Ayla Angelos
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Writer contributing to Creative Boom's coverage of art, design and creative practice.
SourceIn their own words
Still life, which he had deliberately kept at arm's length, suddenly opened up as a space for conceptual thinking and something immensely personal.
Articles & interviews50
- Danny Ische draws illusionistic images entirely in pencil
New York-based illustrator Danny Ische creates painstaking pencil drawings that mimic low-resolution pixels, cross-stitch, paperclips and warped digital imagery. The article explores his daily creative practice, research-led and deliberately non-formulaic process, and freelance work across album covers, editorial illustration, posters, custom lettering and apparel.
- Sam Nicklin builds playful still lifes from eBay finds
Photographer and director Sam Nicklin creates playful still-life images from collected eBay and market finds, combining objects, saturated colour and visual jokes. The feature explores his graphic-design and 1990s-cartoon influences, alongside work for brands including Alessi, Timex, Nike and Salomon. Nicklin describes a process of building loose narratives through colour-matched objects, lighting and stitched photographic compositions.
- Ana Popescu’s illustrations evoke late summer warmth
Illustrator Ana Popescu presents a varied body of work inspired by architecture, daylight, shadows and slow outdoor observations. Her ongoing Paradise paper-collage project connects visual patterns, shapes and light in Vienna and Tokyo, while works for Ottmanngut and the Les Vacances series evoke the warmth and melancholy of late summer through site-specific observation and tactile media.