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conceptual art
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1984object-293502
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2010Maisie Broadhead: The House of Fake
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2011Things
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2010Things
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2011This Is It: Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
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2012Ill-Studio's mesmerising answer to Louis Vuitton's 'All Aboard Games' brief
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2011The Milan Review (of Ghosts)
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2012Pucker up those lips, THINGS is about to snog your face off twice!
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2016Erik Kessels: “There are no wrong turns anymore… which is where the interesting things happen”
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2008Web Without Sense
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2019Pablo Tomek leaves the social interpretation of his work up to the viewer
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2013Sculpture: Gemis Luciani creates stunning objects from humble phonebooks
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2009Karl Grandin
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2009ATM Gallery
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2011In Progress 2011
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2018"Science, maths, astrology and history" inspire Filip Custic's surreal portfolio
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2016Pixy Yijun Liao’s strange photography challenges what relationships and love should be
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2016Inside Alasdair McLellan’s new book, designed by M/M (Paris)
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2015Utopia-focussed design work from studio Public School
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2018Post-Noviki is a skeptical design studio challenging even its own existence
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2018Chris Maggio's oxymoronic series The New Age of The New Age in Arizona
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2017Córdova Canillas commission photographers to create a spot the difference illusion for Tunica
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2014Here 2014: Artists Lernert & Sander
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2015Nice: Jordy Van Den Nieuwendijk makes a concerted effort at self-improvement
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2016Nadav Kander's presentation of inspiration and intrigue at Here 2016
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2016Brasilia #3 by Bureau Bordeaux: thoughtfully designed reflections on the subject of waiting
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2019Martin Major designs his stream of consciousness and a food-centred zine
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2018Alon Bonder's multi-artworks are inspired by shamanism and hallucinogens
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2016More thought-provoking editorial illustrations from Sébastien Thibault
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2018Robert Rubbish takes us on a hazy, illustrated day of the places and people of Soho
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2015Sublime and surreal updates from Oslo-based illustrator Mari Kanstad Johnsten
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2014Cory Arcangel's book celebrates all those with a novel inside them
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2011Things
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2022Mirka Laura Severa builds twisted realities through set design and photography
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2009Things
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2009Plats
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2012Aries Moross and studio just keep on producing bigger, better work
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2007The Internet Was Closed
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2010Anne De Vries
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2009Hop Along, Queen Ansleis
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2015Innovative textures and techniques in campaign for Decca Classics inspired by The Stalker
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2017Introducing the “dirty, naive and honest” work of Sebastian Haslauer
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2014Makelight studio responds to ODDKA's challenge for unusual creative thinking
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2014A look back at our travel inspired Nicer Tuesdays!
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2019Martin Wecke's work sits in the sweet spot between thoughtful design and surprising interactions
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2015Maxim Leurentop's design work is taking an artistic direction
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2010Piero Martinello
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2013Illustration: How much do you love everything by Sac Magique?
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2008Olivier Pasqual
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2015We check in with Leslie David, who's making excellent work at a rate of knots
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2009Anne Harild
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2019Raimon Guirado considers the graphic design profession as a 24-hour role
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2010Terri Weifenbach: Lana
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2010Tauba Auerbach
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2010Aleksandra Mir: The How Not to Cook Book
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2010Storm Thorgerson - Right But Wrong
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2012What's On: Roee Rosen
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2007The Smal Stakes
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2016Conceptual Art: ideas, action and words, as presented by Tate Britain
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2013Photographer Lonneke Van Der Palen plays with your mind with alternative holiday snaps
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2010Ned Beauman
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2012Things
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2008This Is Sand
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2012Solo mission into space, anyone? just ask Joseph Popper
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2012In terms of illustration, is it possible to find The One? Rob Pybus proves it is
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2010Things
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2009Food For Thought
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2018"It feels a bit like knowing languages": Oscar Mitchell on his varied illustration practice
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2010Neo Rauch
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2011Dave Tree: Still
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2009A Few Questions...
