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Meet the artist behind the cover of this year’s Booker Prize winner

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Last week, thousands watched as English writer Samantha Harvey was awarded the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital, one of the shorter winners in the competition's history. She is known for her use of watercolour to ink, collage, markers, and gouache to craft paintings, patterns, and illustrations.

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'Storytelling and emotional connection matter more than aesthetics,' says illustrator Fangfang Han

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Fast forward to 2024, and she's recently won a World Illustration Award for New Talent in Animation. Next, Fangfang wants to combine her illustration and animation skills to create brand campaigns for clients in travel and culture, illustrate non-fiction books and collaborate with fashion designers to create patterns and prints.

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Top 10 Friday Five Posts of 2024

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Her origami-inspired technique transforms paintings into oversized wall sculptures through experimentation with proportion and patterning. And the most popular Friday Five post of 2024 is… 1. The work also connects Maddux a 4th generation Hapa-Japanese woman to generations of artisans who came before her.

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Rebrand of Riot Games by Stink Studios prioritises the player experience

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Recognising the need to evolve and expand the brand, Riot briefed Stink Studios in early 2024 to develop a dynamic design system that would unite the brand with its growing roster of successful IPs. It has also ventured into music, comics, and TV, such as the Emmy-winning Arcane, an animated steampunk series for Netflix.

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World of Wearable Art: a magical event fusing art and fashion in unique ways

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2024 WOW Show, Crazy Curiosities of Creature Carnival Blending performance art, fashion design, music and contemporary dance, The World of Wearable Art was an intoxicating cocktail of creative disciplines. We reveal what it was like to attend this unusual event. A simple idea but brilliantly rendered.

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2024 Best Modern Gifts to Splurge On

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This throw blanket takes inspiration from the bold, graphic designs of French artist Sonia Delaunay and translates those elements into a geometric color-blocked pattern. Follow along so you don’t miss any of our 2024 Gift Guides this year! Thanks for supporting Design Milk!

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The 25 creative studios inspiring us the most in 2025

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Photo: Carol Sachs Alexey Brodovitch: Astonish Me publication design by A Practice for Everyday Life, 2024. Photo: Thomas Adank CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian identity by A Practice for Everyday Life, 2024. Photo: Ed Park La Biennale di Venezia identity by A Practice for Everyday Life, 2022. Photo: Sanda Vučković 19.