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Class of 2022: A guide to all the UK's graduate shows this summer

Creative Boom

Left to right: Billy Paterson (Communication Design Y3), Jihye Baek (MFA 2022), Fleur Connor (Painting and Printmaking 2022), Sophie Ammann, Leonie Hiller (Communication Design 2022). And if you're exhibiting yourself, we wish you the very best of luck! Work will be exhibited physically at the Brayford campus from 18 June-1 July.

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Women’s History Month–Redefining Their Fields

Thinking Design

S öre Popitz (1896-1993) The Bauhaus’ only known woman graphic designer, Popitz distinguished herself from her male peers, embellishing her designs with blocky characters that depicted a uniquely female experience unseen in commercial advertising at the time.

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Famous Pop Art Artists’ Everlasting Influence on Graphic Design

Creative Market

Today, his name is virtually synonymous with abstract expressionism and the use of celebrity culture and advertising in his designs. Since its creation, it’s been showcased in a multitude of books, magazines, and exhibitions about American history. Andy Warhol’s pop art dominated the scene of this design movement in the 1960s.

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Louise Sandhaus Uplifts the Stories of Graphic Design’s Unsung Makers

Eye on Design

Her research and authorship challenges the traditional design canon by uplifting the stories and work of unsung makers, and her design practice pushes forward new ways of thinking in exhibition design and the curatorial process. . Even before she studied design formally, Sandhaus had always been surrounded by it. Design by authors.

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Bauhaus Typography at 100

Creative Review

German typographer, designer, teacher, and writer Jan Tschichold cited the first Bauhaus exhibition as directly leading him to forge a more experimental way of working with letterforms that was also simple and practical; and he went on to lay out his principles in seminal book Die Neue Typographie (The New Typography).

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20 best illustration agents in the UK, and the awesome illustrators they represent

Creative Boom

It includes artist and director Mat Maitland, image maker Joe Cruz, artist and designer Anthony Burrill, artist and printmaker Kate Gibb, and 3D artist Jack Sachs. They work with clients in spheres ranging from advertising and brands to fashion and retail.

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Soirée Fantastique

Fonts in Use

These are the same streets and squares where the posters once were posted and viewed, and some pictures actually show the venues where the advertised attractions like circus and variety shows took place. The fonts in use are various wood, brass, and metal types from the poster type collection of the HGB’s printmaking workshop.

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