Category: Art

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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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Martijn Schmidt                                 Martijn Schmidt’s Website Martijn Schmidt on Instagram

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”

Zexuan Zeng                                                                     Zexuan Zeng’s Website Zexuan Zeng on Instagram

“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.”

Josh Aronson                                                                                 Josh Aronson’s Website Josh Aronson on Instagram

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…

William Reinsch                 William Reinsch’s Website William Reinsch on Instagram

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…

Emily Edwards                                 Emily Edwards’s Website Emily Edwards on Instagram

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…

Joseph Staples                                                                     Joseph Staples’s Website Joseph Staples on Kickstarter

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…

Tejal Patni                                         Tejal Patni’s Website Tejal Patni on Instagram

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…

Christian Lee (previously featured here).                                         Christian Lee’s Website Christian Lee on Instagram

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,…

MAryam Touzani                                         MAryam Touzani’s Website MAryam Touzani on Instagram

“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…

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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…

These six compelling case studies demonstrate how forward-thinking brands are leveraging the power of bespoke illustration to engage and entertain their audiences. Have you noticed how more and more illustrated work is appearing in advertising, packaging and branding recently? I certainly have, and from my vantage point as a journalist in the design industry, I…

Bar stools, an Eames chair, a plane seat, a toilet, a potty. Lotte Keijzer’s first solo exhibition, Position of Being, at Kristin Hjellegjerde, Berlin, explores what it means to take up space and how the positions that we hold, both literal and metaphorical, shape our sense of self.

Martina Grlić                                             Martina Grlić on Instagram

British artist Sarah Ball presents her first institutional solo exhibition Oh! You Pretty Things at Longlati Foundation in Shanghai, China.

Brad Hoseley is an artist residing in Brooklyn, New York. He received a degree in printmaking from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2018. Hoseley is currently making paintings that explore sexuality, normality, and the everyday. Reflecting on life experience, sexual fantasy, and breaking heteronormative ideologies. These paintings become vignettes of surrealist spaces. This…

With the help of Studio DRAMA, we explore why typography has shifted from a “nice-to-have” to a strategic necessity and why some myths about custom type deserve debunking. Once upon a time, a custom typeface was a luxury item, reserved for global giants with vast budgets. You could go so far as to say it…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock When you’re young, they say you lack experience. When you’re older, it feels like they’re looking for someone younger. So what’s the reality, and what’s the best way to respond to ageism in your creative career? Welcome to the fourth in our advice series, Dear Boom. This week, we’re tackling…

Ten years, countless conversations and a whole lot of heart: how three Yorkshire designers built one of the UK’s most enduring grassroots creative networks. Wilson’s Republic began life as a small huddle of designers, chatting over coffee in Huddersfield’s Media Centre. At that time, no one expected it to become a decade-long creative institution. But…

Founded in 2023, London-based studio YeahNice is proving that small teams can do big things. Strategy Director Matt Huckle shares how a challenger mindset, a no-nonsense approach, and a commitment to being nice have shaped the studio’s rise. There are tons of agencies out there that claim to be fast and fearless, but we can…

In Fruits of Labor, Summer Wheat (SCAD M.F.A., painting, 2005) presents six richly textured paintings inspired by Greek mythology, animal archetypes, and astrology. A pair of totemic works featuring fruit–animal hybrids are flanked by multiple large-scale paintings that immerse viewers in a lush, harmonious world. In these scenes, Wheat portrays female figures as nurturers and…

Sun-drenched mountains set against bright blue skies loom hazily in Ken Taylor Reynaga’s paintings. The artist’s thickly painted canvases present landscapes and scenes that may look like an idyllic paradise at first glance, but which quickly register as something more complex and urgent. Like a mirage heralding a distant, blurry oasis, Reynaga conjures a tipsy…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Turn your creative skills into a fun and successful business, with a little help from SumUp. I remember the night the penny dropped. It was 2am, I was hunched over a dodgy Chromebook in a damp little flat, wrestling with three spreadsheets to track my freelance jobs. A client still…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Essential reading for creatives! Beano Brain’s 2025 Coolest Brands study reveals everything this two-billion-strong generation is looking for in a brand… and some of it might surprise you. Still getting your head around Gen Z? Well, it’s time to get a wiggle on. The next generation, Gen Alpha, is already…

The Protein Ball Co.’s new look swaps soft wellness clichés for a raw, expressive brand that celebrates the gnarly side of nature and isn’t afraid to call out the competition. Robot Food has unleashed a new identity for The Protein Ball Co., repositioning the brand as the unapologetic challenger in a crowded and increasingly performative…

The Royal Institute of British Architects has unveiled a new visual and verbal identity by Johnson Banks, marking the next chapter in its House of Architecture programme as it approaches its 200th anniversary. For the first time in over 25 years, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has unveiled a refreshed identity that reimagines…

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Plato is thrilled to announce Alic Brock’s solo exhibition, When Shadows Forget Their Master, on view from October 10 through November 15, with a public reception scheduled for Friday, October 10 from 6 to 8pm.

1969 Gallery is thrilled to present Adam Dressner: Hello Stranger 2, the artist’s debut solo gallery exhibition, and a continuation of his body of work first publicly displayed at Grand Central Terminal for 3 days last September.

“Illustration is a powerful visual language, a bridge for storytelling and emotional connection,” says emerging talent Peilin Li. Finding your own personal style is one of the biggest challenges young illustrators face, and the pressure to do so – from tutors, clients, and even the artists themselves – can be intense. But sometimes, the best…

Work by designer Florian Frauendorfer From hypnotic sound waves to neon-glitch energy, your Echo Festival identities prove just how boundless our community’s creativity can be. We’re three months into our new Boom Briefs series: our monthly creative challenge that’s part warm-up, part workout, and 100% an excuse to make something fun. So far, we’ve retreated…

The US studio has created a modular visual system for Living Roots, merging heritage, geography and experimentation with a flexible “story symbol” and refreshed packaging. Living Roots, a family-run winery with tasting rooms in New York’s Finger Lakes and Australia’s Adelaide Hills, has unveiled a new identity by Philadelphia-based studio Smith & Diction. The rebrand…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Feel like you’ve strayed too far from your creative roots? Members of the Creative Boom community share their hard-won advice on reclaiming your passion and rebuilding your confidence. Welcome to the latest instalment of our agony aunt series, Dear Boom. This week’s dilemma strikes at the heart of something many…

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Brazil Modern traces the evolution of Brazilian design, from its twentieth-century roots to its recognition as a vital force in the global design revolution. Characterized by rich hardwoods, ingenuity, and the spirit of brasilidade, this exhibition celebrates Brazilian masterworks through a presentation of historical works that shaped its legacy.

Library Street Collective is pleased to present Bugbee, a two-person exhibition with Sam Friedman and Josh Sperling opening October 18, 2025. The exhibition will feature new works by each artist, in addition to collaborative pieces created jointly by the pair.

It’s that time again. After Juxtapoz editor Evan Pricco juried Surreal Salon 17, our friends at Baton Rouge Gallery – center for contemporary art is proud to announce it is now accepting submissions for Surreal Salon 18, the juried exhibition celebrating pop-surrealist and lowbrow art. Artists worldwide over the age of 18 are invited to…

Newport Street Gallery, in association with HENI, will present an exhibition uniting three disruptive artists: Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst, and Invader. Opening 10 October and running until 29 March 2026, this unprecedented show, curated by Connor Hirst, will feature a dynamic mix of individual works alongside bold new collaborations, many of which will be revealed…

Dana Blume is an American painter based in Seattle, Washington. He earned his BFA in drawing and painting from California State University Long Beach in 2019 and his MFA in the same discipline from university of Washington in 2023. His work depicts a world where personal and collective anxieties, hopes and dreams are personified through…

Formerly a boutique illustration rep agency, The Different Folk is stepping into a new era as a full animation and illustration production company. Executive Producer and Managing Director Subby Noleen tells us why it was time to own their role as makers – not just matchmakers – and how a playful three-headed creature has become…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock The founder and CEO of The Liberty Guild explains why independent creatives need a voice in government, and what we can expect from this new role. When the government announced plans to appoint a Creative Freelance Champion, as part of the Creative Industries Sector Plan this June, the news barely…

The UK icon celebrates five decades of handmade design, with a special model that pays tribute to the brazing artisans behind every frame. Brompton has built its reputation frame by frame, bicycle by bicycle, for half a century. Now, as the London-based manufacturer marks its 50th anniversary, it’s turning the spotlight onto the people who…

Somewhere in each set is an orange egg representing a Nest pension The leading animation studio is making pensions more accessible with two amusing new ad spots. Pensions. They’re an intimidating subject for many British workers, but they are crucial to everyone’s financial future. That’s why the country’s biggest workplace pension provider, Nest, turned to…

