Self-taught artist Pacolli has spent two decades hand-printing one-of-a-kind apparel from her apartment, first in São Paulo and for the past sixteen years in San Francisco, letting her work take her from indie art shows to a Super Bowl football. Twenty years of printing in apartments. Not studios, not workshops:…
Chilean artist Catatte Tapia translates cult cinema frame by frame into coloured ballpoint pen, turning the speed of film into something that demands hours of meticulous, layered work and invites the viewer to get close. Cinema moves at 24 frames per second. Catatte Tapia works at a rather different pace.…
Polish-Swedish artist and printmaker Jolanta Johnsson builds kaleidoscopic collage and monotype compositions from figures in crowds, pairs and solitude, exploring the diversity, fragility and persistent beauty of human community. Zygmunt Bauman, the Polish sociologist, described the current moment as a crisis of democracy, a collapse of trust. His words sit…
Central Saint Martins graphic design student Guan Wang translates a quiet winter in Antibes into a series of duotone Risograph prints that use limited colour and grain to preserve a moment of stillness that might otherwise pass unnoticed. January in Antibes. The sea wind cold, the landscapes empty, the rhythm…
Art director and brand designer Kasia Konopka turns the language of consumer packaging against itself, building a modular typographic system that asks what it means when growth starts to look like branding. Something is unsettling about how naturally the language of self-improvement borrows from the language of product marketing… Stronger,…
Philadelphia painter, illustrator and public artist Haley Simone Potter distils the joy and energy of live musical performance into vibrant digital prints and acrylic paintings, built from years of sketching friends at band practice. It started at band practice. Haley Simone Potter spent years sketching friends playing music, watching how…
Italian printmaker Elisa Bertocchi has built a practice around imaginary landscapes where women, animals and botanical life exist in quiet harmony, all hand-printed from linocut one layer at a time. Some introductions to a medium are gradual. Elisa Bertocchi’s was not. “I’ve always loved drawing, but when I discovered linocutting,…
New York City creative studio Casalino Design produces a limited-edition photography book that marries the visual language of a Michelin-starred menu with a high fashion lookbook, launched at the St. Regis and the Diane von Furstenberg Gallery in the same week. When photographer Melanie Dunea set out to house her…
Manchester-based interdisciplinary artist Chloe Watts has spent nearly a decade building a self-devised creative practice in the absence of the lawful aftercare she was entitled to following three years of psychiatric hospitalisation. This is what that practice looks like. On 23 February 2017, Chloe Watts was discharged from hospital after…
Vietnamese boutique creative practice Fins Studio translates a poet’s emotional journey into a physical form through exposed Coptic binding, handwritten poems and illustrations drawn from real photographs, creating an intimate keepsake that is as much presence as publication. The demoiselle crane is a quiet bird. A migratory species associated with…
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…