Hong Kong-born, London-based illustrator and artist Lily Kong builds a world of fragmented landscapes across mono-printing, lino, riso and drawing, bringing them together in a handbound artist book made during residency at London Centre for Book Arts. The starting point was a need to slow down. Since 2023, Lily Kong…

Swedish textile artist Ida Pettersson Preutz hand-prints fabric in her studio to chase a very specific feeling: the dizzying, zen-like state of an optical illusion taking hold. There is a moment when a pattern stops being something you look at and becomes something that looks back. Ida Pettersson Preutz has…

Albuquerque-based visual artist Karl Orozco disassembles broken inkjet printers, coats their components in CMYK ink and stamps them onto large-format paper to create vibrant relief prints that are part forensic investigation, part monument to planned obsolescence. It started with an Epson inkjet printer sitting next to a dumpster at work…

Working under the banner of Inferior Works, an artist with a long background in fine art production and print resurrects the discipline of pre-digital mechanical paste-up in an A2 box-framed mixed media work that operates as both forensic reconstruction and layered object for anyone who never worked with a scalpel…

Brighton-based maker and designer Katya Walton transforms reclaimed scaffolding boards into CNC-cut chairs that become canvases for printmakers and painters, creating functional artworks that challenge how, where and by whom art is consumed. The premise is disarmingly practical: everyone needs somewhere to sit. But the thinking behind Katya Walton’s Collaborative…

Writer-director and multidisciplinary artist Hanaé Sanchez creates a diptych of short film and freely distributed zine rooted in her dual Khmer identity, blending live action, 2D animation and Khmer kitsch into an immersive world that asks whether the past can be rewritten. Hanaé Sanchez got tired of waiting. “I grew…

Photographer and writer Buku Sarkar documents seven years of living with an undiagnosed neurological disorder through a self-portrait series made in private, in the apartment she rarely left, that refuses to give the viewer complete access to what it shows. In the summer of 2018, after years of tremors, blackouts,…

Mumbai-based visual artist Aditya Damle merges Jack Kirby’s Fourth World cosmology with Indian mythology and sci-fi fantasy for a limited-edition series of heat-press artworks created exclusively for the first Footlocker store launch in India. When Adidas Originals and Footlocker came together to celebrate the opening of Footlocker’s first ever Indian…

German designer and researcher Franziska Sofia Meeder brings together over a dozen contributors in a 180-page publication examining how identity is constructed at the intersection of culture, gender and the technologies of our time. The question at the centre of A Collection of Modern Self is one that design is…

Edinburgh-based multidisciplinary designer Heather Fletcher combines precise hand-drawn line work with mid-century pattern and colour to translate the character of the built environment into something expressive and evolving. Architecture is usually drawn to be accurate. Heather Fletcher draws it to be felt. Their mixed media illustrations of Edinburgh’s built environment…

Greek graphic designer and illustrator Yorgos Papadoyiannakis brings a childhood memory of the Cretan grape harvest to risograph, printing a geometric, fluorescent limited edition on paper made in part from grape residues. Every harvest, the crates stack up. One on top of another, forming temporary structures that grow as the…

Cyprus-based Common Grounds Studio creates a custom Greek-Latin display typeface for a twelve-country arts festival, pairing it with an automation script that generates controlled typographic variation at scale to embody the festival’s theme of Evolving Identities. When Roots&Routes, a festival bringing together emerging artists from twelve countries, needed a typographic…

London-based documentary photographer Donna Cyril turns a visit to Mumbai’s oldest fish market into a study of livelihood, dignity and the quiet pride found in honest work. The best documentary photography does not explain its subjects. It trusts them. More Than Fish, Donna Cyril’s series from the Sunday market at…

Romanian graphic designer Blanca Doba builds a conceptual body care brand from the ground up, using forest-derived materials, archival references and tactile packaging to reposition natural skincare as documented substance rather than decorative trend. The language of natural beauty branding has become so familiar it has almost stopped meaning anything.…

New Zealand graphic designer and illustrator Anna Taylor strips a live album cover back to its essence, letting photography, colour and a single touch of spot gloss do all the talking. There is a particular confidence in a cover that does not need to explain itself. The artwork Anna Taylor…

Multidisciplinary branding and design practice Altspace Design Studio brings architectural thinking and deliberate colour strategy to a real estate rebrand, building a visual identity anchored in trust and contemporary energy. The starting point for Zion Realty’s rebrand was a single conviction: the logo is the face of the brand, and…

Northern Israel-based printmaker Haviva Seligson carves and hand-prints a figure mid-breath in a wild landscape, making a linocut that treats the act of printing itself as inseparable from the meaning it carries. The shofar is one of the oldest ritual instruments in existence, its sound shaped entirely by the body…

Sydney-based collage artist and designer Yeara Chaham asks whether a feeling from music can become an artwork, building a mixed media composition from scanned pearls, magazine fragments and cool blue tones to translate the particular atmosphere of Sade into something you can see. The starting point was a question: can…

London-based illustrator and animator David Oku treats the constraints of 2D digital space not as a ceiling but as a starting point, building bold, densely detailed worlds from multicultural influences, hand-drafted letterforms and a refusal to release anything that doesn’t radiate positive energy. David Oku has a rule: if someone…

Paris-based creative trio Diana Castro, Maëva Grande and Laure Guillaud of Annexe Studio turned the visual language of the weekly supermarket leaflet against itself in a limited newsprint publication that is equal parts seduction and disruption. The supermarket leaflet is one of the most thoroughly ignored pieces of design in…