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Meet illustrator Hollie Fuller’s characters, with their piggy eyes and protruding ears
Ruby Boddington —Despite having not yet graduated, illustrator Hollie Fuller has a distinctive, playful style which caught our attention for all its endearing charm. Characters, although part of different scenes, very much inhabit the same world and share one thing in common: their protruding ears.
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Slovenian design studio Ljudje on how it turned the information crisis into a visual identity
Ruby Boddington —“We don’t have a specific design style we apply to every project,” says Ljubljana-based creative studio Ljudje. “We remove the clutter, focus on the essence and choose the most suitable language for the challenge that’s ahead of us.” A team of designers, artists, strategists and writers, Ljudje was tasked with designing the identity for the 26th edition of the Ljubljana Design Biennale, called BIO 26, concerned with the current crisis of information.
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Ellen Evans’ latest film zooms into the tiny world of miniaturism
Lucy Bourton —London-based filmmaker Ellen Evans’ latest film – an instant Vimeo staff pick and a short worthy of the many accolades it’s already received – zooms into the fascinating, and tiny, world of miniaturists.
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The D&AD Insight Report 2019 suggests advertisers need to consider what it means to be human
Josh Baines —Every year, the team at D&AD brings together 250 of the world’s best designers, advertisers, and creatives. Together it looks at around 25,000 pieces of work and from that work it generates some seriously searing insights into the creative industry.
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RISD takes a stand against the gun violence plaguing America
Josh Baines —One of the USA’s best-known art schools is taking a stand against the “rampant gun violence” that continues to plague America.
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Kent Andreasen on how he embraces the transience of light in his photographs
Daniel Milroy Maher —“With commissions I find I am always looking for something specific, so to contrast with that, I do these trips. This means I can just go and make images of whatever I find unusual or out of place,” says Cape Town-based photographer Kent Andreasen. “Some of the photos will become memories or postcards that I can look back to as a reminder of the experience. It returns me to the simplicity of why I like photography, rather than just focusing on the outcome of the images.”
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Tomek Popakul’s short film Acid Rain shows the perils of falling in love with a wrong’un
Laura Snoad —Tomek Popakul’s animated short Acid Rain has been storming the festival circuit, turning heads with its noisy animation style, spot-on observations and powerful use of an original (and pretty eerie) score. In many ways it’s a classic coming of age film, but in many ways it’s really not. We meet our protagonist as she’s running away from home and takes a shine to a bad boy – a guy with cool trainers and a sleazy pencil moustache who she finds playing chicken on some railings above a motorway. An innocuous-seeming visit to his granny’s house turns out to be a magic mushroom picking session, and in no time at all, he’s given her an undercut, they’re breaking into abandoned houses to set stuff on fire, smuggling drugs across borders in his rave-mobile, and heading to free parties in the woods complete with some proper rave goblins and a lot of psychedelic puke. It’s all whirlwind, heat and flash and (avoiding spoilers) things do not end well.
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FKA twigs hooks up with Bjork collaborator Andrew Thomas Huang for new video, Cellophane
Josh Baines —After a three year absence, FKA twigs returns with a brand new single, accompanied by a video directed by long-term Bjork-collaborator, Andrew Thomas Huang.
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Daniel Milroy Maher —
The Nihang, taking their name from a Persian word meaning crocodile, are a Sikh warrior order originating from India. Traditionally constituting an important part of the Sikh Empire’s armed forces, their role in modern society is mainly ceremonial – though they are still duty-bound to protect the public against crime. Known for their striking uniforms, which have remained unchanged for over 300 years, their attire consists of an electric blue robe, high turbans adorned with military symbols, and an assortment of weapons including swords, spears and daggers.
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Illustrator Baptiste Virot describes his work as an “iron punch in a velvet glove”
Jyni Ong —“I always want my illustrations to be like a punch in the retina of the viewer”, says Baptiste Virot on his visually-explosive illustrations. As one half of the French-Korean publishing house Animal Press, that he operates with his girlfriend Jinhee Han, Baptiste produces a wealth of Risographed comics, digital illustrations and all sorts of other commissions simultaneously; explaining why we’ve written about his colourful work a couple of times previously.
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Photography —
Lucia Sekerkova documents the rituals of Romania’s social media savvy witches
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Art —
Charlie Roberts' paintings are inspired by hip-hop culture, sports and screenplays
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Photography —
In Whispering Blooms Jack Orton documents the eerie perfection of the town of Poundbury
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Graphic Design —
Studio Nuno Fontes on its clean and ordered work for the cultural sector
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Digital —
Studio Moniker launches Neuhaus, an ever-changing, ever-evolving music video
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Animation —
Want a dream job? Studio Ghibli is hiring
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Event —
Wix and It’s Nice That team up for an event all about creativity and good causes
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Illustration —
Darren Shaddick illustrates his version of “the ultimate cool person”
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Bookshelf —
Team Thursday's Bookshelf is full of souvenirs, zines and exhibition catalogues
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Animation —
Truba Animation reimagines behind the scenes anecdotes from Game of Thrones
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Publication —
Pedro Destefani explores the relationship between Stan Smith the man and the brand
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Photography —
Xiaopeng Yuan reinterprets the Chinese fable, The Butterfly Lovers, in a series for Télévision magazine
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Animation —
PES tackles marine plastic pollution in his latest stop motion mini-masterpiece
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Film —
Creativity and control: Stanley Kubrick's obsessiveness and the meticulous films it produced
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Advertising —
Simon Cowell banished to the end of the Earth in new ad for Barclaycard
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Graphic Design —
Oscar Maia translates the essence of his native Porto into a new publication
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Illustration —
Step into “Gonzovationism” with this new range of Ralph Steadman illustrated shoes
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Art —
Louise Bonnet paints exaggerated bodies as symbols of melancholy and loneliness
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Illustration —
Mathieu Larone illustrates the "elusive liminal space between the cryptic and the understandable"
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Ones to Watch 2019 —
Micaiah Carter interprets Uniqlo’s linen range with a sultry sun-drenched shoot
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Miscellaneous —
We take a look back at the best stories of the year to date
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Publication —
The Washington Post's climate change issue features 24 equally important covers
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Graphic Design —
Atelier Brenda and Amélie Bakker create “squidgy” identity for Beursschouwburg
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Film —
Flying Lotus and David Lynch drop an impressively surreal music video by Salad Fingers' David Firth
