Category: Art

One of the leading postmodern painters of the last fifty years, David Salle’s art is one of juxtaposition, and his artistic “style” is the integration of disparate, contrasting styles. Since the 1980s, Salle has plucked compelling imagery from art history, print advertising and, most extensively, his own photographs. He uses this source material to create…

Simchowitz is pleased to present So Far Out of Sight, a solo exhibition of new work by Lily Ramírez, on view at Hill House Pasadena. In So Far Out of Sight, Lily Ramírez approaches painting as a space of quiet reckoning, an arena where memory, perception, and feeling converge. Rooted in ongoing conversations with the self and reflections on…

Hello Kitty. Irfan_setiawan – stock.adobe.com Fifty years on, Hello Kitty remains one of the most recognised characters on the planet — not through reinvention, but through patient stewardship. Rebecca Demmellash of Pearlfisher explores what brand custodians can learn from the woman who spent half a century listening. She’s not a cat, she’s a little girl…

Discover why How&How built a sleep-friendly ice cream brand, Snooz, by tearing up every visual rule in the category playbook. There’s a particular kind of brief that arrives fully loaded. Not in the sense of being demanding or complicated, but in the sense that the insight is so clean, so surprising, the work practically tells…

The social film borrows the look of viral skincare routines, then swaps serums and gentle exfoliants for heavy metals and exhaust fumes. It’s designed to make city pollution feel as visceral as it actually is. Most beauty campaigns are glowy and glossy, so why has luxury skincare brand NIOD gone in the opposite direction? Created…

AXA XL is excited to announce the launch of the ninth edition of the AXA Art Prize in the United States, a leading platform dedicated to emerging figurative artists. This prestigious competition invites undergraduate and graduate students from across the country to submit their innovative paintings, drawings, and prints. The deadline for submissions is March…

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Wuthering Heights. Image licensed via Adobe Stock From Barbie to Wuthering Heights, brand collaborations have become the default response to every cultural moment. Matt Herbert, co-founder at Tracksuit, asks whether the industry is confusing short-term buzz with long-term brand building — and what it really takes to collaborate with purpose. It can feel like every…

GRIMM is delighted to present No Longer, Not Yet – Paintings on Paper, an exhibition of new work by Jonathan Wateridge on view at the Amsterdam gallery through March 28, 2026. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery,  and his first in Amsterdam.

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Right now, something bigger than a seasonal slowdown seems to be happening. We take the temperature of the creative community, and some of their experiences may shock you. A designer posted a question on Creative Boom’s Instagram last week that made my stomach drop in recognition. They’d lost their job,…

Tebo Mpanza, co-founder and client director at Unfound Studio, reflects on the pressure for certainty, the cost of constant momentum, and the slow return to creative meaning through restraint, relationships and purpose. The start of a new year has a way of demanding certainty. There is an unspoken expectation that in January you should have…

Valentine’s Day might be over, but CERCA is rethinking romance for the long haul – with a rebrand by Saint-Urbain that swaps anonymous swiping for connection through mutual friends. Dating apps have become dominated by anonymous swiping and opaque algorithms, but CERCA is attempting something a bit different. Now, with a new identity by New…

Brazilian studio MELT Design turned one family’s extraordinary migration story into chocolate bar packaging no rival brand could replicate. There’s a version of the Clemens Chocolate project that never gets written about. In that version, MELT Design takes a brief about artisanal organic chocolate, reaches for the usual vocabulary (warm browns, botanical illustration, a tasteful…

Marking Demetrius Wilson’s sixth career solo, and second with Half Gallery, Light in a Dark Mirror is formed around Demetrius’s fascination with human psychological “darkness” and how we carry it through life. Being that we start & end in “the dark,” he argues it must be true that we carry some form of it with us always, almost like an…

Two RCA creatives explain how the college gave them the space, the tools and the critical grounding to do something genuinely new with AI. AI is everywhere in the creative industries right now: in the hype, in the anxiety, in the tools themselves. But between the breathless enthusiasm and the fevered backlash, a more interesting…

We talk to Vicki Ashurst, who has stepped from clean and considered identity design into the wild world of tattoo-inspired merch and NFTs Based in South Wales, Vicki Ashurst has a portfolio full of fine branding work, plenty of experience, and she loves being strategic and purposeful in her work. But working in studios, impressing…

Suri toothbrushes From refillable deodorant to e-ink notebooks, these are the everyday upgrades that prove good design and sustainability are no longer mutually exclusive. We asked the Creative Boom community a simple question: what have you swapped out that genuinely feels like an upgrade? The response was overwhelming. Dozens of designers, art directors, illustrators and…

As AI tools, software and hyper-polished visuals dominate modern workflows, many designers are rediscovering the creative power of slowing down. Matteo Di Iorio of Interstate explores why sketching remains one of the most valuable and human parts of the design process. Who’d have thought that in this brave new world, where design often begins with…

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Perrotin Los Angeles is delighted to present a new solo exhibition by Takashi Murakami, Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis. Freshly inspired by a visit to Monet’s Giverny, Takashi Murakami (b. 1962) explores the relationship between ukiyo-e and Impressionism in a suite of 24 new paintings at Perrotin Los Angeles. The latest works…

L-R: Jolyon Varley, Liz Stone and Ben Gordon of OK COOL New leaders, new practices, new cities… and a sense the creative industry is quietly rewiring itself for what comes next. Welcome to Booms & Shakes, our monthly round-up of the hires, promotions, partnerships and stories making waves across the creative world. And there’s no…

No laptops, no Slack, and a live brief for children’s literacy charity BookTrust – Special Projects’ executive course at the Royal College of Art is the antithesis of the modern boardroom, but that’s precisely the point. I arrived at the Royal College of Art with my laptop in my bag and my inner productivity gremlin…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Saving for retirement as a freelancer feels like a struggle when you’re surviving month to month. But not doing so would be a big mistake. Here’s how to get started. Welcome to another edition of Dear Boom, our advice series tackling the questions that keep creatives up at night. This…

With a bold colour palette, modular ‘C’ system and a renewed tone of voice, FORM Brands Studio’s work positions circularity as collaboration in action. The Circular Economy Institute (CEI) has unveiled a new brand identity by FORM Brands Studio, designed to position the organisation as a global, collaborative force driving the shift beyond waste. Following…

Nine nights; Strange fruit brings together a new body of paintings by London-based artist Shaqúelle Whyte that trace the emotional and temporal reverberations of familial grief. Rather than unfolding as a linear account, the exhibition forms a constellation of moments that draw upon the Jamaican funerary tradition of Nine Nights and the historic resonance of…

In February 2026, SPARC (Social and Public Art Resource Center) will return to Jeffrey Deitch to exhibit the latest complete segment in the expansion of The Great Wall of Los Angeles mural, fifty years after its initial production.

Louise Sloper. Portrait by Rankin The executive creative director of SWC and TypoCircle chair shares hard-won lessons from the Bacardi Untameable campaign… including when you should bin the grid. Most designers, if they’re honest, treat typography as the bit that happens after the interesting decisions have been made. The photography gets art-directed, the concept gets…

Ben has been creating spot illustrations for Martin Coul’s podcast, The Hushed The leading British illustrator on how he’s adapting to the new realities of the creative scene while keeping it fresh at every turn. It was the mid-noughties when Ben O’Brien – AKA Ben the Illustrator – first sauntered onto the creative scene. The…

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Vielmetter Los Angeles is thrilled to present Hayv Kahraman’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, Libations, on view through March 21st, 2026. Marking Kahraman’s first exhibition in Los Angeles since her displacement resulting from the 2025 Eaton Fire in Altadena, the artist’s newest body of work responds to an urgent question precipitated by the catastrophic events…

Jessica Walsh We’re delighted to welcome Jessica Walsh to Creative Boom. In her first column, she argues that branding has become too safe and interchangeable, and makes the case for expressive, human-crafted typography as one of the last true ways to stand out in an AI-driven world. Typography has always been the quiet backbone of…

Image licensed on Adobe Stock The creative freelancers that clients are desperate to keep? They aren’t always the most skilled. They’re the ones who show up, speak up and understand the bigger picture. We tend to assume that the quality of the work is what keeps a freelancer on speed dial. A sharper eye, a…

Suncoast by Tipotype Valentine’s Day is done and dusted, the month is flying by, and the type world has been quietly busy. Here’s what caught my eye in February. We’re well past the midpoint of February now. The post-January slump is officially over and, if this month’s type releases are anything to go by, the…

Graphic artist Anthony Burrill discusses building the War Child Pavilion at Glastonbury Festival, the importance of creative freedom, and making work that actually says something. There’s a question that quietly haunts every artist who’s been around a while: Am I actually saying something, or am I just making things look nice? Anthony Burrill, the graphic…

From our friends at CAN: After 10 years of history in Madrid, and coinciding with the close of the 4th edition of CAN Art Fair Ibiza on the island, we feel that the time has come to take the next step. UVNT Art Fair (Urvanity Art) is transforming into CAN Art Fair Madrid, bringing both…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Members of the creative community share their views on the platforms that once promised connection but increasingly deliver only exhaustion. There was a time when social media felt like a gift to creative professionals. A free portfolio. A global studio door, flung open. A place where your work could find…

A storybook serif, a Swiss workhorse and a riot of colour: we explore the typographic thinking behind United Us’s rebrand of Buttle UK. When a charity’s biggest problem is that it’s too quiet, you don’t start with colour. You start with voice. And voice, in brand design, begins with type. That’s the lesson at the…

The filmmaker and creative director’s work in set design is a masterclass in craft, personal storytelling and adapting visuals for different spaces. There’s a moment in Michael Morpurgo’s Pinocchio at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, where the performers raise transparent umbrellas dripping with cherry blossoms, bathed in hot pink neon light. It’s the kind of image…

The Brooklyn-based tattoo artist has built an international practice on a radical premise. Clients bring feelings, not mood boards, and he does the rest. There’s a running joke in the creative industries about the dream client. The one who turns up with a vague but genuine emotional impulse, says something like “I trust you”, and…

Monya Rowe Gallery is pleased to announce the first New York solo exhibition by Lily Taylor titled Left Open. The opening reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, February 19, 6-8 PM.

Courtesy of Makiko Harris. Photo by Ben Pipe Three award-winning creatives explain how the Royal College of Art transformed their practice, their confidence and their sense of possibility. Applying for a master’s is a big decision. When it means leaving a career you love, moving to a new country, or stepping into an institution where…

The Birmingham designer’s “anti-placement placement” is part bootcamp, part studio safari, part masterclass in confidence. When a design student lands a placement, they typically know how it goes. Shadow someone, do a bit of work, make the tea, then leave. Luke Tonge, a Birmingham-based designer and co-founder of the Birmingham Design Festival, looked at that…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Feeling trapped in the middle? Here’s how to navigate the murky waters between junior and senior when the path forward isn’t clear. Welcome to another edition of Dear Boom, our advice series where the creative community helps solve the industry’s trickiest problems. This week’s dilemma speaks to a typically underserved…

All images ©️ & TM Aardman. All rights reserved In an age of AI-generated everything, Aardman is celebrating its half-century by pairing plasticine with a live orchestra. And there’s a lesson in that for all of us. If you look closely at Wallace—the cheese-obsessed, gadget-building Yorkshireman who, alongside his silent, long-suffering dog Gromit, became the…

The man himself, Stanley Chow The famous illustrator, artist and DJ, along with Wild in Art, has launched a new trail that spotlights 21 brilliant creatives, turning Manchester’s streets into a vibrant showcase of local talent. When I first moved to Manchester, I found myself in an old mill warehouse tucked behind Oxford Road. It…

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Eve Warren’s wedding Can they resist designing their own big days? Or is the occasion too irresistible to style? We find out from three leading creatives how they approached their own weddings. Most graphic designers live in a world we can’t even imagine. They see inspiration everywhere. They mentally rebrand a café menu while waiting…

Voorlinden is proud to present the first major museum-wide retrospective of the work of Claire Tabouret (1981). The French painter’s solo exhibition Weaving Waters, Weaving Gestures showcases the remarkable breadth of her oeuvre, her boundary-defying practices, and her exploration of complex themes such as identity and human relationships. In addition to this solo exhibition, her stained-glass windows…

The Secret Language of Flora Meet one of the rising stars in illustration, with a style inspired by elegant motion, vitality, Chinese philosophy and abstract perspectives. One of the most difficult things for many young illustrators is settling on a style that sets them apart from all the rest and is comfortable to work in.…

Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City is pleased to present Zigzags and Curves, an exhibition by Sarah Crowner that brings together her sustained research into geometry, abstraction, and the expanded language of painting. Presented across two sites – the gallery’s Mexico City space and Casa Roja in Lomas de Chapultepec—the exhibition takes its title from the fundamental graphic…

At Pentawards Festival in Paris, Paula Scher and new industrial design partner Piotr Woronkowicz made a compelling case for 3D thinking – showing how systems, structure and tactility can futureproof a brand. When you think of world-renowned design firm Pentagram, your mind doesn’t immediately go toward packaging design. Yet there they were on the Pentawards…

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Photo by Lorna Allen What started as a request for resolutions became a book, an exhibition and a conceptual framework for a whole year of work. Back in December, artist and designer Sarah Boris emailed friends, artists, writers and musicians with a single request: “send me 10 resolutions”. She wasn’t planning a book; she was…

Design by Sunnie From logos that double as measuring tools to reimagined ceramic objects, our community proved that sustainable design doesn’t need to shout; it just needs to be beautiful, clever and worth keeping. January arrived with its usual promise of fresh starts. But for Boom Brief #6, we weren’t interested in performative sustainability or…

OSCAR MURILLO (b. 1986, La Paila, Colombia) has developed a multifaceted and challenging practice that spans painting, collaborative projects, video, sound and installation. Through each body of work, the artist probes ideas of collectivity and shared culture, demonstrating a commitment to the power of material presence alongside complex meditations on contemporary society.

