Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2025

It shines a light on the creative spirit that defines the city's public art scene. From that initial moment of inspiration, the project evolved into a feature-length documentary, spotlighting the artists whose bold, large-scale works shape Leeds' visual identity. That was the spark."

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Bertrand Aznar, represented by Illustration Division Whether you need representation or are looking to hire an artist or illustrator, these are the best places to head to in New York City. These behind-the-scenes champions of artistic talent serve as the bridge between artists and the industries that crave their creativity.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 19, 2025

Unlike platforms that encourage public sharing, mymind keeps your repertoire entirely private. Dribbble A favourite among UI/UX designers, illustrators, and visual artists, Dribbble is a vibrant community for showcasing and discovering design work that has been running since 2009.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 11, 2024

Designed by Extract Studio, the publication was made to be more than a monotonous manuscript in a bid to inspire creatives to "make more space for words in their practice". The book's headlines were printed in Giulia Boggio's edgy Margo+Beuys typeface, while the more functional Aeonik font is reserved for the body copy.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 21, 2025

Stockport's Merseyway car park might not win any beauty contests, but its distinctive modernist screen has captured the imagination of local artist Alison Waters. Each artwork incorporates a photograph of those framed urban landscapes captured by the artist's nephew, Dylan Barker. For Waters, watching him work was transformative.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 22, 2022

Displayed on 30 billboards located near courthouses and government offices in Miami, the campaign features works by leading contemporary artists, including Guerrilla Girls, Shephard Fairey, Trenton Doyle Hancock and Sam Durant. A recurring theme of the artwork on display includes statistics unique to the local judicial system in Miami.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2023

In a new show at London's Jealous Gallery, artist Adam Bridgland brings together wild hues, dynamic patterns and the powerful pull of nostalgia in an alluring visual display. Interdisciplinary artist Adam Bridgland hasn't, though, as his second solo exhibition stands as a testament to.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

From digital painting to cut-paper stop-motion animation, this award-winning Chinese artist is passionate about creating visual narratives with energy, positivity, and a sense of life. For the Polish pop band Big Bike Orchestra.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

3D artist Jose Andrés García explains how he used Character Creator and iClone to bring the Spanish heroes of American independence back to animated life. 3D artist Jose Andrés García is a long-time collaborator of The Legacy, and he recently put his 3D skills to work to help promote its exhibition We the Spanish People.

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Creative Boom

JULY 10, 2024

For many artists, change is essential to keeping things fresh. The book will come signed with a personal note from the artist. She has also started drawing a sister publication entitled The Very Big Box, which will explore themes of grief and loss. The story is beautifully simple.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2025

The Tokyo-born, UK-based artist creates installations that give physical form to sound, using artificial intelligence to generate ever-evolving audio experiences that blur the boundaries between permanence and change. Data enthusiasts are in for a treat with Tiziana Alocci, award-winning data artist and founder of NECESSITY.INK.

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Creative Boom

JULY 12, 2022

Ahead of its return this November, Glasgow Print Fair has been swamped with enquiries from artists and designers keen to share and sell their work at the popular event. These include Patrick and Lucy from Yuk Fun , illustrator Max Machen , visual artist Alan Campbell and UK-based illustrator Lizzie Lomax. Glasgow Print Fair.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 28, 2024

Artist Ivan Toth Depeña pays tribute to the essence of light and energy in Photon/s, a new concept-driven public art installation in Charlotte, North Carolina. Inspired by the microscopic particles that make up light itself, Photon/s is the brainchild of Depeña Studio artist Ivan Toth Depeña.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 16, 2022

While British artist Liz West is known for her immersive rainbow installations that transform buildings and public spaces across the UK, what we don't ever see are the drawings she creates to help her visualise them. People are curious to see the full workings of an artists' practice.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 31, 2024

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. Strange Attractions by United Visual Artist. Eternal Recurence by Filip Hodas.

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Creative Boom

MAY 25, 2022

But although the world craves raw facts about what's happening, it mustn't be just journalists that testify; artists have a crucial role to play too. In a fast-changing situation, any display of artists' work runs the risk of becoming dated very quickly. © Serhiy Hudak. © Pavlo Dorohoi. © Serhiy Hudak. © Pavlo Dorohoi.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Creative Boom caught up with NFT artist Leo Villareal to ask him about his projects and process – as well as the creation of his digital artworks. From then on, light has continued to dominate the artist's work. The total sale earned the artist £1.4m. Patterns of light based, floating in a sea of darkness.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 30, 2025

People stumble upon them, which creates a unique opportunity to communicate with the public that most artists don't get. "What's great about murals is they're large-scale and often outdoors," says Oskar Walin AKA Oskar With a K. I'm also drawn to collaborative making creating collective work with a cohesive outcome."

