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

Creative Boom

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. But does art have to be serious? We reveal what it was like to attend this unusual event.

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Art Vinyl names Record Cover Artwork of the Year

Creative Boom

Tonight, Art Vinyl unveiled the winner of the 20th Best Art Vinyl Award, the annual art prize for the best record cover design of the year, at the Hari in Belgravia, London. The album released by Brainfeeder and Ninja Tune was chosen from a diverse shortlist of 50 iconic and memorable vinyl cover art from 2024.

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What is art? What makes it good? And other things Signal festival makes you think about

Creative Boom

Photography by Tomáš Slavík This year's edition of Prague-based digital arts festival Signal uncovered some big ideas – not least, that a public artwork's success comes down to one of its most fundamental elements – its relationship to place. To deny the links between art and science is to deny Leonardo da Vinci and the entire Renaissance.

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The 20 illustrators inspiring us the most in 2025

Creative Boom

In our recent Creative Boom survey, we gathered votes from hundreds of illustrators, art directors and industry insiders to spotlight the artists making waves in this challenging climate. A self-proclaimed "artist with a business brain", she picked up hand lettering as a hobby while studying advertising at the School of Visual Arts.

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

Creative Boom

She says: "Collaborating with the Vintage art department has always been very smooth and nice. It's very important to have a good and functioning connection with the designers and art directors in order to create a cover that supports the book." Since then, Metsola has occasionally illustrated book covers published by Vintage/Penguin.

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Folded, Not Flat: Kapitza + BLIK Make Art That Moves You

Design Milk

If this art makes you do a double take, then it’s doing exactly what it was designed to do. BLIK’s new Folded Forms is more than just wall art, it’s wall animation. After all, who says wall art needs to be one dimensional? Their work includes graphics, murals, and lenticular art for clients like Google and Spotify.

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Top 10 illustrators to watch: A must-see list for art enthusiasts

Creative Boom

Influenced by nature, folk art and craft, his work has a distinct rhythm suited for animation, branding and storytelling. Felipe Vargas Felipe Vargas, an animator and illustrator based in Santiago, creates deeply cinematic work. His compositions are immersive, with a strong sense of movement and texture. Felipe Vargas 10.