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Illustrators North launches in Northern Ireland to bring together local artists

Creative Boom

According to Chacko, the one thing we all crave most after identity and purpose is community. Illustration can be a lonely career, but Ashwin Chacko and Clive McFarland are on a mission to change that through a community that connects and supports Northern Ireland's often-overlooked creative talent. The mission?

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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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Ed Helms' SNAFU podcast embraces 'controlled messiness' in new identity

Creative Boom

In the new and improved brand, expect graphics inspired by art books on Cold War propaganda, spy movie posters from the 1950s and '60s, and vintage adventure and educational book covers. Hosted by American actor and comedian Ed Helms, the SNAFU podcast delves into history's greatest screw-ups.

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Sam Rodriguez's graffiti-inspired portraits depict people in their unseen entirety

Creative Boom

I decided to become a professional illustrator when I was 19 where I had worked part-time for a national news wire in San Francisco. The face is a composite of physical features and expressions that tell us about emotional states, time, and identity. Some people have always known that they wanted to be artists.

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'I only want to make clear visual messages, which may prevent or inform': Aliona Solomadina on the role of design in wartime

Creative Boom

A graduate of Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Aliona focuses on book design, visual identities, art direction and design curation. It's with a heavy heart to see Vladamir Putin's brutal assault on her beloved home country, as though the Russian leader would gladly erase all history and culture of Ukraine. It took four days.

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Conran Design Group crafts new logo and identity for global comms group Havas

Creative Boom

It originally grew out of the world's first news agency, created in 1835, and most recently was integrated into media, entertainment, and communications conglomerate Vivendi in 2017. This all makes for great global business, but with so many diverse operations, Havas needs a strong and unified identity for people to make sense of it all.

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'The design world can do better': Jessica Strelioff and Danielle LaRoy of brand studio Goodside

Creative Boom

So they teamed up to create a new kind of studio. The pair may be out to create a new kind of studio, but that doesn't mean they hate the industry in general. It's easy to forget how cool it is that we get to consistently dream up new worlds and then bring them to life. but felt it could do better. One part verbal.

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