Lana Haga                                                                                                 Lana Haga’s Website Lana Haga…

Upcoming guest, Pum Lefebure – inside ‘Phalli’s Field’, one of Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Mirror” rooms, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Photo: Tony Powell Season 10 of our show features an extraordinary lineup of legendary guests, offering a choice to watch or listen, and our proudest partnership yet. We’re back, and this time you…

Roberts Projects is pleased to present What Does Webster’s Say About Soul?, an exhibition by Esmaa Mohamoud and the artist’s first solo presentation with the gallery. Featuring a suite of new sculptures that build upon Mohamoud’s rich visual lexicon, this exhibition considers the loss of innocence experienced by Black youth and how these experiences become…

Jack Shainman Gallery is honored to present Ghost Fires, an exhibition of new work by Hayv Kahraman, the artist’s fifth solo presentation with the gallery. Informed by Kahraman’s longstanding exploration of displacement, this new body of work is also a response to the recent wildfires in Los Angeles and their direct effect on Kahraman and her family. In a text…

As the leaves turn and the world shifts towards winter, fresh typefaces can give you the inspiration you need to power through. Read on to discover our top picks. Gosh, is that the time already? October has arrived with a confident energy, and the month’s type releases reflect this sense of purpose and ambition. From…

Symbiotic Relationship Everything this New Orleans artist creates seems to have a special aura about it. We decided to find out more about his creative thinking. Originally from China, Hoi Chan graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2016 and relocated to New Orleans during the COVID-19 pandemic. We featured him…

From illustrated travel journals and reimagined wine branding to experimental festival identities, these are the projects that caught our eye last month. Every month brings with it a flood of new creative work. Some are loud and attention-grabbing, while others are quietly brilliant yet equally impactful. This round-up is our way of spotlighting the projects…

Ice Breaker is Erik Parker’s second solo exhibition at VETA by Fer Francés, holding a new body of work created specifically for this occasion. In this new project, the artist expands his distinctive visual language—rooted in Pop Art, the underground movement, and the American psychedelic subculture—into a series that is at once hallucinatory and precise.

MARUANI MERCIER is delighted to present The Space In Between, an exhibition of new paintings by British artist Von Wolfe, opening on 4 September at our Brussels Gallery.

The Berlin-based design consultancy combines world-class ballet with cutting-edge digital artistry to create a serene, beautiful experience. If you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed by the relentless march of AI into every corner of creative work, you’re not alone. It seems like every week brings another tool promising to revolutionise how we make art, design brands,…

A sun-drenched takeover at The Standard’s Casa Privada saw Estrid and OMSE build a fictional club complete with bold graphics, custom merch and curated events – a playful, week-long experiment in turning brand values into real-world connections. Swedish razor brand Estrid has always done things differently. Built on a mission of body confidence for all…

Immerse yourself in a surreal world of dogs and cats, pottery and painting, with a great hand-drawn animated film at its heart. If you’re in London between now and 4 November and need a jolt of inspiration, why not swing by the Pocko Gallery at 51A King Henry’s Walk to take in Qian-Hui Yu’s solo…

Entropy in thermodynamics, Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence, Heraclitus’ doctrine of flux, Jung’s theory of individuation, the Anicca doctrine in Buddhism, and Kafka’s novel The Metamorphosis all suggest that the world is in constant flux. From the inevitable decay of the material world to the psychological, spiritual, and societal transformations that shape human existence, humanity has long…

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Displaying works both within and on the façade of the SCAD Museum of Art, Tomokazu Matsuyama presents large-scale paintings and sculpture that blur distinctions between interiority and exteriority, Eastern and Western, and past and present. A first-generation Japanese American, the artist was born in Japan, moved to Southern California with his family at age of…

How the past sticks to us with such obstinacy! A dark age befell us once and never lifted, at least never for long. The first evil visionaries who enclosed the commons – the land and its fruits shared by a village – were the same who decided that the women doing something about it—righteous rioting…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Self-promotion doesn’t have to make you feel sleazy. Here’s how to share your work with those who matter, without ever feeling cringe about it. Ah, self-promotion. That horrible mix of nerves, awkwardness and mild nausea that strikes whenever you hover over the ‘post’ button. Yes, you’ve poured heart and soul…

The London agency has reworked the cult bean brand’s packaging and identity with a “simplified to amplify” approach, creating a stronger, more navigable system that celebrates imperfection while scaling for mainstream growth. Bold Bean has been a challenger favourite since it landed on shelves in 2021. The brand showed that tins and jars of beans…

Twenty years on from Hurricane Katrina, Jesse Zuefle tells the full story of the famous street artist’s mysterious visit. In the summer of 2008, the world’s most enigmatic street artist slipped into New Orleans like a ghost. Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy, Banksy left…

The award-winning author shares a practical guide to redefining goal setting and making real progress, tailored for creative professionals. Did you know we have our own network for creatives, The Studio? It’s free to join, and one of the benefits is the opportunity to participate in Studio Sessions, where industry experts share their insights directly…

Shot on 35mm film in the US and UK, OpenAI’s new campaign follows different characters using ChatGPT to cook, learn, travel and reach personal goals—an elegant piece of brand storytelling that shows AI slipping quietly into everyday life. The world is changing fast, thanks to AI. So fast that many people don’t yet realise how…

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Jonathan Lloyd West’s paintings freeze our obsession with digital scrolling This annual event isn’t just packed with creativity and fresh ideas. It’s also a great showcase for how empty retail units and dying high streets can find new life as art spaces, bringing culture to the people. Yesterday I took part in a press trip…

Being Normal Is Really Not Normal, artist Laure Mary unveils her debut solo exhibition in New York, a special moment as her paintings have never before been shown in the city. This exhibition isn’t just a show; it’s a puzzle that reveals itself, a playful key to unlock the unexpected corners of our mind. Mary’s…

David Zwirner is pleased to present Haze, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with New York–based artist Sasha Gordon since the announcement of her co-representation with Matthew Brown last year. Opening at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street location in New York, this exhibition debuts a cycle of new paintings by Gordon that experiment with storytelling…

Night Gallery is pleased to present Peace Fellow, an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Ross Caliendo. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery following his inclusion in the group exhibition Shrubs, 2022 and our 2025 Frieze Los Angeles presentation.

Manitoga / The Russel Wright Design Center and R & Company present Jeff Zimmerman: Glass Light Nature, a solo exhibition by the acclaimed glass artist in dialogue with the unique environments designed by Mary and Russel Wright.

In Hold Me Close, Bisa Butler presents a powerful new series of quilted portraits that speak to the urgency of empathy, the weight of history, and the need for tenderness in times of crisis. This is the artist’s statement:

© Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation Amélie Ravalec’s new book explores the under-reported movement that emerged from the atomic ashes to transform Japan’s creative culture. In the rubble of post-war Japan, the first nation in history to be scarred by nuclear conflict, a generation of artists emerged with an audacious mission: to tear open tradition and…

By Steven Tang Have a snack handy because the artists we’re looking at today specialise in making people hungry. Like feeling the breeze on your face or the kick of a bass drum through your soul, the taste and texture of food is something everyone can relate to. Enjoying a meal is an integral part…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock When someone blatantly copies your work, how should you respond? In the third of our advice series, creatives share their strategies. Welcome to the latest in our agony aunt series, Dear Boom. This week’s dilemma touches on one of the most maddening of experiences. A creative has spotted someone stealing…

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PRELUDIO follows the line begun with the Vestigio series, in which the artist Aryz – Octavi Arrizabalaga (2x cover artist) engages in a dialogue with some of the creators who have influenced him throughout his career. On this occasion, he presents a series of large-format oil paintings conceived as small visual dialogues with the great…

M+B is pleased to present Perfect Days, an exhibition of new works by Kristof Santy. This marks Santy’s third solo presentation with the gallery. In Perfect Days, Kristof Santy expands his universe of interiors, stylized gastronomy, and folkloric gestures, delivering a wry and affectionate catalogue of life’s minutiae. Borrowing its title from Wim Wenders’ 2023 film, an ode to…

IRL Sheffield The Lake District–based paper mill James Cropper is backing our grassroots series of free meetups, which bring creatives together in real life to connect, share ideas, and spark new friendships. Creative Boom IRL is all about what happens when we step away from our screens and meet face-to-face. Think relaxed conversations over coffee…

The designer and founder of independent studio Siyart reflects on her journey from fine art to graphic design, the influence of her hometown Jaipur, and why empathy sits at the heart of her practice. For Siya Golecha, design was never a straight line. Before founding Siyart, the independent design studio she now runs between India…

Navat Uy, 2024-2025 by Laila Gohar in collaboration with Ilkhom Shoyimkulov. Photo by Felix Odell courtesy of the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation. Bukhara, a UNESCO Creative City of Crafts & Folk Art, brings together international artists and local artisans for phenomenal one-off projects. What happens when design thinking, visual storytelling and centuries-old craft…

Premium UK paint brand Coat crashed London Fashion Week with ‘Carry Your Coat’, a guerrilla-style campaign that transformed recyclable tins into fashion’s most subversive handbag. Queues and streets, not catwalks, are where the real spectacle happened at this year’s London Fashion Week. Among the usual parade of Balenciaga trainers, Dior saddles, and carefully curated street-style…

The campaign for James Cropper celebrates the last coloured paper mill in Britain. Working with photographer Susan Castillo and Creative Boom, the Glasgow studio created a suite of handcrafted imagery and videos to introduce the paper mill’s new Coloursource range. Creative agency D8 has collaborated with James Cropper to launch Coloursource, its new range of…

The London-born bike brand unveils a global brand expression that celebrates its folding ingenuity while uniting an international community of over one million riders. It’s fair to say that Brompton is both a British design classic and a cultural touchpoint. For half a century, the folding bike has been synonymous with ingenuity, portability, and a…

Galerie Max Hetzler, London, is pleased to present Second Wind, a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Danielle Mckinney. This is the artist’s debut exhibition in the UK, and her second with the gallery.

