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Project
2021
Travys Owen shoots with high saturation, colour and “split-second decision making”
Project
2008
Lilian Liem
Project
2014
Jay Wright returns with a bucket-full of new illustration work
Project
2015
Meticulous and mesmerising collage work from Anthony Gerace
Project
2016
Nadav Kander's presentation of inspiration and intrigue at Here 2016
Project
2017
Robert Nicol’s brutish but spirited illustrations spanning artistic mediums
Project
2018
Artist Genesis Belanger explores the strange things that advertising conditions us to want
Project
2017
"Music almost always fuels the work": multidisciplinary artist Rhys Coren on his latest show
Project
2010
David Sparshott: Fan's Eye View
Project
2013
Hungarian photographer Marton Perlaki will rock your world
Project
2018
John Molesworth’s vivacious artworks hit you in the eyes like “a wild, visual guitar solo”
Project
2015
The brilliant Mat Maitland is back with more luxuriously surreal collages
Project
2018
"It feels a bit like knowing languages": Oscar Mitchell on his varied illustration practice
Project
2012
Loving Nico Krijno's eclectic portfolio of beautiful surprising photographs
Project
2019
Joy Miessi's new solo show looks at dreams as “memories of things that haven’t happened”
Project
2015
Design studio DR.ME talks us through creating a new image every day for a year
Project
2007
The Style Press
Project
2014
#20: Hey, look at that! Sorry I got distracted. See why in this week's Things
Project
2015
Synaethesia: A Still-Life Study: Photographer Ryan Hopkinson's visual exploration of synaesthesia
Project
2012
Have your cake and eat it with Jeffrey Dell's beautiful prints
Project
2018
Ones to Watch 2018: visual artist Lucy Hardcastle
Project
2012
Steve Bishop: As If You Could Only Kill Time Without Injuring Eternity
Project
2012
Mimi Leung returns from the wilderness with a new site of great work
Project
2015
Only Connect: Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff on being an outsider and bird shit as art
Motion
2014
Sam Macon creates a fever dream of a music video for the brilliant Goat
Project
2019
RARE champions the artistry within food photography
Project
2014
Studio Audience: A lot of toilet humour and some art thrown in for good measure in this week's podcast
Project
2011
Everynone: Symmetry
Motion
2017
Hyunmin Lee’s hypnotic animation asks us to change direction and the paths we follow
Project
2014
NX-Perspectives, a series exploring striking design and bold creativity
Publication
2020
Separated-Separados is an emotive catalogue of visual responses to the ongoing separation of migrant children in the US
Project
2018
Vicki King explains how she uses photography to elevate the mundane
Project
2015
Mocking cynicism for troubles of the heart, courtesy of Les Peines de l’Amour
Project
2022
Joy Yamusangie shares the process of creating a fictional jazz club
Poster
2022
Manamagan-Thevai poster
Project
2011
Elena Giavaldi
Project
2017
Life through the lens of enchanting photographer Vicki King
Project
2009
Mistake the Beautiful
Project
2021
Shipei Wang’s paintings are inspired by nostalgia and magical realism
Project
2012
Alicia Meseguer's intriguing, beautiful collage work in our new ABSOLUT Network profile
Project
2012
Tim White - Kuwaii // Near the Light
Project
2016
Ryan Hopkinson pays homage to the human body in his beautiful new film
Project
2019
From documentaries to exhibition design via portraiture and painting, relive June’s Nicer Tuesdays
Project
2011
2.8 Hours Later
Project
2017
Seoul-based Shrimp Chung’s dynamic designs are bright and full of impact
Project
2014
Illustration: Toni Halonen's work has changed entirely in two years and the results are impressive
Project
2012
Holy moly – these are collages?! Well done James Hastie, well done.
