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2019
Artist Inès Longevial on balancing figuration and abstraction with memories and dreams
Project
2012
Leigh Wells' wonderfully abstract collages mix geometric lines with human body parts
Project
2016
Daan Botlek plays with ambiguity in his geometric compositions
Project
2018
“The beauty of abstraction”: Christoph Niemann on his new mural for a Berlin train station
Project
2025
Illustrator Zoé Maghamès Peters finds poetry in everyday items
Project
2015
We chat to Jens Wolf about his intriguingly imperfect abstractions
Project
2017
French graphic designer Jeremy Piningre and his Hans Arp-inspired visuals
Project
2011
Katharina Grosse
Project
2016
Abstraction, landscape, but no vaginas, thanks: Tate Modern's Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective
Project
2009
Rayogram News
Project
2010
How Many Stops?
Project
2019
Illustrator Lasse Wandschneider on his abstract and experimental take on the world
Project
2019
Diane Dal-Pra's paintings sit between the real and the abstract
Project
2014
Art: The distorted beauty of the world through the eyes of Phil Goss
Project
2013
Photography: Craig McDean captures the near-uncapturable Thom Yorke
Project
2012
Cartoon abstraction in Mark Mulroney's new show Spring Time Pictures
Project
2009
Signs of Abstraction
Project
2012
Elliott Wilcox takes great abstract photos of empty climbing walls
Publication
2015
Zoran Pungerčar's book covers show some lovely character design and whimsical abstractions
Project
2014
Mathias Schweizer's abstract experiments show off an unusual process
Identity
2015
More from Kokoro & Moi: this time a graphic identity inspired by geometric abstraction
Project
2012
Construct: Typofaces
Project
2019
Antti Kalevi intricately and abstractly draws his favourite places around the world
Project
2016
Jason Shulman captures entire movies in a single image
Project
2019
Scott Albrecht turns typographic forms into abstract works of art
Motion
2020
Paintings, animations, zines and drawings: What more could we want from Tim Romanowsky?
Movement
1917
De Stijl
Project
2017
Amsterdam-based photographer Lois Cohen’s "absurd" portraits
Project
2016
Jean-Philippe Bretin’s abstractly illustrated, cleanly composed designs
Project
2016
New York loft-life in the 70s, acid and abstraction: Mary Heilmann comes to east London
Project
2011
The Post-painterly Abstraction of Frank Stella
Project
2020
Metamorphic and mesmerising, Sujin Lee paints the most common subject of all: grass
Project
2014
Irregular portraiture from young New York photographer Eric Chakeen
Project
2014
Ambient New York street photos with the backgrounds removed
Project
2014
Strangely pleasing photographs of log flumes with no passengers
Poster
2024
Stijl vol 03 nr 02 p 024
Poster
2022
Olympic Poster, For the Unknown Runner by Chris Ofili - geograph.org.uk - 3110046
Identity
2019
Abstraction logo
Project
2013
Photographer William Miller captures the unexpected abstract beauty on a New York canal's surface
Publication
2024
Jannis Maroscheck’s new book investigates the boundless shapes throughout design history
Project
2012
Introducing... Come and get lost in the ethereal photographic work of Osma Harvilahti
Project
2018
Lucy Hardcastle’s sculptural forms poetically abstract Uniqlo’s AIRism range
Project
2017
“Bold, concise, minimalist and sometimes abstract”: a look at Jeong Hwa Min’s new illustrative approach
Project
2012
"...hello?" Hajdu Bence takes famous paintings and removes all the characters
Garment
2015
A heap of cool new fashion work from photographer David Brandon Geeting
Project
2022
Using minimal palettes and compositions, Didier Viodé’s artworks evoke a sense of calm
Project
2017
Tim Lahan’s new works reduce recognisable shapes to create “tension and movement”
Project
2007
Pixel Breaker
Brand
2019
Make Vector Aerobic
Project
2008
Hidden In Plain View
Project
2025
Collins rebrand for Muse Group channels the invisible phenomena of experiencing music
Project
2024
How Leonie Bos changed her illustration style, and why it brought her new creative energy
Project
2013
Stunning new show from Katharina Grosse fills Dutch gallery with mind-blowing colour
Project
2013
Photography: Moody scenes and geometric abstraction from Mohammedreza Mirzaei