David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to present Nightsong, its second solo exhibition by Derek Fordjour, on view through October 11, 2025. In the most radical transformation of David Kordansky’s Los Angeles gallery to date, Fordjour, in collaboration with Kulapat Yantrasast and the design studio WHY, will create an immersive, multifaceted experience combining painting, sculpture, live performance,…

Good Mother Gallery is pleased to present The Chase Scene, a solo exhibition of new paintings by San Francisco based artist Chad Hasegawa, on view through October 24, 2025. Known for his bold abstractions that fuse precision with intensity, Hasegawa brings hard-edge minimalism into dialogue with atmosphere, emotion, and movement. With The Chase Scene, he turns painting…

Rebase Recovery Premium Suite. Credit: Louis Waite Photography. Healthcare is shifting from reactive treatment to proactive care, and design is at the centre of the change. From diagnostic scans to recovery rituals, brands like Neko Health, Sweat Lounge, and Rebase are reimagining what it means to care for our bodies. For most of us, the…

Mark Beaumont, founder and chief creative officer of Dinosaur, examines why the most powerful public service ads don’t just inform – they unsettle, disturb and make consequences impossible to ignore. Changing human behaviour is never straightforward. People can understand the risks and grasp the logic, but daily habits, culture, and social pressure can take hold,…

From murals to motion, illustration is starting to reassert itself in advertising, but when do agencies and brands choose to commission it, and when do they shy away? We asked creatives, art buyers, agents and illustrators to weigh in. Not long ago, illustrated campaigns were a fixture of the advertising landscape. From wartime posters by…

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When Tod Browning directed his seminal film, Freaks, in 1932, there wasn’t the notion that it would become one of the most notorious and influential early American horror films. In the film, Browning reframes the idea of the circus “freak” as a close-knit, moral community, juxtaposed with the conventionally beautiful characters (the trapeze woman Cleopatra and…

Perrotin is pleased to present Danielle Orchard’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in Los Angeles. In her latest exhibition, Firstborn, the American artist traces the transformative and fragile terrain of early parenthood, where moments of quiet vigilance, sudden intensity, and tender care unfold alongside the rhythms of daily life. Her new paintings capture intimate…

PM/AM is proud to present a collection of new paintings by Lucy Robson, which will be her first solo exhibition. The London-based South African artist works at the intersection of beauty, image-making, and cultural critique—revisiting the visual language of hyper-femininity not as ornament, but as a site of tension, contradiction, and power. Evoking Rococo seduction and early…

Foundry Æterna by The Foundry Types Looking for type inspiration this autumn? Then check out our curated selection of the month’s most compelling new releases. Autumn is a time of renewal, and it’s natural for designers to start looking further afield for new fonts. Thankfully, this month has delivered a bumper harvest of typographic innovation…

It’s fast becoming the go-to brand for gluten-free pizza, and it’s just unveiled a bold new look, celebrating Italian heritage and inclusivity. London-based agency Deuce Studio has unveiled a striking new identity and packaging system for White Rabbit Pizza Co., the fast-growing gluten-free pizza brand on a mission to become the UK’s number one. Founded…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Clear, consistent communication is the quiet superpower of every successful freelancer. It builds trust, keeps projects on track and turns one-off jobs into relationships that last for years. Ignore it, and even the best work won’t save you. Ask any creative freelancer what keeps the lights on and you’ll hear…

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Megan Mulrooney is pleased to present Opposite of Hollow, an exhibition of new paintings by Ginny Casey. The exhibition will run through November 1, 2025.

The Hole is pleased to present Time Traveler and Other Fragile Detours the New York solo debut of Berlin-based Chilean painter Pablo Benzo (b. 1982, Santiago), opening next Friday in our Tribeca space. The exhibition will feature five new paintings and six works on paper, inspired by works from the Peggy Guggenheim collection and her…

Matthew Brown Gallery is pleased to present NO PARKING, Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, opening Friday, September 19, 2025, with a reception from 6–9 PM.

Huxley-Parlour are delighted to present The Waves, an exhibition of new works by David Benjamin Sherry at their Swallow Street gallery. Sherry’s second presentation with the gallery, the exhibition will present a suite of eight large-scale photographs taken in Antarctica last year.

Charlie James Gallery is proud to present El Mañana, a solo exhibition of works by Los Angeles artist Erick Medel, his second with the gallery. Medel captures the vibrancy of his eastside neighborhood in works that range from intimate snapshots to expansive street scenes, always with the aim of distilling and preserving the ephemeral feelings…

The design heavyweight steps into the presidency with a mission to guide the organisation through a time of massive cultural shifts, emerging technologies and new opportunities for creative talent everywhere. Lisa Smith has been named the new President of D&AD for 2025/2026, bringing one of the world’s most respected design leaders to the helm of…

A major New York exhibition by Philadelphia-born artist Timothy Curtis, Face to the Sun shows an artist turning his face toward the warming sun of freedom through artmaking. A recurring motif in the show is flowers, symbols of happiness that also turn their faces to the sun. Curtis has built a remarkable career, especially for…

MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Tomoo Gokita, featuring a recent body of work first shown in October 2024 at ICA Milano. Rooted in the visual language of the everyday, these paintings take familiar figures and gestures and subtly distort them.

Megan Mulrooney is pleased to present I Remember Everything, RF Alvarez’s first solo exhibition on the West Coast on view through November 1, 2025. RF Alvarez’s richly cinematic paintings weave together scenes of domestic interiors, back porches at night, quiet tableaus of lovers in conversation, and the dust-charged arena of the rodeo. Queer men appear…

David Zwirner is pleased to present Destiny, an exhibition of new paintings by Josh Smith, on view at the gallery’s 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. This is Smith’s first solo presentation in Los Angeles. For Destiny, Smith has made a series of paintings that continue his long-running dialogue with the grim reaper, a figure…

Studio Roses – Neue Montreal by Pangram Pangram We asked the creative community about the fonts they’re keen to get their hands on. Read on to find out how they responded. Don’t you just love how typography is constantly evolving? Because let’s be clear: foundries around the world are pushing the boundaries of the discipline…

We speak with the German artist about her new illustrations for Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, including portraits generating atmosphere and poetic imagery. Serendipity is a beautiful thing, and in the creative industries, it leads to even more beautiful things. But, as the saying goes, the harder you work, the luckier you get. Let’s…

Born out of the chaos of 2020, Egg has evolved into a close-knit agency working with clients ranging from startups to Formula 1. As it marks five years, the team reflects on their rebellious beginnings, collective model, and what it means to thrive on their own terms. Egg wasn’t hatched in the usual way. The…

Theresa Chromati takes over MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique. Lullaby’s for the Living is an invitation to step through the looking glass, only this time, to discover what lies beyond the gallery’s vast window, turned portal, ornate with the outline of one of Chromati’s whimsical scrotum flowers ushering us in.

NANZUKA is pleased to present ABACO, a solo exhibition by Tokyo-based artist Haroshi at NANZUKA UNDERGROUND. This marks the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery following GUZO (2017) and I versus I(2021) and features a selection of new works.