How the London studio helped turn an ambitious urban transport idea into a brand people could trust and see coming to life. Cities are busier than ever. Our roads are heavily congested, and public transport is increasingly overstretched. Getting from A to B has never been so challenging, which is why it’s interesting to learn…

“I want to create spatial, sculptural and digital installations with a message,” says the cutting-edge 3D artist and animator. Animation aficionados will experience an instant sense of warmth browsing reels created by Ukrainian animator Nadiia Pliamko. Ranging from the cutely curious to the grotesque, her films are saturated with odd and uncomfortable details – both…

Bloom held on to Tango’s boldness, British mischief, and intense flavour hit, but stripped out the expected in its new identity, making it credible to younger audiences who can spot when brands are trying too hard. Tango has teased a first look at its new identity, designed by branding agency Bloom, ahead of the official…

Billy Cowden Joy Rigard and Jamie at 156 Sewardstone Road in 1978 © Joyce Edwards Found after the photographer’s death at 99, Joyce Edwards’ previously unseen portraits document the people who reclaimed abandoned homes and went on to create a rare social housing project that still survives today. When filmmaker Derek Smith began sorting through…

Michelob Ultra 2026 Super Bowl ad featured actors Kurt Russell, left, and Lewis Pullman. Via Anheuser-Busch Who better to appraise, dismantle and debate this year’s biggest ads than Leith’s head of new business, Cori Schwabe (an American) and Debbie Morgan, Leith’s head of art (a Scot), two people hard‑wired to see the same work in…

Designed by Iris to fuel participation, the campaign invites us to spot it, share it and debate how it could even work. Are you old enough to remember when Pizza Hut first made its mark in the UK? The American chain might as well have been a space rocket landing when it became a fixture…

The Long Beach Museum of Art is pleased to present Jux founder Robert Williams: Fearless Depictions, a survey exhibition featuring 57 paintings spanning from 2001 to the present, along with two large-scale sculptures by the iconic Southern California artist. Robert Williams’ epic, cartoon-inspired history paintings draw deeply from American vernacular culture and its visual slang,…

New York is fast, demanding, and full of strong opinions, but for designers, it’s also a place of constant learning. Koto’s Hailey (SoJeong) Kim shares how working in the city has sharpened her craft, confidence, and creative voice. New York has a reputation for intensity, but that word barely scratches the surface. Yes, everything moves…

Boiled Egg #2 © Terawat Teankaprasith The Bangkok-based artist transforms everyday edible objects, such as eggs and dipping sauces, into hyper-real, mouthwatering works of art. When Terawat Teankaprasith looks at objects, he doesn’t just see the thing in front of him. Rather, he analyses its composition, consuming its hues, contours, and textures, and considers how…

The farmer co-owned Fairtrade brand unveils its most significant rebrand to date, swapping dark, predictable cues for joyful colour, hand-drawn illustration and a renewed focus on taste. Chocolate is having a moment. From craft bars to cult packaging drops, it’s become one of the most competitive and creatively ambitious categories in branding. For studios, it’s…

Digital transformation in vocational learning settings is a detailed subject. Karmijn Simons’s illustration skills have been crucial in communicating key themes in the process. MBO Digitaal is a Dutch organisation that helps schools and educators implement digital systems to support vocational learning. However, the aim isn’t to introduce digital tools for the sake of it…

Harman Projects, in conjunction with Spoke Art and Deadly Prey Gallery, is pleased to announce an exhibition of hand-painted movie posters from Ghana. The origin of this artistic movement has its roots in the 1980s with the rise of mobile cinemas across the country of Ghana. Promotional posters were created to support these traveling VHS…

Janie Korn © Ben Deakin Photography From cherub mugs to whimsical wax candles, the London-based artist moulds everyday objects into playful curiosities for your home. Do you ever just look at your kitchen and think – why have all the same white plates from Ikea, stacked on an ugly shelf, sticking out like a cluttered…

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Megan Mulrooney is pleased to present Taut, our first solo exhibition of abstracted still life paintings with Los Angeles-based artist Annie Pendergrast. Flowers, vases, stripes, grids, and looping forms recur across the exhibition, rendered in precise gradients and graphic color combinations. The works feel simultaneously playful and controlled: blooms swell to near-cartoon proportions, stems curl…

IN Residence, 2023 © Audrey Large. Photography by UniversPlaza From molten lamps to virtual reality, the French designer creates objects that play with light, texture and perception in mesmerising ways. “I like fluid materials that play with light, whether they reflect or absorb it, textures that cannot really be described or grasped, and combining contradictory…

François Ghebaly is proud to present Golden Days, Dabin Ahn’s solo exhibition at the gallery’s Los Angeles space. Painter and sculptor Dabin Ahn transforms personal objects, Korean ceramic vessels, and other ephemeral still-life elements into sites of passage. Drawing from 20th century art history, Joseon dynasty porcelain traditions, and his own imagination, he creates sensitive, meticulously painted…

© Paul Saltzman. All Rights Reserved. One of the iconic photos Paul Saltzman took of The Beatles in Rishikesh, India The director of 343 films and counting shares some hard-earned lessons on having a purpose, trusting your instincts and how meaningful work can create ripples beyond measure. In 1968, aged 23, Canadian Paul Saltzman travelled…

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Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Krzysztof Grzybacz’s latest body of work in his first solo exhibition at the gallery in Brussels. Behind its seemingly polished framework, To Empty Out emerges as an exhibition beautifully rife with contradictions that overlay serious and playful themes according to Grzybacz, who often sets out to “clash the forces” of…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock From cautious optimism to complete exhaustion, members of our community share their emotions as we navigate towards the year ahead. February has arrived with its characteristic grey skies and stubbornly short days. The new year optimism has well and truly faded, replaced by the reality of winter’s darkest stretch. It’s…

There was a time when packaging was dismissed as functional or forgettable, but now it’s evolved into one of the most emotionally charged and culturally revealing areas of creative work. As Pentawards marks 20 years, its history tells a bigger story about where this discipline is heading. Some might think packaging is one of the…

As audiences grow increasingly curious about how things are made, Volvo’s latest electric SUV campaign leans into transparency and process. We’re living in a time where behind-the-scenes content can generate as much intrigue as the finished product, so it’s no surprise that Volvo Cars has leaned into that cultural shift with its latest global campaign…

A star-studded, high-octane campaign introduces Oakley Meta’s Performance AI Glasses as a new competitive tool for athletes. Oakley Meta is making its Super Bowl debut with a campaign by Mother Los Angeles that positions performance wearables as the next frontier in sport. Titled Athletic Intelligence Is Here, the work introduces the Oakley Meta Performance AI…

Adobe is bringing together the creative industry’s leading lights to navigate what happens after the hype dies down and the real work begins. Getting exhausted by the AI conversation? I’m not surprised: so much of it feels like people shouting into the void. One camp insists robots are coming for our jobs. Another claims AI…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Frontify’s new report, Rebranding Redefined, argues that successful rebrands depend on living systems rather than static assets. Here are the main points of the report, and how you can apply them to your own projects. The rebrand brief lands on your desk. Typeface? Check. Colour palette? Sorted. Logo variations? Done.…

Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Katelyn Ledford. Known for virtuosic trompe-l’oeil and dark humor, Ledford constructs images where artifice, vulnerability, and bravado collide. Working exclusively with oil and acrylic on canvas, she renders wood grain, masking tape, lace, and denim with the charged aura of stage props. In her…

Detail from Apartment 2119, 2025 © Li Wang From sunlit beaches to intimate interiors, the Beijing-born artist explores masculinity, queer diasporic experience and personal memory through vivid, evocative paintings. Sometimes, putting yourself into new situations, like moving to a different country – despite how scary or nerve-racking – can be the best thing you can…

From awkward first dates to relationship idioms brought to life, the illustrator turns everyday romantic misadventures into bold, humorous works that are instantly relatable. There are many ways that a creative mind can spark an idea. Some might go for a walk, others might do some star jumps or listen to a favourite album on…

From fashion and street portraiture to a decade-long family archive, the London-based photographer reflects on image-making as a way of staying with people, places and memories. Laura McCluskey first picked up a camera at 14, after choosing GCSE photography alongside art and product design. Her school had a black-and-white darkroom, where she learned the basics…

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Creators taking a stand in Granary Square, King’s Cross. Including illustrators Benji Davies, Chris Haughton, Ged Adamson, Momoko Abe and Simona Ciraolo, and AOI Board Member Jhinuk Sarkar. Photograph by Ozzy Nada. Built on evidence from over 10,000 creators, the move lays bare the real-world damage generative AI is already doing to creative careers, and…

NANZUKA is pleased to present “Metanoia,” a solo exhibition of new works by Christian Rex van Minnen at NANZUKA UNDERGROUND. This exhibition marks the artist’s second solo show at NANZUKA following his first exhibition in Japan which was held simultaneously across three venues (NANZUKA UNDERGROUND, 3110NZ by LDH Kitchen, NANZUKA 2G) in 2021.  

As AI threatens to flatten creativity, the Barcelona designer is putting her faith in craft, curiosity and maybe a little chaos. When Verónica Fuerte compares her 18-year journey running Hey Studio to the career trajectory of Britney Spears, you might think she’s joking. She’s not. Speaking during a session on The Studio (our free networking…

What if chocolate could be heard as well as tasted? For Fortnum & Mason’s newly reimagined chocolate bar collection, design studio Otherway has transformed flavour into melody, pairing each bar with an original piano composition to create a range that’s as much a performance as it is a treat. We all love a nice sweet…

We talk to the Chinese American artist about how she developed her style and the sublime, tranquil imagery she creates. Draw the viewer to the heart of the story. It’s what Brooklyn-based illustrator Jesse Zhang aims to do every time she sets out to create an image. Through her art, she builds mood, feeling, and…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock As creative professionals grapple with isolation and freedom, many are seeking new ways to balance solitude with connection. It’s 6pm. You’ve been staring at screens all day, moving between tabs and applications, responding to Slack messages and emails. You’ve been highly productive; maybe more so than you’d have been in…

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Charlie James Gallery is pleased to present Israel Campos: Echoes, the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. Campos excavates the layered cultural histories of Los Angeles using a combined painting and screenprinting technique. In his role as artist-historian, Campos reveals the figures, stories, and myths that echo through the city’s history, folding Mexican folklore into…

Lyles & King is pleased to present Time Bends for the Tender, a solo exhibition of Akea Brionne’s work on view through February 21, 2026. Drawing inspiration from bell hooks’ Sisters of the Yam, this series explores the interior landscape of black women cultivated in order to survive the psychic, social, and geographic pressures placed upon them.

Game designers, Netflix executives and the minds behind Tomorrowland are all heading to Barcelona this February. And Creative Boom readers can register for free! Barcelona in February isn’t just about the weather (though that helps). This year, it’s about Spark 2026; the new creative showcase at Integrated Systems Europe that’s bringing together everyone from game…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Taking a stance on generative AI might feel good, but could it lose you clients? Here’s what our community has to say about this divisive issue. Welcome to another edition of Dear Boom, our advice series where the creative community tackles the thorniest questions facing our industry. This week’s dilemma…

Quba Tuakli, Creative Practice Lead at GentleForces From executive appointments and creative promotions to studios scaling up and branching out, the year is already shaping up to be a big one for people moves. The creative industry never stands still. And neither do the people shaping it. From agency founders marking major milestones to new…

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KÖNIG GALERIE presents Ayako Rokkaku’s fourth solo exhibition SCENERY IN THE PROCESS OF BEING FORMED, with the gallery, on view in the Nave of St. Agnes. Bringing together a wide-ranging sculptural practice alongside a new body of paintings, the exhibition traces the artist’s movement through places, materials, and atmospheres—and how form slowly emerges through her hands. 

Thanks to Obello, design teams no longer need to choose between creative control and empowering their marketing colleagues to create content at scale. Modern brands need constant content across an endless array of channels. For agencies, the relentless volume and sheer scale of the task can become overwhelming. AI tools promise to help, but most…

“I love using collage to tell stories about everyday life, mental health, loss, nature or simply a sock that went missing in the wash,” says the up-and-coming British illustrator. There are faster ways of making images. Approaches that deliver more punch. Techniques that achieve more detail. But Chloe Isteed knows that the collage imagery she…

Returning to Disseny Hub Barcelona this April, OFFF 2026 once again positions itself as a global meeting point for creative leaders, emerging practices and new ideas shaping design, art and digital culture. One of the most coveted events in the global design calendar, OFFF Barcelona returns this spring for its 26th edition, bringing together some…

As the dust settles on this year’s CES, ÖFY offers a case study in a growing design-led push towards unobtrusive technology, signalling a potential shift in how intelligence is embedded into everyday products. If you’re not part of the typical tech crowd, CES probably feels a little overwhelming. Screens stack on screens, demos blur into…

In Dead Fish, Nicolas Party surveys his practice through oil-on-copper paintings, each of which is a small-scale reworking of an earlier composition. While copying himself, Party also engages the long art-historical tradition of reproducing paintings by the masters: from Francisco Goya’s Still Life with Golden Bream (1808–12), he has created a direct pastel-on-linen study. The…

Wide Angle: Distorted © Molly Strohl Tired of safe, generic work? Stills’ 2026 trends empower creative professionals to embrace personality, texture and risk in visual communications. Amid a world drowning in sameness, the work that cuts through isn’t the work that plays nice; it’s the work that gets playful. That’s the core message from Stills’…

Weber Wong When a sportswear giant lists a creative AI tool in job requirements, it’s worth understanding what caught their attention. When Nike recently posted a job listing for a generative AI design expert, it included an unusual requirement: “Mastery of FLORA.” Not Photoshop mastery, not Midjourney expertise. FLORA, a unified creative environment that’s quietly…

Founded by Julen Saenz, whose CV spans Apple, Google Creative Lab and Collins, HIRUKI is a new collective studio built on the belief that brands should be felt as art. Over the past decade, the design industry has become increasingly fluent in systems, scale and speed. Brands are ‘optimised’, frameworks are refined, and success is…

What happens when a progress bar grows up? Koto’s latest work for GoFundMe transforms an everyday UI element into a flexible brand system that scales generosity. Global creative studio Koto has partnered with GoFundMe on a wide-ranging brand evolution, marking a significant moment for the fundraising platform as it continues to expand beyond individual campaigns…

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Now in its fourth year, the Milton Keynes festival is proving that intimacy trumps scale when it comes to meaningful creative connection. We’re big fans of All Flows, the boutique creative festival, which returns for its fourth edition on 13–15 May 2026. So it’s great to hear that co-founders Richard Wiggins and Simon Wright have…

GR gallery is pleased to present Misfits, the first New York City solo exhibition by Daniel Nunez. The exhibition brings together a new body of work comprising paintings on canvas and drawings, offering an in-depth look at the artist’s most recent explorations.

