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  Work / Photography

  Photographer Jim Jocoy’s book chronicles San Francisco’s booming 1970s music scene

  During a phone call with Korean-born, California-based photographer Jim Jocoy, he tells me about a night he spent with Mick Jagger and Patti Smith after a stranger invited him to a party on New York’s subway. In light of this, it comes as no surprise that Jim’s latest book, Order of Appearance, chronicles his youthful years during San Francisco’s booming music scene in the late 1970s. Filled with snapshots of musicians applying final layers of make-up before going on stage and photos of drunken teens struggling to find their way home, Order of Appearance is a celebration of the vibrancy and dynamism of youth.

  Daphne Milner — 22 May 2018

Daphne Milner — 22 May 2018

• Work / Illustration

  Taylor Benson’s “old school” illustrations are inspired by anxiety, Seinfeld and 70s cartoons

  Hailing from a small town in Washington State called Puyallup, illustrator Taylor Benson spends her time hiding from “a lot of white, truck-driving, pro-gun” Trump supporters. “I guess it’s good I grew up in a town that makes me never want to leave my house, because it forces me to stay inside and draw,” Taylor laughs.

  Laura Snoad — 22 May 2018
• Work / Animation

  Boys and beer: animator Laura Jayne Hodkin’s hilariously unapologetic depiction of female friendship

  It’s pretty rare that a piece of work really makes you laugh out loud, however, our first (and every subsequent) viewing of illustrator and animator Laura Jayne Hodkin’s Haley and Joanna had us in stitches. Although depicting an essentially mundane conversation between friends, Laura’s ability to comedically spotlight moments creates a weird but altogether relatable short that pokes fun at and celebrates female friendship.

  Ruby Boddington — 22 May 2018
• News / Miscellaneous

  London Design Festival 2018 reveals Pentagram identity and installations by Studio Frith and Kellenberger-White

  London Design Festival held a press conference this morning to launch its 2018 identity and major projects to take place across the city in September. Dominic Lippa showed glimpses of Pentagram’s graphic identity, which changes for each year’s iteration, and the festival’s director Ben Evans revealed details of installations and events.

  Jenny Brewer — 22 May 2018
• News / Art

  Studio Swine creates a 20-tonne ceramic sculpture that blows smoke rings for the Eden Project

  London-based design duo Studio Swine has created a large-scale ceramic sculpture for the Eden Project, inspired by a tiny photosynthesising microorganism called cyanobacteria. Weighing in at 20 tonnes and towering at 9m-tall, the curvaceous sculpture is thought to be the world’s largest ceramic artwork.

  Laura Snoad — 22 May 2018
• Work / Photography

  Photographer Sophie Stafford on shooting the Saharan desert’s largest celebration

  To bring in the new year, the desert oasis of Douz in Tunisia transforms into an anarchic and event-packed four-day-long festival celebrating northern African Berber traditions. Featuring horse and camel racing, falconry, dancing and parades, it’s a visual feast as well as an important part of Tunisian heritage – a wonderland for a photographer keen to capture the heightened emotions of two worlds meeting.

  Laura Snoad — 22 May 2018
• Work / Art

  Rade Petrasevic reimagines still lifes in his vibrant, large-scale drawings

  Whether it’s Paul Cezanne’s The Basket of Apples or Caravaggio’s Basket of Fruit, we’re sure you’ve seen more still life paintings than you can name. But we’re also certain that you haven’t seen a still life quite like Rade Petrasevic’s interpretation of the genre. Rade, who lives and works in Vienna, decided to pursue art after leaving school at 14 as “there was no opportunity to study anything else”. The Austrian artist now spends his time reimagining and revising the traditional still life through his delicate and deceptively simple large-scale drawings of chairs, vases, flowers and sculptures.

  Daphne Milner — 22 May 2018

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