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2013Graphic Design: Lauren Thorson's beautiful work is part art, part design
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2019Lucy Sherston finds that leaving out parts of a composition is just as important as the bits kept in
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2012Golly gouache – new Andy Rementer show opens in the Netherlands so we spoke to the man himself
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2009Joachim Jirou-Najou
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2013Things 2013 #13 - a bizarre mix of mascots, sushi and secret places
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2012Beginnings: Sylvia Whitman
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2010Nagi Noda
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2012Things
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2011Giasco Bertoli
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2007Christopher Roeleveld
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2019Rebeka Lukošus’ self-imposed rule means her work has to be sincere and funny
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2019Puzzleman Leung considers the similarities between contrasting photographs
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2016Making propaganda about propaganda: Metahaven’s new film considers fantasy and truth in internet culture
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2008It's OK
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2013Gert & Uwe Tobias push the concept behind collage through all their artwork
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2016Cosmic photographs of kitchen mould from Nikita Teryoshin and Max Slobodda
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2016Artist Casey Gray transforms the mundane into the distinctive
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2015Jeremy Deller artfully avoids Andy Warhol story in the new Printed Pages
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2021Paula de Álvaro playfully champions design’s role as one of expression rather than service
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2008Tim Belonax
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2012Photographer Lisa Kereszi's strips away the artifice of enjoyment in her quietly dazzling work
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2013New WassinkLundgren show celebrates the Dutch duo's conceptual greatness
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2009Sarina Cass
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2013Sacré bleu! French design studio Fake Paper is pretty awesome
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2017Smile! Printed Pages SS17 launches 20 April
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2010Glennray Tutor
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2014Introducing: Martina Corà from Milan on her fantastic conceptual photography
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2017Thomas Albdorf is “shifting perceptions” of contemporary photography
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2012A trip inside the vivid imagination and private life of Waleria Petruschenko
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2012James Bridle: A Ship Adrift
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2011Willa Nasatir
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2009The Age of the Marvellous
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2016Hat-Trick designs book about ideas of imagining, creating and connecting
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2009A4 Art
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2011Hennessy Youngman: Relational Aesthetics
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2012Damien Cuypers and Benoît François reveal the charming Stories of Philosophies
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2018Seo-Young Kwon actively records thoughts and ideas that otherwise might float away
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2009Corriette Schoenaerts
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2022David Rudnick takes us behind the scenes of his most compelling work to date
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2015Jarvis Cocker designs "gold" records for Paris show
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2016Yeji Yun’s imaginative zine combines frozen lands, whales and cocktails
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2010Miles Donovan
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2011Methods of Imitation
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2017Jan Siemen adopts a vector style for his conceptual illustrations
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2016New work from Supermundane show Everything Connects
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2009Harm van den Dorpel
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2012Steve Bishop: As If You Could Only Kill Time Without Injuring Eternity
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2011Ryan Gander: Locked Room Scenario
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2010Sosososo
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2007Daniel Gustav Cramer
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2017Liisa Kruusmägi's deliciously rich, layered artworks
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2012Jill Sylvia confounds with her mind-boggling hand-cut paper art
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2018Benedict Morgan exposes the trickery of a photography set in his Tableware series with Lisa Jahovic
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2018“Wrap facts in fictions, and fictions in facts”: Metahaven on its ICA show, Version History
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2014Getting eggy with prolific and somewhat fascinating Swiss artist, Urs Fischer
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2007Guy Moorhouse / Airside
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2016Submit Saturdays: David Lynch, architecture and structuralist-inspired graphic design by Pouya Ahmadi
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2010UVA: Speed of Light
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2012What's On: Gilbert & George
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2017Andrea Ucini’s conceptual illustrations play with perspective
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2025In for a penny: This exhibition showcases 99 artists’ interpretation of the humble piggy bank
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2011Oliver Pitt
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2009Things
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2013Illustration: Gavin Potenza is infiltrating your brain (and that's a good thing)
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2019“More famous than famous”: Michael Craig-Martin on the changing nature of “ordinariness”
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2011Jon Contino
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2011Things
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2011Frank Kunert
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2007Olaf Breuning
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2009Things
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2015Stephan Schmitz’s simple yet obscure illustrations play with our expectations
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2012Anna Huix: Foc
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2009Jim Woodring
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2015Aliens, OAPs and brutalism inspire intricate hand drawn wallpapers by Angela Groundwater
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2007Print Run
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2013Jack Hudson and Lord Whitney create amazing series of imagined LP covers
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2010Bernard Voïta
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2008Yann Le Bec
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2011Things
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2008Kris Stoddart
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2012Nacho Alegre pays homage to the humble loaf of bread in this magnificent series
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2020Pouya Ahmadi hints to extreme opposites at the same time in his concept-driven design practice
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2009Things
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2009Philips de Pury: Photographs
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2018Lucas Hesse draws inspiration from outside the traditional graphic design canon
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2012Disappear into the Tate's fascinating vault-like Gallery of Lost Art
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2016The photographer bringing together beauty and boredom, James Tolich
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2013Unbelievable! Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen present Eyes as Big as Plates
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2018Paper clips, graphic activism and fried eggs: it's April Things
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2008Damien Poulain
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2019Jan Hakon Erichsen is a balloon-destroying artist whose work you really shouldn't try at home
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2011Things
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2008Anthony Sheret
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2010Sebastian Errazuriz
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2012Noemie Goudal
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2019Through otherworldly and surreal illustrations Jee-ook Choi strives for “unrealistic beauty”
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2014Rosa Rendl imbues gorgeous still life shots with conceptual ambivalence in her new show
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2008If You Could February Prints
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2012Illustrator Santiago Salvador shows us what life should REALLY be like
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2007David Mach
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2009Andy Macgregor
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2009New Math
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2016ManvsMachine reveals its "conceptual" campaign for Nike Air Max Day
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2013A design proposal that sets out a perfect plot to rob five banks in LA? Sure thing
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2014Mike Perry sweeps into town with two nude shows!