T293 presents Sacred Hair / Capelli Sacri, the first solo exhibition in Italy by Spanish artist Nieves González (Huelva, 1996), curated by Victoria Rivers. The exhibition simultaneously marks the inauguration of the gallery’s new location in Rome’s emblematic Piazza del Catalone, establishing a natural synergy between González’s artistic vision and the experimental spirit that has…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Members of the Creative Boom community explore when it’s okay to accept an advance payment for future work and offer some tips to make it work. Welcome to the latest edition of Dear Boom, our agony aunt series for creative professionals. This week’s dilemma touches on something many of us…

Simon McAleese The Sunderland-based menswear illustrator explains why frustration with “vanilla brands” inspired him to go it alone. When you spend your days drawing other people’s clothing designs, you notice things. Every seam, every pocket placement, every missed opportunity for something more interesting. For Simon McAleese, a menswear illustrator based in Sunderland, that scrutiny eventually…

Guess Who Studio won the New Talent award in Explore last year Get yer giddy-up! The awards close for entries on 17 February, and you’ve got to be in it to win it. It’s surprising how many illustrators don’t enter awards. Sometimes an artist is just too busy, which seems fair enough. However, they often…

Bill Ellis                                 Bill Ellis’s Website Bill Ellis on Instagram

If you happen to be in Miami (and missed the Lomex show) Joseph Geagan has a series of works up at the Rubell Museum. His paintings feature comic scenes that foreground the social sphere around him. A self-taught artist, his work includes his friends, artists, pop figures, and imaginary personalities in various states of socializing…

YUSTO / GINER presents in its Madrid space Un poco distraído, a solo exhibition by the artist Imon Boy. In this new show, Imon Boy translates into artistic form the essence of the “last page of the notebook”, that escape zone where the spontaneous and the everyday take shape. With a trajectory that begins in…

David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to present Precious Moments, an exhibition of new paintings, sculpture, and videos by Sayre Gomez. On view through March 1, 2026, Precious Moments is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and will span all three spaces at its Los Angeles location. 

Amperspam 2.0 by Allen & Gerritsen The decorations are packed away, we’re halfway through the first month of the year, and normal life has resumed. Here’s what the type world’s been releasing in the meantime. Right now, no one’s quite sure if we should still be saying ‘Happy New Year’ or not. But one thing’s…

As rigid agency models continue to give way to smaller, more fluid ways of working, In-Col Studio is part of a growing wave of creative businesses proving that lean structures and trust-led collaboration can be just as powerful as scale. The 2000s and early 2010s were the golden age of the independent agency as we…

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Charlie James Gallery is pleased to present Glenn Hardy Jr.: Building Identities Through Style, the Washington, DC-based artist’s third exhibition with the gallery. With this show, Hardy examines how identity is read, evaluated, and negotiated through appearance—how clothing, hair, and presentation become social shorthand for character, belonging, and value. Rather than treating style as a…

Walkers crisps. I-Wei Huang – stock.adobe.com As the British crisp giant replaces its iconic crisp with a sun-inspired mark, creatives are asking whether this is a confident evolution of heritage or a risky departure from a much-loved asset. At the start of 2026, Walkers is wasting no time reminding shoppers of its presence. Alongside a…

This naiad looks dangerous Shropshire-based independent artist Emily Hare tells us about her upcoming book, Savage Strangehollow, and how that world kick-started a new career. Come. Cross the road, follow the wall and duck through where the stones have fallen. Take the path past the brook and into the shade of the trees. See, the…

Renowned dessert brand Gü has revealed a global brand transformation designed to sharpen on-shelf navigation, boost standout and reconnect the brand with its original premium DNA, as competition in the indulgence category continues to heat up. For many British households, buying a packet of Gü means more than just dessert. The brand’s iconic ramekins have…

To mark its 25th anniversary, Wikipedia has launched a new global campaign and docuseries that shifts the focus away from the platform itself and onto the volunteers who quietly keep one of the internet’s most trusted spaces alive. As debates around truth, misinformation and AI-generated content continue to dominate public discourse, Wikipedia has found itself…

Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler is pleased to announce Trey Abdella’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Cold Front presents new work by Trey Abdella that examines how ceremony, tradition, and commercialization intersect within the visual language of winter.

Rather than chasing editorial work and brand deals, Jacqueline has built a thriving business through markets, wholesale and products. For many illustrators, the dream looks something like this: land an agent, secure regular editorial commissions, work with big-name brands, and watch the Instagram likes roll in. But what if you’re not landing those jobs? What…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock These intelligent assistants will amplify your craft, handle the tedious stuff, and free you up to do what you do best. If you’re a creative professional, the very word ‘AI’ in this headline may be triggering you. And I wouldn’t blame you. Let’s not mess around: right now, AI is…

ThreeTenSeven Studio Space From Britpop references to cinematic one-liners and philosophy-led wordplay, we asked creative studios to unpack the stories behind their names and what those first impressions really say about who they are. Creating a name for something is always high stakes. Whether it’s your child, your pet, your business, or even your car.…

Line by line, sheet by sheet, Daniel Savage creates captivating motion graphics using a pen plotter and his imagination. Something Savage is the studio run by Brooklyn-based motion designer Daniel Savage. But the output here is far from feral. In fact, it has a refined, mesmerising look and feel, backed by Daniel’s fascinating creative process,…

For its 20th anniversary, YouTube looks to bring unity, energy and motion to its expanding ecosystem, signalling how far the platform has evolved from a video-sharing site to a full-scale entertainment brand. Two decades after its first upload, YouTube is entering its next chapter with a refreshed global marketing identity developed in-house by YouTube Creative…

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I never got to meet my grandfather José, but there’s an anecdote about him that perfectly defines who we Fuentes Fuertes are. He got his driver’s license at fifty, and his first car was a 600 that got stolen barely a week after he bought it. When he managed to save up for another one,…

Is AI the enemy? Really? Photography by Liz Seabrook Photographer Liz Seabrook shares why dismissing AI as “so dull” misses the point, and why creatives need to engage with nuance, curiosity and critical thinking instead of burying our heads in the sand. The other day, while scrolling through the spiritual vacuum that is Instagram, I…

Projects by Camilo Güell (Director of the Master in Artificial Intelligence for Creative Industries, Spanish Edition) and Maria Vinagre (Instructor in Artificial Intelligence for Creative Industries, Spanish Edition) The Barcelona School of Arts and Design (LABASAD) is teaching seasoned creative professionals how to master AI… not as a replacement, but as a critical collaborator. When…

Projects by Camilo Güell (Director of the Master in Artificial Intelligence for Creative Industries, Spanish Edition) and Maria Vinagre (Instructor in Artificial Intelligence for Creative Industries, Spanish Edition) The Barcelona School of Arts and Design (LABASAD) is teaching seasoned creative professionals how to master AI… not as a replacement, but as a critical collaborator. When…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock From reframing mindset to embracing hibernation, creatives reveal how they’ve learned to love January’s darker days. Blue Monday. The third Monday of January is supposedly the most depressing day of the year. The Christmas decorations are down, the days are short, and the weather is bleak. It’s a marketing invention…

Founded by Ed Little and Hugo Ross, Roleplay is a young London-based studio helping challenger brands define their role in culture, then play it loudly. From regenerative pasta to premium spices, the agency blends sharp strategy with expressive design to help consumer brands stand out and scale. There’s definitely a unique kind of energy attached…

Titled ‘For The Why’, the new campaign for the Financial Times strips back marketing complexity to sell premium journalism to overwhelmed audiences. The point of journalism, to my mind, boils down to one thing: simplifying and explaining things to the audience who wants to know. And so it makes sense that a new campaign for…

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Saatchi Yates is delighted to announce a solo exhibition by the emerging multidisciplinary artist Toby Grant, also known as Cato (b. 1999, Brighton). This exhibition presents a body of work that focuses on the Black community within his South London orbit, capturing domestic and communal life in barbershops, diners, and home interiors. The subject matter…

Denis Haračić’s exhibition Soul in Reminiscence opened at the Art Gallery BiH on January 8, 2026. The exhibition explores the fundamental condition of human and worldly exposure—how bodies, minds, and environments are continually shaped, challenged, and transformed by forces both internal and external. Far from treating illness or adversity as exceptions to life, Haračić frames…

Jake’s cover illustration for Gay Times. With strong concepts, intelligent metaphors, and queer themes, this London-based artist is surging ahead in the world of editorial illustration. For two decades or more, magazines and newspapers have been in decline, putting editorial illustrators under pressure. Yet it remains one of the most desirable areas of commercial art…

Photo credits: Lorenza Ragno For In Her Own Words, creative director Raissa Pardini reflects on unlearning productivity, perfection and creative correctness – a realistic reset for designers questioning what still belongs to humans in the AI era. If a machine could create something beautiful, does it matter if it never felt anything while doing it?…

The new multi-platform advertising campaign combines live action, CGI, photography, and generative AI, and is claimed to be an industry first for the travel and cruise sector. Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has today unveiled an industry-first advertising campaign created using Hybrid AI, a production approach that fuses human-led creative disciplines with generative AI technologies. Developed…

The Norwegian, family-owned brand has revealed its first full rebrand in more than 30 years, working with London consultancy The Workroom to breathe new life into its Nordic heritage and purpose-led foundations. Norwex is a direct-selling company best known for its chemical-free cleaning cloths, but it had ambitions to expand beyond home care into personal…

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Modern Art is pleased to present Polygrapher, the first solo exhibition by Joseph Yaeger since announcing his representation by the gallery, and the inaugural exhibition at their Bennet Street gallery. Polygrapher denotes both the exhibition title and a text written by the artist, published in the exhibition’s accompanying booklet. Taking the form of an interrogation…

Take it easy in January. Image licensed via Adobe Stock Your brain is a potato, your bank account is empty, and Mother Nature is begging you to hibernate. So why don’t we listen? Many moons ago, in January, I did something pretty dumb. I sat down on the 3rd, still bloated from selection boxes and…

Built by Monotype, lingerie brand Chantelle Pulp’s new logo is a shape-shifting identity. Variable fonts have been technically possible for years. Designers have marvelled at the control, the file size benefits, and the interpolation capabilities. But most applications have been practical rather than conceptual: responsive type that adapts to screen sizes, efficient web fonts that…

People People’s flexible branding system for a new retail incubator in Seattle unifies six independent businesses while preserving their distinct identities. As retail faces existential threats from rising rents and online shopping, Seattle’s Ballard neighbourhood is trying something different. Smål Market, a new merchants’ collective and business incubator, represents an alternative model: six small businesses…

A new identity for the US healthcare app reflects a cultural shift towards agency, continuity and care that moves at the pace of real life. In the US, healthcare has a reputation for being many things and easy to navigate is not one of them. Records are fragmented across providers and state lines, insurers struggle…

Vielmetter Los Angeles is excited to announce, Your Tears Will Dry, a solo exhibition of new works by Kiriakos Tompolidis. The paintings included in this exhibition are deeply influenced by Tompolidis’ recent move to Mexico City from Berlin, incorporating the color palette, visual sensibilities, and the endemic flora and fauna of his new environment into meticulous…

Gen Alpha and Food. Image licensed via Adobe Stock As the UK’s HFSS restrictions take hold, food brands are losing their oldest emotional shortcuts. In this opinion piece, Loren Aylott of Manchester creative agency Dinosaur explores how the end of sugar-coated storytelling could reshape creativity, culture, and trust. New year, new laws. It’s the week…

A new design-led cocktail book for Burma Burma Restaurant reframes non-alcoholic drinking as expressive, rebellious and anything but restrained, drawing on Burmese subcultures, travel journals and DIY punk aesthetics. Dry January has a habit of exposing a familiar design problem. While sober culture continues to grow, non-alcoholic menus and brands often lag behind, stripped back…

The patchwork feel of the identity was chosen to celebrate the beauty and power of diversity, without distracting from the data itself. Pentagram is behind the visual identity for the UK’s first tool for measuring, mapping and monitoring gender inequalities. While some existing tools and reports provide a national overview, the Gender Equality Index is…

As running culture continues to grow in popularity, ASICS’ latest global campaign leans into joy and unexpected lightness, pairing everyday exercise with a classic Beach Boys soundtrack. Running has rarely felt more culturally loaded, with many people sharing Strava screenshots on Instagram stories and attending running clubs at the weekends. In turn, we’ve seen a…

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Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Faith Ringgold, its inaugural exhibition dedicated to the trailblazing American artist, author, educator and activist. Spanning Ringgold’s extraordinary career, the exhibition foregrounds her groundbreaking and multifaceted practice in textiles—from her earliest ‘tankas’ to her iconic story quilt paintings—alongside pivotal early paintings, sculptures and rarely seen works on paper.

Are we less productive in the creative industries? Image licensed via Adobe Stock Why does it take more people to complete a project than it used to? When Joy Nazzari, founder of DNCO, sat down for the Creative Boom podcast recently, she raised something that stopped me in my tracks. It wasn’t about burnout, mental…

No work? Don’t panic just yet. Image licensed via Adobe Stock When January arrives with an empty inbox and mounting bills, here’s how to navigate the freelance drought without losing your mind. So it’s 3am on a Monday in early January, 201-something, and I’m refreshing my email for the 17th time. Nothing. Not even spam.…

How do you give energy a visual form? The London design agency uses colour, motion and emotional messaging to reposition a renewable energy supplier as a confident challenger. Try to visualise energy. Not solar panels or wind turbines: actual energy. The thing that powers your kettle, charges your phone, and keeps your lights on. You…

Montreal studio Saint-Urbain has created a liqueur identity that respects Japanese tradition without ever resorting to visual cliché. There’s a particular kind of design hell reserved for brands trying to “do Japan”. You know the aesthetic: cherry blossoms scattered like confetti, ornate kanji characters deployed purely for decoration, perhaps a rising sun for good measure.…

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Richard Heller Gallery is pleased to present, Planet Circus, a new exhibition of paintings by Granada, Spain-based artist, Paco Pomet. The show brings together recent works that reaffirm the artist’s distinctive approach to contemporary figuration, combining technical precision with humor, irony, and subtle narrative disruption.