Project
2018
Dairy drinks and cigarettes meet in Lucas Reis' illustrative evocations of Japan
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2014
Meet the photographer distorting views with domestic haberdashery
Project
2011
Jing Wei
Project
2020
Bevan Agyemang is a visual artist working with found objects to explore “identities in relation to space”
Project
2020
Lilian Martinez’s colourful works are for everyone and anyone that can connect to it
Publication
2015
Bureau Mirko Borsche unveils rejected Phaidon covers for Performance book
Project
2018
Friday Mixtape: Clay Hickson's mix of songs he wishes he could capture in his work
Project
2025
Rui Wang’s ambient take on holiday photography is about moments just out of reach
Publication
2024
Hoi Chan’s glowing editorial commissions conjure the colour and weightlessness of sea creatures
Project
2025
Inside the game where every screen is a work of art: UsTwo Games on the making of Monument Valley
Project
2014
Photography: William Miller repurposes discarded negatives to create jewel-like images
Project
2017
Review of the Year 2017: Top 25 Photography
Project
2022
Interpreting the complex world with illustrator Rosa Viktoria Ahlers
Project
2012
What's On: David Hockney
Project
2021
Lakwena on using painting to find paradise
Project
2024
Blurring the lines: how Giacomo Bagnara turns everyday objects into art
Project
2013
50+ new images! Time for a mega Nous Vous update
Project
2016
Abstract and intense graphic design by Hagihara Takuya
Project
2017
Jacob Yarwood’s paintings produce “moments rather than goals or agendas”
Project
2020
Even with purposefully limited tools, the artworks of Tim Presley always sing
Publication
2017
Anthony Gerace presents “And Another Thing …”: a new book of artworks and collages
Project
2014
Illustration: Viktor Hachmang's extraordinary skill makes us green with envy
Project
2013
Hélène Binet is a master at capturing the world's most beautiful buildings
Project
2011
Thibaud Herem
Project
2017
Makings of a Man: come along to a day of life drawing with us!
Project
2013
Alex Gibbs is back and better than ever with unexpected material
Project
2010
Taciturn Heart
Motion
2019
From the massive to the microscopic, Bang Sangho illustrates the cosmic primordial soup
Project
2009
Kristian Hammerstad
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2017
Hadrien Lopez's graphic design spans the influence of art and architecture
Project
2012
Prestigious Taylor Wessing portrait prize shortlist unveiled
Project
2009
Yehrin Tong
Project
2012
We explore artist Jess Littlewood's other worldly visual language – prepare to see The End
Project
2018
Ersatzteillager explores the shapely visual language of artist Florina Leinß
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2012
The Weekender – empty paintings, theatre reviews and Coolio comes clean
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2011
Jordan Kim: Close to Me
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2021
London-based Abena Appiah on taking a leap from science to photography
Project
2012
It's official, illustrator James Graham is at the top of his game!
Project
2011
Boo Ritson
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2018
Sun Yunfan's surprising visuals create a new kind of poetic language between her music and art
Project
2020
Santiago Paredes draws on his music training when painting to find the harmony in an image
Project
2016
The singular vision of Rebecca Scheinberg
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2013
Wilson Hennessy's fascinating photographs point to a top-notch talent
Project
2007
Emily Forgot
Project
2016
The compositional eye of photographer Petr Pawlowski
Project
2011
Brecht Evens
Project
2014
Another year, another round of extraordinary work by illustrator Ping Zhu
Project
2011
We are Pi: Ideas United
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2018
Jocelyn Lee's first UK solo exhibition surveys The Appearance of Things (NSFW)
Project
2011
On [Activism]
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2017
Artist Orly Anan on her “need to alter reality”
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2013
12 artists, and over 100 images! Hugo & Marie present Being / Dreaming at KK Outlet
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2008
Erika Somogyi
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2009
Boo Ritson
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2010
Visual Artists
Project
2008
Silja Leifsdottir
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2021
Inside the weird and wonderful comics of Alison Zai
Project
2007
Sannah Kvist
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2008
Riitta Ikonen
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2013
Jay Shells takes rap lyrics back to its roots – quite literally
Project
2019
Taking up to 12 hours to create a second, Anna Ginsburg's "bonkers" process makes for beautiful work
Project
2009
Heavy Pencil
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2012
The awesome collage illustration of Antony Zinonos is a fine, fun thing
Project
2011
What's On: London
Motion
2021
Filmmaker Saad Moosajee on creating his immersive animated worlds
Project
2012
David Zilber
Project
2013
Woo indeed! Juergen Teller's first solo UK show in ten years is a blinder
Project
2012
Find out why Iain Sinclair and Andrew Kotting took a swan pedalo from Hastings to Hackney
Publication
2021
David Uzochukwu and Nigel Poor on original methods of storytelling: Tickets are now available for June’s Nicer Tuesdays!
