People of Print’s Gradspotters programme spotlights emerging graduate talent working in print and image-making. Our latest prospect is Joel Allen, a First Class Graphic Design graduate from the University of Portsmouth, ISTD member, and passionate advocate for letterpress, screen print, Risograph and the enduring relevance of tangible, tactile formats. Joel…
People of Print’s Gradspotters programme spotlights emerging graduate talent working in print and image-making. Our latest prospect is Liv Virnich, a Hamburg-born graphic designer and screen printer completing her BA at HBK Braunschweig, heading to a Masters at UdK Berlin, and currently working at Viadukt screen printing studio in Vienna.…
London-based illustrator and animator Shir Daniel draws postcards from memory of Hyde Park’s water areas, exchanges them with strangers for their own stories, and builds an animation and Risograph journal that asks how memory shapes our relationship with place. Shir Daniel moved to London and began spending time wandering the…
Recent graphic design graduate Scarlett McAdam makes a single handmade book about sentimental object attachment during one of the most turbulent periods of her own life, combining research, personal writing and photography into a publication that is as much a creative outlet as a final year project. The project began…
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…