Building on its recent overhaul by Ragged Edge, Mindful Chef has unveiled a new brand refresh by Mother Design, expanding its identity with a more expressive, editorial and craft-led approach. Mindful Chef has today unveiled a brand refresh created in partnership with independent branding and design studio Mother Design, marking the next evolution for the…

During the first Trump administration and the Covid lockdown, I was unable to pursue filmmaking, the medium I was trained to practice. I spent those years writing fiction, which had the advantages of being free and private – a field of pure invention. I eventually published three novels between 2019 and 2023. Over the course…

Successful creatives reconnect before they create. Image licensed via Adobe Stock Ignore the productivity gurus. The creatives who thrive long-term know that January is for laying foundations, not sprinting towards burnout. Every January, the same advice floods our feeds. Optimise your mornings. Set audacious goals. Launch something new. Reinvent yourself. Become unstoppable. It’s loud, relentless…

Virtue doesn’t shift crisps: an important lesson for anyone working in wellness branding. Anyone launching a healthy snack brand has a mountain to climb. Consider this scenario: you’ve got a genuinely better product, made from pulses and grains instead of fried potatoes, baked, not fried, all the right credentials. You want to shout about it.…

While AI churns out generic images, Kingdom & Sparrow’s premium designs for Mydflower prove that hand-crafted illustration retains serious commercial punch. Over the last year, I’ve often said that AI-generated imagery isn’t the threat to handmade illustration you might think it is. But sometimes it’s easier to just point to a live example. And here’s…

When one of America’s most popular drinks risked becoming wallpaper, this Antwerp-founded studio found the answer in translucent orange panels and Mediterranean waves. There’s a particular challenge reserved for brands that become too successful. Aperol knows it well. After Forbes crowned the Aperol Spritz America’s most popular drink in 2024, the Italian aperitif faced an…

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Monya Rowe Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Marcelle Reinecke titled Cherries in the Snow. The opening reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, January 8, 6-8 PM

Something Familiar transforms mandatory impact reporting into an 18th-century chapbook, complete with devils, woodcuts and purposeful mischief. There’s a particular kind of eye-roll that happens when someone mentions their company’s B Corp certification. You know the one. It sits somewhere between “greenwashing alert” and “here we go again with the purpose-led marketing.” Bristol-based creative agency…

It’s time to get weird. Image licensed via Adobe Stock Senior designer at Mother Design, Bentzion Goldman, feels identity design has become safe, sanitised and downright boring in the last 12 months. Let’s flip that in 2026, he argues, and make branding weird again. This is the third year I’ve written about trends and predictions…

Do something creative outside your field. Image licensed via Adobe Stock Your brain needs gentle coaxing, not a creative boot camp. Here are 10 ways to ease yourself back into making things. Everyone hates coming back to work after Christmas, and that’s not really surprising. After a summer holiday, at least there’s a soft landing:…

How do you make post-production visible without breaking the illusion? When London studio Microdot needed a brand identity, Standard Projects found cinema’s own language hiding in plain sight. Post-production occupies a peculiar position in the creative economy. When it’s done well, nobody notices. The colour grade that makes morning light feel nostalgic? The VFX cleanup…

Night Gallery is pleased to present Into the Reflection, an exhibition of new paintings by Miami based artist Farley Aguilar. This marks Aguilar’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.

When five artists used AI tools on a NYC subway project, they found a pragmatic middle ground; not conversion, only curiosity. For four weeks before Christmas, New York’s subway system became an unlikely laboratory for testing whether there’s a middle ground between AI enthusiasm and AI rejection. It’s a question that matters to every creative…

Romy Blumel, 2015 Heart’s 30th-anniversary book reveals what happens when working artists, not traditional businesspeople, take control of their representation. When Darrel Rees founded Heart back in the 90s, he did something unusual: he remained a practising illustrator while running an artist agency. Three decades on, that decision still defines how Heart—which made our list…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock You deserve a gentle start to 2026, so here are three achievable tasks to ease you back into work without overwhelming yourself. Overwhelmed by the feeling of starting a new work year? Here’s my advice. Forget the 20-point action plan. Forget the ambitious goals. Forget trying to sort out your…

In an age of AI-generated shortcuts, one Dutch lottery campaign chose a style of animation where five seconds takes a day. Madness or genius? Picture this: your creative director walks in and announces the next campaign will be produced at a rate of five seconds per day. In 2024, when AI can generate entire commercials…

Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena explores profound mysteries at the intersections of human experience, belief, and the unknown. As declassified government reports and an increasing media presence bring the potential for extraterrestrial activity into the spotlight, this exhibition examines the cultural, psychological, and metaphysical dimensions of this topic. What role do UFOs and…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Aiming to “hit the ground running” in January is a fool’s errand. Here’s how to return to your creative work gently, creatively and sustainably. I used to approach the first week of January like a personal relaunch: new notebook, new intentions, a frighteningly optimistic to-do list; written while still half-running…

Sometimes the best way to challenge a category is to put your money where your creative mouth is. There’s something deliciously ballsy about a creative agency launching its own FMCG brand. While most are content to spec-pitch their way into oblivion or politely massage client briefs into something vaguely interesting, London brand agency Greatergood decided…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock When you’re feeling blocked, these simple starting points will help you remember how to make things again… no pressure required. The hardest part of getting back into creative work after the holidays isn’t the lack of ideas; it’s the weight of expectation. You sit down to create something brilliant, and…

A new book celebrates 200 years of the ‘square’ Somerset brand that found its way into pop subcultures worldwide. I still remember the ritual. Every September, without fail, my mum would drag me to the shoe shop for a new pair of Clarks. Black, sensible shoes. And the more I grew in years, the more…

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Harkawik is delighted to announce Photos on Fridges, the widely anticipated follow-up to our 2022 Works on Paper on Fridges, and our final exhibition to employ household appliances as pedestals. The refrigerator occupies a peculiar position in modern life—simultaneously indispensable and invisible, a humming presence we notice almost exclusively when it breaks down. By introducing these appliances…

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David Zwirner is pleased to announce The Last Dyes, an exhibition of new dye-transfer prints by William Eggleston opening at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street location in New York, which follows its 2024–2025 presentation at the 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. Eggleston pioneered the use of dye-transfer printing for art photography in…

Pilar Corrias is pleased to present Against Nature, a solo exhibition of new works by Georg Wilson, the artist’s first with the gallery since the announcement of her representation earlier this year, and the follow up to her debut institutional show at Jupiter Artland.

Michael Francalanci                                                                                                         Michael…

The Granollers Museum presents Brindis , the last solo exhibition by Aryz, a project that is conceived as a space of celebration and pause, where the artist exhibits fragments of the creative process and shows how he approaches the search for his own language and the recurring themes of his studio work.

Berggruen Gallery is proud to announce Radiant City, an exhibition of new work by London-based artist Lucy Williams. This exhibition will mark the gallery’s third solo presentation with Williams and will be on view through January 8, 2026. The exhibition coincides with Williams’s new publication, Radiant City. 

Almine Rech Brussels is pleased to present Six Trees, Zio Ziegler’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view through February 1, 2026. Expressed through a rich vocabulary of form and color, Zio Ziegler’s paintings offer a non-linear, transhistorical vision of knowledge and representation. “Painting is my attempt at processing and synthesizing the stories and information…

Heesoo Kim has long used the same titles for both exhibitions and works. His exhibitions were titled ‘Normal Life’ and his paintings were titled ‘Untitled’. There were a few exceptions with small subtitles, but the pattern was mostly consistent. This may seem simple at rst glance, but it comes from his intention to step back…

Gab, Glasgow. Photography by Eoin Carey. My reflections on 12 months of finding human connection and choosing presence in a digital world. Hello, I’m Katy, the editor of Creative Boom, and both personally and professionally, I’ve had a fantastic year. Which is going to make this article summing up 2025 quite a difficult one to…

The founders of the global brand agency explain how emotional intelligence and restless reinvention keep them creatively relevant. Led by founders Simon Dixon and Aporva Baxi, DixonBaxi is one of those studios the creative world instinctively labels as “cool”. And on the face of it, that’s not so surprising. This is the team, after all,…

Manchester’s motion design community is going big this February, and there’s never been a better time to get involved. In an industry increasingly dominated by isolated freelancers working from home studios, the prospect of two full days spent with fellow motion designers, animators and VFX artists might sound either amazing or terrifying. But for Jonny…

Using only her memory and a hyper-vivid imagination, Laura Footes paints intuitively when conjuring complex, dreamy scenes from her life. There are no photographic source materials or preliminary sketches when working in the studio; instead, she relies on the raw emotions and mental images that spring forth when recalling her past. The artist’s paintings are…

Morán Morán is thrilled to present Heartland, William Schaeuble’s debut Los Angeles solo exhibition. Rooted in the American Midwest, Heartland merges the surreal with the everyday in a new series of paintings created in the artist’s family garage amid the central Iowa landscape where Schaeuble lives and works. The exhibition takes its title from the term “heartland,” first…

We talk to an illustrator who has used her passion for travel to shape an incredible portfolio of eye-popping artworks. Originally from Shanghai and now based in Liverpool, Yufei Yang is the artist behind the illustration practice Rainbow Draws. And while it would be easy to say that she brings together the creative traditions of…

aBiogenesis by Markos Kay. We asked a selection of artists and their representatives to cast their minds ahead and visualise what’s in store for the next 12 months. Their insight might surprise you. Every year since… ever!… creative mags and websites have gazed into their crystal balls and tried to predict upcoming aesthetic trends as…

Apple TV got a new name and logo in 2025… but did you even notice? While everyone was obsessing over spectacular failures, the rebrands that will actually matter slipped by almost unnoticed. 2025’s been a bit of a weird year, hasn’t it? For instance, I’ve spent the past 12 months watching brands flail, fumble and…

Aaron Skipper and Ayo Fagbemi of Explorers Club Ayo Fagbemi and Aaron Skipper discuss brave strategy, playful design and building culture-shaping brands with intention, clarity and heart. In under two years, Explorers Club has grown from a fresh creative idea into a global studio shaping culture for brands including Atlantic Records, Coca‑Cola, Nike, Instacart and…

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OLIVER UK’s Executive Creative Director Eloise Smith Agency wins, leadership moves, launches and a few signs of where the creative industry is heading next. As the year winds down, December’s Booms & Shakes feels less like a wrap-up and more like a preview. Big brands are locking in partners, agencies are reshaping their futures, and…

François Ghebaly is proud to present Imagine, all this happened just an hour ago, Ali Eyal’s debut exhibition with the gallery. Ali Eyal is an Iraqi artist working across painting, drawing, assemblage, and film to examine how personal memory tangles with political violence and loss. Born in Baghdad in 1994, Eyal orients much of his practice…

Designed and made in Brighton, the fully circular cases are built to be repaired and upgraded for life. You wouldn’t think that the humble phone case would invite much scrutiny, since they’re cheap, ubiquitous, and can usually be replaced without a second thought. However, Brighton-based design studio gomi is calling time on the throwaway culture…

The Valencia-based illustrator has gathered his rock posters from around the world into a tactile, newspaper-format publication, making a case for print at a time when most music promotion lives on screens. In a moment when concert promotion is increasingly compressed into Instagram grids and fleeting stories, illustrator Sergio Membrillas is doing something deliberately slower.…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock When exhaustion takes over and motivation disappears, how do you find your way back? The Creative Boom community share their best advice. Welcome to the latest in our agony aunt series, Dear Boom. This week’s dilemma strikes a chord with something painfully familiar to many in our industry. A creative…

Ahead of the launch of its new fully electric eVTOL aircraft, Valo, a British aviation start-up, unveiled a refreshed brand identity by Pentagram, designed to help normalise urban air travel. Last Thursday, amid the glass towers of Canary Wharf, British eVTOL manufacturer Vertical unveiled Valo, its fully electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle. At the…

© Madelein Penfold A decade after Jacqui McAssey set out to challenge who gets seen in football culture, GIRLFANS returns with its first national edition. Co-created with Zoë Hitchen, the publication spotlights the lived experiences of women and girls across England at a pivotal moment for the game. GIRLFANS has carved out a unique place…

The Surreal Salon exhibition + juried competition is one of our favorite events of the year, and luckily, it kicks off annually in January. Part of the celebration is the Surreal Salon Soiree, and on January 24, 2026, the 18th edition of the party/costume extravaganza will be, as the Baton Rouge Gallery notes, “one of the…

Published by Victionary, Hybrid: Curiosity in All Things offers a deep dive into the San Francisco studio’s thinking, collecting habits, and culture-led design philosophy. After spending nearly 25 years shaping some of the most recognisable brands and cultural work of the past two decades, San Francisco–based Hybrid Design has finally put its thinking on paper…

Luciano Castelli & Salomé, The Bitch And Her Dog, 1981. Photo on aluminium (Photo taken with self-timer), 260 × ca. 320 cm From post-punk provocation and Junge Wilde excess to Butoh, Japanese paravents and painting as pure compulsion, the Swiss artist reflects on a 50-year career defined by movement, mischief and an unshakeable need to…

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David Castillo presents Landscapes, Studio Lenca’s first solo exhibition in Miami, which takes terrain as both subject and metaphor, an active protagonist where questions of belonging, identity and displacement unfold. The exhibition draws together the artist’s recurring motif of the Historiantes, figures rooted in the Salvadoran tradition of dancers re- enacting oral histories of colonisation.

From flip-flops at 1970s-style washrooms to apéros with strangers, photographer François Prost’s new book is a joyful, unfiltered love letter to one of France’s most enduring summer rituals. If you’ve ever camped in France, you’ll know the feeling. The half-open caravan doors. The smell of pasta bubbling on portable stoves. The soft hum of nearby…

Meet the French illustrator inspired by social solitude and anemoia – nostalgia for a time you’ve never experienced. Surreal yet serene. Fresh yet timeless. Stylish yet outlandish. Lonely yet contented. Perhaps it’s the tensions in Franki Domino’s illustrations that serve as the starting point for the narratives he aims to create. They’re certainly starting conversations,…

As winter settles in and the year draws to a close, December’s typeface releases blend reflection with innovation. So that’s it: we’re almost done with 2025. But before we ring in Q2 of the 21st century, there’s the small matter of this month’s type releases, ready to help you reinvigorate your graphic and web designs…

Created with Montréal’s binner community and Coop Les Valoristes, the Dignity Bag offers safety, visibility and long-overdue dignity to the workers who keep cities’ recycling systems afloat. A new piece of design is hitting the streets of Montréal today, though it looks nothing like the glossy brand launches we’re used to seeing. Instead, The Dignity…

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For over three decades, Ghada Amer has approached painting as a medium to be questioned, broadened and continually reimagined. Throughout her career her work has unfolded as a sustained effort to reconsider the way women appear in art and the way painting might foreground their presence. If the medium has historically been tied to mastery…

Over the last season, we have been letting you know about the upcoming Surreal Salon 18 juried exhibition, with guest juror SWOON, that was going to culminate in an exhibition at the Baton Rouge Gallery in Louisiana in January 2026. The picks have been made, the show is about to go on, and as someone…

Forget cosy Christmas clichés. Eggnog caused a riot in 1826, and Thirst’s new drink concept taps straight into that rebellious spirit with a caffeinated, midnight-black twist on the festive oddball we either love or hate. Did you know eggnog once caused an actual riot? Not the jokey “oh, things got a bit rowdy last night”…

Our friend just opened a new solo show, KOM INTE OCH KNACKA PÅ (Don’t Come and Knock) at Galleri Thomassen in Gothenburg, Sweden. The show consists of many new works on paper

Blending research, local character and a playful bilingual voice, the identity hopes to shift long-held perceptions of Zuidas as a district built only for business. Amsterdam’s Zuidas district has long been a symbol of ambition, known for its huge glass towers and fast-moving careers. Yet ask almost any Amsterdammer, and you’ll hear the same thing:…

Credit: Jack Hall, PA Media Assignments With its raw, childlike aesthetic, this gallery show brutally highlights what young people face in the 21st century. If you’re in London between now and 18 January 2025 and need sanctuary from all the midwinter festivities, why not head to the Saatchi Gallery for Paper Cut, the new exhibition…

The relationship between father and son comes to the fore in this touching festive film by directors Kyra and Constantin. We’re used to the big British chain stores competing to make the most emotive Christmas commercials each year, but Kyra and Constantin at Passion Pictures may have outdone them all with their latest spot for…

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One of the highlights of Miami art week that will still be up for a few weeks, Jeffrey Deitch presents That Was Then, This Is Now, organized by (american art projects)® in the Miami Design District.