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Guess Who Studio – Cinema Escape From playful packaging to poignant explorations of identity, the World Illustration Awards 2025 showcase the breadth of contemporary illustration. With over 4,700 entries from 85 countries, this year’s winners reveal how artists are shaping how we see, think and connect. The Association of Illustrators (AOI), in partnership with the…

With its third issue on textiles about to launch, independent magazine Fanfaretti continues to champion craftsmanship, aesthetics and a slower, more tactile way of experiencing creativity. Founder and designer Angela Blumen tells us how it all began, why print still matters, and what’s next for the project. Fanfaretti might be small, but it’s already making…

Handcrafted and deliberately imperfect, the new award, designed by Grey Brazil, recognises the brands backing self-taught talent through D&AD Shift. D&AD has launched a new version of its iconic Pencil, created specifically to celebrate the brands supporting its global Shift programme for self-taught creatives. Conceived and hand-carved by Grey Brazil, the award serves as a…

The new ‘Iconic Home’ campaign strips back the noise to a single, clever visual, reminding us that the smartest campaign ideas are often the simplest. Dunkin’ is no stranger to cultural status. Its pink-and-orange branding is instantly recognisable on high streets across America and beyond; however, the brand hasn’t always enjoyed the same prominence when…

The London studio has rebranded Empower as Tilt, a financial technology company reshaping access to credit for millions of working Americans. Ragged Edge has unveiled its latest project with US fintech Tilt, creating a new name and identity for the company as it seeks to redefine access to credit for millions of working Americans. Formerly…

The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present Eternal Flame, an exhibition of new and recent works by Ana Benaroya. With an expansive selection including paintings, works on paper, and monotypes, the exhibition presents the full breadth of Benaroya’s reimagining of women’s bodies as a form where femininity and masculinity coexist, intertwine and transform one another.…

You just arrived and don’t have your bearings, but that’s fine – we don’t either. Take these binoculars. Who’s that big, naked, long-fingered figure crouching on yonder hilltop? You can see others looking, too: someone throwing up, someone cowering but curious. Maybe, subjectively, you look from the creature’s perspective, making everyone here somebody’s other. And…

Two years after the launch of ITVX, the broadcaster has introduced a refreshed identity that simplifies its design system, elevates Spark Yellow, and introduces a new motif called “the apex”. ITV has unveiled a new brand identity, created in collaboration with Cornwall-based Studio Kiln, marking the broadcaster’s most significant design update since the launch of…

Santiago Carrasquilla and Danaé Gosset travelled to Argentina with just a camera and captured something quite extraordinary in the life and work of sign painter Luis Benz. Sometimes the most profound stories emerge from the simplest encounters. In 2019, filmmakers Santiago Carrasquilla and Danaé Gosset—both former apprentices of design legends Stefan Sagmeister and Paula Scher—embarked…

The LA-based creative studio did something pretty original with MTV’s iconic Moon Person at this year’s Video Music Awards. The first time I witnessed an anamorphic display that truly worked was just over a year ago. Late at night, I was at a crossroads in Shinjuku, Tokyo, watching what appeared to be a giant cat…

The story of Thai illustrator Tanakan Bangnoi demonstrates how creative careers rarely run smoothly, but resilience and a positive outlook can help turn things around. It’s hard to imagine how many people have the potential to become a successful artist, yet never pursue it seriously, simply due to a lack of confidence. How many people,…

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The rival file-sharing service harnesses humour brilliantly to capitalise on the WeTransfer AI training controversy and lure in creative professionals. When your biggest competitor drops the ball, what do you do? Well, if you’re Smash, the French file transfer service, you take the mickey, with a campaign that’s half joke, half serious business move. Following…

Marina Perez Simão in collaboration with Bakhtiyar Babamuradov_Untitled, 2024–2025-min The ancient Uzbekistan city on the Silk Road swaps centuries of civilisation and traditional trade for an exuberant international contemporary art fest. In the sixteen-plus years of Creative Boom’s existence, the team and wider community have fostered a readership that spans the world. For several months,…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Finding focus in a fractured world requires intention, ritual and perhaps a bit of creative rebellion. We canvased our community on how to maximise your creative flow, and we share their practical, achievable tips below. Ever feel like your creativity is really flowing? It’s an incredible sensation when your mind…

The Berlin-based photographer documents the haunting beauty of rural decline in her latest series, which explores abandoned spaces. Australia’s global image may be built on sun-soaked beaches and gleaming city skylines. But most people who’ve visited will know that this is just a tiny fraction of this vast, continent-sized country. And photographer Helin Bereket is…

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Anat Ebgi is pleased to present new paintings by Los Angeles artist Joshua Petker. The exhibition, entitled Hyacinth Canyon, is the artists’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 13, 6-8 pm.

Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present Mothers, an exhibition of new paintings by Grace Weaver at Goethestraße 2/3. This marks the artist’s fifth solo presentation with the gallery, and her first in one of our Berlin spaces.

The Royal Academy of Arts is mounting The Histories, the largest survey of Kerry James Marshall’s work in the United Kingdom to date.

“I have a good eye for colour and usually go with my gut,” says this inspiring young illustrator from southern Spain. Let’s take a moment to enjoy some illustrations by the Spanish artist Sara Maese. Light-hearted and rendered in perfectly balanced pastel palettes, her images take us away to a simpler place. This is Sara’s…

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Marty Schnapf’s paintings–textural, kaleidoscopic, and tenderly surreal–dwell in the watery space between two shores, as if plumbing the depths of the psyche. Vacillating between modes of figuration and abstraction, the crisply rendered compositions in Vignettes depict figures and scenes culled from personal dreams and recollections, positioning the paintings as portals to extrasensory realities where colors, sensations, and…

Monya Rowe Gallery is pleased to announce Dressers, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Bryan Rogers. The works in this exhibition are drawn largely from Rogers’ day-to-day routine and leisure activities. The protagonists -a composite of the men in the artist’s life, imagination, and self-portraiture- are shown in various domestic environments. The interiors shift…

Graeme McGowan with Dines of Studio Blup at Gab. Photography by Eoin Carey The ever-popular event in Scotland has just marked a milestone. Creative Boom headed north to find out why everyone keeps raving about Gab. Last Friday, Gab returned for its 40th edition at Barras Art & Design in Glasgow. If you’ve never been,…

One of the most important tomes of British folklore is being republished – with inspiring imagery by fairy expert Fee Greening. Dorset-based illustrator Fee Greening has spent her entire life fascinated by fairies, goblins, witches and anything supernatural. Now, her dream project has come to life in the form of Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies –…

The Midnight Club’s new hires Welcome to the very first edition of Booms & Shakes – your monthly roundup of who’s moving where, what agencies are winning, and the fresh ideas making noise across the creative industries. It’s a big moment for us – the start of a new monthly ritual where we shine a…

Legal AI platform Robin has unveiled a new identity by London studio Otherway. The rebrand positions law not as a blocker but a business enabler, with a visual world rooted in optimism, tactility, and humanity. The legal sector is not known for colourful, optimistic branding, more often leaning into corporate tones and tech clichés. However,…

Yup! – a new range of “Anytime Oat Crumbles” – reimagines the humble porridge pot as a sweet, stylish, and satisfying snack for any time of day. Mornflake has teamed up with branding studio Family & Friends to launch Yup!, a new snack range that aims to shake up the hot oat-pot market with new…

The Leeds studio has given Co-op’s own-brand drinks range a premium makeover. Expect bespoke storytelling, tactile finishes, and a copper thread running through every bottle. Robot Food has unveiled a sophisticated new identity for Co-op’s premium Irresistible spirits and cider range, proving that own-brand products can absolutely compete with the biggest names in the drinks…

Known for his rhythmic linework and playful imperfections, the Bristol-based illustrator and animator helps to turn a humble sneaker into a charming, charismatic character. Con McHugh has teamed up with performance brand On to create a 60-second spot for the new Cloudboom Max running shoe, transforming it into a likeable character full of charm, wit,…

From jewellery start-ups to motorsport giants, Edge Studio has carved out a reputation for thoughtful, collaborative design. Founders Daniel Short and Scott Morgan reflect on their journey, the challenges of independence, and why trust and generosity sit at the heart of their process. Edge Studio didn’t emerge from a grand business plan or a well-timed…

French publisher Glénat’s new identity, created by Brand Brothers, demonstrates how studios can approach the challenge of building on an existing logo while bringing something fresh and unexpected. When Brand Brothers were asked to redesign Glénat’s identity, the brief came with a restraint that most designers will have had themselves at least once. They couldn’t…

Rachel Gregor Rachel Gregor (b. 1990) composes layered, narrative figurative work that blends observation, fantasy, art history, and folklore. Working primarily in gouache and oil paint, Gregor’s mark making has a fleeting sense of urgency combined with control and restraint. This gives her subjects a sense of being in an ephemeral state while also maintaining…

Coinciding with the launch of The Unibrow magazine, T&Y Projects will host The Unibrow: A Post-Juxtapoz Story at 30, Part 2, an exhibition curated by Juxtapoz editor and The Unibrow co-founder, Evan Pricco. The show marks the last years of Juxtapoz magazine and the beginning of a new arts biannual, The Unibrow. 

Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to present Spires, Louisa Owen’s first solo exhibition in New York. Owen’s sculpture and drawing embrace materials that carry their own histories, shaping forms where strength feels provisional, and vulnerability becomes a force. Creating architectures that reach toward pinnacles and drawn landscapes where memory and myth converge, she makes works…

Britain’s only working paper mill is now selling directly to designers. After spending a day there, I’d reckon that’s an opportunity every creative should take advantage of. Recently, I needed to source high-quality coloured paper for a new Creative Boom project around printed posters. I’d heard brilliant things about James Cropper, a market leader in…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock From naming your inner critic to building up feel-good folders, creative professionals reveal the strategies that really work. We’ve all experienced it. That familiar knot in your stomach when you’re about to share your work with a client, a colleague or the whole wide world on social media. The voice…

All images © Ricky Adam After years spent cycling through terraced streets, the Northern Irish photographer’s latest book offers an intimate portrait of community in Yorkshire’s biggest city. Two decades ago, photographer Ricky Adam swapped the rolling hills of Northern Ireland for the red-brick terraces of inner-city Leeds. Exploring this new environment on his bicycle,…

Work by Tim Walter From craft-inspired concepts to animated identities, our fictional design school brief sparked incredible creativity across our community. We only launched Boom Briefs—a monthly creative workout designed to get your creative juices flowing—last month. But if our first challenge around creative retreats was anything to go by, we knew we were onto…

Bringing together woodcuts, watercolours and silk-weaving, these designs for Folio Society’s luxury 250th anniversary edition are simply stunning. So we couldn’t wait to find out how they were made. When illustrator and printmaker Sarah Young received the commission to illustrate Jane Austen’s complete novels for the Folio Society, she was a little taken aback. “Most…

The Hole is pleased to return to The Armory Show for our seventh year with a solo booth by Atlanta-based Monica Kim Garza. Garza is know by her larger-than-life bold female protagonists, whether in thick and textured oil paint or smooth charcoal drawings and paintings on paper.

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Berggruen Gallery is proud to present Bless Babel, an exhibition of new work by San Antonio-based artist Matt Kleberg. This exhibition will mark the gallery’s second solo exhibition with Kleberg. The exhibition will be on view through October 16, 2025. The gallery will host an opening reception for the artist on Thursday, August 21 from 5:00…

Anat Ebgi is pleased to announce Mapping the Middle, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles artist Erin Wright. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and in New York City. On view at 372 Broadway from September 5 through October 18, an opening reception will take place on Friday, September…

At this week’s Armory Show, Patel Brown Gallery (Toronto, Montreal) will present Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka with a body of work titled Rumination.

How often do we reconsider our ability to give and receive love? For Brooklyn-based artist Scott Albrecht, the time came in 2023 when he sustained a traumatic brain injury before his solo exhibition, The Shadow of the Sun, at Hashimoto Contemporary in New York City. In the wake of this life-altering experience, Albrecht began looking…

A show we wish we could check out this monthi is Misaki Kawai’s Cosmic Traveler at V1 in Copenhagen. The exhibition unveils two new series of paintings alongside a collection of large-format quilted works, all born from the imaginative mind and skilled hand of Japan’s master of intuitive contemporary kawaii, Misaki Kawai. These works explore magic…

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With their latest short, the duo transforms sporting slip-ups into playful storytelling. From building a golf course on a rotating drum to experimenting with vertigo-style shots, Kate Isobel Scott and Jordy van den Nieuwendijk prove that tiny worlds can carry big laughs. Stop-motion has a knack for finding joy in the everyday. With Golf, the…

Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present Acts of Observation, a new body of work by Kansas City-based artist Rachel Gregor. Focusing on the artist’s practice of working on paper, these new paintings spotlight a quieter, more meditative part of her practice: painting from direct observation. 

Berggruen Gallery is proud to present Light Whispers, an exhibition of new work by New York artist Nicasio Fernandez. This will mark the gallery’s first solo presentation with Fernandez. The exhibition will be on view through October 16, 2025. 

PLATO is thrilled to announce Stass Shpanin’s solo exhibition, Forbidden Garden, on view through October 4. The Philadelphia-based artist Stass Shpanin focuses on interpretations and fabrications of the past that reverberate in the present. His hand-painted canvases combine centuries-old American folk imagery with AI technology to deconstruct the vocabulary of myth-making and examine the visual…

Midori Iwama Seeking human-made alternatives to algorithmic mediocrity? This film translator is connecting five Japanese artists with overseas buyers. Between 2004 and 2006, I was fortunate enough to live in Saitama, near Tokyo, and work as an English teacher. During that time, I fell in love with Japanese art. But I have to be honest;…

A rebrand for the world’s biggest music contest has landed, but it’s not the usual big-name agency behind it. The Eurovision Song Contest has revealed a refreshed global identity for its 70th anniversary, and it’s a far cry from the cookie-cutter rebrands often seen at this scale. Unveiled by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the…

With functional drinks flooding shelves, Mother Design has created a brand identity for Fhirst that rejects wellness minimalism in favour of maximalist energy, nostalgic typography, and unapologetic playfulness. This week was the official launch of Fhirst, a probiotic “Superfunktional Soda” created by Catherine and Steven Van Middelem, with brand identity by Mother Design. Positioned as…

Featuring a royal camel surrounded by vintage televisions, cacti, and retro fridges, the beer brand’s redesign swaps seriousness for humour and charm. La Reale, the Italian Pale Ale known for its balance of tradition and modern character, has unveiled a striking new identity by Sangria Creative Studio. The redesign repositions the brand with humour, playfulness,…

Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Some Weather, an exhibition of new work by Celeste Rapone (b. 1985; New Jersey). For her second solo exhibition with the gallery, the Chicago-based painter presents a new suite of paintings that examine the personal and professional anxieties of approaching middle age in a moment of distinct political…

Almine Rech New York, Tribeca is pleased to present Myth Information, Chloe Wise’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from September 18 to October 25, 2025.

From Ford’s innovation labs to Microsoft, BOND and Spin, Hugh Miller has spent two decades shaping brands and cultural institutions with intelligence and craft. His next chapter begins at the global studio. Pentagram has welcomed Hugh Miller as a partner at its London office. A graphic designer and art director, Hugh has built a phenomenal…

One of the shows we highly recommend this week to check out in NYC is Karen Barbour’s exhibition with the great Harkawik gallery. 

Walking into Madeleine Bialke’s second solo exhibition at Newchild feels like stepping into a haunted forest of memory—an unearthly terrain where the living and the spectral converge. Eidolons, a term borrowed from Walt Whitman meaning “spiritual images of the immaterial,” captures the essence of this new body of work, painted over the course of this year,…

Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present Analog Conditions, a solo exhibition by Savannah-based artist Angela Burson. In this body of work, Burson explores the liminal spaces between memory and the present, weaving together autobiographical fragments, cultural references and personal reflection. 

Independent brewer Big Hug has unveiled a new identity by JDO, designed to unify its range and amplify its mission of becoming a 100% positive impact business. Quirky craft beer brands with big personalities have flooded the shelves in recent years, with everything from playful names to kaleidoscopic labels. There’s no doubt that the competition…

The Bosses – Bay, Mac & Ellis – Middlesborough A new nationwide campaign, The Bosses, celebrates the people behind Britain’s corner shops with striking portraits and intimate documentary films, as Coca-Cola toasts its 125th anniversary in Great Britain. Coca-Cola is marking 125 years in Great Britain with a campaign that shines a spotlight on corner…

Founder and director Hugo Morrissey shares lessons and laughs from his first chapter of Black Book Design Collective. I’ve always found branding agencies to be a bit of a nightmare. My perception has been that they’re pricey, slow to reply, and the most creative thing about them is their ability to invent new costs. However,…

With the help of the “anti-advertising” agency, Vivobarefoot has launched a joyful animated call to arms that blends play, provocation and purpose. We in the creative industries love a good first. First exhibition. First pitch win. First time someone says “we’ll triple the budget”. Well, Vivobarefoot, the certified B Corp challenging the shoe industry, has…

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This revolutionary motion graphics tool is reshaping global design. Discover Cavalry, and find out what it can do for you. When a small team of animators in Manchester decided to build their own motion graphics software, they weren’t just solving their personal workflow frustrations; they were quietly crafting what would become the breakout creative tool…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock In the second of our new advice series, creatives share their hard-won wisdom on surviving feast-or-famine cycles, late payments and the perpetual anxiety of freelance finances. Welcome to the second in our new agony aunt series, Dear Boom. This week’s dilemma comes from an anonymous creative experiencing something painfully familiar…

Following the runaway success of Wordle and Connections, The New York Times Games team has unveiled a tactile, domino-based puzzle that blends clarity, colour and clever design thinking. When The New York Times Games drops a new puzzle, it’s always going to turn heads. From the daily Crossword to viral phenomenon Wordle, the portfolio has…

The British-Nigerian artist and designer has unveiled a trio of limited-edition watches created in partnership with MB&F’s M.A.D.Editions. Yinka Ilori MBE has released his first-ever watch collection in collaboration with MB&F’s M.A.D.Editions. The series, titled Grow Your Dreams, was unveiled this week and consists of three limited-edition models – Sun, Nature, and Water – with…

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I had a conversation recently with a colleague about the aesthetic of loneliness. How does it look? Who paints it best? I brought up Maud Madsen, not that I find her work to be about a sadness or absence, but that I loved the ways in which she paints a character that is intent and…

It’s that times of year, and we love now that The Armory Show ushers in the new season of art shows in NYC and around the world. Our inbox is crazy full of previews, and we wanted to share with Emily Coan has going on with DIMIN for this year’s Armory. 

