Art
Exhibitions, image-makers and work worth travelling for.
Tool — 10,000 Days (2006)
Tool released 10,000 Days in 2006, a lavish fourth album that reaffirmed the band's place in prog‑metal with dense art, banned videos and patient audiences.
Qiaoyu Liao — Suuugar!
Qiaoyu Liao's Suuugar! (17 September 2026) uses clay, multiplane sets and live-action reference to make a small mistake feel hilarious and human.
Rob Farmer — NYT Book Review, 2026-09-17
Rob Farmer's NYT Book Review illustration (2026-09-17) shows how fast sketches and procedural motion techniques are remaking editorial and music visuals.
DeafCity Hub logo made from BSL motion
Templo captured BSL hand movements to build DeafCity Hub’s logo and visual system — a motion-first identity that puts deaf communication at the centre.
Sada & Mada: Pentagram's Doha Design District IDs
Pentagram’s Mada and Sada use mirrored Arabic letterforms to make two distinct spaces feel like a single, locally rooted brand for Doha Design District.
Thisaway: Branding You Can Believe In
Thisaway’s new identity pares back visuals, leans on client feedback and commissioned art — a rebrand aimed at lasting trust, not trend-chasing.
Raphaël Gaultier — Young Love
Photographer Raphaël Gaultier's Young Love (Feb 24, 2023) captures tender portraits of young couples — intimate work for followers of scene life and music culture.
Keen rebrand by María Jesús Contreras
María Jesús Contreras illustrated Keen's rebrand, out 2026-09-10. Mother Design swaps minimalist wellness for folk art - music fans will spot festival-ready visuals.
kokooma: Seoul's quiet illustrator
Seoul illustrator kokooma's hazy, nature-led drawings appear in books, gallery prints and music projects—here’s where to see and buy his work.
Kent Wood pivots to motion design
Kent Wood left wholesale work, moved to Manchester and retrained as a motion designer at 30. He now runs Kwoo Studio, using social sharing to win work.
Robocobra Quartet: Hundred Pieces (November)
Robocobra Quartet grew 100 petri dishes of mould as the visual companion to Hundred Pieces, a five‑hour, 100‑track album out in November.
Kent Wood’s Kwoo Studio: Motion Brand Design
After a career pivot and a UK move, Kent Wood launched Kwoo Studio to turn static logos into motion identities — and his online case studies are opening doors.
Guinness LoVely campaign turns harp into the 'v'
Guinness's LoVely campaign swaps its harp into the 'v' of Lovely, rolling out at Electric Picnic and other music events to link heritage with live culture.
Sarah Martinon — Hermès window Dec 2025
Sarah Martinon’s Hermès window (Dec 2025) and Chanel animations put hand-drawn craft back at the centre of fashion campaigns.
Innes Clark: Bakery to Restaurant Design
Innes Clark turned a bakery job into a career designing restaurant posters and menus — hand-drawn work that brings personality back to venue branding.
Gallina Clueka: El mundo (2026)
Danna Gutiérrez (Gallina Clueka) released El mundo in 2026 — a drop of hand-pinched jars painted with red circles and black dogs, made during Colombia’s earthquake.
Shawne Brown — See the Elephant
Shawne Brown's See the Elephant (07 September 2026) documents everyday life from northeast Tennessee to the Kansas plains — a clear, unsentimental look at place.
Thomke Meyer: Motion in Illustration
Hamburg illustrator Thomke Meyer was profiled on 2026-09-07; her motion-rich drawings fuel editorial covers and a forthcoming graphic novel.
Studio Kiln moves to London
Studio Kiln, set up in Falmouth in 2022, has taken space in London and plans to complete the move by the end of the year.
Chiemeka Offor: Nwanne M Nwaanyi
Chiemeka Offor's solo show Nwanne M Nwaanyi opened 4 September 2026 in Brooklyn; the series and short film probe salon culture and communal care.
Varya Yakovleva — Les Femmes sauvages
Varya Yakovleva’s Les Femmes sauvages (2026-09-03) grew from a chance ink sketch into paintings, drawings and wooden sculptures celebrating movement and intuition.
Will Norman’s The Oddersy
Will Norman’s The Oddersy — a 10-minute Homer retelling shot on a £15 iMac and hoisted from a 25ft crane — proves low-tech creativity still packs punch.
Maude Corriveau: Between the Folds
Maude Corriveau's Between the Folds (Sep 3–Oct 3, 2026) blends staged photography, generative AI and oil paint into shimmering, fabric-like surfaces.
