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Marlon Tate founder Nikos Georgópoulos on how he made his own creative opportunities

Creative Boom

Nikos Georgopoulos (© Marlon Tate/Myrto Tzima) After working as an in-house graphic designer for five years, Nikos Georgópoulos felt stuck in a rut. As he tells Creative Boom, until relatively recently, he worked in-house as a graphic designer and came to blows with managers as he tried to convince them to take a risk on his ideas.

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The Caterpillar Girl: Aleksandra Bokova explores her background in a magical, toy-like animation

Creative Boom

This only served to compound the shame and societal pressures she felt as a woman, where even the smallest of pimples could leave her house-bound "because a woman's appearance is extremely important in Belarus and constantly under scrutiny.". I try to keep those flaws visible while filtering them through my own magical and humorous lens.".

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Broken windows

UX Collective

Reflecting on BY ORDER : a study of the British ‘sink estate’ and what’s changing (or changed) in social housing. Promising to tackle drug abuse, gang culture and the housing crisis across the UK by removing “brutal high-rise towers” and “bleak” housing, either through redeveloping these areas or just getting rid of them.

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Print's not dead: the best magazines for graphic design inspiration

Creative Boom

Alongside the magazine itself, Slanted also operates a type foundry and a publishing house, focusing on art and design books and its own online design blog. It's headquartered in Germany, and each issue focuses on a specific geographic location and explores the local design world in each one. The latest issue, 41, focuses on Amsterdam.

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An Architect Paints Famous Cities Around The World In Watercolor

Design You Trust

I create mostly watercolors that focus on architecture and cities. I started to paint for real when I was preparing myself for an exam in drawing when I applied to study architecture.” In my company, besides designing architecture, I paint watercolors and sell them.” Burano, Italy. According to Maja Wro?ska

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10 New Books Pushing the Boundaries of Design

Azure Magazine

Whether it’s recalculating the social dimension of practice or cutting a swath through notions of what “architecture” is, these recently launched tomes, edited volumes, monographs and more push the boundaries of design. Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-1975 by Susan Benjamin and Michelangelo Sabatino.

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Back to School: Essential Design Lectures for Fall 2022

Azure Magazine

And fortunately, the learning opportunities aren’t limited to enrolled students, with universities across North America kicking off their architecture and design lecture series for the new term. University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Yale School of Architecture. ” Rice University School of Architecture.