Entrance announces Maxwell Sykes’ eponymous solo exhibition, on view at 48 Ludlow Street from Wednesday, September 3 through October 11, 2025.

In one of the most antcipated shows we have on our calendar this fall, Laurent Proux is set to open The Nature Poem at Semiose, Paris from August 30 to October 11, 2025. 

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Stop clinging to sacred cows and outdated rules: your creative breakthrough is waiting on the other side. Have you ever felt so strongly about something that it was a hill you were prepared to die on? Well, for me as a writer, it’s always been the use of the word…

From clandestine calls and disguised cargo to breakthrough chemistry and Anna Delphy, you’ll think we made this story up. But it’s all true! In the pantheon of art rescue stories, few can match the audacity of what happened in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward on a dark evening in 2010. A dump truck driver named…

The home fragrance icon has teamed up with New York agency Beardwood&Co. to reimagine its brand identity, bringing a contemporary edge to a much-loved classic. Yankee Candle, one of the most recognisable names in home fragrance, has revealed a bold new chapter in its story with a strategic design refresh created in partnership with New…

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“Precipice Don’t lose your footing The wall might be a floor”

Ninetto is excited to present The Last Seahorse Neighing in an Egg, a summer exhibition featuring individual and collaborative works by Faye Wei Wei and Erin Wolf Mommsen. Both painters came for a residency at Ninetto during the month of July, 2025. A book gathering their collaborative poems and drawings is available as a limited, signed edition…

We are excited to share a preview today of Eric Croes’ new exhibition, Monkey Puzzle, opening at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica. Croes’ columns are to contemporary sculpture what a gourmet feast is to drive-through fast-food: More refined and customized and unique, they are also more demanding and satisfying and inspiring. Impossible to consume quickly,…

A year on from first making waves with his surreal, deadpan shorts, the Sheffield animator is back with a new series that expands his eccentric universe into full 10-minute episodes. We explore how he’s building a comedy empire, one bizarre character and tangent-filled conversation at a time. It’s just over a year since we first…

A year on from first making waves with his surreal, deadpan shorts, the Sheffield animator is back with a new series that expands his eccentric universe into full 10-minute episodes. We explore how he’s building a comedy empire, one bizarre character and tangent-filled conversation at a time. It’s just over a year since we first…

From ‘clankers’ to ‘delebs’, we explain all the words cool kids are throwing about in meetings. Whatever your creative discipline, you need to communicate effectively with your colleagues, collaborators, clients and bosses. And part of that is keeping up with the constant barrage of new words and phrases that society keeps throwing up. You don’t…

For Brazilian illustrator Gus Morais, illustrating this incredible book was a labour of love, even though he knew little about Taylor Swift when he set out. Dazzling. Beguiling. Sometimes overwhelming. 100 per cent entertaining. That’s what a Taylor Swift show is like, and the same can be said about Taylor Swift: Unofficial Search & Find…

The London agency has refreshed the much-loved British brand with a design that celebrates abundance, sociability and real-life eating. Higgidy has unveiled a new visual identity, created by Bloom, in a bid to strengthen the brand’s appeal with a new generation of shoppers while staying true to the warmth and generosity that have made it…

Tobey Duncan, chief strategy officer at Uncommon, explores how the studio’s new short film, Losing It, joins a wave of cinema redefining masculinity, turning silence into dialogue and taboo into cultural conversation. Film is finally cracking open one of the most understated but urgent stories of our time by delving into the interior lives of…

Anat Ebgi is pleased to announce A Boy That Don’t Bleed, an exhibition by Caleb Hahne Quintana. This is Hahne Quintana’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. On view at 372 Broadway in Tribeca from September 5 through October 18, with an opening reception on Friday, September 5 from 6-8 pm.

Gagosian is pleased to announce Seoul, Kawaii Summer Vacation, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Takashi Murakami presented at the headquarters of Amorepacific, the world-renowned Korean beauty company, in the center of Seoul, opening on September 2. The exhibition takes place in the APMA Cabinet, a project space on the ground floor of the…

PM/AM is pleased to present The Dreams I Don’t Remember, a solo exhibition of new works by Daria Dmytrenko. The artist conjures creatures that dwell somewhere between nightmare and self-portrait. Her figures—amorphous yet anatomical, grotesque yet majestic—emerge from the recesses of her subconscious, relics of a prehistoric psyche. Alongside the paintings, the exhibition also features…

Shot on 35mm film, and combining period details with a light and ironic modern sensibility, the 90-second spot ‘Don’t Stay Bottled Up’ truly stands out from the crowd. We chatted to director Ilanna Barkusky to learn how it was made. Working in branded content has never been tougher. Audiences scroll past your carefully crafted promos…

Spread across five days in Mexico’s Yucatán region, Héctor Ayuso’s event is something different. No stages, no egos; just people, ideas and conversations. If you’ve ever sat through a design conference, you’ll know the routine. Slick branding. Endless slides. Big-name speakers. And the nagging sense you’re there more for networking than nourishment. However, Paradiso Festival,…

Founder and creative director Erik Herrström explains how his team went about shaping authentic playlist branding for a global audience. When Spotify decided to rebrand their Top México playlist—a go-to collection of the country’s biggest songs—the project came through the platform’s central design team, who paired Spotify Mexico with an unexpected partner: a small design…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Members of the community share how they’re dealing with September’s buzz — and the pressure that comes with it. Had a good summer? Whether the season has been kind to you or not, the fact is, it’s soon coming to an end. And typically, with that comes a shift in…

Sim Smith is pleased to announce Vanessa Garwood’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Story Circles. Vanessa Garwood’s paintings explore the progressive nature of matrilateral storytelling, whilst also mining the psychological dramas that unfold behind both speech and action. Each painting becomes an investigation into the hierarchies that play out in this instinctive, subconscious world, where the…

Ben Brown Fine Arts is delighted to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Rebecca Ness, marking the first presentation of work by the acclaimed New York-based figurative painter with the gallery. Ness is a painter of everyday life. Her subject matter is people – encountered directly, but also through the environments, objects, and ephemera that…

As part of M+B’s summer series celebrating their 20-year anniversary, the gallery is proud to spotlight the work of Mike Brodie. While Mike first began photography with a Polaroid camera in 2004, at the age of 19, capturing unique people and gritty, raw situations during his life hopping freight trains–it quickly became clear that he…

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Enter interior worlds imagined by contemporary painters Koak, Ding Shilun and Cece Philips this summer at Hauser & Wirth London. The exhibition explores how these artists engage with the interior both as a physical space and a psychological construct. Through distinct painterly vocabularies, each artist interrogates the architectural and domestic environments we inhabit, revealing how…

IRL Leeds, one of The Studio’s in-person events. Photography by Michael Godsall) Sixteen years on from starting my platform in a spare bedroom, we’re still here to support creatives. But now our private community is powering everything we do… the content, the conversations… everything. Here’s why. September always feels like a big old reset. Fresh…

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P·P·O·W is pleased to present Life Looks Like a House For a Few Hours, Erin M. Riley’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. In a new body of meticulously crafted and powerfully vulnerable large-scale weavings, domestic scenes congeal and dissolve amidst family photos, car crashes, iPhone selfies, and newspaper clippings. Collaging moments from her past and…

AMPHI Gallery is pleased to present When The Music’s Over – the debut solo exhibition of new works by Catherine Wang. The Los Angeles-based artist’s expressive paintings create threads of tension between nature and built space, moments of joy and danger, melancholy and exuberance. Wang’s still lives and landscapes are imbued with the exhilaration and…

GRIMM is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Anthony Cudahy, on view at the Amsterdam gallery from August 29 to October 18, 2025. Cudahy weaves imagery culled from photo archives, art history, film stills, hagiographic icons and personal photographs to explore themes of queer identity and tenderness. His evocative figurative paintings and drawings…

Miles McEnery Gallery is delighted to announce Gabrielle Garland’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, I’ll Get You, My Pretty, and Your Little Dog Too, on view 4 September – 25 October at 511 West 22nd Street. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by Tara Anne Dalbow.

