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Posters by Matt Needle.
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It was a massive joy to attend the ninth ABCD (Academy of British Cover Design) awards last week, celebrating the best covers of the past year. Book design is a fantastic industry and community to work in, so any excuse for us all to converge on one place for a
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This week, I am mostly transfixed by the work of Italian illustrator/artist Beppe Giacobbe. He’s got an incredible portfolio of editorial work to his name, but what’s really caught my eye is this recent mixed media series of “accidental portraits”; print and collage and calligraphy all stirred
Interviews
Craig Ward
This week I caught up with British-born/New York-based designer Craig Ward, whose work I’ve admired for years – particularly his typographic experiments with bacteria with ferrofluid and light. Recently he’s been playing with LEGO, creating a series of studies that he's collected on his instagram account
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I keep returning to this WePresent post from a few years ago – Is it mine if I add some yellow? – that features the work of Dutch artist B. D. Graft, who has … well, he’s added some yellow. It raises interesting questions about artistic ownership, copyright and the concept of
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Gerald Brockhurst
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Posters!
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Collage by commercial artist to designer John Gall.
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I got drawn into deltiologist James Brouwer’s enormous postcard collection after watching Vox’s short film on his discovery that many of them feature the exact same sky. Delving further into his flickr albums, I found myself mesmerised by this set that identifies another midcentury trend, simply titled Onlooker
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Belgian collage artist – or as she describes herself, photographer without a camera – Katrien De Blauwer has taken up permanent residence in my tabs for the last couple of years. Drawing upon, or rather cutting up, a vast collection of vintage magazines, her works are small, unrefined, yet delicate; as much
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High School High.
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We buy White Albums.