James Cropper Creates is more than a new identity; it’s a platform for artists, makers, and designers working with paper. We caught up with EXP for a quick-fire interview… One typeface that never lets you down? CG: TG: I hate to get stuck with one typeface, but EXP uses Studio…
James Cropper has been making paper in the Lake District since 1845. When the mill decided to build a creative community platform connecting artists, makers and designers with the world of paper, they turned to EXP, the Manchester-based creative agency they have trusted for over a decade. The result is…
Under KVW Publications, artist and editor Katrina Vera Wong publishes a series of pocket guides to plant families, each featuring ten works by ten artists on ten plants. The sixth issue covers the nightshade family, Solanaceae, in a wrapped accordion fold designed to be both beautiful and educational. Katrina Vera…
New Jersey-based graphic designer Shekar Menon collaborates with alt-R&B musician Saachi Rajadhyaksha and producer Ayan De on a mixed-media audiovisual piece that uses letterpress, screen printing, frame-by-frame animation and archival footage to give the COVID-19 pandemic a voice. Doom’s My Religion is the pandemic personified, not from the perspective of…
London-based Chinese illustrator Scarlett Yang creates a series of five works drawing on 17th-century Dutch sumptuous still-life painting to explore how abuse can be disguised as intimacy, transforming cut fruit, flowers, sweets, seafood and animal remains into a ritualised banquet where women are symbolically consumed. Pronkstilleven, the lavish Dutch still-life…
The Online Gallery of selected posters from the V edition is online Every letter carries a message. Every message has the potential to create change. Born from the belief that typography can be more than a tool for communication, Fight for Kindness 2026 celebrates the transformative power of letters to…
British artist Sam Wilde invites V&A visitors to co-author a vast hand-drawn frog tessellation, distributing over one thousand unique tiles in blind-box booster packs to create a live, shifting public artwork shaped by chance and individual choice. More than one thousand frogs. Each one hand-drawn, unique, cut from FSC-certified birchwood,…
New York-based graphic designer Raina Redcross develops her Parsons Communication Design thesis into an editorial, motion and wearable project that translates biological mimicry into a visual language, using distortion, material layering and image manipulation to construct visuals where meaning shifts with perception. Mimicry in nature is a survival strategy: camouflage,…
Bucharest-based illustrator and art director Maria Tabarcea creates a series of RGB prints exploring the tension between the desire to be seen and the weight of being watched, drawn from the real and ongoing experience of existing as an artist in digital space. There is a tension that anyone building…
Ghent-based Studio Studio designs a generative poster system for a roadside exhibition space in Breda, building a parametric tool that produces compositions from typographic parameters and prints its own settings on each export, making every poster fully reproducible and the tool itself publicly accessible. 3 sec Gallery is a parking-site…
Art Director Eric Reigert takes digital illustrations from his iPad, laser-engraves them onto shina plywood, and finishes each one with a hand-painted background to create tactile, one-of-a-kind prints that get his work off a screen and into the world. The process started with a simple frustration: digital illustrations are invisible…
Penang-based illustrator and Riso printmaker Zhao Hong Low, aka Inking Liox, creates a large-scale flower-shaped risograph wall piece for a collaborative Malaysian print exhibition, narrating the mythic rebirth of Nezha across five assembled A3 sheets in four colours. Nezha, the Third Lotus Prince of Chinese mythology, is a figure of…
Originally trained as an architect, London-based printmaker Chiara Mensa carves a series of five multiblock linocuts exploring the small physical gestures that define companionship between humans and rescue animals, printed in a limited edition of 30 on Somerset satin 250gsm. Trust between a person and a rescue animal is not…
Charlotte Rubesa founded a print-first publication asking what happens after peak internet, bringing together fifteen contributors across essays, interviews and reflections in a riso-printed, hand-embossed first issue that embodies the slower, more intentional culture it argues for. The exhaustion is real. A media landscape optimised almost entirely for speed, scale…
Riyadh-based multidisciplinary artist SAN SHYN paints a series of character-driven analog works that hold vitality and stillness in the same frame, exploring fragility, playfulness and the impermanence of existence through acrylic, spray paint and stencil. SAN SHYN has been developing characters as emotional vessels since childhood. Each figure in her…
Pune-based branding studio Rare Ideas, directed by Vijeta Singh, develops the identity and spatial experience for a neighbourhood café by drawing from block-printing and relief craft traditions, extending the idea of made-from-scratch into every surface, object and interaction. The brief was not to make a café that looked crafted. It…
Established in 1987 and now part of Japanese hot stamping manufacturer Washin, Foilco is one of the most technically rigorous and creatively engaged foil suppliers in the world, offering over 1,400 products, complimentary testing services, and a genuine commitment to the print and design community. There are foil suppliers, and…
The second edition of Hardcore Art Book Fair takes place at LagoAlgo in Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City from 30 July to 2 August 2026, bringing together more than 100 exhibitors from 26 countries for four days of independent publishing, experimental print culture and free public programming. Hardcore Art Book…
Hong Kong-based visual artist and graphic designer Wen Ching Yiu, Krystine, presents A Chamber of Wonders at Yrellag Gallery, a solo exhibition using mono screen printing, collage, typography and collaborative game design to reconstruct memory, belonging and the imaginary world through the lens of toys. A cabinet of curiosities was…
Utrecht graphic designer and screen printer Boris Rijksen creates a custom limited edition print for the Utrecht Public Library’s new year celebrations, gifted to partners and stakeholders in an edition of 200 and made in two versions mirrored to produce four distinct gifts. When the Utrecht Public Library wanted to…