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With the Rise of Animation During the Pandemic, Should You Invest Time Teaching Yourself 3d Design? For designers, and product designers, in particular, possessing 3D skills can broaden your horizons and open up opportunities in VR/AR, indie games, 3D printing and more. Read further.
Spotify has created a list of playlists in partnership with CALM, podcast creators, CALM Ambassadors, and familiar faces from music and entertainment. Mental health sits centre stage in these playlists with the goal being to soothe, enlighten and infuse listeners with positive thinking to encourage a more conformable energy. Read further.
From 9 September to 23 January, the Fondazione Prada in Milan is hosting a new exhibition by Fondazione Prada, gta exhibitions and ETH Zurich. The aim is to reveal the complexity of computer modelling and analyze the current production of images and their impact on our daily perception as well as to investigate the phases and methods of production. Read further.
Channel 4 Covers the UK in Cake as It Welcomes Back Gbbo. Themed around the tagline ‘Life’s looking sweeter’, the campaign turns lorries into Battenburg and features a 78ft high show-stopper bake on Argyle Street in Glasgow to celebrate the return of The Great British Bake Off to our screens. Read further.
Collins’ New Identity for Insurance Firm Next Sees Some Cute Characters. Read further.
Nostalgic (duh?) Posters for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch Centre Characters in a Journalistic World Sprinkled With 60s Style. Wes Anderson’s name has become synonymous with a grainy, fuzzy, 60s-ish style that fills its admirers with a sense of nostalgia that becomes more familiar the more films he makes. Read further.
How to Get Clients as a Freelancer Without Social Media: 5 Step Approach. Read further.
Inzajeano Latif’s Authentic Tottenham Portraits Expose Its Pre-Gentrified Foundation. Read further.
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Looking for Creativity in Brains Will Take More Creativity. About a decade and a half ago, the neuroscience world got super-stoked about a sexy new way to look at living brains: functional magnetic resonance imaging. It watches oxygen in blood flow to different parts of the brain and uses that as a proxy for activity---and generates lovely images of brains at work.
Attracting gazes all over the internet is Brazilian illustrator Victor Liboro AKA Quimera. Their work consists of elaborate, maximalist illustrations of neo-byzantine outfits on queer bodies. Drawing inspiration from the world of anime and massively multiplayer online role-playing games was how Quimera found their aesthetic which they describe as “very colourful, very queer coded and have a lot of powerful fashion”.
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Frieze London is one of the city's cultural highlights. This autumn, it's returning. The Frieze Sculpture Park will take over The Regent's Park – Yorkshire Sculpture Park's Claire Lilley has curated the works selected for this year's free show, which showcases artists including Anthony Caro and Isamu Noguchi. Meanwhile, works borrowed from galleries such as Hauser & Wirth will be displayed in the main fair, and a calendar of live events and talks are planned as well.
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: When You Need Letters for Your Skin, Victoria Miro
Exhibition
An exhibition exploring our digital, sexual and political identities
Born in Zimbabwe, raised in South Africa and now living in London, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami uses digital images, personal photographs and archival pictures in her distinctive collages.