Lorena Spurio: Drawings That Reveal Joy
Turin illustrator Lorena Spurio (profile published 2026-09-02) finds her subjects in small, imperfect moments — and now draws for major international titles.
RCA opens School of Communication & Design
The Royal College of Art launched a School of Communication & Design on 2026-09-02, merging programmes from animation to textiles for joined-up creative training.
Rhys Edwards: Autophagia
Rhys Edwards’s Autophagia runs Jul 29–Sep 5, 2026 at WAAP, using oil still lifes and AI fragments to test how images eat their own history.
Azra Hirji's Table Archives
Illustrator Azra Hirji uses her Substack In The Filing Cabinet to preserve family recipes and the moments around the table in bold, colourful artworks.
Art&Graft: In Pursuit of Magic
Art&Graft’s In Pursuit of Magic (2026-09-01) is a two-year, 42-person short mixing five visual styles and blind sound workflow - a treat for fans of craft and sound.
Darius Ou: Manual and 3D Typography
Darius Ou’s Manual, described 2026-09-01, prints with its own G-code; his type systems and 3D books shape festival posters, AV design and album-era visuals.
Ayong Son — Unfinished Finished
Ayong Son quit studio management, moved to Berlin in 2026 and launched Unfinished Finished to reclaim time, process and scale in hand-made work.
Raul Guillermo — An Inherent Tear
Raul Guillermo’s An Inherent Tear, featured 31 August 2026, probes the Peruvian ideal of 'hombría' with intimate portraits and staged scenes testing vulnerability.
Musubu Hagi — Illustrator Spotlight, 28 Aug 2026
Booooooom ran an Illustrator Spotlight on Musubu Hagi (28 Aug 2026). Her watery, memory‑like work shows up on book covers, magazines and prints fans can buy.
Matthew Blackburn’s Golden Age paintings
Matthew Blackburn turns PS1 controllers, Rubik’s cubes and cereal bowls into vanitas still lifes, asking what our nostalgia says about who we are.
Gabriel Diogo: Nike Posters for Corinthians
Gabriel Diogo has been hired by Nike to make posters celebrating Corinthians; his sun‑baked, textured art turns everyday Brazilian life into shared memories.
Tommy Keith — By the Lake (26 Aug 2026)
Tommy Keith’s 'By the Lake' series, shot along Toronto’s west waterfront since 2023, was shared on Booooooom (26 Aug 2026) for its quiet, patient look at city life.
Fei Meng: Classical Portraiture Reimagined
Classically trained Fei Meng blends portrait skills with modern editorial and product design—her scarf Four Seasons won an A’ Design Award.
Chanida Areewatanasombat: new 'letting go' series
Chanida Areewatanasombat's new 'letting go' series, noted 25 August 2026, turns private feelings into delicate animations and character work worth watching.
Ashton Square: Made in Makerfield identity
StudioDBD has turned a former car park on Ashton’s market ground into 'Made in Makerfield'—a living identity for the £6.6m Ashton Square regeneration.
Ibrahim Rayintakath: Illustrator Spotlight
BOOOOOOOM featured Indian illustrator Ibrahim Rayintakath on 24 August 2026. His bold, narrative art has been used by The New Yorker, Apple and others.
Myriam Wares: Winter series
Myriam Wares' Winter series (2026-08-24) reframes homesickness as bright, surreal still lifes — perfect inspiration for album art, videos and stage design.
David Slegers — Driven From the Garden
David Slegers' Driven From the Garden (featured 21 Aug 2026) frames LA infrastructure as an inhospitable, constructed landscape—view the BOOOOOOOM gallery.
Lou Benesch — The Magician’s Room
Benesch’s mixed‑media tableaux turned antique papers and found objects into dreamlike portals—see the Hashimoto show that ran 1–22 August 2026.
Six tips for junior creatives
Six practical pieces of advice for junior creatives that build trust, cut stress and help you learn faster in your first month and beyond.
Lindsay Adler: Why Perspective Matters
Lindsay Adler (Adobe Creative Collective, 2026-08-19) argues AI will raise the value of a photographer's point of view over technical execution.
Stefhany Y Lozano: Hands as Protagonist
Stefhany Y Lozano on why hands drive the emotion in her work, from 26 hand paintings sold over Christmas to new oil and fabric pieces.
Naruhiko: Quiet parks, 2024 solo debut
Naruhiko held his first solo exhibition in 2024; his oil paintings of everyday parks and streets use colour and spare drawing to make scenes feel quietly nostalgic.
Minyoung Kim — Whispers Inside Things
Minyoung Kim hides cats as shadows and paws in still lifes; her Whispers Inside Things work arrives at Untitled Art Fair Miami this December.