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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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2021“I am reluctant to show my emotions to others”: Vanilla Chi reveals her true self through story-led illustrations
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2020Stefan Marx’s latest exhibition Ridiculous Drama is open to interpretation
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2020Timo Kuilder dissects his relationship with his bipolar father through a striking black-and-white illustrated book
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2019Artist Inès Longevial on balancing figuration and abstraction with memories and dreams
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2025Amani Willett’s photobook journeys through chronic illness and ketamine therapy to reach his younger self
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2020“Engage, be kind and speak up”: Nora Nord captures the tenderness of her surroundings
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2013Introducing: Intensely personal, hilarious animation from Luiz Lafayette Stockler
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2020“Am I ‘manly’ enough for the contemporary image of a man?”: David Kasnic explores in his thoughtful photography
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2021Nikko Gary on how he places the personal inside design
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2020Advertising is going out of fashion and the gatekeepers are locking themselves out
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2019Egg is an animation about attempting – and failing – to take control of something you are afraid of
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2019Animator Matthieu Garcia Marin captures the longing and anxiety of coming out
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2018Alessandra Genualdo's illustrations mix high fashion and intimate moments
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2021Lily Kong on bringing themes of loneliness and vulnerability into her work since the lockdowns
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2019Illustrator Alec Doherty on constantly finding inspiration in his teenage years
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2016Artist Kirsty Harris revisits the CND protests from a personal perspective
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2019Three creatives explore their own experiences of migration through new photo series Home
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2021Maisie Cowell’s new comic is a “totally self-indulgent” reflection of frustration and loneliness in lockdown
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2021Eli Rezkallah creates colourful worlds that hint at the darker side of his personal history
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2023Illustrator Lisa Carpagnano invites you to “imagine the links” between her calming compositions
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2012Lottie Davies: Memories and Nightmares
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2020The absurd and the dreamy: Jiaa Li’s illustrations are therapeutic
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2023Transforming the mundane into the extraordinary with artist Mark Hernandez
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2021Kyla Callista on how she illustrates from a place of love
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2016Daniel Britt animates the trials and tribulations of an existential crisis
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2023Yuki Uebo’s busy and dynamic illustrations are inspired by her love of crowds
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2009Regretsy
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2019Li Ya Wen on growing up in Taipei, beauty standards, and European influences
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2015The New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly on what makes an unforgettable cover
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2021Sabba Khan on finding a visual language to describe her experience as a second generation Azad Kashmiri migrant in east London
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2014Lo-fi comics based on funny true stories by LA-based artist Edward Cushenberry
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2018Paul Cabon confronts the inevitability of going bald via a surreal animated short
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2020Megan Dalton uses photography “to hold a mirror to my personal relationships and feelings”
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2020Jayde Perkin on the cathartic and daunting process of illustrating a memoir
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2017Shin Morae translates her memories into pastel illustrations
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2025Samantha Jensen weaves a powerful dialogue between climate change and chronic illness
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2020Taian Lu’s Break the Confinement is an alternative coming-of-age tale told through frame-by-frame animation
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2019How Amanda Bonaiuto’s animation for Chocolate Moon turned into a piece of personal reflection
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2018Margot Bowman talks us through the creation of her short, Common Misconceptions
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2015Polly Brown photographs the places people have had self-induced orgasms
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2020Drawing from personal experience, Rosi Tooth’s illustrations are sentimental, pink and extremely relevant
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2013Art: Jennie Ottinger will make you nostalgic and grateful to have survived camp
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2021Denisse Ariana Pérez captures the universality of water in her debut photo book, Agua
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2019“It’s the only thing that makes me feel alive”: Cindy Kang on her emotive illustrations
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2020Tackling themes of love and desire, Sarah Böttcher's illustrations are intensely personal
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2021Ángel Labarthe del Solar on the catharsis of documenting the trans experience in their art
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2020How great ideas can emerge from discomfort and self-analysis
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2021Creative mental health: what toll did 2020 take, and what have we learnt for the year ahead?
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2018Rabiya Choudhry takes painful experiences and explores them through painting
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2016Tiziana Jill Beck illustrates her time in South Korea through doodle-like drawings
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2019Byun Young Geun likens illustration to “looking into a mirror”
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2017Artist Kimia Ferdowsi Kline explores love and intimacy
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2019Paige Mehrer explores the religious symbolism of her Catholic childhood through illustration
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2019Sex, gangs, power and money: Seung-Woo Yang relives “the best days” of his youth (NSFW)
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2018Graphic designer Lino Santo turns circumstances and relationships into visual outcomes
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2015Election night captured up close and personal by illustrator Matt Booker
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2025Sana Bansal’s introspective illustrations absorb you into her wistful world
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2020In her new series, Imogen Freeland presents the challenges and triumphs of becoming a mother
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2022Sun Woo on how her nomadic childhood inspires her painting practice
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