On San Francisco’s waterfront, 10 established artists get free studios and, in return, teach 20 emerging ones. Macfadden & Thorpe and Anisha Sachar have given the mission an identity based on the flow of water… Read More »Macfadden & Thorpe gives Dave Eggers’s free alternative to art school a bendy, salty identity
A new event in Shrewsbury has a name that hints at the market town’s problem for designers: nothing happens here, and no one knows where it is. We find out more. Have you ever grumbled… Read More »That Design Thing: Tony Clarkson brings a design event to Shrewsbury, ‘the town where nothing happens’
After almost three decades, 50-odd D&AD pencils and champagne at Buckingham Palace, Alan Dye and Nick Finney have closed NB Studio. Alan tells Creative Boom why he’s thrilled to be an absolute beginner again. Alan… Read More »NB Studio’s Alan Dye on 29 years, starting again and why design needs more joy
Two new books of old and current work by Seymour Chwast will be posted and hosted at Poster House on Oct. 24. During his 95 years, Seymour Chwast has illustrated or authored and illustrated 40… Read More »The Daily Heller: Chwast is a Child at Heart
From studying biology and preparing for medical entrance exams in Ghaziabad to finding his feet at the Slade, the artist creates paintings as rooted in people, places and fleeting moments that have shaped his sense… Read More »Lakshya Bhargava on finding home, memory and meaning in the act of painting
The New York-based artist on making drawings that look like low-resolution JPEGs, the value of working every day and why he wants to keep viewers guessing. At first glance, Danny Ische’s work looks like it… Read More »Danny Ische draws pixels, cross-stitch and paperclips – all with a trusty pencil