Project
2017
“I love to do shit that just looks cool” - Sebastian Schwamm on his new illustrative approach
Project
2019
For Anete Melece “illustration is the easiest way to tell a visual story”
Project
2013
Introducing: Presenting photographer Lydia Goldblatt's stunning body of work
Project
2016
The poised collages of New Contemporaries artist Katja Angeli
Project
2014
Photography: Pauline Miserez's photography even makes washing up look appealing
Project
2015
Hattie Stewart is back with an exhibition at the House of Illustration!
Project
2018
Bonjour Garçon combines photography and graphic design to make "strong and delicate" work
Project
2007
Thuy-Van Vu
Project
2024
Skydiving punks and YouTube as an archive: Crack Cloud on its fourth album’s visual universe
Project
2011
Rahel Eisenring
Motion
2023
Brian Roettinger wants to induce discomfort with Kesha’s Gag Order artwork
Project
2009
Learning To Love You More
Project
2014
Mark Lazenby continues to amaze with his latest collages
Project
2012
Parisian illustrator Emmanuel Romeuf is one seriously talented visual maverick
Project
2017
Illustrator Nykie Ngan’s latest project “celebrates the unseen of the everyday”
Project
2015
A tonne of terrific new work from prolific illustrator Graham Roumieu
Project
2013
Illustration: Woah. Spellbinding illustration from Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva
Project
2016
How I Got Here: Yolanda Domínguez, visual artist
Project
2018
Revel in the many strands of Oscar Grønner's skillful illustrations
Project
2012
William Strobeck: My Lovely Mess
Project
2018
The spontaneous, saturated and energetic portfolio of photographer Anton Gottlob
Project
2017
Director Raine Allen-Miller on visualising anxiety's many forms
Project
2019
Stevie Dix's paintings have the ability to "hiss and speak of forbidden temptations"
Project
2011
China 2011: An artistic snapshot
Project
2017
German illustrator Stephanie Wunderlich’s ode to papercut collage
Project
2012
Bask in the work of Maggie Li, she can illustrate everything under the sun
Publication
2017
The wonky but lovely perspective of Editorial Mag editor Claire Milbrath’s paintings
Project
2009
Love and Obstacles
Project
2012
Tatsuro Kiuchi's illustrated world is as delicately beautiful as they come
Project
2011
Yoko Furusho
Project
2019
Review of the Year 2019: Top 25 Photography
Motion
2013
Art: Molly Palmer's film stills create a surreal otherworld for us to enjoy
Project
2009
The Twisted Originals
Project
2009
If Drawings Were Photographs
Project
2017
Photographer Adrian Samson plays with space and perspective in this series of “still lifes”
Project
2013
Submerse yourself in the unconscious world of Sam Chivers
Project
2013
A cool, arty and interesting ironing advert? Who'd have thought it!
Project
2018
Akos Major’s serene and splendid landscapes
Motion
2012
Revel in the random with Elliot Dear's latest video, Third Swan
Project
2016
Lena C. Emery's fresh view of femininity in monograph Rie 理絵 (NSFW)
Motion
2023
Smuggler director Andre Muir on how his video for Mick Jenkins tells a story of toxic masculinity
Project
2014
Art: Horrors frontman Faris Badwan gives us a tour of Tate's Paul Klee show
Project
2021
Oikawa Mayuki builds a “lyrical and strange world” purposefully designed to confuse the audience
Project
2013
Art: Simone Decker screws with your sense of scale and perspective
Project
2009
Typosperma by Oded Ezer
Project
2013
Illustration: We simply can't get enough of the work of Jan Buchczik
Project
2016
Mind-bending work from Russian illustrator Andrey Kasay
Project
2019
Ed Cheverton keeps things endlessly escapist
Project
2013
Art: A. Ruiz Villar's collages fall halfway between geometric pattern and collage
Project
2012
Celebrating the supreme talents of cracking collage maker Mark Lazenby
Project
2011
Alex Harvey: Framed
Publication
2020
Querida on an unconventional magazine rethink and Photoshopping a defecating horse
Publication
2016
Artist Robert Beatty’s book provides an insight into his obsessive image-making
Project
2011
Jesse Tise
Project
2013
Photography: A visual to-and-fro between Ana Kraš and Sylvain-emmanuel .P
Project
2013
Art: Alex Trochut's Binary Prints look completely different in the dark