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2012Still-lifes of flowers, but not as we know it from Thomas Hauser
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2014Art: A car within a car, wrapped around a car...Chris Labrooy's car gymnastics are a sight for stunned eyes
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2013Graphic Design: Ideas man Josh King has a weird and wonderful way of looking at the world
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2020Meet Ill-Studio’s General_Index, a subjective encyclopaedia of all human knowledge all in one place
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2017Alessandro Apai’s recent commissions tackle big ideas in a concise manner
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2013Alejandro Guijarro photographs blackboards used by the best quantum physicists for his Momentum series
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2009David David
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2009Red De Leon
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2017Illustrator Albert Tercero's satisfying portfolio of allegories and metaphors
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2008Robert Boon
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2012Things is back again! It goes away for six days and returns! Like a really slow (but creative) zombie
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2012Sarah Illenberger: Architectural Digest
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2019“Part-animal, part-household object”: Frédérique Rusch on her wonderfully cryptic illustrations
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2011Martin Creed
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2011Tommi Musturi
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2013Meet Henrik Franklin, illustrator, designer and creator of bizarre worlds
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2017Cleon Peterson's works continue to investigate the evil side of humanity
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2013Let Jonathan Latiano's incredible installations help your grapple with the big questions
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2009Alphabet homotopy
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2010Things
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2007Tom Judd
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2012New William Blanchard show has wit and weirdness in equal measure
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2012Birdhead
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2017The inner workings of Ori Toor's cerebral labyrinth for our World Mental Health Day takeover
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2018Quentin Lacombe constructs a personal cosmology blurring the boundaries of science and metaphor in Event Horizon
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2014The Weekender: Dream bathrooms, bear traps and a blob-fish. It's time for The Weekender.
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2013Exhibition: Radiohead artist Stanley Donwood produces a sensational Soho show
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2010La Mas Bella
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2012Lars Beller Fjetland: Re-Turned
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2007The Superest
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2018Marlon Ilg looks back to his art school years for his innovative, type-led designs
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2012Jaw-droppingly beautiful installation work from Swiss studio Detektiv Bureau
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2017Photographer Tito Mouraz is back with a spooky series
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2016A self-combusting book and more from graphic designer Patrick Oltean
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2015Cheeky, cleverly-composed illustrations from Studio Takeuma
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2013Photography: Minaj in a fridge and Cassel table dancing? Thanks Frederike Helwig!