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Starting to feel invisible on Instagram? You’re not alone. Here’s how to protect your wellbeing while still getting some use out of the platform. Welcome to the latest in our agony aunt series, Dear Boom. This week’s dilemma strikes at the heart of our daily lives. A creative writes: “I’m…

Trainline has unveiled a major brand and product reboot titled “The Way To Train”, created with Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, positioning the rail giant as a true journey partner rather than just a ticketing service. As Britain barrels toward the end-of-year timetable tangle that seems to arrive as reliably as mince pies in supermarkets, Trainline has chosen…

Work by Aleks Ksiazkiewicz From mystical forest symbolism to hand-painted botanical chaos, this brief inspired designers to explore mindfulness, nature, and the art of slowing down through branding. When we launched Boom Brief #5, we asked for something a bit different: an alcohol-free gin called SILVA, inspired by forest botanicals and the quiet power of…

Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present Cognitive Dissonance, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Seonna Hong. In her latest solo exhibition, the artist’s deeply introspective work functions as both visual journal and emotional terrain, tracing the patterns of contemporary life through abstraction, landscape, and gesture.

Instead of a pristine monograph and polite collection of case studies, DixonBaxi has created an instinctive snapshot of 18 months inside their design teams, where process, play and a bit of semi-controlled chaos take centre stage. The first thing you notice about DixonBaxi’s REMIX is the colour. It’s a big green square that arrived like…

The London studio has crafted a thoughtful visual identity for Proxectar, a new design event in Nigrán that blends local heritage with global perspective. Proxectar, a new design event, is reshaping the creative landscape of northern Spain by bringing international design voices to Nigrán, a small coastal town in Galicia. Incidentally, the town is better…

The new sorghum-based snack brand, created by Saint-Urbain with entrepreneur Jessica Davidoff and investor Novak Djokovic, reimagines 1970s kitchen culture for a new generation of gluten-free, corn-free eaters. Clean eating has had plenty of visual tropes over the years – some repetitive and some a little tired – but Cob has arrived in the health-conscious…

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PAPER CUT turns the gallery into a giant children’s art table, scattered with crayons, glue sticks, and bright, fragile creations. Among the mess are an abandoned popsicle-stick house, a life size diorama, macaroni paintings, and pipe-cleaner figures caught mid-gesture. Created by PRIEST, the installation reimagines childhood play as social archaeology, exposing the city’s hidden layers…

It might be too political for the shops, but Graham Johnson’s card game based on you-know-who is picking up some great feedback from its target market. There are those of us who used to turn on the news and say, ‘What fresh Hell is this?’ Today, many don’t watch the news at all, in large…

A new wave of moods, methods and visual mindsets is reshaping creative practice in 2026, and a new report from Stocksy maps the shift perfectly. Want a clear read on where visual culture is heading next year? Stocksy‘s latest report is a super-useful overview of the moods, aesthetics and cultural forces shaping the imagery that…

Creative Boom gets an exclusive first look at the museum’s bio-inspired identity, designed to sit within the global Natural History Museum family while reflecting its unique architectural and cultural context. The Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi officially opened to the public on Saturday, marking a major addition to the fast-growing Saadiyat Cultural District. Alongside its…

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In Troels Carlsen’s exhibition Alt flyder – Everything flows – nothing is permanent, and everything is connected. Flora and fauna are quite literally intertwined in Carlsen’s large tableaus, often painted with acrylics on intricately collaged archival material sourced from antiquarian bookstores.

As the world gets louder, Pantone has turned down the volume. Its choice of hue for the next 12 months is a gentle white that encourages reflection, balance and the space to imagine again. Pantone has announced its Colour of the Year for 2026: Cloud Dancer (that’s PANTONE 11-4201, if you prefer the official name).…

Transforming the gallery into a listening space, House of Music brings together recent paintings and, for the first time, integrates sound into Doig’s work. The exhibition features two sets of rare, restored analogue speakers, originally designed for cinemas and large auditoriums. Music selected by the artist – from his substantial archive of vinyl records and cassette tapes…

The global creative company has redefined the music partner’s brand and website, creating a unified system that blends creativity, technology, and the emotional power of sound. MassiveMusic has long been known for shaping how brands feel as much as how they sound or behave, and now they have entered a new chapter, marked by a…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock With AI anxiety reaching fever pitch, illustrators share their hard-won insights on survival, adaptation and why human creativity remains irreplaceable. Welcome to the latest in our advice series, Dear Boom. This week’s dilemma strikes at the heart of every illustrator’s fears right now. “Everywhere I look, someone’s declaring illustration dead,”…

To our friends in Japan, we hope you can go see the Ryosokuin Temple, Kyoto, showcase of Shio Kusaka & Jonas Wood through December 10, 2025. The showcase is co-organized by David Kordansky Gallery, with new ceramic works by Kusaka and new paintings by Wood.

The creative director and podcaster shares an honest look at AuDHD, burnout and building a creative life that actually works for your brain. We all need to talk more about mental health, right? That seems to be the societal consensus right now, anyway. But the problem is, a lot of us don’t actually know what…

The club’s unapologetic, sacred-toned identity, designed by Among Equals, challenges the culture of fear that still shapes women’s running. A new South London run club is aiming to address the stark statistics surrounding women’s safety, supported by a confident brand identity from female-founded agency Among Equals. SIN – Strength in Numbers – is a running…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock For many creatives, it’s been the year from hell. But now, as 2025 draws to a close, our community shares some hard-won lessons on persistence, authenticity and learning to trust their own pace. As December arrives with its characteristic mix of deadlines, chaos and exhaustion, creatives across the UK are…

Opening in May 2026, the immersive exhibition will explore speculative futures through new films, models, tapestries and soundscapes, including a major commission for the Barbican. The Barbican has announced its headline 2026 Immersive exhibition, revealing that artist, director and BAFTA-nominated producer Liam Young will debut his first UK solo show next summer. Titled In Other…

The luxury retailer’s new festive campaign turns 181 Piccadilly into a magical world of animated characters, craft and Christmas charm. Fortnum & Mason has revealed its new Christmas campaign, created by London studio OTHERWAY in collaboration with BAFTA-winning animation house Studio AKA. Titled A Fantastical Christmas, the work builds on last year’s festive direction but…

The presentation platform has unveiled a hand-drawn, single-colour illustration universe by Dutch designer and animator Loek Vugs, bringing a tactile and expressive counterpoint to its bold new brand. Mentimeter has rolled out a fresh suite of illustrations and animations as part of its wider rebrand, pairing a crisp, graphic identity with a more human, hand-drawn…

Michael Werner Gallery, Beverly Hills is pleased to present Paradise Valley, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by the painter Brett Goodroad (b. 1979 in Kearney, Nebraska). This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles and his first with Michael Werner Gallery. 

Dále Zine and Shepard Fairey’s Los Angeles–based gallery, Subliminal Projects, are pleased to present HANDLE WITH CARE, a co-curated group exhibition opening at Dále Zine’s flagship store in the Miami Design District during Art Week /Art Basel Miami 2025.

Bowman Hal presents Imminence, the new exhibition by Italian artist Siro Cugusi, on view through 31 January at the gallery’s SOLO CSV space, located at Cuesta de San Vicente 36, Madrid. The show brings together a selection of works, most of them large-scale, in which Cugusi unfolds his distinctive visual universe: reinvented landscapes, reconfigured classical…

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The largest chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts has launched a new identity and strategy designed to strengthen its role as a civic space for design and reaffirm its place at the centre of New York’s creative community. AIGA NY has revealed a new logo and strategic direction, marking one of the organisation’s…

Harman Projects is pleased to announce Princess, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Grabelsky. Known for his surreal, hyper-realistic scenes that blend the everyday with the extraordinary, Grabelsky unveils a new body of work that reimagines iconic Disney Princesses as contemporary women navigating the modern world. The exhibition marks Grabelsky’s latest exploration of…

The design studio has created an internal campaign, built around a simple idea called “Us”, to strengthen understanding of the Woodland Trust’s brand and inspire staff to take collective ownership of it. Most brand projects that land in a studio usually come with a brief geared towards the outside world. Designers are asked to persuade…

JD Sports – lenscap50 / stock.adobe.com Everyone’s talking about creative agencies “moving upstream” into brand territory… but the lines were never really there in the first place. The best work has always come from those who see brand and campaign as two sides of the same coin. Creative agencies are swimming upstream. Uncommon recently delivered…

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This month brought a mix of sharp brand thinking, cultural nostalgia, and some much-needed clarity in crowded markets. From workplace art to whiskey cans dipped in ’80s gold, here are the projects that caught our attention in November. From the hundreds of projects submitted to us each month, it’s so hard to choose our favourites,…

Epitome of Edinburgh A handpicked list of brilliant independents across the UK. If you’re buying gifts this year, here are the shops worth supporting and the people who make them special. It’s Small Business Saturday this weekend. A gentle reminder to think about where we buy our Christmas gifts. Not from the retail overlords. From…

The London studio has introduced a refined, emotionally driven identity for the British furniture maker, shifting the story from pure function to the feeling of living with cleverly engineered, beautifully made pieces. Derek&Eric is behind the new identity for Furl, complete with a logomark that shows furniture pieces slotting together perfectly. Furl has built its…

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Here’s just a few great paint slingers: Delacroix, Neel, Auerbach, Van Gogh, Grotjahn, Cecily, Hockney, Henry, Freud, Peyton, Ryman, Hals, Schutz, Schnabs, Lisa Y,  Monet, Manet. And yeah, I’m gonna go there and toss in Woll.

Harman Projects is pleased to announce Love Bite, a solo exhibition by UK-based artist Alison Friend. Known for her irresistible anthropomorphic animal portraits, Friend blends classical techniques with a distinctly mischievous imagination. Drawing stylistic inspiration from the Old European Masters, Friend’s oil paintings capture the secret lives of animals when we’re not looking. At once humorous…

Fresh grotesques challenge Helvetica’s dominance, whilst experimental systems explore collective authorship, architectural inspiration, and the fluid boundaries between serif and sans. As we approach the end of the year and (gulp!) the first quarter of the 21st century, the type world continues to bring us lashings of design-related goodness. This month’s releases span from deeply…

The Belfast studio designed everything from logo to lighting for Birch Cabins. And the results speak to the power of multidisciplinary thinking. There’s a particular kind of coherence that only comes from thinking about everything at once. A recent project from Crown Creative demonstrates exactly that: it’s work where brand identity, interior design and digital…

Ireland might be a small nation, but it connected up some pretty significant global networks last week. Here’s what that means for designers across Ireland, the UK and beyond. When a young Indian, Pradyumna Vyas, arrived in Kilkenny in the 1980s to work as an intern, he found something unexpected in Ireland’s then-fledgling design scene:…

Insiders’ #IgnoredByInsta campaign was designed to expose Instagram’s failure to protect users whose accounts were hacked. Instead, it has become a story about censorship, corporate fear, and the power Meta holds over the advertising industry. A campaign calling on Instagram to take responsibility for user safety was stopped before it even reached the streets. The…

Work for The Public The award-winning creative director discusses why he’s starting something fresh, what he learned building Franklyn, and why the new studio is named after his son. When we interviewed graphic designer and studio head Michael Freimuth for the Creative Boom Podcast back in 2021, collaboration and play were at the heart of…

The new identity is built on the idea of cultivation, using a floral-led visual system and a global creative team to reflect its role in nurturing careers across the design industry. Design recruitment agency Craft has revealed a new brand identity that leans firmly into what it does best: cultivating creative careers and teams for…

Jessica Silverman is delighted to present The Eighth Color by Rupy C. Tut, a solo exhibition of paintings on linen and handmade paper that explores cultural history, feminine agency, and ecological dreamlands. A polyglot who speaks English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, and Spanish, Tut often reflects on the experience of migration and the psychology of diaspora. The exhibition’s…

Louis Buhl & Co. is pleased to present a new exhibition with Chicago-based artist Cody Hudson, titled It’s Alright Cause I Know My Own Way Back Home From Here. The show will feature new paintings on linen and canvas, a series of works on paper, and three of Hudson’s signature powder coated aluminum sculptures. 

Here Design has built a reputation for thoughtful, craft-led branding that feels as good as it looks, with their philosophy of “beautility” shaping everything they put into the world. You’d find it difficult to look at Here Design’s portfolio without being in awe, not only because of the enviable client list but also because each…

Created by Worth Your While, the animated campaign uses rolling papers designed like Danish driving licences and two hard-hitting films to warn young drivers about the consequences of getting high behind the wheel. A striking new campaign is rolling out in Denmark this week, aiming at drug driving, which is a growing problem among young…

Thirst’s design for the first instalment of Bruichladdich’s new four-part X4+18 series pushes Scotch far beyond its usual codes, blending abstract geometry and colour with the distillery’s long-standing appetite for risk and reinvention. Bruichladdich has never been a distillery that plays things safe, but its latest release takes that reputation into striking new territory. This…

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morrowlight – stock.adobe.com This year, Penguin celebrates its 90th birthday, marking a near-century of one of the most instantly recognisable and influential identities in publishing history.  From the beginning, typography wasn’t an accessory to Penguin’s brand – it was the brand. The early paperbacks introduced a rigorously consistent format that felt startlingly modern in a…

Darren Richardson, Jen Hallam, Matt Forster We explore the new hires, wins, studio moves, and launches that are worth a look this month. It’s encouraging to see the industry thriving, despite the gloomy outlook. Another month, another sweep across the industry to see who’s making moves. Booms & Shakes is where Creative Boom rounds up…

BEYOND THE STREETS is proud to present SHEPARD FAIREY: OUT OF PRINT, a landmark exhibition devoted to the artist’s lifelong dialogue with printmaking. Bringing together more than 400 original screen prints alongside new and re‑mixed works that combine screen printing and stenciling, the exhibition surveys Fairey’s enduring commitment to the image, the multiple, and the power of…

NANZUKA is pleased to present “See-Through,” a solo exhibition of new works by Stickymonger at NANZUKA UNDERGROUND. This marks the artist’s second solo showing at NANZUKA following “D.D.D,” held in 2023 at NANZUKA 2G and 3110NZ (now Sushi Saito Hanare NANZUKA), and serves as the artist’s first solo exhibition in the main gallery.

