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10 top design-related movies

September 24, 2017
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We all love a good movie, but rather than tune into the latest action film or comedy, why not take a look at some of the many awesome design movies and documentaries out there? There’s nothing better than seeing what some of the great designers have done to help boost your creative ideas and spur

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Pick a winning font for your brand with this infographic

September 24, 2017
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Branding is more than just a snappy slogan or clever logo – it’s how customers connect with your service across all sorts of platforms. And designers who specialise in creating memorable brands have plenty of tricks up their sleeves to make people respond to a company in certain ways. We’ve already seen how colours can influence

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How Lego reinvented itself as a super-brand

September 24, 2017
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There can be few brand turnarounds as mind-boggling as Lego’s. Here is a Danish toy manufacturer, with its roots carved by Ole Kirk Christiansen – a small-town furniture store owner – that has spawned into the biggest brand on the planet. Its fleet of movies, spin-offs and tie-ins propelled Lego beyond the likes of Apple, Ferrari

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4 ways to cash in as a freelancer

September 24, 2017
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Most designers choose to freelance because they love their craft and they want the freedom to do it on their terms. That, or they loathe the foibles of traditional employment, like the nine-to-five grind, meaningless meetings, or how Greg from marketing thinks his wacky ties are the same thing as a definable personality trait. Whatever your reason for freelancing,

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: Max Ernst: Beyond Painting

September 24, 2017
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This exhibition surveys the career of the preeminent Dada and Surrealist artist Max Ernst (French and American, born Germany. 1891–1976), with particular emphasis on his ceaseless experimentation. Ernst began his pursuit of radical new techniques that went “beyond painting” to articulate the irrational and unexplainable in the wake of World War I, continuing through the

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: Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait

September 24, 2017
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Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait explores the prints, books, and creative process of the celebrated sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010). Bourgeois’s printed oeuvre, a little-known aspect of her work, is vast in scope and comprises some 1,200 printed compositions, created primarily in the last two decades of her life but also at the beginning of her

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Kerry James Marshall Has Created a Mural for Chicago Featuring Oprah Winfrey, Susanne Ghez, and More

September 24, 2017
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A rendering of the new mural. DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS AND SPECIAL EVENTS The people of Chicago are getting a giant mural from none other than the great Kerry James Marshall, and it looks to be a good one. The work in question, which is being installed on the Chicago Cultural Center starting today, is,

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‘If Another Person Asks Me to Get Them a Jen Guidi I Think I Might Just Vomit in My Bed’: The Next Must-Have Market Darling Has Emerged

September 24, 2017
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Jennifer Guidi, Sunset (Painted Light Pink Grey Sand SF #1F, Orange Blue Pink Lavender and Yellow) (2017). COURTESY DAVID KORDANSKY GALLERY In 2014 the artist Jennifer Guidi debuted new work at two concurrent exhibitions, one her first solo show ever in New York and the other her first solo show in Los Angeles since 2006.

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Hauser & Wirth to Open Hong Kong Gallery, Offices in Beijing, Shanghai

September 24, 2017
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The H Queens development in Hong Kong. COURTESY HAUSER & WIRTH Hauser & Wirth has arrived in China. The global mega-gallery has announced plans to open a new outpost in Hong Kong in spring 2018, to be designed by Annabelle Selldorf. The 10,000-square-foot space will extend through the entire 15th and 16th floors of the

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John Houck Is Now Represented by Marianne Boesky

September 24, 2017
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John Houck, Winter Indoors, 2017. ©JOHN HOUCK/MATT GRUBB/COURTESY MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY, NEW YORK AND ASPEN John Houck, the Los Angeles–based artist whose abstract pictures meditate on the relationship between photographs and the objects they represent, is now represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery. Houck’s work is currently on view at Boesky West, the New York gallery’s

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