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2013Art: Who Wore It Better blog joins the conceptual dialogue about originality
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2010Aurélien Arnaud
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2018Five new projects from inside the vibrant mind of graphic designer Nejc Prah
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2016Mattis Dovier tracks the painful metamorphosis of man into machine in his new short
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2012Csilla Klenyánszki thinks in images, blurring perceptions of the familiar
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2012Amazingly detailed cathedral-like truck models created by Wim Delvoye
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2012Mud
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2015You’ve got something on your face: Brest Brest Brest’s History and Chips series
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2008Debauched Zeitgiest by Carla Edwards
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2007G.J. Echternkamp
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2011Things
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2009Pomme Chan
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2011All That's Gold Does Not Glitter
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2017Obituaries, PowerPoint and “sobbing super heroes”: Henrik Franklin’s latest zine
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2016Turning the Tables – NB Studio's theatrical manifesto about creativity
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2018Brooke DiDonato’s surreal portraits leave the viewer to fill in the gaps
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2007Sara De Bondt
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2007Jacob Dahlgren
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2008Face Your Pockets
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2017Gem Fletcher on Riposte's game-changing photoshoot with Ericka Hart
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2018Mainstudio's publications merge conceptual art, architecture and graphic design
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2014Photography: Elisa Noguera Lopez' latest Mousetrap series is a real beauty
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2011Bertrand Fèvre
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2010Peter Saul
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2019See Sophy Hollington's intricate works blown up to new heights
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2010Non Format: Even Your Friend
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2012Each of Max J. Marshall and Andrea Nguyen's photographs display an entire scientific theory
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2009James Gilpin (In Tokyo)
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2012Things
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2011Monica Nelson
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2010Things
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2018Rod puppets in intricate felt sets profess The Need to Be Alone for Alain de Botton
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2015Oscar Grønner shows us a weird world of monolithic figures
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2015Working 9 to 5 is no way to make a living – here's The Weekender!
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2008Damien Poulain
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2011Things
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2008Magdalena Czarnecki
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2011Spencer Murphy: Fallen Empire
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2014David Lynch's damn good new MIMA show explores his use of naming
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2012Fish-pineapple anyone? Amazing foodie combinations from Festina Lente collective
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2018Boris Camaca's eerie, otherworldly photographs are rooted in social criticism
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2012James Huyton's Resolutions illustrations are beautiful but guilt-ridden
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2011Things
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2019For Joakim Drescher, mistakes are an integral part of an illustration
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2014Richard Tuttle's Tate Modern's Turbine Hall piece has been unveiled
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2012Rob Lowe, better known as Supermundane, talks about his super minimal new show
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2010Things
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2011Canada: Ice Cream
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2021Building worlds through set design and manipulation, Joost Termeer’s photography work is a trip
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2011Ponchan
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2016Artist and illustrator Jamie Johnson's gently surreal compositions
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2011Sasha Kurmaz
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2011Beccy Ridsdel: Art/Craft
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2008Deathercise
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2018Photography duo Moos-Tang's elegant take on a nightmare scenario
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2019"I felt I saw the world with different eyes": Jaimy Gail on photographing the concept of normalcy
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2012Things
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2014Got a really dry brief and need something brilliant? Call Helsinki studio Werklig
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2014Graphic Design: A look at Geoff McFetridge's designs featured in Spike Jonze's Her
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2011Erwin Wurm
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2012Exclusive new work from Bompas & Parr headlines our latest Here profile
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2009Snozzcumbers and Frobscottle
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2022With a nifty book-binding technique, Naomi Prost-Kasbi combines theoretical concepts with thoughts and feelings
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201010 Penneth
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2012Photographer Catarina Botelho composes beautiful, thought-provoking images
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2011What's On: Places, Strange and Quiet
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2010Things
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2012And the Lord said to Noah, "Let there be THINGS! – It'll be floody sound!" And it was good
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2015Photographer Kiran Master captures fake animals in their unnatural environment
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2018Dairy drinks and cigarettes meet in Lucas Reis' illustrative evocations of Japan
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2012"It is a world larger than Scunthorpe" – We Am The Kestrel's spectacular Dark Market
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2017Illustrator Lisk Feng’s “whimsical, loose and playful” work
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2017Tiago Galo’s graphic editorial illustrations communicate abstract concepts
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2011Bookshelf: Rafaël Rozendaal
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2009Stages: Part 2
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2014Art: Walead Beshty smashes glass boxes in the name of photographic experimentation
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2012Things
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2012Gustav Almestål's makes food oddly erotic in his O Gluttony! Divine gluttony! series for The Gourmand
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2008Jack Smith
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2009Peter Callesen
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2015Funny, weird head sculptures by LA artist David Jien
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2016Gillian Wearing uses the public's work to examine privacy and individual vs collective experience
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2012Things
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2009Anne De Vries
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2008Karen Williams
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2011Gordon Matta-Clark
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2018Arcin Sagdic's latest cover story for Numero Homme Berlin is a meditation on surgically-enhanced beauty
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