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Creative professionals offer practical advice on building empathy, respect and genuine support into your daily practice… without the empty gestures. Kindness in the creative industry often gets reduced to pleasantries and politeness. But real kindness, the kind that actually makes a difference, lives in the unglamorous details. How you handle…

Global consultancy Brandpie has reimagined the Royal Albert Hall’s brand identity, refining its logo, typography and signature red to help the landmark venue connect with new audiences while staying true to its cultural legacy. It would be very fair to say that few cultural institutions carry as much weight as the Royal Albert Hall (on…

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Jean Jullien’s pictorial works explore places and moments in life. This time, on the occasion of his return to the gallery after more than three years, the artist shares his Tokyo experience in the neighborhood known as “Tokugawa Village,” where he prepared his Chinese and Japanese exhibitions. The “return” expresses the universal feeling of comfort…

Pace Prints is pleased to announce the first New York solo exhibition by Japanese artist Yusuke Hanai, titled Perseverance. The exhibition will present new works on paper and be on view through December 20, 2025, at 536 West 22nd Street. 

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Acclaimed artist Umar Rashid (also known as Frohawk Two Feathers) presents the third installment in his ambitious twelve-part narrative series, The Epoch of Totalitarianism at Tiwani Contemporary. This new chapter, titled The Civil Wars and the Uncivilized Wars (See Power), continues Rashid’s ongoing reimagining of global history through the lens of his richly constructed fictional universe, the Frenglish Empire.

Last Saturday, the gallery hosted an impromptu one-day preview of Marcus Brutus: En Focus, which formally opened November 13 at Harper’s Chelsea 512. The day before, we had arranged the paintings along the floor for a special client, one of Marcus’s most dedicated supporters. The works, still in their shadowboxes, were placed by size beneath…

From thoughtful stocking fillers to gorgeous treats, our annual Christmas gift guide for creatives is back. It’s packed with ideas for artists, designers, and anyone who adores beautifully made things. Christmas is nearly upon us, and with it, the yearly dilemma: what on earth do you buy someone creative? Whether they’re a fussy graphic designer…

Work for The Public The award-winning creative director discusses why he’s starting something fresh, what he learned building Franklyn, and why the new studio is named after his son. When we interviewed graphic designer and studio head Michael Freimuth for the Creative Boom Podcast back in 2021, collaboration and play were at the heart of…

This luxury-first identity resists sustainability clichés, trusts in the product and builds a brand that feels genuinely future-facing. For creative professionals, the challenge with sustainability-led branding today isn’t finding the environmental story; it’s escaping it. In a world crowded with greenwashing, eco clichés, earthy palettes and earnest manifestos, the most interesting direction is often the…

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Pace is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Friedrich Kunath at its 510 West 25th Street gallery in New York. On view through December 20, this will be the artist’s first solo show in the city since 2019 and his debut presentation with the gallery, which began representing him in May 2025.

MARUANI MERCIER is delighted to present Bea Scaccia: Mood Swings, the exhibition of new paintings by the artist. In Mood Swings, meticulously rendered objects of adornment interweave, ripple and twist, enshrouding the female figure in the composition. Illuminated by the soft glow of twinkle lights, layers of shoes, jewels and beads appear both desirable and strange, humorous…

The new system unites its museum, magazine, and digital platforms under an expressive visual framework that embraces friction, motion, and a renewed sense of connection. Foam, Amsterdam’s celebrated photography museum, has revealed a refreshed brand identity and visual system designed by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam. The overhaul establishes a unified look across the museum’s physical, digital, and…

Sign, Vendel & de Wolf. Lumiere Durham 2025, produced by Artichoke. Photography © 2025, Matthew Andrews. The Lumiere festival spreads across the urban centre and beyond, showcasing more than two dozen light art pieces by international artists in its final edition, following a 15-year collaboration between Durham County Council and producers Artichoke. It was the…

The design blends elegant typography with abstract watercolour illustrations, capturing the region’s atmosphere without cliché. Few places evoke sensory richness quite like the Mediterranean, from the sunlight and the sea to the slow lunches that turn into long evenings. Sometimes, though, it’s easy to fall into the same coastal clichés when interpreting the Med in…

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Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to announce Say Less, a solo exhibition of new works by Eleanor Swordy, her first in Berlin, and second with the gallery.

HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present VACANT, a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Aglaé Bassens. Marking her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, VACANT continues Bassens’ long-standing interest in the emotional charge of ordinary moments and objects, while introducing a significant shift in both her source material and painterly approach.

Created by Mary Hemingway and a team of volunteer collaborators, Designfully is a new 260-page print magazine that spotlights women in design, featuring over 50 contributors in its debut ‘Celebration’ issue. There’s something a little bit radical about launching a new print magazine in 2025. While many publishers continue to pivot to digital, Designfully is…

Leon Edler tells a remarkably honest story of brilliant creative vision colliding with zero business sense, cancer, divorce and undiagnosed ADHD… then ultimately, redemption. It’s a Tuesday morning in Brighton, and illustrator Leon Edler is sitting in his studio, looking back at seven years of spectacular mistakes. The kind of mistakes that cost money, mental…

Launching during Irish Design Week, a new collaboration between the National Print Museum and artist Anthony Burrill celebrates the enduring power of letterpress and a timeless message of optimism. HOPE. It’s a single word with four letters and a lot of meaning – and it’s the message behind Anthony Burrill’s latest work, created in collaboration…

The studio worked with the platform to craft a flexible visual system, which balances global recognition with personal expression. When someone lands a new job or marks a work anniversary on LinkedIn, the moment deserves more than a generic graphic. For the platform’s billion-plus users, these milestones matter… and the visuals accompanying them should reflect…

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Elizabeth Xi Bauer is pleased to present COBRA, an exhibition of new works by Shadi Al-Atallah, a London-based Saudi artist known for emotionally charged figurative paintings that inhabit liminal spaces between intimacy and conflict. While themes of identity, queerness, and spirituality remain central to his practice, COBRA marks a striking transformation—shifting from the painterly to…

Park Life is excited to announce a new exhibition of work from Bay Area artist Jason Jägel. This is Jason’s first show with Park Life.

Manchester agency LOVE has unveiled a new visual identity and packaging system for Sol, reintroducing the Mexican lager’s heritage through archive-led illustration and a renewed focus on youth culture. Sol has unveiled a new global identity, created by Manchester-based studio LOVE, that aims to reconnect the Mexican lager with a new generation of drinkers. The…

Produced by Nice and Serious for Project Everyone and CAFOD, Meet The World’s Loan Sharks uses early-2000s daytime TV nostalgia and biting humour to spotlight the exploitative nature of global lending ahead of the G20 summit. What do dodgy daytime TV adverts and the global debt crisis have in common? More than you’d think, according…

Deutsch / Nicht Deutsch by mots (Daniela Nedovescu and Octavian Mot, Germany The 2025 Lumen Prize in Norway showed that artists are using digital technologies, including AI, as meaningful instruments for creative expression, activism and dialogue. Last week, I ventured to Kristiansand, a small but beautiful city on the southern coast of Norway, for the…

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KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT is pleased to present NACHTSCHWÄRMEN by Rasmus Eckhardt, the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. In NACHTSCHWÄRMEN, Eckhardt turns to Berlin, his adopted city, as both stage and labyrinth. Across sixteen new works, figures drift through the half-light of streets and rooms, guided by the quiet rhythm of the night. Within this wandering, a…

The Figure is the first full-scale survey devoted to Milton Avery’s figurative paintings. The works on view begin the 1920s, when he moved to New York, and continue through 1964, the year he completed his final canvases. Reminiscing on the home they shared for more than four decades, his wife, Sally Michel, recalled that “someone was…

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Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to announce Pilgrimage, an exhibition of new paintings by Clare Rojas (b. 1976, Columbus, Ohio). Over the past two decades, Clare Rojas has developed a deeply personal visual language that is equally rooted in mythology, ecofeminism, as well as the legacy of abstraction. Moving freely from dense, fantastical landscapes to minimal compositions,…

Philip Martin Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new works by Ontario-based artist Sky Glabush. Glabush’s work engages the totality of personal and pictorial experience. Glabush makes paintings and works-on-paper that offer viewers an opportunity to examine interiority through an encounter with exteriority as figured in the language of painting. In looking at Glabush’s…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Three years in and barely surviving? You’re not alone. Here’s how to decide whether to stick with freelancing or try something new. Welcome to the fifth in our advice series, Dear Boom. This week, we’re exploring one of the most agonising decisions a creative can face: whether to throw in…

The global studio has just appointed a chairperson. That’s a bit unusual, so we took a deep dive with them into why and how their new structure can help them stay honest. When creative studios take private equity investment, the industry braces for the inevitable: streamlined processes, cost efficiencies, and that slow erosion of the…

The design duo have introduced a simple yet revolutionary format change that better explains the strategic thinking behind their work. Every design studio faces the same problem: how do you showcase the work that doesn’t appear in a final design file? The invisible labour of strategy—the positioning frameworks, the naming rationales, the painstaking narrative architecture—rarely…

Designer Yinka Ilori aims to address the urgent decline in outdoor play, starting in Nigeria and then spreading across the planet. The design of play is a topic that doesn’t get much attention. But it’s actually one of the spaces where the most exciting and radical things are happening right now. Take Cas Holman, whose…

Pre-orders are now available for ARTISTS IN SPACE, a book presented by Compton-based, Jeffrey Deitch affiliated artist and criminal justice reform advocate, Mr. Wash. The 200-page book presents a visual archive of studio environments from 20 of Los Angeles’ most dynamic working artists today. All proceeds of the project will go towards building the Art…

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Thinkspace Projects is pleased to present Inward, their fourth solo exhibition with artist Cinta Vidal showcasing 14 new works on canvas and 6 new works on paper. Vidal (b. 1982 Spain) was originally trained as a theater painter, but when the illusionary space of the stage became too confining, she turned to urban landscapes and…

Company Gallery is pleased to announce Gentle Tug on Thigh, a solo exhibition of new works on paper and soft sculptures by Jonathan Lyndon Chase, on view through December 20, 2025. The exhibition highlights drawing as a central thread in Chase’s practice, where the body becomes a vessel balancing structure and softness.

It’s a new look, a new era, and a fresh burst of ideas for this cultural landmark at Marina Bay Sands. ArtScience Museum has just unveiled its first big rebrand, but it’s not just about fonts and colours; it’s about what a museum can mean in the 2020s. If you ever make it to Singapore,…

In a fast-changing world, full of conflict and nastiness, here’s an artist whose only aim is to spread smiles and love. Big smile. Big strides. Big hugs for the trees he knows. Luke McConkey is a Liverpool-based illustrator whose positive attitude seeps into every aspect of his life and his art. With their Robert Crumb-style…

The Copenhagen studio’s work for this butter cookie brand is a great example of how to bridge local heritage and international appeal through thoughtful design. To someone in their 50s like me, there’s a specific thrill that comes with opening one of those old Danish butter cookie tins —the ones with scenes of windmills and…

Margate-based studio Outsiders has conjured up a new identity for Supernatural – a natural wine brand “not of this earth” – with monster-like wax seals that glow in the dark and tongue-in-cheek storytelling. Supernatural wine – dreamt up by Palms Pizzeria founders Stu and Josh – has been brought to life by Margate studio Outsiders,…

The Unibrow is excited to announce Against a Bright Blue Sky, a group exhibition and issue launch at Tlaloc Studios in Los Angeles, opening the evening of Saturday, November 22, 2025 from 6-10pm. The exhibition co-curated by artist Ozzie Juarez and The Unibrow editor and former editor-in-chief at Juxtapoz, Evan Pricco. Against a Bright, Blue Sky can be…

Philip Martin Gallery is pleased to present, “Dry Season,” an exhibition of new oil-on-canvas paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Daniel Dove. Dove’s works consider modern American life through the lens of Realism, a painterly approach popularized by Gustav Courbet that focuses on depicting, “ordinary life and people with accuracy.

LaMontagne Gallery is pleased to present Motion Pictures, a solo exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Sean Downey. The work uses images and forms as proxies for a feeling sense about time. Distinctions between the political, cultural, historical, and autobiographical become fluid, and imagery arises that seems almost to tell a story yet is…

Are branding agencies talking about AI so much because it’s actually useful… or just to keep investors happy? Recently I attended Upscale in Málaga, Spain. It’s a conference organised by Freepik, which offers a suite of AI tools for creating and editing content. So naturally, I was expecting a lot of blind cheerleading for AI.…

Fashion designer Kévin Germanier’s embroidered design for the iconic event challenges traditional boundaries between creative disciplines. When Keith Haring picked up a brush in 1983 to create the Montreux Jazz Festival poster, and when David Bowie took his turn in 1995, they were participating in a tradition that had already established itself as one of…

“A year from now, million-dollar shoots won’t exist”: PJ Accetturo, director behind the AI-generated NBA Finals ad, believes creative control is moving into new hands. If you work in commercial creativity today, you’ve spent the past year hearing a lot of lofty takes about AI “changing everything”. Most of the time, those predictions are more…

Still from a music video made by Diane Laidlaw (ie Afro Futcha). A pair of friends launched this side project to help the creative community, not sell you software. Read on to learn why this AI contest is different from the rest. Let’s be honest, AI contests are everywhere right now. But who’s organising them?…

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Company Gallery is pleased to announce Divorce Paintings, Jeanette Mundt’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Recently, Mundt’s practice has undergone a decisive evolution, with the physical life of painting now at its center. Confronting what she perceives as a loosening of collective historical memory, Mundt has re-engaged with canonical genres – landscape, still life,…

Jasaya Neale, born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri—a city steeped in the rich heritage of jazz—developed a deep connection to jazz, not just as music but as a philosophy: “the African American’s eternal recreation of the present”. This concept fuels his work, capturing the ongoing dialogue between history and the now.

