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Buy prints from emerging artists in the first It’s Nice That x DROOL collection
Whittled down from over 1,000 applications across the globe, we’re excited to reveal our collaborative collection of art prints with DROOL – available to buy now!
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Six weeks ago we teamed up with the contemporary art prints and poster store DROOL to put out an open call for creatives to submit their artworks. The incentive? To be shortlisted for sale in print form on DROOL’s carefully curated online store.
Not only did we receive a huge response, the standard of work from creatives across various disciplines was outstanding, giving us a (very) tough time in deciding the final nine. The selection process was a great challenge for both the It’s Nice That and DROOL teams, and the panel of judges evaluated each application on the basis of originality, vision, and creativity.
The nine artists shortlisted showcase a snapshot of emerging talent from all over the world. The gathering of each individual artwork for this collection has resulted in a series of unique contemporary art prints that “showcases not only the immense talent of our combined communities but also voices, ideas, and stories from artists across the world”, shares DROOL’s founder and CEO Alex Liepman.
The DROOL store manages the production and sale of the fine art prints, with artists earning a commission from every piece sold. You can now support this group of emerging artists by buying their artworks for your walls on DROOL’S site. The collection has been launched as part of DROOL’s Black Friday sale, with prints discounted as much as 50 per cent off until 1 December.
Winners - Artist Bios:
Erica Lee
Melbourne-based graphic designer Erica Lee’s whimsical artworks explore elements of abstraction in her natural surroundings. She is often finding ways to translate graphic shapes from the natural world, crafting visual narratives on subjects of “the human experience, and the symbolism of objects”.
Gabrielle White
Gabrielle White is a designer and curator based between Melbourne and Paris, predominantly working in the music and entertainment space. Her layered, graphic work sits somewhere at the intersection of art and design colouring creative collaborations with the likes of Adidas and Club 77, where she is director of design.
Miguel Vides
Miguel Vides’ pop-infused prints merge graphic design, photography and illustration – all with a passion for the simplicity and beauty of the everyday. His bold, playful artworks transform more ordinary moments into fun, nostalgic and “compelling visual narratives”.
Konrad Grafik
Konrad Grafik is a graphic designer and painter based in Poland. For around a decade he has specialised in print design for clothing – for brands such as Diverse Clothing – and he combines modern graphic techniques with a painterly touch.
Lily Kong
Lily Kong’s illustrations are, more often than not, explorations of pure joy. Her happy, humorous and nostalgic work makes use of childlike colour palettes to capture the natural world around us. Originally from Hong Kong, the illustrator is now based in London and works in editorial illustration.
Tina Tona
Tina Tona is a self taught multidisciplinary artist who uses pop culture and mixed media collage to explore her dual heritage. Based between LA and Washington DC, the artist applies different visual tools and devices within graphic design and photo-illustration to explore identity, sexuality, and expression, in particular: “the visual culture of marginalised identities”.
Renee Kao
Multidisciplinary art director and designer Renne Kao’s work spans the “vibrant realms of her Asian heritage, interest in music and love of food”. With her expertise in print and web design she takes hold of every project’s potential for storytelling, rooting her practice in the cultural narratives that have shaped her upbringing.
Studio Bollo
Working under Studio Bollo, Swiss graphic designer Tobias Bolliger’s practice centres on visual identities, design for print and publications, as well as web and motion design. Often using type as a material to create imagery, his minimal designs use “the medium of graphic design itself as an art form”.
Oriane Jeanselme
The Paris-based digital artist and graphic designer-turned-illustrator Oriane Jeanselme’s makes use of blurry digital effects to create painterly compositions that feel like you’re looking through a hazy glass window. Her signature style has marked her collaborations with clients such as Apple, Combo Magazine, TXTbooks and The Digital Fairy.
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DROOL is the go-to store for unique contemporary art prints – their curated store offers a place to discover and shop alternative artworks created by the world's most exciting emerging creatives.
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