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Creative Boom

MAY 21, 2024

"The idea was to combine art with advocacy, using beermats as the canvas to capture public attention whilst raising vital funds for testicular cancer education, awareness and support," Ritchie tells Creative Boom. The project's compelling nature and unique platform for artistic expression helped attract high-profile creatives.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Photo credit - Full house Partners © The Nigerian artist explores colourful connections between people and flora, inspired by her mother and former career as a florist. Overall, I haven't encountered any specific obstacles or limitations related to my gender in terms of exhibiting or any other aspects of my artistic career."

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Creative Boom

MARCH 8, 2023

Generative artist Matt DesLauriers weaves together art, programming and technology to build playful, creative projects for public installations, print media, and the web. The trick is that whenever a collector mints an artwork on Art Blocks, the code randomly generates a new artwork that not even the artist can know in advance.

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Colossal

JANUARY 15, 2025

This month, the team at The Public Domain Review launched a new project aimed at artists, illustrators, designers, and creatives of all stripes. Containing 10,000+ items, the Public Domain Image Archive is a vast trove of illustrations, prints, scans, and more, all downloadable and free for use.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Named The Brownies' Book, the publication was filled with empowering stories of black role models and inspirational art, stories, letters and activities. Featuring more than 50 new black writers and artists spread out across 208 pages, The New Brownies' Book was a mammoth undertaking to design.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Led by a renowned team consisting of Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto , landscape designer Christophe Gautrand , and interior architect Gwenaël Nicolas , the collaborative design includes a new pavilion of stone and glass, nestled within a public sculpture garden that champions local biodiversity. Photography by Raul Cabrera.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2023

Nærvera © Ýrúrarí aka Ýr Jóhannsdóttir We chat with the brilliant Icelandic artist about sustainability, textile techniques and handing out wool pizzas to the public. But Icelandic artist Ýr Jóhannsdóttir, aka Ýrúrarí , has been turning them into stunning works of art. "The

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Creative Boom

MARCH 9, 2023

Courtesy of DCG and the Artist On the eve of his upcoming solo exhibition 'Let This Be A Sign', Nigerian artist, painter and sculptor Samson Bakare tells Creative Boom about his inspirations, process and unique approach to re-envisioning the history of Africa. Courtesy of DCG and the Artist Songs of Hope, 2023 © Samson Bakare.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 3, 2024

It represents renewal, the cyclic nature of art, and the continuous public discourse fostered by the Turner Prize. It conveys that the Turner Prize fundamentally exists to promote public debate around new developments in contemporary British art. But the visual theme symbolises more than just the local geography.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Maritime blues, sunny yellows, and crisp whites dominate the palette, while patterns like stripes and diamonds evoke a playful nod to the region’s artistic heritage. The property’s public spaces unfold in a series of carefully composed scenes, from the historic Olympic-sized seawater pool to the intimate beach cabanas.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Oreri is known for its dedication to supporting independent artists, so it's great to see this book launch on Kickstarter. Aside from the publication, Oreri is producing space propaganda posters and a set of stickers featuring some of the most iconic logos from SELA, adding that extra touch to an already unique collection.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In the outskirts of Stockholm, a Swedish artist named Malin Rosenqvist weaves intricate tales through the medium of illustration. Otherwise, the artist draws inspiration from a variety of cultural forms, including books and music. Books, particularly reading, hold a special place in Malin's heart.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 24, 2024

There is a vision of the future of transport that mankind has been promised by countless science fiction writers, artists and cinematographers, and Bristol-based Vertical Aerospace is aiming to make it a reality. The challenge was to shift the concept of electric air travel from fantasy to reality. The site is visually led.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 12, 2023

© Erwin Wurm Renowned Austrian artist Erwin Wurm has unveiled his first UK museum exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The display, opened to the public on 8 June, boasts 55 indoor sculptures, 19 outdoor sculptures, and numerous paintings, photographs, videos and drawings, all sourced from the artist's immense archives.

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Creative Boom

JULY 20, 2022

Throughout July, ceramicist Rachel Ho and artist and designer Micah Purnell are leaving 240 beautiful gifts dotted around Manchester for people to find and keep. The two local artists will leave over £4,500 worth of free art dotted around Manchester city centre from today until the end of July.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 8, 2024

Renowned Australian artist Cj Hendry has made a splash in Nevada with her latest exhibition, Public Pool. That's because artist Cj Hendry installed an epic art installation in the form of a colossal inflatable swimming pool in the middle of its arid plains.

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Creative Boom

JULY 6, 2023

Sara Neuhart – Visual Thoughts on Current Affairs (Editorial) Over 5,000 entries to this year's World Illustration Awards have been whittled to a shortlist of 200 incredible artists. We hope this year's selection inspires commissioners, illustrators, and the public.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 24, 2024

This year's National Festival of Making in Blackburn, Lancashire, will host four new commissions for which artists have paired with industrial sector factories to reinforce Lancashire as a centre for making in the UK. Since the programme's inception, 31 artists have been commissioned to work with 24 artisan makers and manufacturers.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 16, 2022

What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter. On the one hand, there's a long-running stereotype of artists and bohemians wearing black, featureless clothing. What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter. Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s by Eddie Chambers. I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston.

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