Case Studyo and Parra present Tarzan Interrupted, a new enamel edition debuted during the ‘A World in Objects’ exhibition in Málaga. Based on Parra’s 2009 painting, the work reimagines the jungle hero in an unexpected pause, perched on a branch, cigarette in hand in between vine swings. Both playful and contemplative, the piece captures Parra’s signature mix of humor…

P·P·O·W is pleased to present Running Water, Elizabeth Glaessner’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. In this exhibition, water becomes an inescapable force dissolving the boundaries between body, landscape, memory, and the present in an incessant flood. Glaessner utilizes poured pigments mixed with various mediums and layers of rich oil paint, mimicking the fluidity of water, to create permeable…

Harman Projects is pleased to present Making Light of the Darkness, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Luke Chueh. For his debut exhibition with the gallery, Chueh delves into the delicate art of balancing contradictions: heartbreak softened by humor, cuteness overcome with melancholy, and sincerity intertwined with sarcasm. Through his latest series of paintings,…

After five years of leading her own agencies in Copenhagen, co-founder and managing director Sabina Karlson is entering a new chapter, taking a step back to reflect, spend more time with her family, and explore what’s next. Through our Work-Life Balance & Boundaries theme, she reflects on preserving your creative energy and why leaving at…

Monday Nights co-founder Matthew Caldwell shares how their latest project redefined their creative process and why design is key to breaking football gaming out of its rut. CLUB, the debut title from Formation Games, has stormed into the top three of the App Store’s Free Sports Games chart, attracting more than 100,000 players just weeks…

The beloved bakery brand has unveiled a refreshed identity by New York studio Mrs&Mr, reimagining its crown, wordmark, and packaging while staying true to its Hawaiian roots. King’s Hawaiian has marked its 75th anniversary with a major rebrand led by New York studio Mrs&Mr. The updated identity introduces a softer crown, custom typography, and vibrant…

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For Shanghai MGM Bund Hotel. Let’s meet an artist who focuses on those peaceful, solitary moments when a woman can feel comfortable, relax and reflect upon the world. Just a quick browse through Leah Han’s portfolio more than demonstrates what an incredible talent she is. Few illustrators have a style that’s quite so resolved and…

After years of running her studio under the name CZYK Design, Anna Wanczyk has relaunched as Anna&. The new identity is about clarity, honesty, and a commitment to collaboration — with clients, partners, and the wider creative community. Anna Wanczyk first set up her own business in 2019, and at the time, she didn’t give…

The Portuguese artist discusses the inspiration behind his tranquil imagery, which sheds light on our inner lives, away from the fast pace of a tech-driven world. Imagine what it feels like to break away from a glacier, drift away on the current and become a lonely form gazing into the deep blue ocean. That feeling…

Nathalie Karg Gallery is pleased to present The Sleep of Reason, a solo exhibition of new works by Sangram Majumdar, on view from September 4 through October 6, 2025, at 127 Elizabeth Street, New York with an opening reception on September 11th, from 6-8 PM in the presence of the artist.

Photo: Tom May A weekend in the Welsh mountains taught me that joy isn’t frivolous; it’s a game-changer for creative work of all kinds. As a writer, there are times I’ve wrestled with the blank page. And whatever creative field you work in, I’m sure you’ve had similar experiences. So I’m always on the lookout…

Founded in 2002 as a hybrid design-and-print venture, Coolgrey has evolved into one of Cork’s most ambitious creative studios. In 2002, when Coolgrey first opened its doors, the goal was to build a design studio with its own in-house print production, delivering everything from identity to rollout under one roof. The studio was founded by…

Once considered relics of advertising’s golden age, brand mascots are making a surprising comeback. Ami Werner, Bulletproof’s head of strategy, explains why these characters still have cultural clout and how the next generation of mascots is evolving for an AI age. For a while, it seemed like mascots like Tony the Tiger, the Duracell Bunny,…

Heejo Kim                                                                         Heejo Kim’s Website Heejo Kim on Instagram

Image licensed via Adobe Stock What are the human skills that’ll make you irreplaceable in an AI world, and how do you get better at them? One of the joys of being a journalist is that creative people are typically willing, determined even, to share their stories with me. Unfortunately, it’s not always appropriate to…

Sébastien Nôtre is a French painter based in Milan who just opened the exhibition Fugues at Moosey Norwich. He started his artistic path in London, where he studied as a Fashion Designer at St. Martin’s School. He arrived later in Milan, when he realized his true art passion involved palette, paint brushes and colours.

Happiness © David Simonds Cancelled for being “too offensive” back in May, a bold exhibition of political cartoons is back with a vengeance. But in a culture bending over backwards to avoid offence, its return asks an uncomfortable question: have we lost our appetite for satire? Earlier this year, a group of Britain’s sharpest political…

Forget cacao percentages and tasting notes of tree bark… Bournville is back with a brilliantly silly campaign that aims the pomp and pretension of dark chocolate culture. 2025 is fast becoming the year of the comeback. Oasis are back on stage, bucket hats are once again on heads everywhere, and even hot summers have returned…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock What are the human skills that’ll make you irreplaceable in an AI world, and how do you get better at them? One of the joys of being a journalist is that creative people are typically willing, determined even, to share their stories with me. Unfortunately, it’s not always appropriate to…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Security calls, but your heart says stay put… what should you do? In the first of a new series, the Creative Boom’s community weighs in with its collective wisdom. Welcome to Dear Boom, Creative Boom’s new agony aunt column for creatives facing career conundrums. The concept is simple: you send…

Alejandro Bernal – stock.adobe.com The leading YouTube producer explains how the new guidelines should protect us from a deluge of AI slop. Let’s not beat around the bush: tech giants don’t always have the creative community’s best interests at heart. From algorithm changes that devastate reach overnight to policies that favour corporate content over independent…

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The flatpack favourite has landed in Brighton & Hove and is making friends with the locals… starting with the area’s most notorious residents. In a new campaign, the Swedish giant pays playful tribute to the seaside’s cheeky, chip-stealing seagulls. For many, the sound of seagulls brings back happy childhood memories. Vinegar-soaked fish and chips, flashing…

From an Olympic gold medallist to a 12-year-old tackling homelessness, TIME’s first-ever Girls of the Year list spotlights ten extraordinary young women who are proving you don’t have to be an adult to make a big impact. Backed by LEGO’s She Built That campaign, it’s all about showing the next generation they can build anything,…

Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present Breath, Island, a solo exhibition of new paintings by South Korean artist Guimi You. Inspired by her recent solitary two-week journey to Korea’s Jeju Island, the works in this exhibition trace both the contours of the island’s volcanic terrain and the artist’s own inner landscapes. Through delicate, atmospheric brushwork and…

For our Financial Transparency theme, Romanian illustrator and designer Adriana Danaila opens up about navigating pricing, unlearning limiting beliefs, and separating passion from income to build a career and life on her own terms. For Adriana Danaila, a creative career hasn’t just been about developing her craft. It’s been about undoing years of inherited money…

Portraits of female protagonists contemplating the human condition. Smoking cigarettes – a gentle reminder of life’s brevity, often in the company of cats, gazing into the void. Tears leaving eyes or skies. Moments of introspection, being and becoming. Dreaming with eyes wide open. A vulnerable sense of strength. Cats, Tears and Cigarettes is Camilla Mihkelsoo’s (born 1978,…

Photography by Cian O’Riain The popular VR experience In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats arrives in Leeds, promising to transport audiences to the birth of UK rave culture. For me, it unlocked a flood of teenage memories – nights in Novas and Escorts, Timberlands on the dance floor, and friendships I’ll carry for life. I wasn’t…

With decades of creative direction experience behind him, Stuart Jackson’s latest personal project – a growing series of powerful typographic works – is less about clients and more about creative clarity. Stuart Jackson has launched a striking, text-led art series titled I Am A, marking a departure from his commercial work as executive creative director…

After a stroke left her unable to write, this designer transformed her recovery into revolutionary typographic art. Most of us take our ability to communicate for granted. We type, we speak, we write, we gesture. But what happens when that fundamental human capacity suddenly fractures? Artist and designer Eilish Briscoe knows exactly what exists in…

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François Ghebaly New York is proud to present Fifteen Measures, Brooklin Soumahoro’s newest exhibition at the gallery’s Lower East Side location.  Los Angeles-based painter Brooklin A. Soumahoro treats color theory as both careful science and intuitive process. He achieves extraordinary technical precision in his work, incorporating rigorous chromatic and geometric study while maintaining the sensitivity of…

Huxley-Parlour are delighted to announce The Blue of Distance, a new exhibition of paintings by Kate Gottgens. Open at their Swallow Street gallery, it is the South African artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. In this new body of work Gottgens investigates nostalgia, journeying, and the expressive qualities of the colour blue.