Cracker Barrel – dennizn – stock.adobe.com When Cracker Barrel’s shiny new look caused its stock to drop by almost $200 million, the internet laughed. But buried in the chaos was a golden lesson: what happens when you forget that brand isn’t just visuals—it’s value, emotion, and culture, all rolled into one. Is it ok to…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock When a colleague takes credit for your work in meetings, staying silent feels wrong… but kicking up a fuss feels worse. Here’s how to reclaim your ideas without losing your professionalism. Welcome to the latest in our advice series, Dear Boom. This week’s dilemma hits a particularly raw nerve: the…

Pooja Saxena’s new book showcases how handcrafted signage suggests fresh typographic possibilities beyond canonical print traditions. For designers used to working with digital typefaces and brand guidelines, India’s urban streets present an alternative typographic universe. It’s a frenzied, colourful kaleidoscope where painted signs compete with neon, mosaic sits alongside metal, and multiple scripts layer on…

Aiming to reframe its role in modern British life, Barclays has unveiled a new campaign by VCCP that focuses on the small but powerful decisions that help people, businesses, and communities move forward. Barclays is stepping into a new era with the launch of Moments of Progress, a nationwide campaign that reimagines how one of…

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Charlie James Gallery is pleased to present May the Ground Seethe, a solo exhibition of painting and sculpture by Los Angeles artist Shizu Saldamando. Saldamando’s intimate portraits distill figures from context, focusing on the body as the site of political struggle and communal joy. The title of the exhibition borrows a lyric from the song “MML” by Dorian…

A show we have been excited about all fall is Landscape by Motonori Uwasu, opening at Moosey Norwich this week. Born in Osaka Japan in 1975, Motonori Uwasu graduated in Fine Art from Osaka University of Arts in 1999. He lives in Higashiosaka, Japan, with his wife and seven cats. Higashiosaka is a suburban town with many factories, including many…

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Rife with symbolic subject matter, Julie Curtiss’ exhibition Maid in Feathers is a personal meditation on early motherhood and psychological transformation. In this new body of work, Curtiss explores the shadow-side of quotidian scenes in acrylic and oil paintings, graphic gouache works on paper and lacquered sculptures. A hybrid bird-figure appears throughout as a proxy…

Thomas Dane Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Dana Schutz,  across the gallery’s two spaces on Duke Street, St. James’s. One Big Animal will be the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, following Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly in 2020, and major survey exhibitions in Europe…

Blending botanical beauty with sustainable design, Lark Design Studio has reimagined Dragonfly Tea for the gifting market with a collection that’s as thoughtful to give as it is to sip. British tea brand Dragonfly Tea is entering the gifting market for the first time, with the help of long-time collaborators Lark Design Studio. Their new…

A collaboration between London-based studio JOY! Collective and heritage paint brand Farrow & Ball has transformed public spaces across the capital into immersive illusions, celebrating the launch of 12 new colours with a contemporary twist on traditional craft. Londoners wandering through Wimbledon, Richmond, Battersea, or Notting Hill this month may have stumbled upon something rather…

Andres Norwood Directed by Gabi Lamb and Andres Norwood, adidas’ latest Hispanic Heritage Month campaign spotlights skateboarders Jen Soto and Diego Nájer­a, weaving together heritage, sport, and storytelling in what’s being hailed as the brand’s most culturally resonant celebration yet. Adidas has never been a stranger to culture, but with Nuestra Cultura al Mundo –…

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One of our favorite Los Angeles painters and recent guest on the podcast, Salomón Huerta is set to open Unspoken Ritual at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills. The show will feature a series of works featuring guns and snacks, a series based on his relationship with his father and act of bringing his dad fruit…

This fall, Galerie de l’UQAM invites visitors to the highly-anticipated exhibition by UQAM alumnus David Altmejd. Work by this internationally renowned sculptor will be presented in Montreal for the first time in ten years. Curated by Louise Déry, Director of Galerie de l’UQAM, the exhibition David Altmejd. Agora unites almost thirty heads and busts, which are emblematic…

From familiar faces to value-first storytelling, this year’s festive ads mix nostalgia with real-world warmth. Every December, Britain gathers around its screens for a new kind of festive tradition: the release of the year’s Christmas ads. What started as simple, heart-tugging tales of love and togetherness has grown into a full-blown season of cinematic spectacle,…

The London-based designer discusses how he created Olio, a ready-made brand identity for an Italian restaurant. When Alexander Clark designed Olio, a visual identity inspired by Southern Italian dining culture, he had no brief, no stakeholders and no deadline. The identity was created purely as a portfolio project; a chance to explore ideas freely. Now,…

The beauty brand’s first physical store in the heart of London is a playful, multi-sensory space designed with YourStudio to celebrate connection, creativity, and community. From social media sensation to in-store experience, Skin Cupid has made its long-awaited move into physical retail. The cult K-Beauty retailer, founded by Melody Yuan in 2020, has opened its…

Sydney design studio Universal Favourite has crafted a new identity for a Jakarta-based dessert brand that blurs the line between food, fantasy and storytelling, inviting customers into the world of Butterlandia. Butter Baby, the self-proclaimed “first Butterlandian dessert brand,” has landed in the city’s Blok M district, complete with a shop and identity that feels…

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Ciaccia Levi presents The Whorled, Srijon Chowdhury’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Known for his luminous, dreamlike canvases, Chowdhury merges myth and intimacy into a single, spiraling cosmos—where flowers bloom into galaxies, unicorns carry human figures through fields of light, and portraits of loved ones pulse with both tenderness and transcendence.

Lo Brutto Stahl is pleased to present The Idea of a City, the first-ever solo exhibition by New York based artist and art dealer Shelby Jackson. The show features a selection of paintings, objects, and works on paper created over the past five years.

By Bruna Kater As grey skies and gloomy weather roll across the Northern Hemisphere, we look south for vibrant dashes of Latin American inspiration, but not all of them live up to the clichés. In dance, food, sport, cuisine and more, if there’s one word that sums up Latin American culture, that word is ‘creativity’.…

Alphabetical Playground by Nigel Cottier invites designers to rethink letters as living systems, opening typography to broader experimentation, ambiguity and expressive play. For most of us, the alphabet is something learn early and internalised quickly; a familiar framework we rarely inspect. However, a new book invites us to pause and reconsider this foundation entirely. Alphabetical…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock New rules allow tax authorities to withdraw funds directly from accounts to recover unpaid taxes. But what will that mean in practice? If you’re a freelancer, the phrase “feast or famine” is one you’re probably very familiar with. For most of us, income rarely arrives in neat, predictable amounts. Even…

A new sexual wellness brand is reclaiming the streets of London with a message of liberation, sustainability, and joy through a ten-week fly-posting campaign. Revolutionary sexual wellness brand SEX BRAND is making noise in London, taking over the streets of Soho with its new F*CK SOHO campaign. The ten-week fly-postering project aims to dismantle shame,…

Night Gallery is thrilled to present In Circles, Still Forward, an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles based artist Kayla Witt. In Circles, Still Forward is Witt’s first solo exhibition with the gallery following her inclusion in Superbloom and our 2024 Frieze London presentation.

In one of the most highly anticipated shows in the Bay Area this fall, one of our favorires, Muzae Sesay, will return to pt.2 Gallery in Domesitc Demo, an exhibition that is being a billed as a 5-parter. We don’t know all the parts, but what we do know is these are some of his…

Impression – Terrace at the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration © Nora Walter Twenty years after it was first envisaged, The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration will at last open next year in Clerkenwell. After two decades of planning, false starts and temporary spaces, Britain’s illustration community is about to gain something it has…

Could this be the future of creative working and living? Read my exclusive report to find out. Okay, I’ve stayed in hotels in Amsterdam before. But never like this. When I wandered into the lobby at Volkshotel Amsterdam one October morning, it didn’t really feel like a hotel. This was something else entirely. The ground…

From psychological thrillers to inflatable nightmares, our community took The Abyss brief into wonderfully dark territory. When we launched Boom Brief #4, we knew we were onto something deliciously different. After branding design schools and coastal festivals, we challenged our community to create the visual identity for The Abyss, a fictional roller coaster that plunges…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Creativity thrives on kindness, not pressure. So follow these tips from the Creative Boom community to help you navigate doubt, rest well and make your best work sustainably. The creative industries have long romanticised struggle: the late nights, the tough love, the idea that suffering somehow produces brilliance. But what…

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James Fuentes is thrilled to announce Geoffrey Holder, Saturday Night, on view November 12 through December 20 in New York. Spanning the early-1980s onward, the exhibition spotlights Holder’s recurring series of nightlife paintings, which pay homage to the artist’s youngest memories of Trinidadian dancehalls. These spaces of music, movement, and collective joy sparked Holder’s earliest imagination and…

Mario Ayala: Seven Vans is the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States. Expanding on his signature shaped canvases—often depicting the back of cars with technical precision—Seven Vans debuts seven life-size van paintings created specifically for Houston. Derived from the word caravan, the van bridges histories of commerce and counterculture.

The well-known Manchester studio has turned its own book about club culture into a living promoter brand, complete with custom variable font and a debut event. There’s a particular kind of professional restlessness that comes from documenting someone else’s glory days. F37, the Manchester-based design studio and type foundry, spent considerable time and energy producing…

The tech brand’s latest tongue-in-cheek film, Reply All is Scary, transforms one of the internet’s most relatable nightmares into a haunted house of email chaos, starring comedian Steph Barkley. Is there anything more chilling than realising you’ve hit “Reply All” on a 50-person email chain? Just in time for Halloween, Yahoo! is embracing the horror…

Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley is the first mid-career survey devoted to artists and twin brothers Nikolai and Simon Haas (b. 1984, Austin, Texas), who founded their collaborative studio in Los Angeles in 2010. The duo is known for their artistic practice that cross-pollinates the fields of art, craft, design, and technology.

“This is an impossible communication, but that’s the only kind we want.” —April Freely, 2014, Excerpt from “But Is It An Essay, Voyager Edition”

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“The King of Pop Surrealism” is returning to where it all began, Los Angeles, for an exhibition of new works titled Eye Am opening at Perrotin’s space on Pico. From the looks of the image below, Mark Ryden’s new work appears to have something to do with a yam? In biblical terms, “yam” is the Hebrew word for “sea,”…

This striking visual initiative harnesses portraiture, public space and design to spotlight the hidden plight of women in North Korea. When you work as a visual creative, visibility is everything. You shape perception through design, image, narrative and context. But what happens when the people you hope to represent have been deliberately erased from view?…

AI-powered health benefits platform Healthee has unveiled a new brand identity by Scout Lab, designed to bring clarity, warmth, and humanity to a notoriously complex category. Health benefits are rarely simple. That’s why Healthee – an AI-powered platform designed to help people navigate them – came to creative communications agency Scout Lab to make them…

“In a sense, the whole world around the artist is his source, his sorting and relating powers are his sorcery, and the one isn’t much good without the other. … Anything can be a source, even a mistake. The sorcery or the thievery is the art of relating sources into a new solution.”

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The software giant is embedding AI into every corner of Creative Cloud, from Photoshop to Premiere to a new web-based video editor, while opening its tools to rival AI models from Google, OpenAI and others. Adobe is using its Max 2025 conference today to make a clear pitch. Instead of jumping between different AI tools,…

After 15 years in product and graphic design, this Seattle-based illustrator traded screens for sketchbooks. Her practice now bridges science and storytelling, creating detailed, nature-driven artwork that reconnects people to the ecosystems they call home. Seattle illustrator Stacy Hsu left a 15-year career in design to draw plants. She wasn’t chasing a trend or a…

On view now at Harper’s Chelsea 534 is Stacy Leigh’s State of Disrepair, a series of new paintings that is on view through November 8, 2025. 

With artwork by Kamwei Fong and words by Tess Thomas, the gorgeous new children’s book, Shibu’s Tail, is here to inspire… From Tenniel’s Cheshire Cat to Shimizu’s Hello Kitty, furry felines are an adorable source of inspiration for many creatives around the world. Joining the pride this month comes a new cuddly-clawed curiosity called Shibu,…

The new brand world for Brussels’ Faubourg 21 – a 19th-century townhouse turned luxury retreat – feels both intimate and grand thanks to a design language that doesn’t shout luxury, but whispers it with every detail. Faubourg 21 isn’t the kind of hotel that flaunts its grandeur. Tucked inside a 19th-century Brussels townhouse, it describes…

“I’m not so interested in the expression of something. I’m more interested in what the material can do. So that’s why I keep exploring,” said artist, educator, and civic leader Ruth Asawa, reflecting on a six-decade-long career. Featuring some 300 artworks, Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective charts the artist’s lifelong explorations of materials and forms in…

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The tension lodged within the works of Birgit Jürgenssen and Noelia Towers is on full display in this two-person exhibition at Slip House. Swinging between the former’s illustrations and photographs, and the latter’s crystalline painted images is a dance of surreal and penetrating depictions of womanhood; fraught, sentimental, peculiar, and everything in between.

Through colourful paintings and sculptures, this Bristol-based artist explores themes and emotions everyone can relate to in his unique, cartoony style. Five years ago, Matthew Callaby’s career took a new turn. He stepped out of the world of ad agencies and became a full-time artist. Enter, MrCallaby. While there’s certainly a hint of commercial nous…

Charles Moffett is pleased to present Change of Scenery, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Canadian artist Keiran Brennan Hinton. The exhibition marks the painter’s third solo show with the gallery. It is the culmination of a year’s worth of travel across the U.S., as Brennan Hinton spent extended time in residency in Corsicana, TX, Martha’s…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock From upstream exploration to downstream delivery, these studio heads reveal where artificial intelligence is genuinely adding value and where it’s falling short. If you work in a creative studio, you’ve likely spent some of the past two years lying awake at night, wrestling with questions about AI that feel both…

The Newt in Somerset has partnered with London-based studio Here Design to reimagine the identity for its Fine Cyder collection, fusing centuries of apple-growing heritage with contemporary elegance and storytelling rooted in myth and craft. The Newt in Somerset, famed for its orchards and cyder-making tradition, has unveiled a refreshed identity for its Fine Cyder…

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Close your eyes. A creature crawls through the forest at dawn. Dew drops cling to its skin. An ear peeks out from a tuft of damp vegetation. Saliva drips slowly onto the moist earth. The scent of awakening soil rises gradually. This creature is you—your double, your triple, all the personalities you have buried. They…

Charlie James Gallery is proud to present Elmer Guevara: Yesterday like today / Ayer cómo hoy, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. In this new body of work, Guevara explores ideas of intergenerational memory and trauma, reflecting on his own family’s experience of civil war and unrest across time and space. The paintings…

GR gallery is pleased to present COLLECTIONS, the first solo exhibition in New York by Nehemiah Cisneros and his debut with the gallery. The exhibition showcases an ambitious ensemble of twelve new paintings on canvas, the outcome of a year-long immersion in their creation. With this body of work, Cisneros reflects on the nature of…

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Hashimoto Contemporary in NYC is pleased to present The Light That Passes Through Us, a solo exhibition by Mexico City-based artist Carlos Rodriguez. The title of the exhibition, The Light That Passes Through Us, references William Irwin Thompson’s essay Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, where reflections on myth, sexuality, and imagination are explored as cultural…

Long Story Short Paris, in collaboration with Mai 36 Galerie and Kaleidoscope magazine, presents H.R. GIGER PARIS, an exhibition dedicated to the visionary Swiss artist H.R. Giger. Running through November 15, 2025, coinciding with Art Basel Paris, the show brings together original works spanning Giger’s career — including a rare life-size Necronom from Alien III, an…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Even seasoned, successful illustrators with agent representation are struggling to get work at the moment. So what’s going on, and how widespread is the problem, exactly? Struggling to get commissioned as an illustrator in 2025? Well, unfortunately, you’re by no means alone. Across the illustrator community, we’re seeing a consistent…

NAM and Warriors Studio’s branding for the Glasgow creative conference highlights how questioning the meaning of ‘functional’ can lead to more exciting design choices. When I first saw the stone typography for International Assembly‘s 2025 identity, I had to look twice. These massive, pockmarked letterforms look like ancient ruins, all cratered surfaces and eroded edges.…

Rooted in the idea of “fragmented beauty,” the design embraces imperfection, tactility and discovery to reflect both the spirit of contemporary art and the layered character of its host city, Bradford. The Turner Prize has landed in Bradford this year, marking the first time one of the world’s most recognised contemporary art awards has been…

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Clintel Steed believes every painting has the potential to be a portal into another time and dimension. It’s a bold assertion, but one that somehow rings true, as he invites us to step through the looking glass in his new series of paintings. Different Time Zones, Different Dimensions explores a future consumed and experienced through…

In the fractured terrain of contemporaneity, where the boundaries between the organic and the digital dissolve, we finally understand that identity is not inheritance but invention¹, not destiny but becoming, a space of struggle and reinvention, where every transformation is an act of resistance and hybridity constitutes the most authentic form of contemporary being. 

