Most people choose a photo book on price and templates. The two things that decide whether they’re happy with it are how it’s printed and how long it takes, almost nobody asks. Walk through the process of ordering a photo book and the decisions feel straightforward: pick a size, choose…
Imagine drawing a shape in Illustrator and holding it in your hands, cut from acrylic, folded from Dibond or slotted together from honeycomb board, the same afternoon. Vivid’s VeloBlade Nexus makes that possible. It is quietly changing what designers can ask of their printers. Every designer has a drawer of…
Belgian illustrator Sarah Wouters prints a series of screenprints that strikes a rare balance between heartbreaking and hilarious, finding in the completely specific absurdity of everyday life something that feels uncomfortably universal. The scene is complete. A big pink man has somehow got himself into a tiny yellow paddling pool…
Multidisciplinary artist and printmaker Serena Perrone presents a double-sided peep show theater and tunnel book currently on view at the Atlanta Contemporary, weaving Tiepolo, Sicilian puppet theater and the pre-cinematic spectacle of watching while being watched into a work that mythologises and implicates in equal measure. Tiepolo’s painting Mondo Nuovo…
Helsinki-based illustrator and graphic designer Pauli Salmi creates a series of night-time digital paintings that explore how familiar places feel different in darkness, moving between social moments and quieter, more instinctive scenes in the hours just before morning. There is a particular quality to the hour before sunrise: familiar places…
Founded in 2014 in response to the absence of formal structures supporting illustration in Mexico, Gran Salón México brings together established, emerging and student illustrators through an annual fair, editorial initiatives, education and an agency that connects artists with professional opportunities. Illustration in Mexico is widely practiced and often unsupported.…
Developed as a master’s project at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Sun Möller-Park’s second phase of Ready, Set, Fuse takes the geometric vocabulary of Korean dancheong decoration and pushes it into deliberate disorder. Printed in Risograph, the series tests what happens when a strict grid gives way. Sun Möller-Park’s starting point was…
Developed in collaboration with Deep Local for West Virginia Tourism, Mountain Moves is an educational board game created for West Virginia schools to help students explore careers, destinations and opportunities across the state. Illustration, icons, cards and packaging were all designed by Philadelphia-based Kidnichols. The brief was playful but purposeful:…
Garden Party Magazine’s third issue arrives on Wednesday 30 September, 150 pages devoted to rituals as acts of intimacy and grounding. Founded, edited and designed by Elena Fazzino, the issue brings together 19 contributors working in photography, poetry and writing, printed by Park Communications on paper by GF Smith. The…
Photographed during a university degree in post-Covid Wellington and left in the archive for four years, Felix Jackson’s Street Style is now a publication, designed by Murex Studio and printed in a first edition of 200. Wellington has a reputation. A small city with a dense creative culture, a strong…
Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist PD Packard develops an evolving series of Soldier-Head vessels that brings together ceramics, silkscreen, embossing, handmade stamps, wood firing and, most recently, the physical integration of printed paper and clay into a single object. PD Packard began the Soldier-Head series in 2023 with a clear structural form…
Yorkshire-based paper cut artist Pippa Dyrlaga created a large-scale installation for York Castle Museum’s summer programme, drawing on Victorian balloon festivals and the Arts and Crafts movement, brought to life with sustainable and recycled papers from James Cropper. James Cropper Creates is a platform for artists, makers and designers working…
Amsterdam creative strategy agency Dawn has launched a city-wide brand campaign for De Balie, the 45-year-old cultural institution at the heart of the city’s public debate scene. The campaign, running under the line ‘Why make it easy?’, makes a case for discomfort, doubt and the value of not having the…
Ever wondered how PoP member Lee Richards creates his mesmerising tree ring prints? Well, you need to wonder no more… Here, Lee is taking you through his printmaking process step by step. In recent months, I’ve had quite a few people reaching out asking questions about the process, steps, and…
Arizona-based playing card design studio Low Priority takes distressed vintage fabric as its starting point and goes further — scratching, scanning and assembling decks that treat the card as a home object and a record of emotional state. Playing card design has a long tradition of ornament and detail, but…
Thirty copies of a book about mustard pots. A record sleeve made from greyboard and metallised film. Feathers for a giant parrot. The finalists for this year’s Digital Printer Awards have been announced ahead of the ceremony in London on 12 November, and together they give a clear picture of…
Dutch illustrator Dorien Brouwers brought watercolour and ink to a direct mailer celebrating James Cropper’s Colours from Nature paper range, a project that tied Wainwright’s Lakeland fells to rosemary-dyed paper through illustration, die-cut landscape and considered design. James Cropper Creates is a platform for artists, makers and designers working with…
Over 250 independent makers open their virtual doors on 3–4 October, offering prints, ceramics, jewellery and more at up to 75% off… and the People of Print® membership community is well represented. Super Seconds Festival is back for its twelfth edition and it remains one of the most straightforward propositions…
Dutch graphic designer Raoul Wilke uses a mini residency at CODA in Apeldoorn to experiment with laser-cut paper stencils for screen printing, producing three intricate posters inspired by the city’s green surroundings in a process that is eco-friendly, highly detailed and faster than traditional photographic emulsion methods. Screen printing typically…
Amsterdam-based illustrator NoGood releases a self-published, crowdfunded 272-page monograph collecting five years of work, essays by Cory Doctorow, Douglas Rushkoff and others, and the thinking behind a practice rooted in retro technology, open-web counterculture and the politics of ownership. The NoGood Book took two years to make and kept changing…