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We canvased creatives from around the world about ageism… and their responses reveal a pattern that’s impossible to ignore. Ageism in the creative industry is one of those things you know exists, but is rarely acknowledged. While you won’t find “must be under 40” written in a job spec, ageism…

The executive director explains how this Pentagram-led identity avoids tech design cliches, leading to something quite different and original. After writing about design for some decades now, it sometimes feels like I’ve seen it all. But here’s a rebrand that really made me go ‘Wow!’. So I was keen to chat to Nabiha Syed, executive…

Working with STOP THE TRAFFIK and Justice & Care, Fold7Design has created a captivating identity for the first Freedom Games, which aims to unite businesses and individuals to take a stand against human trafficking. Fold7Design has unveiled the branding for the first-ever Freedom Games, a new movement designed to unite people across sectors in the…

The European Travel Commission and Visit Europe have unveiled a strategic repositioning by Lantern, swapping “sustainable” for “responsible” travel and flipping the script from guilt to upgrade. It’s no secret that the word “sustainable” has become one of those slippery words that’s full of good intentions but often becomes muddied by confusion, greenwashing, and a…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We’ve been on both sides of the freelancing fence, and we’ve seen the same mistakes over and over. The good news? Once you understand the reasons, it’s a lot easier to keep clients sticking around. Freelancing is never the breezy, carefree path we once imagined. It can be bloody hard…

Surrogacy is the inspiration behind 2023 Bennett Prize winner Deng “Demo” Shiqing’s solo exhibition, Deng Shiqing: The Cost of Life. The paintings in this series were created during her two-year Bennett Prize grant and represent the freedoms it provided to explore new directions in how, and what, she creates. Combining realistic rendering with passages of loose, expressive…

Les Veilleuses is about our loved ones. In her studio, Marguerite Piard revives the memory of their presence at her side, like ‘little lights on which to rely to face the night, to grow up, to no longer be afraid’. On the canvas, friends, family and lovers mingle as witnesses to her secrets, watching over…

From treasured childhood picture books to teaching art workshops in Copenhagen, the illustrator has built a practice based on observation, gratitude, and the quiet joy of drawing. She speaks to Creative Boom about her journey, her inspirations, and why she believes creativity belongs to everyone. Alysha Takoushian can trace her earliest artistic memories back to…

The second-hand fashion giant has teamed up with Studio Kiln to evolve its brand identity, amplifying its mission and modernising its toolkit while holding on to the handwritten logo beloved by millions. With over 100 million registered members across Europe and beyond, Vinted has built its reputation on making second-hand the first choice. From children’s…

The ’90s office crush ad gets an icy update as Diet Coke’s latest campaign swaps ogling for modern self-care, with Jamie Dornan taking the plunge for real. If you remember that iconic ’90s Diet Coke Break ad – the one that had professional women stopping mid-morning to watch Lucky Vanous peel off his shirt –…

Yuwei Tu Using a layered process, Yuwei Tu (b. 1995, Sichuan, China) articulates the nuance and complexity of interior worlds through painting. Her work is informed by personal experiences and investigations in the construction of identities and relationships to create a visual language of the self and psyche. She is currently pursuing an MFA in…

Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present Dear Moments, a solo exhibition by Korean-American artist Danym Kwon. For her latest solo exhibition, Kwon offers a tender and introspective body of work shaped by the emotional landscapes of home, motherhood and migration. After over a decade in California, the artist returned to her native Seoul in 2022, only…

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (E.M.D.R.) is a type of therapy that targets traumatic memories, and helps you reprocess them using bilateral stimulation. This can be tapping either side of your body or following an object with your eyes left to right as the therapist guides you.

For years, he worked towards a single goal. By 28, he’d achieved it. But the reality of “making it” didn’t match the dream. One year into running his own studio, Lost Property, Steffan shares the messy, liberating truth about stepping off the ladder. What happens when you finally land the role you’ve been chasing for…

In the world’s happiest city, even the dogs get their own attractions. Helsinki’s new canine sightseeing route comes with a stick-built monument, a pop-up café, and an island where paws have priority. If you thought sightseeing was just for humans, Helsinki has news for you. The Finnish capital has launched The Doggy Route to Happiness,…

This ad doesn’t just feature creators, it’s made in partnership with them. And that’s borderline revolutionary. Read on, as I explain why. It’s kind of a paradox. On the one hand, the media landscape is undergoing a seismic shift right now. On the other hand, most people—most creatives, even—haven’t really noticed. Because everything is so…

All images: Thames & Hudson Documenting every print edition by the artist from 2002-2022, Banksy: The Prints reveals the subversive genius behind 30,000 collectable works. Weird, isn’t it? Right now, everyone in the creative world seems to be trying to get noticed. And yet Banksy’s anonymity has only amplified his influence. Over three decades, this…

Charlie James Gallery is proud to present Abel Rodriguez: Aguante, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper from the artist’s Fotos y recuerdos series, which reexamines photographs and ephemera from the artist’s childhood in the 1990s and early 2000s. By reproducing photo snapshots in soft pastel and pencil, Rodriguez introduces a subtle blur into the image…

Harman Projects is pleased to announce CONTRASTS, a solo exhibition of new works by Toronto-based painter Chris Austin. Known for his dreamlike paintings of wildlife anachronistically navigating suburban and urban settings, Austin’s latest body of work builds on his unique surreal visual language. This will mark the artist’s second solo presentation with Harman Projects and…

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Marta Minujín (Buenos Aires, 1943) presents her first solo exhibition in Mexico in over twenty-five years. To Live in Art brings together a selection of historical and recent works that reflect her profound impact on the global art scene. For more than seventy years, Minujín has challenged and expanded the boundaries of contemporary art, participating in movements…

Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present Back to School, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist duo Giorgiko. In Back to School, Giorgiko offers a series of eight new oil paintings that reflect on the childhood experience of school through a lens that is both nostalgic and perceptive. Drawing inspiration from their twin sons’ experiences entering…

Image licensed via Adobe Stock ChatGPT is going up a gear, and it’s going to be a wild ride; are you ready for the impact? Read on to discover what’s going to happen, and how to get the most out of it. You know ChatGPT, right? The chatbot that you’re broadly suspicious of, but you’ve…

Today, August 7th, V1 Gallery and Barry McGee have released a special series of prints to celebrate the artist’s exhibition, Nature Inside Me. The release of 10 new hand-pulled screen prints by McGee, crafted in Copenhagen in conjunction with his solo exhibition at V1’s Eighteen. The new prints take their departure in McGee’s expansive archive…

We talk to the illustrator behind this impressive new series of books designed especially for babies and toddlers. She’s won illustration awards, she’s collaborated with A-list children’s author Julia Donaldson, and now London-based artist Sharon King-Chai is riding high with an innovative series of her own. Mirror Magic has been created for infants and toddlers,…

Starting with tarot-inspired artworks, illustrator Scarlett Yang has begun a journey exploring the female identity in Chinese culture and beyond The roles women must play in society and the social pressures on them are under scrutiny in an incredibly rich and multi-layered creative project by the London-based book illustrator Scarlett Yang. It begins with her…

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Pilar Corrias is pleased to present Allus Do It Fer Thissen, a solo exhibition by James Owens. This exhibition forms part of Gallery 2, an occasional programme of exhibitions by non-represented artists at Pilar Corrias Conduit Street.

DixonBaxi’s co-founder shares his hard-won wisdom on building a studio that defines success on its own terms. Sick of social media? Creative Boom’s own network, The Studio, offers a refreshing alternative: a place for real conversations and actionable insights. Recently, our members enjoyed a lively talk by Simon Dixon, co-founder of DixonBaxi, who explored the…

As Manchester becomes the first UK city to partner with Barcelona’s iconic La Mercè Festival, designer Dave Sedgwick curates an ambitious design exhibition celebrating emerging talent, creative kinship, and a decade-long relationship between two industrial powerhouses. What began over a decade ago as an instinctive cultural exchange is about to take on a bigger stage.…

Air fryers, hanging egg chairs, and kayaks aren’t just flying off Aldi’s shelves; they’re landing on people’s skin thanks to a new range of temporary tattoos celebrating its most iconic middle aisle favourites. Few brands have inspired the kind of devotion that Aldi’s middle aisle manages to conjure. From viral air fryers to sell-out Pilates…

Need to update your portfolio? Or looking for your next challenge? Push yourself out of your comfort zone with our monthly creative prompts: Boom Briefs. You’ve been putting it off for ages, but finally, you’ve got round to updating your portfolio. But there’s a problem. As you scroll through your recent work, you’ve got this…

Fifteen years after helping launch the brand, Propaganda returns to Cloud Nine with a new positioning built around hair health, inclusivity and a quiet power, redefining what beauty looks like in a saturated styling market. In a beauty sector still dominated by glossy high-heat imagery and airbrushed perfection, Cloud Nine is taking a different approach.…