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Digital Arts • 30th July 2020

Lush illustrations for an adorable book that turns into a globe

The read aloud release Our World: A First Book of Geography is an educational, playful and inspiring introduction to geography for the youngest readers.

Digital Arts • 29th July 2020

Stephanie Priscilla draws the sexy, the cute and the punky

The Singapore-based star honours in her art 1980s Japanese music, 1990s anime, and modern manga masters of the likes of Asano Inio. You can even find Japanese cyberpunk in her portfolio, although it's more cyberpink if anything.

Digital Arts • 28th July 2020

How electronic music history was remixed for The Design Museum

While the recent pandemic may have necessitated the closures of clubs all around the world, it's not been hard to notice a rise in illegal raves over here in the UK when lockdown got a little too frustrating for some.

Digital Arts • 25th July 2020

Victor Soma brings New Age to health conference branding

The Art of Healing is a Warsaw event for enthusiasts of a healthy lifestyle, combining fairs, conferences, workshops, consultations, and pro-health treatments.

Digital Arts • 21st July 2020

The Story behind the Pandemic's most Romantic Illustration

Many images will remain with us from the lockdown of doodled rainbows and PPE mask scars captured in chilling photographs. On the illustration side of things though, it was one artwork which stood out the most during this unprecedented time in modern history.

Digital Arts • 18th July 2020

Marvel at Mervyn Peake's art from childhood to Gormenghast

The visual archive of writer, artist and illustrator Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) has been acquired for the nation by the British Library from the Peake Estate, comprising over 300 original illustrations, including drawings from his critically acclaimed Gormenghast series.

Digital Arts • 18th July 2020

New Ai Weiwei print 'drops' as IWM London reopens to public

Imperial War Museums (IWM) has announced that it will reopen its London-based branch on 1 August 2020, following three months of closure due to the pandemic.

Digital Arts • 18th July 2020

Powerful illustrations tell migrant stories in time of pandemic

International Rescue Committee with Paul Blow show the added dangers of coronavirus to refugees.

Digital Arts • 17th July 2020

Sex toy branding shows pleasure is ageless

TENA has partnered with femtech sex toy brand Je Joue to send influencers an intimate device which brings pleasure as well as improving pelvic floor strength, to demonstrate that wellness doesn’t have an age limit.

Digital Arts • 17th July 2020

When did cereal boxes get so cool?

From the US to Korea, breakfast dining has a brand new look.

Digital Arts • 15th July 2020

Keith Haring's only museum is now free and virtual

It might surprise you to know there is only one dedicated museum to pop art legend Keith Haring, and it's nestled somewhere high in the mountains of Japan.

Digital Arts • 15th July 2020

If David Hockney was a skater, he'd be Peter Phobia

Inspired by Peter Phobia’s teenage years as a skateboarder, his series Balance and Kickflips reflects on a creative mindset about freedom, friendship and adrenaline.

Digital Arts • 15th July 2020

Designers gloriously imagine the world of 2120

Travel a 100 years in time with Baugasm, Prateek Vatash, David Brodeur and more.

Digital Arts • 15th July 2020

Hergé's spirit lives on in the comics of Chendi Xu

Hergé's spirit lives on in some very sumptuous graphic novels.

Digital Arts • 15th July 2020

Japan's best fashion illustrators to catch on the catwalk

Fashion and art have gone hand in hand for a while now. Perusing Instagram, you'll see a lot of 3D-generated models in Nike and Supreme clobber, blurring the boundaries between free promotion and personal expression.

Digital Arts • 15th July 2020

The AI robots getting a retro Saul Bass twist

The end of June saw San Francisco-based brand strategy and design studio Landscape unveil a brand identity and site for Vicarious, an intelligent robotics start-up backed by $150m in funding from Elon Musk, Samsung and ABB.

Digital Arts • 15th July 2020

How Dutch design duo Rob en Robin sexed up data vis

As coronavirus made its spring debut in Europe, creative platform Graphic Matters (GM) managed to plaster the Dutch city of Breda with uplifting posters asking residents to 'stay sane and stay safe.'

Digital Arts • 15th July 2020

Playful poster pastiches expose women's rights in China

Vivienne Shao (@Bobby Big Bird) was born in Guangzhou, China, and moved to England at 12, when she started to doodle out of an obsession with Japanese anime.

Digital Arts • 15th July 2020

Explore the graphic design behind 1990s rave culture

It was recently that we were stunned by his Taschen release Web Design: The Evolution of the Digital World 1990-Today, a detailed visual archive of classic websites dating back to the very inception of the internet.

Digital Arts • 15th July 2020

'Super Plumber Man' and reality-bending games ideal for lockdown

You've been playing a lot of games during lockdown - but not ones like these.