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Visualising Human Rights with Benjamin Dix’s PositiveNegatives
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The UK-based nonprofit produces comics to educate the masses.
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8 May 17
Permanent Alien focuses on stories from the Asian American diaspora
Design Frontiers
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Art & Photography
“What if we made a comic featuring people who looked like us for people who look like us?”
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14 Mar 17
Blue Forest Collective
Blue Forest Collective is a multitalented group of creative people based in South Africa.
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31 Jan 17
The comic book uncovering new perspectives on heroism and storytelling
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African Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Ordinary Superheroes celebrates the everyday heroes of South Africa's resilient communities.
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23 Sep 16
Reimagining feminism on Bitch Planet
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The patriarchy becomes a literal prison in this refreshing, feminist comic series.
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1 Sep 16
Chip Kidd: I’m obsessed with Batman
Video Interviews
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Graphic Design & Illustration
In an exclusive interview at AGI Open 2013, Chip Kidd tells us about designing book covers and his foray into comic books.
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16 Oct 13
Who's afraid?
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Vampires in the desert and sightings of Kurt Cobain in the Karoo? Could it be? Who's afraid? Van Coke Kartel's latest graphic novel investigates.
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3 Nov 11
Crime unleashes a reptile
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Cape Town illustrator and graphic novelist Luis Tolosana has unleashed the first episode of his self-drawn, written and funded Iguana-Man.
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19 Aug 08
Between the covers with Chip Kidd
Profiling
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Graphic Design & Illustration
There is really only one book jacket designer with a comparable profile: Chip Kidd.
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1 May 05
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