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self expression
A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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2010Finsta
Identity
2013Photographer David Favrod is on a quest to find his identity
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2019“I still think making art is the best feeling in the world”: Celia Jacobs on finding her place in the creative industry
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2018Jan Buchczik on how illustration helped him be at ease with himself
Motion
2019Meji Alabi on discovering his roots through film and music
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2023Dialling up the saturation, Kush’s vibrant illustrations aim to thrash the shame in self-expression
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2015Madness and making mum proud: meeting Ryan Gander
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2008Self
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2022Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr. turns his lens to the less championed forms of masculinity
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2015Show and Tell: Molly Crabapple shows us her wigs, pens and sketchbooks
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2012Tracey Emin goes back to her Margate roots but her art goes in an interesting new direction
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2016Margot Bowman rethinks the selfie and the future of personalisation
Motion
2025“I create to know myself better”: Abdulaziz Al-hosni’s recent series explores the self through colour
Drawing
2026The sketchbook is an illustrator’s best friend: Clay Hickson on why drafting and practice are key
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2015“The iPhone became my studio”: Richard Prince’s Instagram portraits
Poster
2025embrace ur weirdness
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2018Designer Karl Toomey's new website reveals his secret dark side
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2022“Art became a coping mechanism”: How Ruby Etc. finds solace in drawing every day
Identity
2023In her ongoing series, photographer Vân-Nhi Nguyễn subverts colonial perceptions of Vietnam
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2019David Jien's illustrations are spaces to express his "deepest secrets, concerns and desires"
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2019Illustrator Moon utilises drawing as a means of understanding herself
Publication
2018“I’m a believer in form”: Geoff McFetridge on his new book of introspective drawings
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2019Nadia Lee Cohen on how she became Nadia Lee Cohen
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2020“I’m happy I have it”: Abel Kabel explores their recent diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome in their beautiful paintings
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2021“I make up for the missing part of myself through drawing”: Huanhuan Wang on the similarities of image making and language
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2019Hannah Buckman creates “feelings of self-acceptance and belonging” in her illustrations
Poster
2024Blow Your Own Horn (1923), poster
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2021Bahati Simoens’ paintings are “a love letter to the Black body”
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2025Playing, dreaming and harnessing the power of DIY publishing: Zoe Thompson on the world of Sweet Thang Zine
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2016Paige Jiyoung Moon’s autobiographical paintings are like one long lucid dream
Motion
2014Short film studies self expression via fashion and cross-dressing in Pakistan
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2019“It’s okay to be different and to stand out”: photographer Brian Vu
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2018Be whoever you want to be: Bunny Kinney on what makes Dazed Beauty so different
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2016Photographer Chris Saunders on shooting sub-cultures and visual self-expression
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2017How to tell your own life story by animator Olga Makarchuk
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2014