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Hotlist 2025: the 25 most popular design studios, as voted for by their peers

Creative Boom

Every creative should know about these 25 design studios and learn from their inspiring work. In a world overflowing with creativity and design innovation, there are thousands of outstanding design studios to be inspired by. Hopefully, their work will inspire you too.

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Ai Weiwei’s New Toy Brick Masterpieces Re-Mix Art History

Design Milk

World-famous artist, activist, and provocateur Ai Weiwei is currently exhibiting stunning new work at two different galleries in New York that reproduce famous paintings and news images on a massive scale all composed from hundreds of thousands of LEGO and WOMA bricks.

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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

Creative Boom

We've hand-picked ten unique, original, inspiring reads for creatives you may not have thought of. His trained eye picks out the relevant details, helping us both understand the featured artists on a deeper level and giving us ideas and inspiration for dressing ourselves more imaginatively. What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter.

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100 Amazing Graphic Designers to Follow on Instagram

Shillington

Creative Director and Founder of Studio Kohl, Mira Malhotra is well worth a follow for her designs and illustrations inspired by her native India which often touch on national and international politics. Their Instagram is exactly that—a clutter free space of inspiration. Mira Malhotra. Kim Melvin. Wyatt Welles. George Simkin.

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Minimal Paintings by Artist Liz Flores Explore What It Means to Belong

Colossal

All images © Liz Flores, courtesy of Vertical Gallery. A new series by Chicago-based artist Liz Flores explores familial roots and community through minimal portraits in a palette of deep, warm colors and neutral tones complemented by blues. “Generaciones (Generations)” (2022), acrylic on canvas, 48 x 72 inches. .

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“Could Policy-Making be Considered Architecture?” A Q&A with Frida Escobedo

Azure Magazine

That all changed this March when New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art picked her to design its new $500-million modern and contemporary art wing, 7,435 square metres of galleries and public space. Portrait of Frida Escobedo by Ana Gomez de Leon Lopez. The Harlem building is expected to be completed in the spring of 2024.

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George Underwood: the designer who gave Bowie's albums their iconic look

Creative Boom

George Underwood From schoolyard friends to legendary album covers, we chat with David Bowie's lifelong collaborator about his artistic journey and a new exhibition of work inspired by the much-missed singer. There was no internet or MTV, and pop stars rarely appeared on the few TV channels that existed.