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Three Publishers Get Real About Independent Publishing

Eye on Design

Much of the work we do as designers, publishers, and artists remain mystified to our peers and the community at large. As a designer and artist myself, and as someone who has been in and out of the realm of independent publishing, I wanted to lift the veil and ask practical questions to independent publishers about how they make it work.

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George Byrne's abstract photos of Los Angeles turn the city into a candy-coloured dreamscape

Creative Boom

And thanks to Instagram, he was able to publish a picture a day and get real-time feedback from a supportive community of like-minded people. That sequence of looking-seeing-taking-processing and posting was the bedrock for my future discipline in the fine art world.". George says his iPhone soon became his sketchbook.

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Barnett Freedman “saw no difference between commercial work and fine art”

Design Week

His first major commission in 1931, for publishers Faber & Faber was to design and illustrate Siegfried Sassoon’s Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. But he also studied portraiture and painting at the Royal College of Arts, lending his design work a fine art quality.

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Saskatchewan’s Art Now Fine Art Fair Celebrates a Thriving Creative Milieu

Azure Magazine

And while the Remai museum remains a beacon, a rich array of independent galleries and artists spans the province — with the community converging for this month’s much-anticipated Art Now Fine Art Fair. paper folding, stitching, digital printing, 2020, from The Hand Wave Gallery, Meacham. ″x29.9″x0.2″,

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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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Creatives are saying social media is over… so what next?

Creative Boom

At the start of this week, we published our guide to Bluesky Social , and since then Meta has launched Threads. 2020-2021 was a bit of a heyday: it kept us all connected and entertained. Fine arts photographer and creative writer Delilah Twersky tells a similar story. "I We're not convinced.

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Against the Ream: An Expansive Exhibition Invites Thirteen Artists to Explore the Vast ‘Possibilities of Paper’

Colossal

All images courtesy of the artists and the Torggler Fine Arts Center, © the artists, shared with permission From intricate, laser-cut tendrils to vibrantly patterned collages, a new exhibition at The Torggler in Newport News, Virginia, explores the vast potential of a conventionally utilitarian material.