4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (485+ words) A new campaign for the black stuff smuggles its most recognisable asset into a single word, and it's a genius move. Guinness has a new campaign out, and before you've even looked at it, you may be wondering why the…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (427+ words) Thibault Barillon of Robocobra Quartet explain why he grew petri dishes of fungus to illustrate their 100-track release. So when I first saw the artwork for Belfast group Robocobra Quartet's 100-track album Hundred Pieces, my mind immediately went to unpleasant…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (156+ words) The Bogota-based artist explains how a collection of hand-pinched ceramics, made in the days after an earthquake hit her home country, became a meditation on what keeps the world habitable. "I like having that space for intuition, where I don't…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (640+ words) The Turin-based artist fell in love with illustration one afternoon, thanks to an Andy Warhol ink drawing. Now she works for The New York Times and the Financial Times, inspired by "ordinary" moments she once dismissed. Ever had someone say,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (917+ words) Two years, five characters, and 42 pairs of creative hands were behind the London studio's most ambitious project, and also its most honest. We sit down with Vicky Ghose, Mike Moloney and Stephen Middleton to find out more. For an industry…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (276+ words) The artist on quitting the client-pleasing grind, sticking to a regular drawing habit, finding vitality in art-making, and building enormous, hand-cut paper flowers on the floor. "In an age when almost anything can be copied, what, if anything, cannot be…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (647+ words) Her evocative work reminds me of the storybooks of my 1970s childhood—only reimagined for the digital age. Originally from China, Fei Meng lived in the UK for ten years before relocating to New York in 2024. She's spent the last six…...

1+ mon, 1+ hour ago   (150+ words) Your guide to Belfast's creative scene: the best events, meet-ups, and exhibitions; the studios and people doing brilliant work; the latest local news and jobs; and where to find us next. Creative Boom IRL is our free, regular social in…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (237+ words) It's a simple statement, but it's also a refreshing take on the panic around AI in creative work. If the mechanics of image-making are becoming commoditised, then curation, taste and a point of view – which is, let's face it, the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (193+ words) With works that are "slightly lonely and quietly optimistic", the artist turns the everyday into something familiar, nostalgic and utterly beautiful. A pigeon on a beach path; a blue elephant spring-rider bolted to tarmac; a chain-link fence catching the afternoon…...