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Esther Tang's gloriously textural illustrations help her connect to the world emotionally

Creative Boom

Since graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 2022, her distinctive illustration style has been recognised by the Society of Illustrators, Creative Quarterly, and the World Illustration Awards. Understandably, travelling around the world has been a significant source of inspiration for Esther's artistic creations.

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The 20 illustrators inspiring us the most in 2025

Creative Boom

A self-proclaimed "artist with a business brain", she picked up hand lettering as a hobby while studying advertising at the School of Visual Arts. Beth Walrond Beth Walrond is a UK-born, Berlin-based illustrator who focuses on editorial, health, and cultural topics, bringing a signature warmth to her visual approach.

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Illustrator Aura Lewis on making feminist statements, Mrs America, and her vintage-yet-modern style

Creative Boom

Renowned for her feminist-themed illustrations, Aura's work takes traditionally 'girly' visual elements and turns them into empowering statements. Drawing her inspiration from women's history, fashion, and social activism, Aura's art style is both new and familiar. I turn to art history for visual inspiration as well.

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Flora Bai on art as self-healing, developing her style, and exploring parallel worlds via shoes

Creative Boom

This creative freedom led to Flora taking her drawings, sculptures and paintings and applying them to American art schools. The renowned School of Visual Arts in New York snapped her up, and Flora was thrilled to learn that it offered her a place to study an MFA in illustration. "It

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10 recommended independent jewellery designers to follow and support in 2023

Creative Boom

I must admit they did not travel well on freight ships, which forced me to rethink my career path," she says. At the time, I thought you could substitute one world with another, turn you back on the art world and substitute it with the jewellery world. She later enrolled on a soldering cause that introduced her to fine jewellery. "At

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F5: Yaara Gooner Shares How She Gets Out of Her Head, the Art of Dance + More

Design Milk

Travel + Explore. Traveling is a big part of my life, it keeps me creative, opens my mind and gets me inspired. Traveling is a big part of my life, it keeps me creative, opens my mind and gets me inspired. One of my biggest challenges in the past year has been the inability to travel, but it has brought new opportunities.

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Mellow Meadow's art sends you on a spiritual journey through natural and mystical beings

Creative Boom

The illustration artist from Shanghai, also known as Yue Li, is a recent graduate of the School of Visual Arts and is now based in New York. In her recent solo exhibition, Water Stitches , she travels through time to explore her spirituality to its fullest, re-envisioning ancient wall paintings via her own mural-like, surrealist style.

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