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F5: Glen Baldridge Loves Gummi Bears, Printmaking + More

Design Milk

“Garbage Pail Kids cards blew my mind,” said accomplished painter, printmaker, and draftsman Glen Baldridge. That was the first art I collected, and [it] definitely made me want to draw and make art as well as live with it.” Printmaking I have met some of my best friends through making prints.

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UK's biggest comic art festival returns to Yorkshire this November

Creative Boom

Photography by Andrew Benge Taking place in Leeds and Harrogate, Thought Bubble is the UK's biggest celebration of comic art and culture. Of course, Brits don't have to cross the channel to immerse themselves in this enduringly popular art form. Thought Bubble. We reveal the details of this year's event. how about comics ?"

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Artisan wine label designs by Fen Acey craft a narrative through collage and typography

Creative Boom

Her self-initiated project Graphia (which means "to write" in Greek) features a collection of artisan wine label designs inspired by her love for typography and printmaking. The strict use of black and white is a classic colour combination often used in printmaking," she says.

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Ukrainian illustrator Olga Shtonda uses her art to call for peace after seeing her home country destroyed

Creative Boom

Olga Shtonda is an award-winning illustrator from Kharkiv, Ukraine, who loves to combine different graphic techniques with printmaking, ink, pencils, collages and digital. Olga believes her visual style was influenced by studying printmaking and graphic art at Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. "I © Olga Shtonda.

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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

Creative Boom

Art and fashion have always had a tumultuous and unpredictable relationship. Philip Guston (1913-1980) was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman who's now considered one of the most important American painters of the 20th century. Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s by Eddie Chambers.

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Over 25 Years of a Pioneering Collective’s History Comes Together in ‘Trailblazing Women Printmakers’

Colossal

Sarni from Princeton Architectural Press titled Trailblazing Women Printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the The Folly Cove Designers details the group’s prolific history and extensive works. Find your copy of Trailblazing Women Printmakers on Bookshop. Eino Natti, “Polyphemus.” ” Hood. .”

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Prints & Propa­ganda

I Love Typography

By the sixteenth century, printmaking — or art prints — had become a burgeoning industry. Their significance goes well beyond their value as art prints or artifacts, revealing a great deal more than artists' talents and virtuosity. Millions were printed and many thousands have survived until the present day.

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