visual arts. In 2017, she won the Salone del Mobile Milano Award as “Best Emerging Designer.” Among her priorities?

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21 Famous Graphic Designers That Anyone in the Design Industry Needs to Know in 2023

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On top of this, she is also a teacher at the School of Visual Arts, contributes to Imprint and Uppercase magazine and has co-authored numerous books, including The Typographic Universe, American Typeplay and New Modernist Type. Her work has been exhibited at museums around the world and she is a professor at Yale University.

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50+ Best Gifts for Designers on Every Budget

Inkbot Design

Sale Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter Hardcover Book Phaidon Editors, Phaidon (Author) English (Publication Language) 708 Pages – 03/13/2017 (Publication Date) – Phaidon Press (Publisher) −$15.96 $8.99 Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter offers historical examples of influential graphic design and advertising pieces.

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F5: Sophia Dawson Tells Us About the Driving Force in Her Life + More

Design Milk

Sophia holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the School of Visual Arts and a masters degree in visual arts administration from New York University. Her work has recently been exhibited in Rush Arts Gallery and the Bronx Museum for the Arts, as well as at the 2020 US Open.