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Crying in The Club: Eva Malley on why her viral zine was a social media sensation

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Crying in The Club, a zine by Eva Malley Bristol-based illustrator Eva Malley made waves online recently with her viral zine about heartbreak, solidarity and bouncing back. We caught up with her to learn why it was a hit with readers and the role social media still has to play in getting noticed. Everyone's been there.

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Art history skates the halfpipe with Jimmy Simpson

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Bodega zine - a visual ode to New York. "I Taking inspiration from the New Age movement of the early 1970s, he worked with a team to draw and animate a series of badges used within the app and promotional pieces for social media. Other portfolio favourites also involve music. A suite of commissioned artwork for Vinyl Moon.

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Splashing the paint and finding the joy with Monjajaja

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The Chinese illustrator uses a mix of traditional media to express herself and communicate her clients' messages, celebrating the slips and spills along the way. Monjajaja's editorial work. The latter led to her recent exhibition, Japan Meets China, in which 13 pieces of work explore the links between the two cultures through food.

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Ben Tallon's 'disturbingly hilarious' short stories get the spooky poster treatment

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Straddling both black comedy and suburban horror, Stories for the Apocalypse #1 lives up to its cheery name by containing seven character-driven stories about medical distrust, gluttony in western culture, social media etiquette, ghost discrimination, misconceptions, and extreme taboo-busting.

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Meicheng Chi's dreamy pencil drawings help her to connect with her emotions

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I love the softness created by the media and the little gaps between each stroke." This interest in chairs forms the basis of one of her favourite projects, a zine titled A Love Letter to My Chairs. Colour pencils are like a translator who speaks my language to the paper," she reveals.

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Design studios reveal what's got them energised and excited about 2025

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For instance, freelance media consultant Katie McIlvenny plans to launch a mentoring scheme in 2025. We're working on a range of initiatives: everything from launching a Red Antler store to developing our own product, creating a zine, and building an AI module that tests out quirky brand product ideas.

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Collages by Funmi Lijadu express her belief that art and life should be intertwined

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Collage, as an artistic medium, falls under the wide umbrella of mixed-media," Funmi tells Creative Boom. "In These included platforms like Leomie Anderson's LAPP, the brand's digital magazine, Tavi Gevinson's Rookie Mag and DIY zines. "It So perhaps it's no surprise that magazines would eventually become a source material.

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