The midi sits between magazine and newspaper, making creative print publishing faster, cheaper and more accessible than ever. The Newspaper Club is a company that helps you print your own newspapers. They make it easy for anyone, from illustrators to design studios, to get work off the screen and into print, with no need for…

Dollywood – Joseph Hendrickson / stock.adobe.com When it comes to brand clarity, Dolly Parton might just be the wisest strategist of them all. In this guest piece, Jamie Williams, managing partner at isobel, explores why the smartest brands – like Dolly – know exactly who they are, say it loud, and do it on purpose.…

Opening this November on Frith Street, Tangra will bring a layered, story-rich experience shaped by a rare four-way creative collaboration between Jelly, Kuba&Friends, Boomranng Studio, and Quadrant Design. This November, a new arrival on Soho’s Frith Street is set to shake up London’s dining scene. Tangra, a new Indo-Chinese restaurant named after the Kolkata neighbourhood…

The heritage pet food brand unveils a vibrant new look and heartfelt creative celebrating the bond between pets and their people. Wellness Pet Company is putting wellbeing at the heart of the pet food aisle with Feed Well. Be Well., a fresh new brand identity and nationwide campaign created with Boston-based agency Colossus. Rooted in…

Perrotin Paris is pleased to present Lorquianas, a solo exhibition of new large-scale paintings and works on paper by Cristina BanBan, the Spanish-born, New York-based artist’s fourth show with the gallery. Originally debuted in May 2025 as part of the artist’s first institutional exhibition at the Alhambra’s Museum of Fine Arts in Granada, Spain, the exhibition…

Jakub Tomáš is a painter who has been attracting the attention of not only the domestic audience with his figurative compositions in recent years. In the exhibition Camping, he thematizes camping as a phenomenon. He perceives it both sociologically and visually. He is significantly addressed by predefined roles and situations that happen and unfold in…

Despite not being able to go to school, Habiba now learns at a UNICEF-supported Education Centre, Afghanistan. Neverland’s first campaign for the children’s charity champions resilience and hope in the face of global crises. UNICEF UK has launched a major new brand platform designed to rally public support for children around the world, putting their…

For nearly a decade, Paris-based studio MØM has built a reputation for finding beauty and meaning in the ideas everyone else overlooks. Creative director Willy Berquier talks about staying independent, designing beyond aesthetics, and why the best work starts with curiosity and conviction. There’s a certain irony in the fact that MØM – short for…

A powerful new short film by Nice and Serious for the End Violence Against Women Coalition marks 20 years of progress – and exposes the everyday ways male violence limits women’s lives, both on and offline. It starts like any other feel-good street interview. A young couple is stopped and asked a simple question: If…

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There’s nothing quite like the anticipation of a new game release. And Uncommon’s latest work for EA Sports has channelled that energy into pure cinematic chaos with The Club Is Yours, a wild, community-fuelled film that turns fan imagination into footballing mayhem. EA Sports and Uncommon have dropped a spectacular new launch film for FC…

Ever heard of The Hole Mask – or know what it implies? Brooklyn’s Saint-Urbain has helped new personal care brand Beam bring butt wellness out of the shadows and into the light, with a playful rebrand that swaps shame for shine. Brooklyn-based creative agency Saint-Urbain has given new personal care company Beam a fresh brand…

David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and glass installations by renowned German artist Gerhard Richter at the gallery’s Paris location. This is the artist’s third show with David Zwirner since the announcement of his representation in 2023, following solo presentations at the gallery’s locations in New York (2023) and London…

Draw Them In, Paint Them Out presents the work of painter Philip Guston (American, b. Canada 1913–1980), the child of Jewish immigrants from Odessa (present-day Ukraine), and Trenton Doyle Hancock (American, b. 1974), a leading Black contemporary artist based in Houston, Texas, in dialogue for the first time. It explores resonant connections between their work and…

Even Patagonia’s “anti-brand” aesthetic is branding at its most strategic. OceanProd – stock.adobe.com We need to talk about the elephant in the room. Or rather, the six-year-old’s restaurant logo, the lime green album cover, the poster for a jacket you’re specifically told not to buy… and even the California governor writing in all-caps. The design…

What happens when over a thousand women invest in a whisky brand? UK studio Contagious has created the identity for a new Norwegian island distillery rewriting the rules of this often stuffy, tradition-bound sector. On the windswept island of Fedje, just off Norway’s west coast, there’s something radical happening: a spirits brand has been launched,…

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“Water is important to people who do not have it,” Joan Didion wrote, “and the same is true of control.” She was talking about California, and the impressive machinery–“the aqueducts and siphons and pumps and forebays and afterbays and weirs and drains”–that has, since the early 20th Century, made American life as we know it…

Monya Rowe Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Lacey Black titled Cosmic Zoo. Black’s paintings are centered around a spiritual practice of going into the unknown, and searching for the unnamed connections within all living beings. Personal, fictitious and historical imagery are incorporated into works that are rooted in figuration, but explore lyricism, abstraction and…

Sophie-Yen Bretez                                 Sophie-Yen Bretez on Instagram

What began as a fun side project on Instagram soon exploded into something much bigger. And now the two creative friends have turned it into an online directory and a business. We talked to them both to find out more. After five years of curating beautiful things on Instagram, I Can’t Afford This But Maybe…

Created in collaboration with Network Rail, RIBA and the Design Museum, the striking new clock debuts at London Bridge station as a new icon of British design, blending heritage, accessibility and innovation. A new chapter in Britain’s railway story has been marked with the unveiling of Rail Clock, which is the country’s first national clock…

For Frieze London 2025, kurimanzutto presents a solo booth by Ana Segovia, featuring a new body of work that continues the artist’s critical engagement with the visual codes of masculinity in popular culture. Taking familiar images from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and the Western genre, Segovia reconfigures and reimagines these familiar archetypes through pictorial…

Assimilation is not a monolith. Just as notions of the American Dream shapeshift so, too, does the vision of that fantasy. In Mike Lee’s case, he has witnessed a refocusing on family and shared values. This embrace of a more traditional mindset echoes his parents’ generation, even if theirs was an immigrant Korean-American experience. Sometimes…

‘Seek What Is Unique’ is the new rallying cry for Japan’s No.1 beer, as Havas unveils a cinematic global campaign and refreshed design system that celebrates Asahi Super Dry’s distinctive taste and modern Japanese spirit. Asahi Super Dry, Japan’s best-selling beer, is raising a glass to a new era with the launch of its first…

A new rail campaign shifts the focus from sightseeing to sentiment, and celebrates the real reason we travel: to see the people we love. UK train companies often focus their campaigns around glamorous and exciting places, which look enticing and cinematic on screen. But in reality, most train journeys beyond the daily commute come down…

What began as a fun side project on Instagram soon exploded into something much bigger. And now the two creative friends have turned it into an online directory and a business. We talked to them both to find out more. After five years of curating beautiful things on Instagram, I Can’t Afford This But Maybe…

Sinziana Velicescu (previously featured here)                                 Sinziana Velicescu’s Website Sinziana Velicescu on Instagram

The Brussels-based artist has partnered with Evoca Foundation and Giga to champion digital access for girls everywhere. For Cécile Cuny, magic has always lived in the overlooked. The way a personified object suddenly gains personality is intriguing. The sense of independence radiates from a girl discovering her own power. The comfort found in something that…

The universe of Swiss painter Nicolas Party comes alive in his first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London. Featuring new treescapes and portraits in pastel, this exhibition celebrates and challenges longstanding and cherished conventions of representational painting through Party’s signature style. The portraits in the exhibition, inspired by two sculptural works by Camille…

Rajiv Menon Contemporary is pleased to announce දුම් ලෝකය (Dhum Lōkaya), a solo exhibition of recent works by Toronto based artist Rajni Perera. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States, following numerous institutional exhibitions in Canada and throughout the globe. In a multi-disciplinary practice that spans drawing, painting, sculpture, and…

Josh Lilley is pleased to present Here Lives the Origin, the first ever UK solo exhibition by Rember Yahuarcani. Yahuarcani (b. 1985, Peru) is an artist, curator and activist who belongs to the Aimenɨ (White Heron) clan of the Uitoto Nation of northern Amazonia in Peru. His practice considers the interconnectivity between man, beast, landscape and spirit…

The Fellowkids identity shows how embracing fandom culture, rather than merely marketing to it, helps create authentic connections with communities. When an agency specialising in esports marketing needs to rebrand itself, the stakes are particularly high. Your audience is the gatekeeper of authenticity. They can spot corporate posturing from a mile away. They’re the ones…

Created in collaboration with Network Rail, RIBA and the Design Museum, the striking new clock debuts at London Bridge station as a new icon of British design, blending heritage, accessibility and innovation. A new chapter in Britain’s railway story has been marked with the unveiling of Rail Clock, which is the country’s first national clock…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Burnout in the creative industries is common, but not inevitable. We share practical tips from our community, along with three new mindfulness techniques that really work. Creative work asks for more than ideas; it asks for you. Your focus. Your energy. Your emotions. Your imagination. And when those tanks run…

Craft and The Great Exhibition brought the joy of a bouncy castle into the heart of Stockholm’s shopping district. Is this the future of retail? In a world drowning in digital noise—and increasingly dominated by the siren call of Temu and its endless scroll of cheap goods—Swedish sportswear company Craft decided the answer wasn’t another…

The cult London station unveils its first full rebrand, alongside a new app and DAB expansion, as it sets its sights on one million weekly listeners and puts its community of DJs at the heart of the brand. Independent radio station Soho Radio is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a new look and an ambitious…

MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present November, Lenz Geerk’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in London and his first return to the city in six years. November arrives with the sweet-sour smell of a fruit bowl turning: peaches that were perfect in September now surrendering to bruise and bloom. Geerk is drawn to that hinge, what lingers after…

Richard Heller Gallery is pleased to present Riikka Sormunen, Only Lovers. This is Sormunen’s first solo exhibition in the United States and also her first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Work by Dong Qiu These amazing artists are mixing tradition with tech, calligraphy with chaos… and the results are mesmerising. If you think of “Chinese illustration” as a single style, think again. From Shanghai to Chengdu, New York to Tokyo, a new generation of artists is rewriting the rules of visual storytelling. And few agencies…

L-R Jos Ingram, Kate Howarth and Paul Dazeley Welcome back to Booms & Shakes, your monthly dose of industry moves, studio milestones and creative comebacks – all in one quick scroll. If September was all about comebacks, October feels like pure, solid momentum. We’ve had some big news land in our inboxes this month, and…

The Brighton-based studio has created a new logo, typeface and visual language for Nike Football, channelling the brand’s golden era while setting the stage for its next chapter. When Nike Football decided it was time for a fresh chapter, they kicked things off with a text message. “Fancy rebranding Nike Football?” asked Nike’s creative director,…

We mentioned this a few weeks back when we announced that Swoon was the juror for Surreal Salon 18, but the deadline for submissions is November 8, 2025. Each year, our friends at Baton Rouge Gallery host the Surreal Salon, with this season’s exhibition on view January 2 – 25, 2026 at BRG, located inside Baton Rouge’s…

Lia Elms Spencer Hurley                                         Lia Elms’s Website Lia Elms on Instagram Spencer Hurley on Instagram

Brand writer Nick Carson has joined forces with NB Studio and SEA on a one-off artwork for the Bloomsbury Festival’s 26 Bridges project – a palindromic poem-turned-distorting mirror that flips meaning and perception to raise funds for NHS skin cancer care. A two-metre-tall distorting mirror inspired by one of London’s most iconic river crossings is…

Monica Kim Garza presents her third solo exhibition Good Old Raisins and Peanuts (GORP) at Ruttkowski;68 in Paris. Garza has been painting what she calls her “character” since university. Originally more figurative, she has now abstracted it into several circles to represent the head and body (and, sometimes, boobs), with a few lines to mark out defining features…

Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to announce The View from Outside, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Lamar Peterson. For over twenty years, Peterson has examined the shifting boundary between private refuge and public exposure, tracing the fragile line between the sanctuary of suburbia and the encroaching outside world.

Image licensed via Adobe Stock As uncertainty reshapes the industry, studios are betting on smarter processes, bolder thinking and deeper client partnerships. It’s fair to say that, as we edge towards 2026, one word is dominating the creative industries: uncertainty. After years of pandemic-induced volatility, economic turmoil, and AI disruption, no one really knows what’s…

More than just a place to sleep, this Hoxton hotel is betting everything on becoming a genuine platform for creatives. Picture this: you walk into a hotel reception, but instead of corporate beige you’re met with explosions of colour. Comic book characters leer from the walls, neon sculptures hum overhead, and before you’ve reached the…

My visit to the Northern Festival of Illustration highlighted how a once-overlooked seaside town is becoming one of the UK’s most exciting creative centres. Over the last few years, I’ve spent a lot of time in Hartlepool, where my wife and I have a modest property. And I’ve learned to anticipate the reaction when I…

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Margot Samel is pleased to present Life Hum, a solo exhibition of new works by the Scotland-based Amy Winstanley (b. 1983, Dumfries, UK). This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. 

One of the shows we definitely want to check out in Dallas this weekend is Coco Young’s newest solo show at James Cope, her third solo with the gallery. Born in New York, raised in Marseille, and now living between NY and Paris, Young traces a painterly path through memory, history, and the landscapes of…

David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new drawings and prints by iconic illustrator and cartoonist R. Crumb (b. 1943), on view at the gallery’s 616 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. In his works of the last several years Crumb reflects on life in his eighties and his sixty-year career as…

de boer (Los Angeles) is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of mixed-media wall works and sculpture by Matthew Kirk in Los Angeles. In Kirk’s first solo exhibition with de boer, the New York-based artist presents large and medium-scale works evoking art historical antecedents from Henri Matisse, Christopher Wool, and Joe Fedderson as well…